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  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

been a saving grace in ensuring that the financial crisis did not cause further damage to the economy. With traditional monetary and fiscal policy instruments seemingly exhausted, the mobilization of that cash hoard can prove critical to... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

looks to build a mobile technology product development team by executing an "acquisition-hire" (i.e., "acqui-hire") to acquire New York City-based start-up Stamped, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-016_c6e7c9cc-70a3-4119-bd7b-8e4b25a26312.pdf Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation By: Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jan 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government does that, the capital and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 30 May 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

of the other members. It also flourishes in communities where resources are mobile. Q: Does this help explain the phenomenal increase in entrepreneurial activity we have witnessed over the past few years? A: Changes in the financial and labor markets have increased... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
  • 18 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

students are graduates of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), an innovative six-year public high school program spearheaded by IBM that has improved college completion rates among disadvantaged youth and created a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

the constraints and opportunities of their representation structure are reflected in the micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

Affect Job Performance, which was published in January. The costs of homesickness To better understand how moving away from home affects work, Choudhury and co-author HBS doctoral student Ochan Kwon first interviewed 30 employees of an Indian View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 20 May 2013
  • Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

specific technologies for use in particular industries. Consider the difference between the government's successful effort to map the human genome and its failed attempt to subsidize "green energy" companies like Solyndra. The... View Details
Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing
  • 29 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

the group is considering increasing its investment focus to include a broader range of technologies, including emerging technologies (for example, mobile and RFID technologies) and non-information View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

billions of dollars annually licensing patents for its code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology, which is the heart of several mobile communication standards. Standards bodies often act as regulators, setting rules in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Technology
  • June 1995
  • Case

Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (B): Building Success

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko
This case continues the story of the joint venture in China between Northern Telecom (Nortel) of Canada and Tong Guang Electronics of China. It shows how North Americans learned to operate in a very different cultural environment in China and provides an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Joint Ventures; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Culture; Telecommunications Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Canada; China
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  • March 2005 (Revised July 2006)
  • Case

Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (A)

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Depicts the options facing Mohammed Ibrahim, founder and chairman of Celtel International, the largest pan African wireless telecommunications provider, as he tries to position his company for further growth. Should the firm, which has reached $1 billion in revenues in... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Africa
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  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49375 Enabling Versus Controlling-Online Appendix By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—No abstract available. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49378 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 4, 2016

corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the earnings... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

largest insurance program. To meet this target, the government will rely on technology to effectively scale services, monitor quality, and ensure accountability. While India has seen great strides in informational View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

requiring folks to come back. I’ve been talking to the largest technology firms about this: They’ve created task forces to think about how they want to bring people back to the office, when, and why. Based on my own research, especially... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Outcomes in India By: Hussam, Reshmaan Abstract—Sex ratios at birth have risen steadily over the last three decades across much of the developing world. Many attribute this rise to improved access to sex selection View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together for years, they had to find new ways of working as they tried to launch the new mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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