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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Appointing a COO is a recent trend on the continent. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. What do you think?

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Leveraging Silicon Valley — From Wherever You Are

Harvard Business Review

Many large, successful companies are creating offices in California’s Silicon Valley to spot big new trends and learn how they can transform their organization in ways they couldn’t otherwise imagine. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Innovation Operations Strategy' Idea Scouting.

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In FCC's Report on Wireless Competition, an Agenda?

Harvard Business Review

To answer the question of how prices would be affected, it needed only to look at existing markets where one player operated but not the other. In 2010, the Horizontal Merger Guidelines were revised to reflect this new thinking in competition analysis.). federal antitrust agencies. (In wireless market was "effectively competitive.".

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India. Bharti has enjoyed compounded annual growth in sales revenues of 120% and growth in net profits of 282% per year between 2003 and 2010. Its market cap has steadily grown over the same period and stood at around US$30 billion as of 2010. The trend is spreading.