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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
audio broadcasting technology to bring satellite radio to all corners of Africa. Koos Bekker, managing director of Naspers, a leading media and communications group in South Africa, discussed his firm's Internet and pay television... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
Silicon Valley and Hong Kong. As for Latin America, in addition to the new Center in Buenos Aires, according to Stevenson, there is also a satellite office in Rio de Janeiro and may soon be one in Mexico. "Our purpose with the Center... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
States didn't always allow technological innovation to run adrift. In the post-World War II era, the country had a tradition of global leadership, spurred in the 1950s and '60s by innovation in semiconductors and in the 1960s through '80s in chip design, aeronautics,... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
Indian satellite television rights to Star India Private Limited for a record $3.3 million. Iyer saw My Name is Khan, a love story whose autistic lead character is frequently compared to the one in the American film Forrest Gump, as part... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5-billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed for bankruptcy in August, 1999, and appears to be worth... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
trucks with global positioning satellite (GPS) locators, allowing dispatchers to arrange deliveries within a twenty-minute window, versus the three hours CEMEX's competitors require. This system—which did not emerge from a central R&D... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
(MBA 1992), president of Staples.com. Keynote speaker Deborah C. Hopkins, EVP and CFO of Lucent Technologies, addressed the group via satellite four days prior to her company’s official announcement of a $2 billion cost-cutting plan.... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
the fantastic horizon, King Abdullah Economic City is just a glimmer. It's challenged by the fact that it's miles from another city; it's not a satellite of Sao Paolo or Shanghai or Cairo. But, funded by private sources, it is attracting... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
October 1986 Business is typical. Forecasts spell wealth greater than imagination; actuals result in delay-the-dividend/bonus one more quarter. How in God's name I ended up in satellite insurance is beyond me. The mindless, youthful... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
materials served up to Americans was exploding: In 1978, Time Inc. published 6 magazines; today it publishes 132. Technology transformed broadcast media as well. In the late 1970s, most Americans had three networks on their TV sets: ABC, CBS, and NBC. When cable and... View Details
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
television. That was in 1979 and the laying of cable across America enabled the creation of ESPN, MTV, the Discovery Channel, HBO, AMC, FX and all the rest. All these things would not exist if not for the emergence of cable and satellite... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
thrown across the cabin and broke one or two ribs. For twelve hours I couldn’t even reach the satellite phone to call the race doctor because it hurt so much. We do have painkillers, but I didn’t want to take any strong stuff. So sleep... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
Upon graduation, Jameson went to work at American Mobile Satellite Corporation as it competed for the nascent mobile-phone market. When he returned to politics, he did so with an entrepreneurial mindset at odds with the typical... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
Fox, the Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, analyzes efforts since the Kennedy administration to reform defense spending on aircraft, ships, submarines, tanks, missiles, satellites and other major weapons systems. The... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
can be used to evaluate the implications of marketing actions, consumer heterogeneity, competition, successive technology generations, and globalization. The exposition is filled with vivid examples from a wide array of domains (video games, wireless phone services,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
new offering that would "change the way people experience TV." The new service would allow consumers to bypass traditional cable and satellite delivery and use the Internet to access live streams of more than 40 popular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
technologies could leverage their abilities. It is generally agreed that Wal-Mart would have been impossible to manage so efficiently without state of the art, computerized data processing. So Walton authorized investments in it. Wal-Mart had a View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
summer, others will just use it as a satellite office for a day or two. Assistant Professor Jeffrey L. Bradach, for example, is currently studying the use of temporary personnel as high-level employees, and the Valley provides rich... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
lines to meet ambitious delivery targets. Meanwhile, Musk was also CEO of SpaceX, which was, while growing its business of launching satellites and cargo into space for commercial and governmental clients, preparing to take astronauts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne