Mobility - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

School, studies how location and geographic mobility affect worker productivity and innovation. His research also examines how companies benefit by allowing employees to work remotely. Choudhury answered questions from participants in a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 Oct 2016
First Look

October 18, 2016

Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51740 Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method

Chad Losee and he was able to deconstruct any myths we had related to the admissions process. HBS even developed a mobile app dedicated to Peek. This helped us access program information and built community among the students. Through the... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships

Michailidis says. “I studied with incredibly competent people and two of them became my business partners. We founded Pushpins while we were still at HBS.” The Pushpins application enables users to scan items in grocery stores and receive instant savings coupons on... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

01 Oct 2013
News

Banking on Africa's Future

bank accounts are held in Equity Bank. It has the largest ATM network in the country and the best mobile banking service, reaching a large and geographically dispersed customer base. We believe Equity is an example of an investment that... View Details

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

along with classmate Lucas Klein and Jason Green, a 2002 graduate of Penn's Wharton School of Business. The runner-up in the social enterprise track was The Unison Project, a group designed to mobilize the talents of artists and music... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

wireless technology. Cairncross argues that the story today is not only the diminishing importance of distance but also the mobility and ubiquity of technology. To order HBS Press books, call 800-545-7685 or visit www.hbsp.harvard.edu.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

24 Apr 2014
News

The power of storytelling can be a catalyst in advocating for the rights of women

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) believes stories “are the best way to reach people you otherwise couldn’t. But storytelling is just a start; you then have to mobilize people and support the push for change through policy.” As the author... View Details

23 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium

public health sectors need to work together. Mobilizing for a National Response View Video Professor Juliette Kayyem and Professor Dutch Leonard detail what crisis management looks like in a COVID world, with unprecedented challenges, and... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas

start-up in Bangalore cofounded by CEO Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011), has developed a mobile phone attachment that will enable patients to test their blood sugar and seamlessly transmit the results to a physician or nurse for appropriate... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards

06 Dec 2004
What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

authors suggest that once predictable surprises are identified, persuasive communication, coalition building (to mobilize people to confront the potential surprise), and structured problem-solving (to identify options and eliminate... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Anthony Tan

for a mobile app that connects taxi seekers directly with taxi drivers closest to their location in the chaotic Malaysian urban environment. The drivers would be supplied with smartphones so they could communicate directly with... View Details

April 1999 (Revised September 2001)
Case

Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones

By: Paul A. Gompers

Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company to make wireless phones. Students get experience using traditional discounted cash flow valuation and a real options... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry

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January 1999
Case

Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (D): Results and Replication

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

The last in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Reviews the various outcomes of the partnership called Project Explore, from the perspective of Bell Atlantic managers and... View Details

Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Leadership Development; Outcome or Result; Horizontal Integration; Partners and Partnerships; Trends; Education; Technological Innovation; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; New Jersey

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09 Apr 2025
Podcast

Redrawing the map to tech careers: Per Scholas CEO Plinio Ayala on skills, mobility, and AI

After decades preparing workers from underserved communities for well-paid tech jobs, the workforce nonprofit is expanding its training, footprint, and funding strategy for its tuition-free programs. As AI redefines positions across the org chart, can bootcamps plus... View Details

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

while studying the manufacturing floor at a leading, technologically advanced global contract manufacturer's plant in Southern China, where tens of thousands of workers assembled mobile devices under close supervision. The plant for years... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

mobilize business leadership on a sufficient scale to make a difference." "Our view is the system could go, if companies don't step up," says Bower. "It's companies that have the skill sets necessary to go from a vision to making... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

endeavors where you need to mobilize such diverse talent at a global scale and climate change is one of those challenges. In terms of internal HBS resources, connecting with career coaches at CPD, especially those in the energy and... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Law School Interrogating (in)Justice: #BlackLivesMatter Panel: Speaking truth: Mobilizing change through artistic expression Kyra Gaunt, PhD , University of Albany Learning from Gendered Musical Blackness Lumumba Seegars , Harvard... View Details

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

to provide early childhood education, post-trauma psychosocial support for children, parents, and women, and preschool learning materials and hygiene kits for families in container villages and other locations in the region via mobile... View Details

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