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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) After studying mass layoffs for a decade, Professor Sandra Sucher has seen the detrimental effects and advises against this now-common tactic for workforce... View Details
- 22 Nov 2018
- News
WhatsApp Names New India Head to Grow its Biggest Market
- 21 Apr 2015
- News
Tech Companies Struggle to Get World on Internet
- 28 Mar 2014
- News
Facebook's Big Bet on Virtual Reality
- 04 Nov 2013
- News
Android Founder Rich Miner Headlines HBS Cyberposium
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a financial services operation to a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
meaningful, they are by definition hard.” Weeks has led Corning through some of the brightest and darkest times in the company’s 163-year history. After investing heavily in fiber optics, Corning’s stock plummeted when the View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
that telecommunications also enable "the emergence and success of complex organizations with large-scale integration and interdependence." Most significant innovation for business Computer technology View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
(edited with Nolan and Jerry Hausman), Globalization, Technology, and Competition, examines changes driven by the integration of computers and telecommunications in the 1990s. The pair's research is the basis of two new MBA electives,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
A seasoned mentor who can stand behind a novice entrepreneur is a valuable asset for anyone attempting a start-up, but especially for those who are now launching ventures in Asia’s complicated business environment. K.O. Chia believes that in a new enterprise, the... View Details
- 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
- 24 Mar 2020
- News
Stopgap Schooling
As Salman Khan (MBA 2003) tracked the spread of the COVID-19 virus and news that schools were shuttering, he knew that the nonprofit Khan Academy was uniquely positioned to help the many families whose children would suddenly be missing school. Forbes reports that... View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Jeff Shell to Become CEO of NBCUniversal
Current chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment Jeff Shell (MBA 1991) will take over as CEO of the media company on January 1, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a statement to the Times, Brian Roberts, the current CEO of Comcast—which owns NBCUniversal—called... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it would take to build a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
A member of the team that introduced the phenomenally successful PalmPilot, Donna Lee Dubinsky (MBA 1981) has a handle on the handheld computer market. She was one of the brains behind the Pilot, the standard-setting personal digital assistant (or PDA, as it is... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- News
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
- 29 May 2014
- News