Cell Phone Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

Bradley’s personal involvement in its digital strategy and the recruitment of key positions is clear. But that success has been like the man himself—dramatic yet understated. The turnaround deployed two key tactics central to any challenge Bradley undertakes. The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

Over the last ten years, technology has reduced entire catalogues of consumer goods to devices that fit in the palms of our hands. Phones are smarter, networks are faster, and more people have access to more information than ever before.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

impact in the country dramatically. She was instrumental in the NYSE listing of Wipro; in facilitating nationwide cellular phone service through a deal involving the Tata and Birla families and AT&T; and in a number of privatizations.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

Their infrastructure, in terms of transportation (roads) and communication (broadband internet and cell phone service), is more limited. And they are relatively inaccessible: If you live in Harlan and want... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

worked with committee members to examine every expenditure, from staff cell phones to printing costs to health care concessions. Trimming was necessary but not enough; unthinkable as it seemed, all librarian... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

microchip: “I remember that it was perceived by lots of people as affecting only the computer industry; but, of course, it’s led to the cellular phone and the internet, and it has changed all our lives. The same is going to happen here,”... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2022
News

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

to bed, and all of a sudden your cell phone rings and it’s some emergent work issue and you have to take a call and you find yourself beating yourself up because there you go, breaking your promise. You were... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

what he called the “second great product of industry,” a rewarding working life that cultivated the talents of his employees. “We are becoming a prototype company, a company which is learning how to make the all-day working life a worthwhile thing,” he explained. “The... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in Jakarta. That rapid growth of internet- ready View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

network of bilateral relations that are more or less hospitable for IGOs. Read the paper: http://www.torfason.net/site/wp-content/uploads/Ingram-and-Torfason-2010-Organizing-the-In-Between.pdf Working PapersBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

approaches to Surgery, Orthopedics, and Neuro as well as Injectables, Cell based cartilage therapies and Neuromodulation. He is active in industry organizations like MassMEDIC and HBS Healthcare Alumni... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

Facing the Music

record companies as well. "With digital transmission, you can send music over phone lines and cable modems without losing quality," says HBS associate professor John Sviokla, who has studied the music View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

he made in the food industry were equally discouraging. “They told me I was crazy, that Jeannette was dead, that near the end they had been producing the worst madeleines in France. To restart production and change its image at the same... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

astronomical -- as much as $33 billion worldwide by 2004, according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

phone or laptop during halftime or commercials. That trend has advertisers, who paid an average of $4 million per 30-second Super Bowl spot last year, worried. "Advertisers are paying based on the audience watching a program,"... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: Collusion may become easier as market concentration falls, and market entry may in fact facilitate collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which... View Details