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- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
address them became more supportive of government. Study 3 leverages proprietary data from a mobile phone application through which residents can submit service requests to Boston government. Users who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
to visit the rural 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
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
United States’ most visible, influential export. But given its uncertainties, what would drive HBS alumni to enter an industry characterized in the best of times as “the business of rejection”? * * * * * In Hollywood, the spotlight... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
Chinese entrepreneur who tested moving to China twice before; in both cases he returned to the United States disappointed. Now he feels he must be in China because, as he put it, "China is undergoing both its renaissance and its View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Each day, the chaos that is one sliver of modern India arrives in the form of 13,000 phone calls to the tranquil 37-acre campus of the Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) outside Hyderabad in the southern state of Andhra... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
wireless technology. Cairncross argues that the story today is not only the diminishing importance of distance but also the mobility and ubiquity of technology. To order HBS Press books, call 800-545-7685 or visit www.hbsp.harvard.edu.... View Details
- 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
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 805-120, March 2005. (Revised July 2006.)
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
self-proclaimed "infrastructure guy," panelist Steve Papa (HBS MBA '99) of Optigrab.com speculated that the future of e-business services will be marked by the same pull toward uniformity that took place in industry consolidations a... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
the underrepresented, and the disabled,” she says. “They understand that their work can help create independence, which enables dignity and self-respect.” Vista Center recently piloted a conference, VistaTEC, to gauge industry interest in... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Israel - Global Activities 2020
banks, the answer provides leadership lessons in organizational change, modernization, and having the courage and wherewithal to disrupt the banking industry from within. Pictured: Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, former CEO of Bank Leumi A... View Details
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leadership among the business community by founding the Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG). Our project evaluated the role that AM and EPSMG played during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Measuring the "Impact" in Impact... View Details
- March 2012 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
INRIX
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Ryan Johnson
Since its founding in 2004, INRIX, a leading global provider of traffic information and driver services, had received four rounds of financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
Justin Dawe (MBA 2007), president, Scoot Networks (photo courtesy of Scoot Networks) What do you think the state of the energy industry will be in 2030? HBS students in the Energy and Environment Club asked alumni working in the field to... View Details
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In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success - Recruiting
stay energized and effective. Mirror the rhythms of your in-office days: take short breaks, block time for focused work, and build in physical activity. Simple habits like standing during meetings or taking a walk during phone calls can... View Details
- 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
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
compromise the health of the entire ecosystem. Loose coupling: Embrace mobility and flexibility. The heart of operating strategy for a niche player is to leverage the broad-based efficiencies offered by connecting up with several players... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
effect dominates the negative within-firm effect post IPO. We build a firm industry model with endogenous entry to quantify the importance of two competing selection mechanisms: an increasing share of R&D-intensive firms in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne