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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 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
- 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
- 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
- 21 Aug 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
He may be retired, but the Reverend Rodney Quainton (MBA 1970) hasn’t stopped finding a way to connect his community to a higher spirituality. For this HBS-trained banker-turned-Episcopal priest, helping parishioners weather rough times... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 23 Mar 2010
- News
A Fighter in the Preservation Trenches
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
get involved with community development? For some years, the area around the church had been in steady decline, with vacant storefronts, deteriorating houses, and neglected properties. Gang activity and drug use were on the increase.... View Details
- April 2023
- Case
Twitter: The Freedom to Speak Freely and Be Heard
By: Randolph B. Cohen, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Mel Martin
In April 2022, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that he would be interested in purchasing the social media site Twitter for $44 billion. With more than 100 million twitter followers, Musk had historically leveraged the site to engage with the customers of his... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall economy," says F. Barton Harvey (MBA '74), (see related story) chairman and CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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.
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
says, people throughout the business community are interested in diversity in the workplace and looking to scholars to guide their decision making. Studying the complex and multifaceted topic requires a group of investigators from a wide... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Housing Solutions for the Urban Poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA ’09), cofounder of micro Home Solutions, is the 2011 recipient of the HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Based on the principles of community involvement, affordability, and sustainable design, the New Delhi–based... View Details
- 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