Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Of course, the United States is not India, so its costs will always be higher. Onco-pathologists and medical physicists, who are scarce in India, sit in Bangalore and provide services remotely, using telecommunication links to patients at spoke hospitals. Health India Operations Productivity' Sound undoable? Why can’t U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Because it isnt their sport.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

s stock fell over 7% on news out of China that the company's JV partner had transferred some of the joint business to its wholly-owned operation. Partnerships are always to some extent open-ended contracts , of course, and complete control is by definition absent. Small wonder that Yahoo!'s Initial reports suggested that Yahoo!

Management 12

Management Airlines Telecommunications Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. As a result they developed and successfully pitched the idea of alliance partnerships to telecommunications firms.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Of course, the value of a tool depends on its application. Telecommunications companies can create a small secondary network where they can test ideas without running the risk of interrupting service to millions of customers. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

CEO 12

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. One of the headhunter-experts I talked to for that project was Ann Carlsen , a recruiter in telecommunications and technology based in Boulder, Colorado. If your skills are rusty, enroll in a course to supplement your gaps. I should know. Spend time with them.

COO 14

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Few organizations fund themselves only with money they generate inside.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. Among countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), women on average spend about 2.4

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve seen this mistake numerous times in other industries — from a customer service fiasco by a major telecommunications company that launched DSL at too large a scale to NASA’s failure to recognize the implications of a foam strike in the Columbia shuttle tragedy. For complex initiatives, of course, this is simply not the case.

Company 8

Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Judgment of course is what is required when all the facts that can be assembled dont make a decision obvious. Judgment of course is what is required when all the facts that can be assembled dont make a decision obvious. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 9

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

And the services they provide do keep improving (along with the prices, of course, but that''s mainly sports fans'' fault ). Maybe the passage of time has dulled my memory of what it was really like, or maybe the wonderfulness of the phone rep led me to believe that this was a different sort of operation.

Market Penetration 8

Market Penetration Industry Telecommunications Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

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. Of course, we have heard promises from the FCC about releasing more spectrum "soon" since the National Broadband Plan was issued, and even before that.

Wireless 13

Wireless Report Price Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. Then, of course, she would have needed to travel again to a bank to cash the check. A year later, after demonetization, the same system is processing 76 million transactions per month.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15