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    Irwin M. Jacobs

    Jacobs is a pioneer in the wireless technology industry. The company that he founded, Qualcomm, developed a satellite-based communications protocol called CDMA, Code Division Multiple Access. Considered one of the fastest growing wireless... View Details
    Keywords: Communications
    • January 2024
    • Supplement

    Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
    In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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    • 02 Mar 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University

    • 14 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

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    Institutions and Corporate Lobbying

    “Institutions and Make-or-Buy Decision of Lobbying: The Role of Sociopolitical Legitimacy on Foreign MNEs’ Lobbying Internalization”

    In this study, I examine how legitimacy comes into play in foreign MNEs’ make-or-buy decisions... View Details

    Keywords: Institutions; Make V. Buy; Lobbying; Legitimacy; Corruption; Culture; Multinational Enterprise; United States

      Paul Henson

      as Chairman in 1990, Sprint had 4 million customers in 3,000 communities with sales of $8 billion. Under Henson’s leadership, Sprint acquired 28 companies and built the nation’s only all-digital fiber-optic network. View Details
      Keywords: Communications

        C. Michael Armstrong

        Before Armstrong, the strategy at AT&T was focused on protecting the company’s long distance business. Under Armstrong’s leadership, the company expanded its communications business to include cellular telephone, internet access, and... View Details
        Keywords: Communications
        • July 2000 (Revised July 2001)
        • Case

        Sycamore Networks

        By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Daniel J. Green
        Founders Desh Deshpande and Dan Smith reflect on Sycamore's sales strategies and consider how going public might affect the morale of its key employees. In the optical networking sector, technological change and exploding demand has created a market for talent in which... View Details
        Keywords: Applied Optics; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Business Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Retention; Employees; Communication Technology; Technological Innovation; Communications Industry; Communications Industry
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        Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

        A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

        Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
        • October 2007
        • Case

        iPhone vs. Cell Phone

        By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
        The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of digital music players with mobile phones). The iPhone combined an iPod music player, a cell phone, and a mobile Internet device, along with a camera and other... View Details
        Keywords: Communication Technology; Music Entertainment; Product Launch; Partners and Partnerships; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Communications Industry; Communications Industry
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        Overview

        Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
        Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior
        • 12 Sep 2005
        • Research & Ideas

        The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

        The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley discuss their new book by that... View Details
        Keywords: by Sara Grant; Communications; Communications; Communications
        • 01 Dec 2011
        • News

        Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

        Professor Ashraf (center) with members of the study implementation team at Chipata Clinic, Lusaka, Zambia, including fi eld managers, surveyors, community health workers, and a study nurse. (click for larger view) Read a summary of... View Details
        Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
        • 01 Feb 2000
        • News

        Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others

        community development movement that provides all low-income people with affordable housing and the opportunity to move into the economic mainstream. Working through a network of more than twelve hundred community-based nonprofit... View Details
        • 01 Jun 2025
        • News

        Sound Bites: Joy to the World

        not foster care. It’s about being joyful. The difference that we’re seeking to make is to significantly, measurably increase joy and well-being in the community of East Boston, but in so doing also to demonstrate a model that is relevant... View Details

          William G. McGowan

          McGowan built a $4 billion telecommunication business that defeated the AT&T monopoly. Acting as a self-employed consultant, McGowan rescued MCI by paying off its debts and created a lean competitor to AT&T by under-pricing the monopolist. By the end of his... View Details
          Keywords: Communications

            John C. Malone

            Known for his financial wizardry, Malone acquired a barrage of cable systems throughout the United States, allowing TCI to own one in four cable systems in American households. TCI’s exposure to other parts of the media industry also broadened, as Malone acquired... View Details
            Keywords: Communications

              Stephen M. Case

              Case, the founder, has built America Online into the world’s largest online service provider with over 20 million members, and services which include commerce, e-mail, chat, and Internet access. In 1998, America Online’s revenues were $3.3 billion and total annualized... View Details
              Keywords: Communications

                Hernand Behn

                In 1920, the Behn brothers, Hernand and Sosthenes, organized International Telephone and Telegraph. They worked jointly with AT&T to lay the telephone cables from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. As president during the 1920s, Hernand grew the company’s assets... View Details
                Keywords: Communications

                  Harold S. Geneen

                  Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to become one of the largest... View Details
                  Keywords: Communications