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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
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team familiarity powerful: the ability to 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
- 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
- 09 Sep 2011
- News
Ten Years Ago: HBS and 9/11
As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the HBS View Details
- 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
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
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
vocational schools are scheduled to open in the barrio. They will be the first public schools in a community where only about 60 percent of adults have finished secondary school. A massive construction project is also under way to reroute... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
Simons, Robert L., and Hilary Weston. "MCI Communications: Planning for the 1990s." Harvard Business School Case 190-136, March 1990. (Revised November 1999.)
- July 2000 (Revised January 2001)
- Case
Arbinet Communications, Inc. (A)
By: Jay O. Light and Daniel J. Green
Keywords: Communications Industry
Light, Jay O., and Daniel J. Green. "Arbinet Communications, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 201-006, July 2000. (Revised January 2001.)
- December 1988
- Supplement
Pacific Bell and the CWA (B)
By: Charles C. Heckscher and Rosabeth M. Kanter
Heckscher, Charles C., and Rosabeth M. Kanter. "Pacific Bell and the CWA (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-087, December 1988.
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
the freedom of using a phone, along with Twitter, Facebook, music, and everything that comes with it,” he says. “It’s a communications revolution that can’t be reversed.” (Published June 2015) View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
“You want to see positive economic changes in a community, but you don’t want people who have been committed to and living in the community for generations to be displaced,” Davis says. “We can prevent that by creating rental... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 23 Mar 2010
- News
A Fighter in the Preservation Trenches
- 06 Nov 2020
- News
Signal Boost
like implicit bias and the actions you can take as an individual or as an organization or as a community to be more welcoming,” says Lara. “I get employers telling me, ‘Well, you know, we tried hiring diverse people but they don’t stay.’... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details