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  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

built with blockchain—a quickly growing technology at the time. AirFox was an early stage startup that sold Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to small telecom companies. AirFox was generating revenue and had a pipeline of interested customers,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Case

Huawei: How Can We Lead the Way?

By: Elie Ofek, Tian Tao, Eden Yin and Nancy Hua Dai
On September 12, 2017, just as Apple’s Tim Cook was unveiling the iPhone X, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group (CBG), and Glory Cheung, his Chief Marketing Officer, were discussing some key strategic issues regarding Huawei’s smartphone business.... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Communications; Price; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy
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  • August 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Background Note

Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging

By: Willy Shih
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
Keywords: Technology Transitions; Competency-destroying; Digital; Analog; Digital Transition; Modular; Modularity; Technological Change; Radical Innovation; Incremental Innovation; Architectural Innovation; Modular Innovation; Sustaining Innovation; Competency-enhancing; Noise Propagation; Perfect Copying; Digital Music; Digital Media; Consumer Electronics; Kodak; Sony; Panasonic; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Transition; Change Management; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • December 2020 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

France Télécom (A): A Challenging Restructuring

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans
These cases explore the impacts of industry shocks, resulting corporate actions that had a devastating impact on employees, and the legal conviction of corporate leaders for “institutional harassment."

This case series follows the evolution of France... View Details
Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Human Resource Management; Strategic Change; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Leadership And Change Management; Leadership And Managing People; Change; Restructuring; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Health; Human Capital; Human Resources; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Law; Social Psychology; Strategy; Leadership; Leadership Style; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Employees; Well-being; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; European Union
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  • Web

Hiring Organizations

Partners AllWin Alpaca Real Estate Alphabroder Alpine Investors Alterra Capital Partners Altitude AI Altos Ventures Alumni Ventures Amazon Amazon Web Services - AWS Ambit Partners American Express American Industrial Partners Amex Ventures Ammobia Anacapa Partners... View Details
  • Web

Marketing - Faculty & Research

bets. The most ambitious part of the strategy was to expand the scale and scope with the aim of diversifying the business. The expansion was anchored in five key initiatives, referred to as “Big Bets.” One focused on scaling stc’s core View Details
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

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
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

his journey from a telecom entrepreneur to climate tech innovator, explaining how Dryad’s solar-powered sensors and mesh networks detect wildfires at their inception and transmit real-time alerts to their customers. He also discusses the... View Details
  • Web

About - Business & Environment

Jim Matheson on the MBA Elective Curriculum course Tough Tech Ventures, which will include supporting climate related topics. Richard Vieira (MBA 1995), Managing Director and Co-Head, Cowen Technology Media and Telecom Group Richard... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

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
  • 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
  • Web

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
  • HBS Case

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
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • Fast Answer

Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

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
  • Sharpening Your Skills

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
  • Fast Answer

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
  • Web

Judges - Alumni

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 telecom... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • News

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