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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
program manager for a project there that was focused on developing and launching low-cost, small satellites as an alternative to larger and more expensive conventional satellites. The experience of working with a more cost-effective... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
chronicles the meteoric rise and equally fiery fall of Iridium, Motorola’s spin-off venture into global wireless communications. Although the technology was literally “rocket science,” involving the launch of a whole new satellite... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
beyond Boston. The Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development used Internet technology and digitalized video to make teaching materials, guest speakers, and class lectures available via the Web to faculty and students at Costa Rica's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
broadcast and satellite technology “had a clear influence on the man who went on to make billions in Malaysia’s mobile phone, satellite, and pay TV business,” the Morning Herald wrote. Backed by a fortune said to be around $10 billion,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
thrown across the cabin and broke one or two ribs. For twelve hours I couldn’t even reach the satellite phone to call the race doctor because it hurt so much. We do have painkillers, but I didn’t want to take any strong stuff. So sleep... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
objective was met. Our space research gave rise to Silicon Valley, and U.S. industrial strength was enhanced by technology innovation derived from products created for our satellite program. By 1980, however, Europe, helped by the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
Just as radio revolutionized the entertainment world at the turn of the century, satellite broadcasting, the Internet, VCRs, and new communications technologies are transforming the entertainment industry, said Universal Studios chairman... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
destination, the pavilion was also the setting for the announcement, in June, of a British Embassy–sponsored satellite project that will enhance data images of crop conditions in remote areas of Colombia, potentially improving both... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
summer, others will just use it as a satellite office for a day or two. Assistant Professor Jeffrey L. Bradach, for example, is currently studying the use of temporary personnel as high-level employees, and the Valley provides rich... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship.... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
are putting those satellites up there that will benefit directly or other third parties that could rise from that is one thing we could look at. The cost of access to space though is really the key thing. Hanna: And you were involved in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
transpires, she argued, not due to the govern- ment's desire to control, but the market's own need for stability. Spar's research on this topic includes the maritime trading boom of the 17th century and the development of the telegraph, radio, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
cryptology, satellite television, and computers and describes how, before they became a routine part of everyday life, they seemingly threatened to overturn the status quo. "During the innovation and commercialization phases, the very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
has opened satellite offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai to serve a client roster of more than 40,000 employees from among its growing list of corporate clients. If We Had Only Known INDIA RISING: iTrust’s corporate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
efforts, with satellite stores outside the museum and Web and catalog sales bringing in significant income. Sensory overload can easily sap a museum-goer's energy, and taking a break from the collections to eat is often an effective... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
that have happened in the media business over the past three-plus decades," McGee said over coffee in Spangler Grill during a visit to campus last spring, noting that when he joined HBO it was a single network with fewer than three million subscribers. "Our View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
substantial progress. Six years ago, we set out to become a leader in the field of technology in education. We now know how to use technology effectively to deepen the learning experience — using video, workplace simulations, and two-way interactive View Details