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September 1993 (Revised January 2007)
Case

British Satellite Broadcasting versus Sky Television

Describes the rivalry between two competitors who have attempted to become the dominant force in the emerging British satellite television industry. Can be used to examine issues of competitive positioning, technology adoption, and scenario analysis. Helps students... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Technology Adoption; Telecommunications Industry; Great Britain

2006
Other Unpublished Work

Early Radio Regulation, Capture Theory, and the Problem of History-by-Inference

By: David A. Moss and Jonathan Lackow

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry

November 1976
Teaching Note

Hot Line, Inc., Teaching Note

By: Jeffrey G. Miller and Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry

November 1995 (Revised June 1997)
Case

Northern Telecom (A): AdVantage & DisadVantage

By: Robert J. Dolan and Sylvie Ryckebusch

Mike Ennis, general manager of Northern Telecom's Business Products Division, recommends a new solution for replacing Vantage, an unsuccessful product for Northern Telecom. The case documents in detail the voice of the customer. Students are required to discuss the... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Product Launch; Management Teams; Product Development; Telecommunications Industry; Canada

December 1995
Case

AT&T USADirect In-Language Service: India

By: John A. Quelch

AT&T managers are assessing demand for a soon-to-be launched new operator-assisted, in-language international telephone service from India. View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Demand and Consumers; Emerging Markets; Product Launch; Telecommunications Industry; United States; India

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February 1978 (Revised September 1986)
Case

AT&T -- Long Lines Department National Account Selling (A)

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Marketing; Communication; Strategy; Telecommunications Industry

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May 1994 (Revised October 1994)
Case

Motorola Corp.: The View from the CEO Office

By: Shoshana Zuboff and Janis Lee Gogan

Motorola, a leader in semiconductors and telecommunications, embarked on an ambitious program of renewal beginning in the early 1980s, leading to dramatic improvements in the company's quality, cycle time, and growth. Much of this progress was attributed to a major... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Telecommunications Industry

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November 1989
Case

NYNEX: An Executive Development Process

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Executive Education; Leadership Development; Telecommunications Industry

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January 1989 (Revised February 1993)
Case

Warner Cable (A)

The new general manager of Warner Cable's Medford, Massachusetts complex faces a number of turnaround challenges in 1985, including service deficiencies, customer complaints, high turnover, and low employee morale. By 1988 he has turned the situation around, but some... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Human Resources; Telecommunications Industry; Massachusetts

December 1988
Supplement

Pacific Bell and the CWA (C)

By: Charles C. Heckscher and Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry

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December 1982
Supplement

New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company (B)

By: Richard E. Walton

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Job Design and Levels; Telecommunications Industry

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January 1997 (Revised November 1997)
Case

IBM and Siemens: Revitalizing the Rolm Division (A)

By: Ashish Nanda, Antonio Davila and Georgia Levenson

The case opens with a discussion of the evolution of the private branch exchange industry in the 1970s and 1980s. It follows the path of Rolm from an independent company to an IBM acquisition and its problem as an IBM division. Then describes Siemens' growing interest... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Restructuring; Joint Ventures; Negotiation Participants; Business Divisions; Problems and Challenges; Acquisition; Telecommunications Industry

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July 1988 (Revised May 1998)
Teaching Note

Motorola and Japan (A), (B), and (A), Supplement, Teaching Note

By: David B. Yoffie

Teaching Note for (9-388-056), (9-389-172), and (9-388-057). View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry; Japan

June 1984 (Revised March 1986)
Case

AT&T and the Access Charge

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

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry; United States

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05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

eighteen months, to also nationalize the country's biggest telecommunications company and the electricity and natural gas sectors. What are your thoughts on what this trend means both for Venezuela's economic development and for outside... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

25 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

Working PapersA Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa Authors:Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas Author's Abstract Through her efforts to recruit, hire, and develop minority executives at MTN, a South African View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 1996 (Revised January 2006)
Case

Times Mirror Company PEPS Proposal Review

By: Peter Tufano

Times Mirror Co. (TMC) owns a substantial block of Netscape common stock purchased prior to Netscape's IPO, on which it has substantial unrealized gains. TMC is restricted from selling the stock in a public offering and is therefore considering a proposal by Morgan... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Stocks; Taxation; Corporate Finance; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States

June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
Background Note

Primer on the U.S. Television Industry

This case provides background on the U.S. TV industry at the end of the 20th century. View Details

Keywords: History; Television Entertainment; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States

November 2004 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Messier's Reign at Vivendi Universal

By: Rakesh Khurana, Vincent Dessain and Daniela Beyersdorfer

Focuses on a crisis in the board at Vivendi. Highlights the difficulties that arise when dramatic pressure from outside the boardroom affects boardroom dynamics. In this case, there are two events. The first is an unexpectedly large financial loss and a pending cash... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; History; Cash Flow; Acquisition; Performance; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry

February 2003 (Revised October 2003)
Case

Cable Data Systems

By: Paul W. Marshall and Todd H Thedinga

Describes the operating challenges of Cable Data Systems (CDS), a minority-owned cable installation company with a dual mission of maximizing profits and providing employment opportunities to minorities in urban markets. Following the merger of two cable installation... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Employment; Forecasting and Prediction; Urban Scope; Cost Management; Infrastructure; Labor Unions; Demand and Consumers; Demographics; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Boston

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