Publications

March 1986
Case

AT&T at the Crossroads--December 1981

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Restructuring; Telecommunications Industry

October 1984 (Revised March 1986)
Case

General Telephone of the Northwest

By: Dekkers L. Davidson and Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry; Northwestern United States

01 Dec 2000
News

MBAs by the Numbers

The MBA Program recently released statistics on its newest recruits — the Class of 2002 — as well as job placement information on graduates of the Class of 2000. An analysis of the incoming Class of 2002 reveals the growing diversity of the MBA Program, with a one... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Telecommunications

01 Apr 2001
News

Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future

The conventional wisdom is that Asian businesspeople tend to avoid confrontation and take only calculated risks. Edwin Yu is clearly breaking that mold. Last April he came out on top in the first boardroom proxy fight in South Korean history, winning control of... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Telecommunications

01 Jun 2006
News

Sending a Message

In March, bankers, lobbyists, lawyers, and other messaging-intensive professionals heaved a collective sigh of relief and kept on thumbin’ like nobody’s business. Thanks to $612.5 million shelled out by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) over a patent... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Telecommunications

01 Dec 2001
News

Cable Gal

Catherine Eubanks McCollough Catherine Eubanks McCollough (MBA '91) was traveling more than one hundred thousand miles a year as an executive for Scientific-Atlanta when her young son asked her if she and the woman who worked as his full-time nanny could trade places.... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Telecommunications

29 Jan 2010
News

Redefining Telecoms in Turkey

Keywords: Telecommunications; Telecommunications

01 Feb 1999
News

New Releases

companies in the consumer electronics, branded packaged goods, and telecommunications industries. They describe how the transnational model has taken shape over the past decade and address management issues that have arisen as the model... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

25 Aug 2014
News

Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

that brought the Internet into millions of homes in the 1990s. Like so many companies, Corning was caught by surprise when the telecommunications bubble burst. Its stock tumbled, from more than $100 to about a dollar per share. “That was... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

manager's skills. When the telecommunications industry was deregulated and challenged by new entrants, for instance, few former Bell Systems managers were able to successfully transition to the fast-moving, entrepreneurial,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

01 Jun 2011
News

Downtime

national and international telecommunications structure. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart creates a dystopian future for the United States as a setting for an unrequited love. I enjoyed his debut novel, The Russian Debutante’s... View Details

Keywords: fiction; Christianity

01 Apr 1996
News

Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

Emmons, the "deregulatory" Telecommunications Act of 1996 enhances the powers and responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission in a number of key areas, while removing government restrictions in others. "From a managerial... View Details

02 Nov 2015
Book

Dear Internet: You Are Extraordinary, But Not Exceptional

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Telecommunications; Telecommunications

November 1982
Case

Conversion Training at New England Telephone (B)

By: D. Quinn Mills and E. Mary Lou Balbaky

Keywords: Training; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Telecommunications Industry; New England

February 1992 (Revised July 1993)
Case

Telefonica de Argentina S.A.

Deals with the privatization of the Argentine telephone industry. Focuses on the restructuring aspect. Commercial banks owned sovereign debt of Argentina trading at a deep discount to par. The question is whether the banks should exchange their sovereign debt... View Details

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Restructuring; Privatization; Commercial Banking; Telecommunications Industry; Argentina

March 1976 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Communications Satellite Corp.

Describes the FCC hearings which were designed to determine Comsat's cost of equity. Comsat's risks are examined, and expert testimony is given. Objective of the case is to estimate Comsat's cost of equity. View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; Equity; Telecommunications Industry; United States

January 1991 (Revised June 1999)
Teaching Note

MCI Communications: Planning for the 1990s TN

By: Robert L. Simons

Teaching Note for (9-190-136). View Details

Keywords: Planning; Telecommunications Industry

February 2016 (Revised September 2020)
Case

T-Mobile in 2013: The Un-Carrier

By: John Beshears, Francesca Gino, Jonathan Lee and Sean (Yixiang) Wang

By 2013, the U.S. wireless industry was in the midst of a costly transition. As consumers began to embrace more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Product Positioning; Competition; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; United States

May 2012
Case

Quietly Brilliant: Transformational Change at HTC

By: Michael L. Tushman and Kerry Herman

The case examines smartphone maker HTC's 2006 decision to become a branded company. The case focuses on the cultural and organizational shifts HTC underwent to successfully make the transition from an ODM, founded in 1997, to a leading branded manufacturer (7% market... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan