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- 26 May 2015
- News
Life plays out in phases
After five years of working as a consultant in the international telecom sector, Julie Wolinsky (MBA 1998) left the full-time workforce to focus on family. (Published May 2015) View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and draw what’s there back down.” For Green America, that’s meant leading consumer campaigns... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
explore the possibility of using paramedics for certain tasks. The aim is to better understand patients' needs and their ability and willingness to pay. Working with the students will be Terry Kramer (MBA 1986), a veteran telecom... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
of the kids might not have at-home access. We’re talking to some large foundations that are trying to think holistically, "How do we push for it?" The cost of a laptop is $300. Its useful life is easily five years, so that's $60 a year. You can put a little pressure on... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
group of men like that. And I learned so much from all of them. And I made such strong friendships. And I think the important thing is to appreciate the value of everyone you come in contact with. JH: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) discovered his love of media and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) founded India’s largest telecom company, which has recently expanded into 17 African countries. This dynamic trio of Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973), Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), and Mark Fields (MBA 1989)... View Details
- 26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
Telecom 1992 Launches Bharti Cellular 1999 Completes OPM Program 2002 Bharti Airtel lists on Indian bourses through IPO 2004 Airtel becomes India’s largest mobile operator 2006 Launches Satya Bharti School Program to educate India’s rural... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
bringing in components piecemeal and assembling the phones in India. The business was a huge success, creating the early foundations of what would become Bharti Tele-Ventures, India’s leading private-sector telecom with a market value of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa represented a unique mechanism... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace
Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Former French Finance Minister Joins HBS Faculty
Thierry Breton, former French finance minister, has joined the HBS faculty as a senior lecturer and will teach the first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability course this fall. Breton is well-known in France as former chairman of France View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
Malaysia, earned an engineering degree in England and spent fifteen years in the corporate world, first with Hewlett-Packard and then with Apple Computer. In 1991, he was part of the management team that founded Premisys Communications, a View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
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Building a Legacy
[and] disassembled them; something went to Bombay, something went to Delhi, something went to Calcutta. You cleared them as parts and then you put them together as a telephone. That’s how India’s first push-button telephone was born. And that’s how India’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Think Locally, Act Globally
for local bike manufacturers. He first dialed in to telecom in 1983 when, on a trip to Taiwan, he saw the popularity of electronic, push-button phones. At the time, India had tough restrictions on importing consumer products, so Mittal... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
Genta manages 5 percent of the state budget and a staff of 270. His ministry oversees the telecom industry and digital improvements in smart city initiatives, education, and health care, as well as programs and partnerships benefitting... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
Karim Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) is CEO of Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecom provider, with nearly 6 million active subscribers. Before the company began operations in 2003, phone calls were a luxury that few citizens could afford; the... View Details
- 12 Oct 2020
- News
MBA/DBA Alum Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
moment that was shared around the world on Twitter. The pair’s work has had far-reaching practical applications for complex situations; for example, governments around the world now rely on one of their auction formats to allocate radio frequencies to View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Khoja, now 56, never planned to go to Afghanistan. A veteran telecom executive responsible for launching service in developing countries around the world, he was working for Deutsche Telekom in Croatia in January 2002 when a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
Shanghai municipal government, Netcom is putting up a stiff challenge to three other government-controlled telecom network operators. Tian, who holds a doctorate in environmental management from Texas Tech University, is bringing a new... View Details