Communications Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2024
Case

Edizione

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Hugo Etchegoyhen

This case study examines the diversification and transformation of Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company originally established to reinvest dividends from the Benetton clothing brand. Edizione expanded significantly in the late 1990s and early 2000s,... View Details

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01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

in 2012 to 14 million in 2013. The question remains, however, whether displays that use E Ink’s technology will continue to dominate the market. A no-door policy: With marketing, manufacturing, and R&D under one roof, E Ink employees can View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

hope. Readers will find practical tools for caregiving, including emotional support frameworks and communication techniques; a thoughtful exploration of ethical and legal dilemmas, especially in the age of AI and technological... View Details

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon Publication:John Wiley & Sons, 2012 An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002070.html... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

industry during the previous decade, the company posted its first losses ever, and for the last five years, American has strived to trim some of its excess growth. Donald Carty, American's president since March 1995, says that dealing... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

secondary, and higher levels? Do the local community and national culture value entrepreneurship and have the infrastructure to support it? A century ago, Kanter adds, an engineer's slide rule symbolized exciting opportunities for the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

quite large but it isn’t the ‘total dollar value’ that is really our biggest challenge. It is our ability to build things that will need that financing, and our ability to get that financing to the parts of the industry (developing... View Details

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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

principles we seek to create being implemented (and improved upon many times over) by communities rarely represented in the C Suite. “[Let’s] put in the time and forethought to ensure that people from all different backgrounds [are... View Details

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

venture-funded startups in the networking/data communications industry sectors reveals that those startups that participate in an open standards community, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),... View Details

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

earned relatively high margins on products rooted in science and innovation. However, Lyons believed downstream integration would allow Alltech to better communicate with its end customers (farmers), increase sales of its supplements, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

assessing the outcomes of the company's strategies after 1945. It examines the challenges and costs faced by the company in recovering the ownership of its brands. While the management of distance became much easier over the course of the twentieth century because of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

partisan politics and hot-button issues. Instead, such statements remind people that community matters—and that civility and constructive engagement are both possible and expected. Set rules of engagement and hold people accountable.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

24 Oct 2012
News

How 'luck' can be used to enhance success

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

For years an important debate has been raging in the social investing community about the potential of social purpose companies to deliver satisfactory returns to investors. The conventional wisdom is that capital providers should expect... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

paradox the result of an in-depth comparative analysis of two of the organizations in their sample. The two WISEs appeared to be extremely similar: Both operated in the recycling industry with similar work-training missions, and both had... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

science might affect businesses. We can help people think through the impacts that climate will have on every single industry because it’s not something that only environmentalists should care about, the impacts will be felt across... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)

and not communicating well. We believe in inclusion, information, and stewardship, not ownership. FROM A CIRCULATION STANDPOINT, we're the second-largest newspaper on the West Coast. That's the good news. The bad news is that we should be... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Seattle Times Company; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

November 2010
Case

Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Jason Cheng Qian

Esquel Group, leading manufacturer of quality shirts, sought to negotiate long-term partnerships with often-exploited farmers in Xinjiang (western China) to procure a superior cotton variety. Seeking to secure a large supply of specialty cotton in an ethical and... View Details