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  • 14 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

rather by telecommunications carriers. It's the carriers who create design specifications for the manufacturers to meet, and services are largely tied into the carrier's proprietary network. "There are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 Industry in 2011 Mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

the strong hardware and manufacturing bias and hierarchical structures of Japan's computer and electronics firms is largely responsible for the virtual non-existence of a standalone software sector. Second, even when the vertical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

telecommunications to tobacco and soft drinks. The dangers of excessive market concentration are greater in finance, however, because of the systemic importance of credit to the economy and the now widely held belief that governments must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

  PublicationsLocal Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India Authors:Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell Publication:Journal of Economic Geography Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing new initiatives in B2C... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • May 2000 (Revised August 2001)
  • Case

Telecom Italia Takeover (B)

By: Michael D. Watkins, James K. Sebenius and Ann Leamon
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Italy
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  • May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
  • Case

Teleswitch (C)

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Wireless Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
  • Case

Teleswitch (B)

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Wireless Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

initial revenue push, but the critical move might be to redefine Gazelle around a model of exchanging a product for cash and then extending more product lines. That could lead to relationships with vendors, retailers, and manufacturers... View Details
Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Telecommunications; Telecommunications; Telecommunications; Telecommunications; Telecommunications
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

David LaneHarvard Business School Case 810-075 Iqbal Quadir, a former New York investment banker, set about to bring universal telecommunications to his native Bangladesh. He was convinced that GSM, the same advanced wireless technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Greylock

Cablevision, and Tellabs (a maker of telecommunications products) in the late 1960s and 1970s to more recent investments such as Red Hat (a global provider of Linux and open-source technology), Internet Security Systems, online... View Details
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville started his career in the Bell... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • October 1988
  • Case

Digital Communications, Inc.: Encoder Device Division

Explores the issues surrounding the determination of the product cost of a subassembly in a firm that has never had to determine subassembly costs. Asks students to change the cost system by adding allocation bases and developing a step-down allocation process. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Resource Allocation; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

first-movers in radio were the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading United States producers of electrical and telecommunications equipment, and the German company Telefunken, a joint venture of the two... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

manufacturer like Ford Motor Company. Ford cooperates with its suppliers to design new vehicles even as it negotiates vigorously with them over the terms on which parts will be supplied. By cooperating to develop new cars, Ford and its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

unexpectedly in the midst of chaos brought by the resistance of its staff who feared losing their civil servant status after privatization. Also facing Mao was the forthcoming deregulation of the telecommunication industry on the island... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis By: Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman