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- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services industries have been hit hardest as...
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- December 2010 (Revised January 2011)
- Supplement
Qualcomm Incorporated 2011 Update
By: David B. Yoffie
Qualcomm in 2009 and 2010 experienced both the worst of times and the best of times. During the "great recession" of 2009, smartphones growth stalled, stalling Qualcomm's revenue, but in 2010 growth surged again, and was predicted to continue its upward trajectory in...
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Television Entertainment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Opportunities;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Telecommunications Industry
Yoffie, David B. "Qualcomm Incorporated 2011 Update." Harvard Business School Supplement 711-463, December 2010. (Revised January 2011.)
- Web
Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
overview of the history of industrial policy in the United States. It also looks at current policies, including the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS and Science Act, and discusses the private sector's uptake of these bills. How business...
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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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- 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.)
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
level of talent within their budget. The firm is simultaneously mobilizing a part of the workforce—those with a need or a desire for flexible arrangements due to childcare responsibilities or other factors—that might otherwise be left on...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
with that.” Home: West Sussex, England. “As close to Africa as I can get in an English environment. It’s an overgrown farmhouse with horses and rabbits and dogs and many children.” On safari: “I was in one of our mobile camps in the...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
mobilizing change through strong leadership. The Strategy-Focused Organization also introduces a new framework called the strategy map. By analyzing hundreds of scorecards over the last decade, Kaplan and Norton have mapped the patterns...
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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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- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
three were acquired in 2013. From an investor perspective, a minimum investment might be $400,000 to $500,000 spread across 8 to 10 deals to minimize risk. "If we can mobilize extra capital into really exciting life-science...
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- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
been a saving grace in ensuring that the financial crisis did not cause further damage to the economy. With traditional monetary and fiscal policy instruments seemingly exhausted, the mobilization of that cash hoard can prove critical to...
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by Mihir A. Desai
- September 2007 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
TA Associates - MetroPCS (A)
Hythem El-Nazer, a young investment professional at TA Associates, believes he has found an attractive investment opportunity for the firm, MetroPCS, a wireless telecomm service provider. However, two months earlier, TA had invested considerable resources on this...
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Private Equity;
Investment;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
El-Hage, Nabil N., Leslie Pierson, and Stephen Parks. "TA Associates - MetroPCS (A)." Harvard Business School Case 208-042, September 2007. (Revised October 2007.)
- 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
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
Not only has technology entered nearly every area of our personal life, it's the rare industry that isn't computerized, networked, and advertised on Facebook. Except one: education. Outside of the occasional computer lab, basic webpage,...
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- April 1999 (Revised September 2001)
- Case
Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones
By: Paul A. Gompers
Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company to make wireless phones. Students get experience using traditional discounted cash flow valuation and a real options...
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Valuation;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Capital Budgeting;
Corporate Finance;
Manufacturing Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Gompers, Paul A. "Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones." Harvard Business School Case 299-004, April 1999. (Revised September 2001.)
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
along with classmate Lucas Klein and Jason Green, a 2002 graduate of Penn's Wharton School of Business. The runner-up in the social enterprise track was The Unison Project, a group designed to mobilize the talents of artists and music...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
for soccer fans, FirstRowSports. The NFL’s as-yet-unnamed foray into online streaming will test the waters with an October 25 game only available online. The cable and telecom industry has taken note, evidenced by its heavy lobbying...
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Keywords:
Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- Web
Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment
figure out which assets to harden and defend, which to abandon, and which to prepare to rebuild after events. I’m interested in how we can cost justify and mobilize investments in real property - and address the human vulnerabilities as...
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