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  • 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
Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting
  • September 2004
  • Case

Valhalla Partners Due Diligence

By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath
The Valhalla Partners venture capitial firm introduced a new approach to the due-diligence process. An internal due-diligence report analyzes Telco Exchange, a startup company in the IT software space. An extended excerpt examines the trade-offs involved in the new... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Business Plan; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Saving Grace

PensionBee in 2014 to address this lack of continuity and introduce transparency to an industry that’s known to be convoluted and confusing. The company is able to track down a customer’s pension plans and consolidate them into one, which... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

him to drive significant change in an industry and Japanese society in the second half of the twentieth century. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408039 Leadership in Energy: Jim Rogers at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Growth and Development Strategy; Opportunities; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Home from the Sea

the news with a record-setting trimaran voyage from San Francisco to Boston. Before long, I was on the phone with him, arranging an interview that produced a lengthy feature article in the December 1993 Bulletin. Last spring, Wilson made... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
  • October 2009 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Qualcomm Incorporated 2009

By: David B. Yoffie, Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth A. Kind
Paul Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, smiled as he reflected on the success of Qualcomm's code division multiple access (CDMA) technology. By the summer of 2009, CDMA was the basis for all third generation technologies available for cellular... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Diversification; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

3 leverages proprietary data from a mobile phone application through which residents can submit service requests to Boston government. Users who received photographic evidence that their service requests had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

village in Gujarat India where our... Channeling Business Leadership into Civic Impact: HBS Alumni and the City of San Francisco Elaine MacDonald 11 Aug 2017 For 30 years, HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners has View Details
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest: learning by supplying. Using a detailed panel dataset on supply... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

Debt collectors aren’t perceived as providing great service to debtors.Source: BrianAJackson  On the list of industries known for great customer service, debt collection is far from the top—and may not even be on the list at all. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration

We learned from Kat Baird from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business about the highly useful insights from their survey work on the Sustainability Industry and Careers Skills Analysis, and we learned from other schools about their work to... View Details
  • 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... View Details
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • March 2005 (Revised July 2006)
  • Case

Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (A)

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Depicts the options facing Mohammed Ibrahim, founder and chairman of Celtel International, the largest pan African wireless telecommunications provider, as he tries to position his company for further growth. Should the firm, which has reached $1 billion in revenues in... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Africa
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  • 11 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense industry with high... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

Over the last ten years, technology has reduced entire catalogues of consumer goods to devices that fit in the palms of our hands. Phones are smarter, networks are faster, and more people have access to more information than ever before.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Naina Lal Kidwai

impact in the country dramatically. She was instrumental in the NYSE listing of Wipro; in facilitating nationwide cellular phone service through a deal involving the Tata and Birla families and AT&T; and in a number of privatizations.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance