Mobility - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2016
News

Mobilizing 'Big Teams' For The World's Biggest Challenges

June 2022
Teaching Plan

Daimler - Betting on the Future of Mobility

By: Jurgen Weiss

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 722-006. View Details

Citation

Purchase

08 Sep 2020
News

23 Resources for Mobilizing Innovation in Your Company

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

series focusing on topics such as “Accounting for Climate Change.” “The BEI’s mission is to educate, connect, and mobilize students, faculty, alumni, and other business leaders around climate change and related environmental priorities,”... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

July 2012 (Revised April 2014)
Case

Research In Motion: The Mobile OS Platform War

By: Alan MacCormack, Brian Dunn and Chris F. Kemerer

The case describes competition in the market for smart phones in the US, and the position of one player, Research In Motion (RIM) who manufacture the popular Blackberry line of products. Early in 2011, RIM is in trouble. Its stock price has plummeted, amidst poor... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Product Development; Technology Strategy; Platform Strategy; Software; Hardware; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Applications and Software; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Canada; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

March–April 2017
Article

Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation

Citation

Find at Harvard

Read Now

29 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

Superstar talent brings the kind of wattage that can power a business to the next level, as recent high-stakes decisions facing soccer legend David Beckham show. Two new Harvard Business School case studies examine the questions Beckham and his team pondered as he... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

July 2011
Case

Teach Plus: Mobilizing a New Generation of Teacher Leaders

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary

This case profiles the evolution of Teach Plus, a non-profit organization founded on the premise that in order for public schools to continuously improve urban student achievement, teaching must become a career that motivates and retains effective early career... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Decision Making; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching; Cambridge; Boston

Citation

Educators

Purchase

September 1996 (Revised September 1999)
Case

Mobil USM&R (A): Linking the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan

The CEO of the marketing and refining division of a major oil company is in the midst of implementing a profit turnaround. He transforms the strongly centralized, functionally-organized division into 17 independent business units and 14 internal service companies. The... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Measurement and Metrics; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Balanced Scorecard; Corporate Strategy; Mining Industry; Energy Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

November 30, 2010
Article

Seven Social Transformations Unleashed by Mobile Devices

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Keywords: Technology; Digital Services; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Marketing

Citation

Read Now

January 2014 (Revised August 2014)
Teaching Note

Eko: Mobile Banking and Payments in India

By: Sunil Gupta

Citation

06 May 2021
Podcast

Electrifying Mass Mobility: Uday Khemka, SUN Mobility

Decarbonizing our economy will require shifting transportation from fossil fuels to electricity generated by carbon-free sources. Uday Khemka (HBS MBA 1995), co-Founder and Vice Chairman of SUN Mobility, aims to accelerate mass adoption of electric mobility in India by... View Details

1993
Chapter

Mobile Exporters: New Foreign Investors in East Asia

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Trade; Asia

Citation

Find at Harvard

2018
Mimeo

Measuring Venezuela's Inflation Using Crowdsourcing and Mobile Phones

By: Alberto Cavallo

Keywords: Inflation; Crowdsourcing; Macroeconomics; Inflation and Deflation; Venezuela

Citation

Read Now

Article

Mobile Apps: Possibilities and Pitfalls of Location-Based Marketing

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz

Citation

Read Now

November 2013
Teaching Note

Research In Motion: The Mobile OS Platform War

By: Alan MacCormack, Brian Kimball Dunn and Chris F. Kemerer

Citation

Purchase

30 Sep 2020
Podcast

How San Antonio’s Project Quest facilitates upward mobility

In confronting the economic and social crises roiling the US in late 2020, it helps to have deep roots in local communities. San Antonio’s Project Quest brings to the task decades of success in advancing upward mobility in underserved areas. The nonprofit’s savvy,... View Details