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- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718402-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-036 Frank Baker: Siris Capital Group and Titan Systems Private equity firm, Siris Capital Group, must decide if they should raise their offer to take Titan View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
directors. As CEO of Frontier Communications, a U.S. telecom company with over $25 billion in assets, Wilderotter executed three major acquisitions, transforming the company’s business mix and more than doubling its size. This case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
School Case 112-096 In June 2010, Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile services operator, acquired the African assets of Bahrain-based Zain Telecom for $10.7 billion-the largest ever cross-border deal in emerging markets. Bharti's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
RCA's Sarnoff Lab, and the Rockwell Science Center, and as it built its capabilities and ventured into new application areas, it discovered a "killer app" for optical communications which led to its acquisition at the height of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
both a car wax and dessert topping. At the moment, the cell phone is the closest thing we have to a fully converged device, said panelists, who represented device makers, telecom service providers, and operating system developers. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
nascent industry. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2294928 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-030 Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards In 2011, Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley sat down with the chairman of View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
digital form." Telecom Shakeout HBS assistant professor Thomas Eisenmann, moderator of the panel on "Shakeout in Telecommunications," asked the assembled VCs if they are better able to add value to equipment companies or... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Teixeira, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Marketing unit. But not anymore. The Second Internet Wave A second wave of Internet disruption threatens not only electronics and telecom businesses, but also industries... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
instance, and the fact that telecom industry regulations vary from country to country, which means networking prices vary, too.) The findings were consistently parallel with the hypotheses: An increase in the penetration of ERP systems... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
Systems Approach in Venezuela: Laying the Foundation for Shared Value in a Time of Crisis No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917409-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-014 Korea Telecom: Building a GiGAtopia Korea... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
says. In December, for example, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) issued an amicus brief related to a case in which telecom equipment giant Ericsson sued Dell and six other hardware companies for patent... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
School Case 708-477 This is the story of MTC, a Kuwaiti telecom company that has grown from a sleepy, state monopoly to become one of the fastest growing telecom companies in the world, with the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
Original Article About fifteen years ago, an academic friend from France noticed the impact of Minitel on French consumer behavior. He noted that consumers were increasingly using the pathbreaking electronic directory created by France View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
leadership." We asked him to discuss his findings and where his work is heading next. Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led to your interest in this area? William Kerr: In the late 1990s, I worked with a large Korean chaebol on a spin-off venture to commercialize a... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
the Asia-Pacific region. Poised to enter the World Trade Organization, China is sowing the seeds of entrepreneurship in its state-owned enterprises; the Japanese government is challenging its own telecom monopolies; and wireless... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he had learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why did the telecommunications company use a search firm to talk with the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
the Swedish telecom infrastructure company Ericsson hires a new CEO to bring the former Swedish flagship company back on track. Puts students in the shoes of Carl-Henric Svanberg, an industry outsider and CEO of locks group Assy Abloy,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806203 Strategic Outsourcing at Bharti Airtel Ltd. Harvard Business School Case 107-003 Faced with exponential growth and a competitive telecom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1727508 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 711-464 Vodafone in Japan (A) Despite a rough start in the Japanese telecom market, by late 2003, Vodafone seemed to have weathered the storm,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne