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June 1998 (Revised December 2006)
Case

Clear Communications Ltd. vs. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. (A)

By: Willis M. Emmons III and Martin Calles

Features the challenges facing an entrant in the New Zealand telecommunications market during the period 1989-1994. Clear Communications Ltd. (CCL), a joint venture owned by Bell Canada, MCI, New Zealand Television Corp., and Todd Companies, begins offering long... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Monopoly; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Strategy; Business or Company Management; Expansion; Law; Telecommunications Industry; New Zealand

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01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

have always been highly mobile, with more than 40 million leaving their jobs voluntarily in recent years. That’s roughly twice as many as are fired or leave involuntarily. It’s testimony to a US economy that produces a remarkable number of job opportunities and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS

gentlemen from India who had excelled in mobile payments and was now considering moving in to management consulting. I also met one of my best friends that first week— she heard that I had served in the Marines, in an officer corps that... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

racial, and economic justice. BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY Contributing to a Better Future Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change The Potential of Business to Improve Lives View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

15 Nov 2013
News

Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting his number of investments.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

strategic issues in which their audiences would be more interested. But Indian software was also much more affordable on the limited budgets available to these student teams. And End of the Line's arguments come at a time when labor View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

of the other members. It also flourishes in communities where resources are mobile. Q: Does this help explain the phenomenal increase in entrepreneurial activity we have witnessed over the past few years? A: Changes in the financial and labor markets have increased... View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

body coaches on training, nutrition, and cognitive health. Meanwhile, the team is also focused on product development in the consumer goods space and growing their e-commerce business. In addition, the company has a mobile app and has... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

25 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist

for our LPs. But we also want to prove that water is a huge and overlooked industry. We want to mobilize both the capital need and the political will to accelerate solutions to this enormous and growing problem.” The lack of political... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

coherent systems strategy, collaborating with others, building power, and mobilizing change. Since the skills required to sustain effective engagement with social systems can differ subtly from the organizational management skills often... View Details

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-099.pdf Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—Community-based... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

his eyes. It’s been a labor of love for him. And he said, I don’t want a square box or a rectangle. I want something with lots of light, lots of windows. And he designed an absolutely beautiful building. JH: A lifelong resident of North Minneapolis, Jamil Ford started... View Details

12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

for iPhone and Android. The timing was great as mobile apps were starting to take off. However, my Bessemer team and I became fixated on the pricing model and passed on the Series-A round. Just a few years later, the company sold to... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

of risk, and the apparent difficulty of identifying minorities as high-potential each constitute major hurdles to the career mobility of minority managers," they write. "Overcoming them is possible, but it places the equivalent... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

explains how management challenges differ for proprietary and shared platform during subsequent life-cycle stages: network mobilization and platform maturity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-105.pdf Film Rentals and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

the group is considering increasing its investment focus to include a broader range of technologies, including emerging technologies (for example, mobile and RFID technologies) and non-information technologies (including medical devices... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

as the delivery of parts, affected their work. The high-performance teams often refused to admit people whom they thought to be below their level of expertise, leading to disparities among the teams. There was reduced mobility between... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

November 2019
Supplement

Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL

By: Chiara Farronato, Alan MacCormack and Sarah Mehta

This multimedia supplement accompanies the case “Innovation at Uber: the Launch of Express POOL” (case no. 619-003). Set in March 2018, the case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. This multimedia supplement... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; California; San Francisco

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November 1995 (Revised April 1996)
Case

ENTel and the Privatization of Argentine Telecommunications

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Growing fiscal deficits, persistent economic recession, and underinvestment in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure lead the Argentine government to privatize its state-owned monopoly provider of telecommunications services, ENTel, in late 1990. The... View Details