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- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
hesitation to treat companies in an unequal fashion. In the cell phone market, the Turkish government sets both minimum and maximum prices. And the prices set for Turkcell are different than those for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
the 21st century. “Africapitalism calls on the private sector to make long-term investment in industries that can create economic prosperity and social wealth.” The idea was inspired by Professor Michael Porter and his theories of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
cell phone and speakers to teach English to her class. During planned pauses, the instructor engaged students in exercises related to the lesson. “I was just blown away how this technology enables the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
2015 with three tiny houses in the southern New Hampshire woods, Getaway now offers 89 escapes in areas less than two hours from Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, with the goal of expanding to three new markets in the coming year. Getaway’s message? Put your View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
company should not have entered in the first place. The example we use in the book is Nokia. Consultants from a leading strategy consulting firm had recommended that Nokia should absolutely not be in the cell View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
toothpaste was clinically proven to reduce and prevent cavities more effectively than toothpaste with the same level of fluoride alone. All major industry players, including Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, and Colgate itself, had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
facing leaders in those businesses." Another industry veteran, Professor of Management Practice Vicki Sato, led a discussion on "Emerging Models of University Research," with cases that looked at the Harvard-affiliated... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
providing tools for third-party developers. The mobile game industry had exploded in recent years with the introduction of smartphones, application (app) stores, and cell phone... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2011
- News
The Joys of Cooking
demonstrating their culinary skills, and a supper club. Down the road, she dreams of expanding to other cities nationwide. In a recent phone interview, Kasrai talked about her career change and how she named her company. “After HBS you... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)
Can you describe your role?I currently work at Amgen Inc at their global HQ in Southern California. Amgen is the largest independent biotechnology company in the world by revenue and our top medicines include autoimmune drug Enbrel, white blood View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
are managed by sophisticated real-time information systems; colleagues working 12 time zones apart can see and hear each other as they work at their desks—or in airport lounges on opposite sides of the planet. Publications, like this one, have abandoned paper. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
you do first? The first thing we did was try to find our people. And of course, one of the problems was that cell phones didn’t work. So we immediately set up an 8 a.m. company-wide conference call on an 800... View Details
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
In 2008, the government of Rwanda changed the language of instruction from French to English, which presented a problem, he says, because many of the instructors did not speak English, including the teacher whose class he visited. Yet she was able to use a prerecorded... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
dealt with the myriad medical issues that occurred over several months among the millions of people in attendance. There will also be a complex data study of cell phone traffic —telecommunications—during the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
services, and finance company dedicated to innovation in energy, health, transportation,, and infrastructure Scott Jacobs (MBA 2007) McKinsey & Company’s Global Cleantech Practice San Francisco, CA Cleantech consulting Michael Liebreich (MBA 1990) Bloomberg New Energy... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic
volunteers to join the organization. We also scheduled frequent mentoring sessions with Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at the i-lab where industry leaders come on campus and mentor founders. The i-lab has been the nest for the humanID team... View Details