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- March 2018
- Teaching Note
Twine Health
By: Robert S. Huckman and Ariel D. Stern
In late 2014, Dr. John Moore (CEO), Frank Moss (chairman), and Scott Gilroy (CTO) of Twine Health (Twine) had to resolve several challenges that threatened to restrict the widespread dissemination of its sole product, Twine. Twine was a cloud-based platform that...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Anthony Foxx discussing America’s infrastructure challenges, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter last month released MOVE: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead to offer a road map for a more mobile future. Tax Code In an effort to...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
mobility. Infrastructure might not inspire, but mobility is opportunity. - Collapse What Moves U.S.: Air and Rail Industry Perspectives + Expand The view from major carriers: How globally competitive are...
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- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
impact. Along the way, I’ve been able to develop my understanding through both coursework and extracurricular offerings at Harvard. My background in the tech industry Before HBS, I worked at Google, where I started in the rotational...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
mobilize their organizations to prevent them. Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth (Harvard Business School Press) Professor Christensen and his coauthors (both MBA ’01) present a framework for...
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- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
improvement in patient throughput time. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1987724 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-009 Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
Tim Chaves (MBA 2015) is the founder of ZipBooks, a free accounting app that helps small business owners get paid faster. Tim founded and sold two small businesses before coming to HBS, where he made the decision to dive into the...
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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
whoever. Which then allows them to begin to build apps for those platforms, like Android. And it's been excellent, I think we've had ... I think the number is now something around 40,000 people go through that program. We're going to have...
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- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
does not do anything to destroy the underlying rigor." —Rosabeth Moss Kanter In his introductory remarks, Marquis cited the ever-changing health-care industry as an example of why institutional analysis is important. "It is a...
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by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
industry practices, which the press juxtaposed against the grim realities of AIDS in southern Africa. In response, governmental and nongovernmental organizations formed a coalition that ultimately won big public health exemptions on...
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by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- June 2015 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
Qualcomm Inc., 2009-2015
By: David B. Yoffie
In the years after 2009, Qualcomm navigated the wireless industry's transition from 3G to 4G, retaining its technological leadership and experiencing dramatic growth in revenue and profit. In March 2014, Qualcomm appointed a new CEO, Steve Mollenkopf, who had to...
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Communication Technologies;
Technology;
Wireless Technologies;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Strategy;
Communication Technology;
Competitive Strategy;
Change Management;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
California
Yoffie, David B. "Qualcomm Inc., 2009-2015." Harvard Business School Case 715-467, June 2015. (Revised August 2016.)
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
30 years, HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners has mobilized more than... Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Andrew Cone, Whitney Museum of American Art Andrew Cone 03 Aug 2017 During the year, we’ll be connecting with...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started...
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- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
different points in the year – depending on what industry they’re planning to work in. A good chunk of students who are looking to spend a summer in the traditional sectors of consulting, banking or general management end up with an offer...
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David A. Frankel
Buzzfeed, Makerbot and Coupang, which is South Korea’s equivalent of Amazon and Fedex rolled into one, according to Frankel. Among the bigger investments were Seatgeek, a mobile app for selling event tickets...
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
apps for frontline employees to contain the pandemic. The experience will like reshape the entire health care industry for years to come. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Health Care Initiative...
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by Danielle Kost
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
predict industry change, especially that involving the development of disruptive technologies.) Why do organizations led by people of vision fail to act upon such insights? Reasons advanced by Bazerman and Watkins are that organizations...
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by James Heskett
- January 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
foursquare
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Chen
Co-founders of foursquare are deciding how to respond to competitive threats and scale up the organization. Foursquare was a location-based online service that allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a...
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Entrepreneurship;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Competitive Advantage;
Web Services Industry;
United States
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and David Chen. "foursquare." Harvard Business School Case 711-418, January 2010. (Revised March 2013.)
- April 2020 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
NTT DOCOMO's Race to 5G
By: Juan Alcácer, Horst Melcher and Akiko Kanno
The case, based on extensive interviews with NTT DOCOMO’s technology leaders, focuses on the opportunities and challenges that NTT DOCOMO faces with the launch of infrastructure and services for 5G wireless telecommunication technology. With higher data rates and...
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5G;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Product Launch;
Strategic Planning;
Decision Making;
Strategy;
Telecommunications Industry;
Telecommunications Industry
Alcácer, Juan, Horst Melcher, and Akiko Kanno. "NTT DOCOMO's Race to 5G." Harvard Business School Case 720-413, April 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
- Profile
Colt Stander
Chances are there haven’t been many MBA candidates who have designed eyeglasses for Nickelodeon and Geoffrey Beene, or the mobile console for a micro-ablation tool used in surgical suites. “I’ve had the unusual experience,” Colt Stander...
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