Communities - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Mar 2010
News

A Fighter in the Preservation Trenches

Keywords: 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

21 Sep 2016
News

Leadership in Motion

Activities such as building a community playground, running neighborhood associations, chairing the Scarsdale planning board, and serving locally as president of the League of Women Voters—all while starting and running her own consulting... 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

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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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01 Sep 2003
News

Jackie Adams

news. Now interested in “moving from success to significance,” Adams says, “I’m working in the nonprofit sector as a consultant to create wealth for minority communities as well as bring together companies and individuals to turn the... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; journalism; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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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Keywords: Communication Technology

04 Feb 2016
News

From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl

and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) to launch the Technology and... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

King of his castle

wedding chapel. About 71,000 guests attended the 17-day festival last year. Since selling his wireless accessories manufacturing and distribution company, Personal Communications Devices, Appling has been able to focus full time on his... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan

delighted to be taking an active part in the HBS community. "It's very refreshing to come back to the campus and see the progress the School is making in developing leading-edge research," she says. "I look forward to my part in building bridges between the academic... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

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

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

The same will follow for the next five years, only more so, with more people connected for communication and collaboration. No one had mentioned financial markets, observed Robert Glaser, founder and CEO of RealNetworks. His view of 2008... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Communications; Communications; Communications

October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
Technical Note

5G Wireless Technology, 2019

By: David B. Yoffie, Roneal Desai and Lili Ouyang

This Note explores the technology and economics of emerging 5G networks. View Details

Keywords: Technology Change; Information Technology; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Communications Industry

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July 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Case

XM Satellite Radio (A)

By: David B. Godes and Elie Ofek

XM Satellite Radio is a radically new way to listen to radio. Management must develop a marketing strategy to launch the firm and the category. A crucial aspect of the strategy is to determine which of two business models the company will pursue. Should it focus... View Details