Mobility - Publications - Faculty & Research

Alden J. Laborde

One year after founding the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, Laborde had produced the world’s first offshore mobile drilling rig, quickly setting a new standard in the industry. This was followed by a series of new oil drilling... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

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Gaming: statistics

mobile games. Search LSEG Workspace for analyst reports on specific companies and the gaming industry more broadly. Industry and market research reports available in IBISWorld, Mintel, and Technavio. View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Hunting Red Balloons

In December, the government agency DARPA tethered to the ground ten red weather balloons at random locations around the United States in a test to see how social networks might mobilize and use the Internet for rapid problem-solving. In... View Details

Keywords: contests; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Lee R. Raymond

Raymond presided over the rapid growth of Exxon during the nineties. He orchestrated the successful merger of Exxon with Mobil Corporation and extracted over $7 billion of savings from the combined entity. The $81 billion merger was the... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

25 Sep 2006
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How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

solutions for myriad tasks that previously were performed in traditional, non-tech ways. In this way, they have improved the productivity of many traditional industries (just look at all the industries that use PCs today) and created brand new ones (just look at the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

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Zach Komes Archives | Social Enterprise

the spring of 2020, the HBS Impact Investm... Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022) Zach Komes 31 Aug 2021 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their... View Details

18 Feb 2021
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Jumping In, Fighting Bias

to leadership roles at Quidsi, Jet.com, and Walmart. “My gender, ethnicity and faith compelled me to be ambitious in a way that I don’t know if I otherwise would have been,” Balbale told the Wall Street Journal. Last June, Balbale left her position at Walmart as VP of... View Details

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Arun Munthala

resume and work experience for success. He can also offer advice on leadership rotation programs within Automotive/ mobility and on US immigration. Lastly, he is happy to help on career visioning, networking tips, resume, cover letter and... View Details

October 2009 (Revised March 2011)
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Qualcomm Incorporated 2009

By: David B. Yoffie, Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth A. Kind

Paul Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, smiled as he reflected on the success of Qualcomm's code division multiple access (CDMA) technology. By the summer of 2009, CDMA was the basis for all third generation technologies available for cellular... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Diversification; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Telecommunications Industry

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01 Sep 2011
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Just Doing His Job

broadcast and satellite technology “had a clear influence on the man who went on to make billions in Malaysia’s mobile phone, satellite, and pay TV business,” the Morning Herald wrote. Backed by a fortune said to be around $10 billion,... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

24 Apr 2014
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Leading in the face of complex challenges

founded in the 1930s as Hess Oil and Chemical Company. A longtime advocate for and supporter of HBS, Hess is at the helm of an effort that also seeks to actively engage the alumni community. He considers the mobilization of alumni as... View Details

August 2001 (Revised November 2001)
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Vicinity Corporation: Turning Web Traffic into Store Traffic

By: Frances X. Frei, David Margalit and Amanda Yelsh

Vicinity uses its Internet and m-commerce technology to help drive traffic into its customers' physical distribution outlets. The company has terrific technology and is seemingly successful in getting more consumers into its customers' stores, yet it is in a precarious... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Mobile and Wireless Technology

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

profitability,” in placing particular emphasis on how ventures scale by achieving not just product-market fit, but profit -market fit. Classes cover a diverse array of tech and tech-enabled businesses, including e-commerce, ed-tech, SaaS, HR-tech, View Details

26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999

Telecom 1992 Launches Bharti Cellular 1999 Completes OPM Program 2002 Bharti Airtel lists on Indian bourses through IPO 2004 Airtel becomes India’s largest mobile operator 2006 Launches Satya Bharti School Program to educate India’s rural... View Details

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India - Industry specific research

href="http://www.iamai.in/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">Internet & Mobile Association of India Trade association site includes research reports on internet related topics such as online advertising. View Details

12 Feb 2022
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Industrialist Rahul Bajaj Dies at 83

with convenient mobility solutions,” Pawan Munjal, chairman and CEO of Hero MotoCorp, a Bajaj competitor, told Forbes. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that Bajaj “will be remembered for his noteworthy contributions to the world... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya

X". Start typing consumer lifestyles and the name of your GEO country (or Mobile and the name of the country) to locate. EMIS Useful for: emerging market info, including company info, news and niche industry reports. ... View Details

07 Nov 2022
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Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - COP27 and the Climate Crisis

pioneers of environmental sustainability from the private and NGO sectors who have mobilized their organizations in response to the worsening impacts of climate change: Helmy Abouleish is CEO of the SEKEM Initiative in Egypt. Since... View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope

Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Child’s Play

Press-Gazette (November 16, 2010). Observing her own under-two son flip pictures and flashcards on an iPhone, Tak realized how technology can be used by even the very young. And she noted, while there are lots of apps for mobile devices,... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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