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Jeremy Andrus
chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel developer for a Marriott franchisee. Before HBS, I was a management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact HBS, a Dream, and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise Rebecca Feickert 16 Nov 2017 “Nice talking to you as... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
fair competition. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917012-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-030 InMobi: Reimagining Mobile Advertising InMobi, a mobile advertising company,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 1995
- Case
Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (B): Building Success
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko
This case continues the story of the joint venture in China between Northern Telecom (Nortel) of Canada and Tong Guang Electronics of China. It shows how North Americans learned to operate in a very different cultural environment in China and provides an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Joint Ventures; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Culture; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Canada; China
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Pamela A. Yatsko. "Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (B): Building Success." Harvard Business School Case 395-083, June 1995.
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
people have thought about the mobility industry.” She described the concept as “Park it. Plug it. Profit.” Fermata Energy is the first company to be commercially deployed in the U.S. for light-duty vehicles, the first to earn UL 9741... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and paper for designing standard View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
broken were education and medicine," Nielsen recalls. "But education seemed too big a nut to crack." Settling on medicine, Nielsen and Cramer pored over the Seattle phone book to find a research and development company they could buy and... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
targeting efforts. The First Cut Customer attrition is a widespread problem that affects firms in a variety of industries. For example, US credit card providers often deal with annual churn rates of about 20 percent, and mobile View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
mobile devices experience "phantom vibration syndrome," when one's pocket buzzes and there's no phone there.) The second book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of... View Details
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Aaron Chadbourne
first day after high school graduation, I got my real estate license," Aaron says. The business was not only a way to earn summer income throughout college, but another way of learning. "Real estate is an industry where you can... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
mission around film and education,” Apkon says in a phone interview. “The nature of literacy changes based on how we communicate, and the vast majority of information these days is delivered through visual media. In the past decade, it’s... View Details
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Zayed Muhammed Yasin
gives me the ability to mobilize and organize resources to address the big health problems among people who need the most help," he says. "If you understand finances and operations, you can find ways to deliver better care,... View Details
- May 2019
- Teaching Note
SeatGeek
By: Robert F. Higgins and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-013. View Details
Keywords: Event Ticketing; Sports Ticketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Model; Decision Making; Digital Platforms; Sports; Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; New York (city, NY)
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
you know, at the most basic level, what we've built is an application process that works on a mobile phone and takes eight minutes to complete, and it helps people stay enrolled by sending them a text... View Details
- 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 supervision. The plant for years... View Details
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
of the industrial system, or the way society wanted it to function," says Bower. "And lo and behold, we now have a crisis that illustrates what they were concerned about." “If you believe that the problems ahead are likely to be very... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish