Mobile and Wireless Technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

consumers and producers, and such changes typically required the mobilization of political power to overcome resistance to such changes. In order to support such developmental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jan 2012
First Look

Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high technological, market, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

complementary resource mobilization and internal integration. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52260 November 16, 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Negotiate After a... 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... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

front of the pump instead of paying in slower, more conventional ways, did 2.7 million people sign up for the program and increase their loyalty to Mobil by one extra visit to the pump per month? The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

categories in the technology world? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709466 iPremier (A): Denial of Service Attack (Graphic Novel Version) Harvard Business School Case 609-092 Describes an IT... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

Complex trends in globalization, demographic shifts, and new technologies are raising urgent challenges for managers on an everyday level. Because of the number of companies undergoing digital... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

technology. Private capital flows—debt finance, equity capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI)—became larger than current and past official capital flows. This new era of foreign capital View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

wireless RFID securities token business at the same time. I would argue that there is a natural phenomenon that you will see lightening striking more than once in the same place, and I would never fight... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

people with health insurance often are saddled with medical debt. Policymakers have taken notice, and in an election year amid an uncertain economy, health care, debt, and economic View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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"... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

07 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

Information technology was one. Part of that was upgrading and establishing HBS as a leader in the use of technology for education. Now we're poised to go further, using View Details

Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

and how can that apply to the United States? One reason is the sophistication of finance. The other is the growth of three specific technologies. Sophisticated financial tracking and smart View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

while studying the manufacturing floor at a leading, technologically advanced global contract manufacturer's plant in Southern China, where tens of thousands of workers assembled mobile devices under close... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

delivery of capital. For example, all of the biggest players emerging in the alternative lending space offer online and mobile applications, many of which can be completed in under 30 minutes. These are not... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

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