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- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
expanded its offering to cover a broad spectrum of Internet and mobile security products. In 2012 the company launched its own Internet search engine called So.com. By August 2013, So.com captured 18% PC View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
tightly linked to changes in firm diversification and IT investments. These relationships depend crucially on the function involved: those closer to the product ("product" functions, e.g., marketing / R&D) behave differently...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
"I'll take that bet." Despite having come off a solid win as chief marketing officer of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Amy Aronoff Blumkin (MBA 1988), isn't talking about football. She's recounting what she told her boss at AT&T...
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- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
or not on my watch anyhow." (Jamal Barghouti). A dominant theme concerned the bias in the market toward addressing short-term challenges, caused in large part by what Robin Chacko described as the "impatient" investor. As...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Research - Managing the Future of Work
trying to back away from those requirements. To learn how the effort is going, the... 10 Feb 2022 News Working Nation Guiding Low-Wage Workers on the Upward Mobility Path Is a Win for Employees and Companies Re: Joseph Fuller It suggests...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
which was sourcing originals for its new hotel in Oakland, for example, and a florist who was staging a large-scale but short-term installation at Instagram’s headquarters. At first Giridharadas was simply hoping to build a better market...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- September 2004 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
QUALCOMM, Inc. 2004
By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Elizabeth Kind
QUALCOMM, Inc. had transitioned from a fledgling startup into a Fortune 500 wireless technology leader. Its CDMA technology was considered the preeminent technology and was the world's fastest growing wireless communications technology. CEO Irwin Jacobs had a number of...
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China;
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Yoffie, David B., Pai-Ling Yin, and Elizabeth Kind. "QUALCOMM, Inc. 2004." Harvard Business School Case 705-401, September 2004. (Revised June 2005.)
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
shift from her previous strengths to her new ambitions. At Path, a mobile application startup based in San Francisco, Cynthia joined as a business analyst, but during her five-year tenure, moved to design and product development, becoming...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a...
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- August 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Vicinity Corporation: Turning Web Traffic into Store Traffic
By: Frances X. Frei, David Margalit and Amanda Yelsh
Vicinity uses its Internet and m-commerce technology to help drive traffic into its customers' physical distribution outlets. The company has terrific technology and is seemingly successful in getting more consumers into its customers' stores, yet it is in a precarious...
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Frei, Frances X., David Margalit, and Amanda Yelsh. "Vicinity Corporation: Turning Web Traffic into Store Traffic." Harvard Business School Case 602-031, August 2001. (Revised November 2001.)
- Fast Answer
Patent search: Product-associated patents
How can I find patents associated to a particular (branded) product? It is always a challenge to conduct a patent search by product (or "brand name") because: Almost all the patented products in the market are known by...
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- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is managing director of Endeavor Philippines, a branch of the global Endeavor organization, which fights poverty by finding and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. “Our mission statement is to create an economic multiplier effect in View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
their home viewing, and the advent of innovations like 5G, cashless payment systems, and mobile wayfinding solutions are really elevating the venue experience.” —Angela Ruggiero Jonathan Mariner (MBA 1978), Senior Advisor for Imagination...
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- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
features. "Do I want my business phone to play music?" The key to living in a multiple-device life is a standard way of sharing information between devices, such as via data cards and network communication, said Susan K. DelBene, vice president of marketing,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
of the energy company Cinergy, has led the company from the brink of bankruptcy to one of the premier energy companies through selecting a focused strategy, aligning the organization to support it, and mobilizing all the employees to...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
million in revenue in 2013, up from $58 million in 2012. And it touts a Net Promoter Score—a customer-satisfaction indicator—in the low 80s, saying it is "significantly higher than Apple and Amazon, and nearly 50 points higher than phone carriers." But naturally, the...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication...
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Julia Hanna
- Profile
Raghu Yarlagadda
image and video processing. For four years, he worked at Motorola Mobility among the engineers who developed high-definition television technology. In the third year of his employment, he contributed to one of the first wireless set-top...
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- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor of Business Administration,...
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Margie Kelley