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- 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
- 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
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Daniel J. Green. "Sycamore Networks." Harvard Business School Case 801-076, July 2000. (Revised July 2001.)
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that... View Details
- 16 Feb 2009
- News
To respond or not to bloggers' sniping?
Charles L. Brown
Brown guided AT&T through one of the largest corporate reorganizations in United States history by settling the government’s antitrust case in 1982. He successfully divested of AT&T’s local phone businesses and in the process, created business entities that... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Theodore N. Vail
Securing over $100 million in financing, Vail first set up a more unified operating structure for AT&T, the Bell companies and the so-called “Bell-Connected” independent firms, and then went on to form an affiliation with competitor Western Union. With this more... View Details
Keywords: Communications
M. Kenneth Oshman
As one of the principal founders of Rolm, Oshman is credited with the design and development of a sophisticated private branch exchange or PBx switch that has become a central component of telecommunication systems. Over the course of fifteen years, Oshman built Rolm... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Walter S. Gifford
During Gifford’s presidency, AT&T experienced tremendous growth. Gifford increased operating revenue from $657 million to $2.25 billion. During Gifford’s tenure, the wire mileage of AT&T rose from 39.5 million to 113 million, and the number of Bell telephones... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Sosthenes Behn
In 1933, after his brother’s death, Behn took sole control over International Telephone and Telegraph, the company he and his brother, Hernand Behn, co-founded. Behn devised a financial formula by which ITT was able to weather the severe losses of the Depression. When... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Sound Bites: Joy to the World
Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) CEO, East Boston Social Centers Illustration: John S. Dykes For people like youth in foster care, people experiencing poverty, people facing a variety of other hardships—what do they ultimately want for themselves? I think the answer is... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Changing Student Life
Inc., whose online "Campus in a Click" intranet services provide cost-effective, interactive communication for all people associated with an institution of higher learning. "We're changing student life," Jackson explained. "You remember... View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- News
Acts of Kindness
Michael Robertson (AMP 82, 1979) is the interim minister at Plymouth Congregational Church in Racine, Wisconsin. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on service to his community and the importance of advocating for kindness in our... View Details
- 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
Don H. Barden
Barden capitalized on the expansion of cable in the early eighties by targeting predominantly African-American communities. He secured the wiring rights to the city of Detroit and formed a partnership with Maclean Hunter, one of Canada’s largest cable companies, to... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 23 Mar 2010
- News
A Fighter in the Preservation Trenches
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
ecosystem that will improve access to electricity in off-grid communities across the globe. “It sounds complicated,” Ayala says, “but we set it up this way to have a globally scalable business model.” Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
When economist Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (MBA 1993) was elected mayor of Argentina’s capital in 2015, he promised to address conditions in the city’s slums, which house about a quarter million of the city’s 3 million people. A recent article in the Financial Times... View Details