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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Slum for Sale

A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Dharavi... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
  • 06 May 2015
  • News

Advocating for affordable housing

Laurie Gould (MBA 1996) puts the skills she gained at HBS to work at Viva Consulting, the practice she launched to promote community development. (Published May 2015) View Details
  • 13 Jul 2015
  • News

Empowering entrepreneurs in Africa

Maimouna Diakhaby (MBA 2016), who came to HBS because of its leadership focus, plans to return to Africa to help empower deprived communities through entrepreneurship. (Published July 2015) View Details
  • 06 Jan 2020
  • News

Home Grown

view (Granite Equity plans for businesses, including Granite Equity itself, to be sustainable for 100 years or more); and investment in community (often businesses owners or senior officials contribute to the View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 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
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • News

Giving back is part of the social contract for any business

Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, discusses how a company should be aligned with the objectives of its host community or country. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • September 2007 (Revised April 2008)
  • Teaching Note

Verizon: The Introduction of DSL (TN)

By: Frances X. Frei and Amy C. Edmondson
Teaching Note for (2-602-070). View Details
Keywords: Technology; Communications Industry
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  • June 2000 (Revised March 2002)
  • Teaching Note

Iridium LLC TN

By: Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for (9-200-039). View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Performance; Valuation; Forecasting and Prediction; Demand and Consumers; Communications Industry
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  • April 1999
  • Case

Steve Perlman and WebTV (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
The dynamics of a linked series of internal and external negotiations involved in launching, growing, and selling a high-tech, Internet start-up are explored. Steve Perlman unfurled an impressive new technology, recruited a top technical and management team, secured... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Alliances; Internet; Communications Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Investing in a community's housing and cultural life

Randy Hawthorne (MBA 1973), a retired real estate executive, talks about the community benefits of investing in housing and the arts. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • September 2007
  • Supplement

The MCI Takeover Battle: Verizon versus Qwest (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
Keywords: Integration; Communications Industry
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  • March 2006
  • Teaching Note

Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA (Telesp) (TN)

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Teaching Note to (804-149). View Details
Keywords: Communications Industry
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  • September 2004 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

XM Satellite Radio (C): The Next Generation of Radio Receivers

By: David B. Godes and Elie Ofek
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Communications Industry
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  • November 2001
  • Teaching Note

Laura Martin: Real Options and the Cable Industry TN

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
Teaching Note for (9-201-004). View Details
Keywords: Communications Industry
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  • April 2000
  • Teaching Note

Implementing Strategies for Mobile Telephony: The Cases of BellSouth and US West TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Teaching Note for (9-699-123). View Details
Keywords: Communications Industry
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  • March 1990 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

MCI Communications: Planning for the 1990s

By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
Concentrates on the evolution of MCI's strategy-setting process following a period of dramatic growth. Opportunistic strategies during MCI's early years have given top managers a dislike of formal strategic planning and a strongly-held belief in top down strategy... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Growth and Development; Planning; Strategic Planning; Growth Management; Business or Company Management; Competition; Alignment; Communications Industry
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  • July 2000 (Revised January 2001)
  • Case

Arbinet Communications, Inc. (A)

By: Jay O. Light and Daniel J. Green
Keywords: Communications Industry
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  • December 1988
  • Supplement

Pacific Bell and the CWA (B)

By: Charles C. Heckscher and Rosabeth M. Kanter
Keywords: Communications Industry; United States
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    Omobola Johnson

    Keywords: Communication Technology

      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