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- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
digital form." Telecom Shakeout HBS assistant professor Thomas Eisenmann, moderator of the panel on "Shakeout in Telecommunications," asked the assembled VCs if they are better able to add value to equipment companies or...
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- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Teixeira, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Marketing unit. But not anymore. The Second Internet Wave A second wave of Internet disruption threatens not only electronics and telecom businesses, but also industries...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
Shanghai municipal government, Netcom is putting up a stiff challenge to three other government-controlled telecom network operators. Tian, who holds a doctorate in environmental management from Texas Tech University, is bringing a new...
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- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston
Moderator Mike Toffel explored different topics with the panelists, who offered their perspectives on the trends they’re seeing, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they face. Mitch Goldstein likened electricity to the early View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
School Case 112-096 In June 2010, Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile services operator, acquired the African assets of Bahrain-based Zain Telecom for $10.7 billion-the largest ever cross-border deal in emerging markets. Bharti's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
RCA's Sarnoff Lab, and the Rockwell Science Center, and as it built its capabilities and ventured into new application areas, it discovered a "killer app" for optical communications which led to its acquisition at the height of the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
forced to innovate in order to survive," he remarked. "The entrepreneurial spirit in Central and Eastern Europe is much higher than in Western Europe, because we still believe in British Telecom and Philips and Unilever." Twaalfhoven...
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Ari Medoff
graduation, Ari worked at Lehman Brothers in a series of roles that ranged from selling a telecom software business to closing transactions in the firm's LBO unit. Seeking something "more entrepreneurial," he moved to Atrium...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Authored by Assistant Professors Boris Groysberg and Chris Marquis, the case is taught in the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). After just a few days on the job, Keller (MBA ’05) is taken off one project and thrown into another involving...
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- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
example, in my first semester Technology and Operations Management class where we studied a New Zealand yacht racing case, I used my experience from doing a churn reduction model for a South African Telecom operator to recommend whether...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
found that TV ads not only can spur web traffic—the browser is at the ready, after all—but can drive sales, too. But which ads push the most? As part of the study, Teixeira and his colleagues collected thousands of ads hawking products frequently purchased...
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Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
environmental challenges. This background note looks at the historical, economic and political origins of the environmental crisis that faces the world's fastest-growing economy. Purchase the case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308100...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
search was made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he only learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why would the telecommunications company use a search firm to...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
data mining to coding. Eventually, there will be industries that are fully automated and certain jobs will go away, but new ones will be created in that process. From Baker Library: Not surprisingly, high tech and telecom firms are the...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
We operate in much the same way as a telecom business—but instead of fiber optic cables we use lasers to transmit high volume data down from space (think high resolution spectral imagery). A big constraint on our ability to do that is...
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Technology
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
stations,” he says, adding that ClimaCell has partnered with telecom operators around the world to turn their networks into massive sensor arrays. Everything is a potential weather station to ClimaCell—connected vehicles, street cameras,...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
procedural roadblocks for the likes of Chinese telecom products maker Huawei Technologies, and why not facilitate Chinese entry into India? It will be a worthy complement to continued dialogue regarding the border disputes.
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by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
and corporate battles that he witnessed in the nearly six decades of his career. He replays his two stints—in the late 1980s and the early 1990s—as the CEO of Canada's darling of the telecom industry, Mitel Corporation, and offers many...
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- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
Innovation Lab and Rock Center for Entrepreneurship taught us how to build and organize an agile development team. Meanwhile, we reached out to countless alumni in the technology and telecom space. Again and again, we were blown away by...
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