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- October 1986 (Revised March 1989)
- Case
North American Telecom International
By: David B. Yoffie and John J. Coleman
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Telecommunications Industry
Yoffie, David B., and John J. Coleman. "North American Telecom International." Harvard Business School Case 387-021, October 1986. (Revised March 1989.)
- October 1984
- Teaching Note
AT&T and the Access Charge, Teaching Note
Keywords:
Telecommunications Industry
- 2020
- Working Paper
Why Do Firms Automate Production, and How Do They Adjust? Evidence from the Bell Telephone System over the 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
Over the course of the 20th century, AT&T's operating companies replaced telephone operators with mechanical switching and dial telephones. Yet it took AT&T 30 years from the invention of the technology to begin using it, and another 60 years to finish installing it...
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- 24 Mar 2020
- News
Stopgap Schooling
As Salman Khan (MBA 2003) tracked the spread of the COVID-19 virus and news that schools were shuttering, he knew that the nonprofit Khan Academy was uniquely positioned to help the many families whose children would suddenly be missing school. Forbes reports that...
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- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Jeff Shell to Become CEO of NBCUniversal
Current chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment Jeff Shell (MBA 1991) will take over as CEO of the media company on January 1, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a statement to the Times, Brian Roberts, the current CEO of Comcast—which owns NBCUniversal—called...
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- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it would take to build a...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
A member of the team that introduced the phenomenally successful PalmPilot, Donna Lee Dubinsky (MBA 1981) has a handle on the handheld computer market. She was one of the brains behind the Pilot, the standard-setting personal digital assistant (or PDA, as it is...
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- 15 Oct 2014
- News
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
- 29 May 2014
- News
CloudFare's Michelle Zatlyn: Co-Founder. Cloud Pioneer. Limo Driver.
- 15 Feb 2014
- News
Mikitani's Rakuten Buys Viber for $900M
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
T-Mobile's Wacky Plan to Trash the Wireless Business Model
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
The “A” List
Started in 1995 in Columbus, Ohio, by Angela Hicks (MBA ’00), Angie’s List is a consumer-driven report card on numerous local services (plumbers, car mechanics, and moving companies, not to mention solar panels and Christmas decorating) in 56 American cities. List...
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- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. That practical experience informed her work on the board of Breast Cancer Foundation NZ, of which she became chair in 2009. “Measuring performance in charity...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
companies in the consumer electronics, branded packaged goods, and telecommunications industries. They describe how the transnational model has taken shape over the past decade and address management issues that have arisen as the model...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
that brought the Internet into millions of homes in the 1990s. Like so many companies, Corning was caught by surprise when the telecommunications bubble burst. Its stock tumbled, from more than $100 to about a dollar per share. “That was...
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Susan Young
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
trouble: Iridium and Globalstar (two global telecommunications firms), Global Crossing, Eurotunnel, EuroDisney, and many others have all defaulted. The challenge of building and managing these projects is the focus of my ongoing research....
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- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
The Super Bowl isn’t just a mainstage for football’s two best teams. With over 100 million viewers tuned in, and 30-second spots going for more than $5 million, the big game also represents one of the highest stakes advertising events of the year. Harvard Business...
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- 26 Sep 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in ICTE
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides industry expertise on national security preparedness. Over that time, cybersecurity has snowballed from a back-office IT function to one...
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