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- 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 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) founded India’s largest telecom company, which has recently expanded into 17 African countries. This dynamic trio of Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973), Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), and Mark Fields (MBA 1989)... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
Shanghai municipal government, Netcom is putting up a stiff challenge to three other government-controlled telecom network operators. Tian, who holds a doctorate in environmental management from Texas Tech University, is bringing a new... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston
Moderator Mike Toffel explored different topics with the panelists, who offered their perspectives on the trends they’re seeing, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they face. Mitch Goldstein likened electricity to the early View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Authored by Assistant Professors Boris Groysberg and Chris Marquis, the case is taught in the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). After just a few days on the job, Keller (MBA ’05) is taken off one project and thrown into another involving... View Details
- Profile
Ari Medoff
graduation, Ari worked at Lehman Brothers in a series of roles that ranged from selling a telecom software business to closing transactions in the firm's LBO unit. Seeking something "more entrepreneurial," he moved to Atrium... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Cable Gal
in cable and telecom equipment sales — a field where few women are found — it was a wake-up call. "My son basically said, 'You're not doing your job,'" McCollough told the Roanoke Times (September 23, 2001) in a lengthy article that... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
example, in my first semester Technology and Operations Management class where we studied a New Zealand yacht racing case, I used my experience from doing a churn reduction model for a South African Telecom operator to recommend whether... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
found that TV ads not only can spur web traffic—the browser is at the ready, after all—but can drive sales, too. But which ads push the most? As part of the study, Teixeira and his colleagues collected thousands of ads hawking products frequently purchased... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
search was made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he only learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why would the telecommunications company use a search firm to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
taught competition and strategy, and Marco Iansiti, who taught operations strategy. Just as important, Laguë met both his future business partner and his future wife at HBS. In 1994, he joined classmate Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) in Africa to become CFO of her View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
Collaborating with Competitors on Infrastructure Ranjay Gulati, Francisco de Asís Martínez-Jerez, V.G. Narayanan, and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School Case 110-057 The case describes the formation of Indus Towers, the largest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Profile
Limor Moshkovich
we bring twenty to forty people," says Limor. "This year it will be eighty. I want to share what my country is all about with some of the brightest and most talented people in the business world." During the summer, Limor will intern with British View Details
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
procedural roadblocks for the likes of Chinese telecom products maker Huawei Technologies, and why not facilitate Chinese entry into India? It will be a worthy complement to continued dialogue regarding the border disputes. View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
and corporate battles that he witnessed in the nearly six decades of his career. He replays his two stints—in the late 1980s and the early 1990s—as the CEO of Canada's darling of the telecom industry, Mitel Corporation, and offers many... View Details
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
We operate in much the same way as a telecom business—but instead of fiber optic cables we use lasers to transmit high volume data down from space (think high resolution spectral imagery). A big constraint on our ability to do that is... View Details
Keywords: Technology