telecom - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2012 (Revised August 2013)
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Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging

Some technology transitions are exceedingly difficult for incumbent firms to execute. The bankruptcy filing by the Eastman Kodak Company highlighted the difficulty companies faced when their core business transitioned from an analog to a digital world. Kodak's business... View Details

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cofounder of TVG Capital Partners, an international private equity firm. He has been involved in Asian communications businesses for more than 15 years. Previously, he was director of telecom at the Asian Infrastructure Fund; director of... View Details

12 Mar 2024
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How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

investment concern. It then was an early entrant into China's telecom and IT wave of the early 1990s, and became a market leader. Li is a man who seeks to establish a positive legacy. He created a foundation in 1980 to help young Chinese... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

people. In the lower income sectors, billing operations for the utility are carried out through the local "barangay" unit, the smallest constituency in the local government hierarchy. Ayala is also creating microentrepreneurs through its View Details

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About - Business & Environment

Richard Vieira (MBA 1995), Managing Director and Co-Head, Cowen Technology Media and Telecom Group Richard Vieira is collaborating with Josh Krieger and Jim Matheson on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Tough Tech Ventures, which will... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

inserting themselves at every juncture in the customer's consumption chain. By decoupling—the act of separating activities that people are used to co-consuming—new digital businesses are disrupting retailing, telecom and other industries.... View Details

26 May 2022
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Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

and telecom corporations. The shocking revelations caused many consumers, businesses, and governments to take their business away from US tech companies; A New America analysis estimated the loss to US cloud computing over the Snowden... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

06 Oct 2003
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The Problem with Hedge Funds

in the Internet and telecom bubbles. Those who have money left, or who have new savings coming in and are seeking investments have heard that hedge funds have done well. For example, they've heard that Julian Robertson's Tiger Fund has... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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news. S&P Capital IQ Pro News, data, and analysis covering a selection of industries, with strong coverage on financials, energy, materials (including metals and mining), insurance, Tech, Media and Telecom (TMT) and more.... View Details

29 Oct 2019
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Robots in the Boardroom

Advanced Technologies How telecom giant Vodafone incorporated big data, automation, and artificial intelligence to improve productivity while ensuring new opportunities for next-generation workers. Will Machine Learning Make You a Better... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Market Research Reports in General Databases

Source Complete LSEG Workspace 2018 to current current year only 2014 to current Aritzon Global Multi-Industry Global EMIS 2017 to current BIS Global Industry Reports Multi-Industry Global EMIS 2015 to current BuddeComm Telecom Global... View Details

22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

personal responsibility. Evidence of this problem is provided by a study of a large European telecoms company, which revealed that very little learning occurred from a set of large and small failures over a period of twenty years. Instead... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

local newspaper as watchdog In 2003, reporters at the Denver-based Rocky Mountain News broke a story about fraudulent behavior at Qwest Communications, then one of the largest telecom companies in the country. The Rocky, as it was known... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2014
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In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)

As CEO of the London-based telecom Vodafone Group, Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) has led a series of headline-grabbing acquisitions and divestitures, from the company’s $1.7 billion purchase of British multinational View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; technology; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Carlos Reines Gonzalez

Carlos is the President and Co-founder of RubiconMD. Originally from Spain, he’s passionate about leveraging technology to drive change in healthcare and improve patient lives. Prior to RubiconMD, Carlos led a division at Telefonica, one of the largest View Details

Keywords: Digital Health;#43;#Healthcare;#57;#Public Health & Global Health;#53;#Media & Publishing;#29;#Entertainment

26 May 2015
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Life plays out in phases

After five years of working as a consultant in the international telecom sector, Julie Wolinsky (MBA 1998) left the full-time workforce to focus on family. (Published May 2015) View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Touting Green Energy’s Potential

MARKEY: Just as the telecom sector was revolutionized in the 1990s by legislation that unleashed competition, so too will a green energy sector be launched, generating enormous wealth creation. In March, at a two-day HBS conference on... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

04 Sep 2019
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A Climate Change Optimist

power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and draw what’s there back down.” For Green America, that’s meant leading consumer campaigns... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe

01 Sep 2007
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Former French Finance Minister Joins HBS Faculty

Thierry Breton, former French finance minister, has joined the HBS faculty as a senior lecturer and will teach the first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability course this fall. Breton is well-known in France as former chairman of France View Details

Keywords: finance minister; professorship; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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