Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Wireless connectivity. When they get to the car, they wave their membership card over a sensor on the windshield (the card and sensor communicate wirelessly), which triggers a wireless query back to the company's database to make sure the user is OK to take the car. Wireless Connectivity. What are they? Microprocessors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

wireless service provider , is now adding the iPhone to its lineup. Verizon's main competitor and Apple's first partner AT&T, the number two provider, enjoyed a growth spurt advantage over Verizon in every quarter since the iPhone was introduced, according to Chetan Sharma , an independent wireless analyst cited by The New York Times.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

First, its CEO, John Legere, was ceremoniously kicked out of a Las Vegas party thrown by wireless rival AT&T. wireless carrier’s offer to pay up to $650 for new customers to switch to its service. Since early last year, T-Mobile has spearheaded what I call a value war — as opposed to a price war — in the wireless market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

RadioShack’s post-bankruptcy life in a retail partnership with wireless carrier Sprint seems like an unlikely marriage. RadioShack has long suffered from unfocused positioning, while Sprint has wrestled with customer retention issues and acquisition pressure in a market dominated by cellular giants AT&T and Verizon.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We also found that a focus on innovation tends to go hand in hand with longer-term time horizons. Companies that are organized around creating and enhancing value over the long term were more likely to have boards that prioritize innovation, as compared with companies that are primarily focused on achieving short-term results.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

These findings confirm that directors simply aren’t internalizing the extensive, long-term damage an attack could inflict on their organizations. internet software & services, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g., Why the disconnect between the global- and company-level views?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

The researchers focused on the first 90 days of the study, where the above readings were collected alongside activity data from either the Apple Watch, an iPhone, or a wireless blood pressure cuff. Collectively they generated over 200 million heart rate measurements and 1.1 million blood pressure readings.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

In the online realm, Amazon’s experiment with its Echo wireless speaker technology – also known as Alexa – has the potential to turn the cumbersome online checkout process on its head. For guests who have time, they can also book services such as spa treatments or chat with hotel staff to get help with dinner reservations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Indeed, since the Industrial Revolution, innovators have made their inventions and knowledge freely available to rivals during the early stages of critical new technologies including textile technology, Bessemer steel production, the personal computer, wireless communications, and the Open Source software that powers the Internet.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Instead of one-off projects, both sides have become much more interested in forging long-term, collaborative relationships. Silicon Valley, with its proximity to Stanford and University of California, Berkeley, has long been the paradigm for innovation ecosystems. The intent is to submit a joint proposal for funding to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

The term “network neutrality” was introduced in a widely cited law article by Tim Wu. The ruling also allows the FCC to bring wireline and wireless under the same regulatory umbrella, permitting the FCC to coordinate regulatory actions between the two modes of delivery. In the long run, how will these costs be distributed?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

On store presentation, it went from dated to modern by changing the layout and colors and by adding wireless Internet connections and plasma TVs. On image, McDonald’s moved from its unhealthy pigeonhole to a more wholesome position through advertising, in-store nutritional information and product labeling.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings. If the past is prelude, before long we’ll see the company amass a number of valuable ideas related to conferencing, then shift to a lucrative period of exploiting its best ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

But as a working parent, it also helps if that caregiver has early-morning, after-work and/or weekend office hours, has a decent wireless network in the waiting room, and keeps your payment information on file so that you can avoid time-delaying paperwork when the appointment is over.

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How To Short-term Wireless Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. It is the algorithms that will create value for the business. This is not guesswork. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

Think of radio transmitters replacing traffic lights, higher-capacity mobile and wireless data networks handling both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, and roadside units providing real-time data on weather, traffic, and other conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

I think it was Jane Austen who first said, “I’m sorry, I don’t have time to write a short letter so I’ll write you a long one.” One of the studies I was involved in was investigating the effectiveness of Wireless Emergency Alerts – those 90-character alerts you get on your mobile device.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

I've been a Zipcar fan for a long time (I've written about them here at HBR and in my book ), so I hope this works out well for the company, but I see some major potential pitfalls as well. It's a classic move of an incumbent in a low-growth industry acquiring a disruptor who's been successful enough to prove their worth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

It seems hard to imagine now, with all of the excitement over the arrival of the iPhone at Verizon, but last summer Apple faced a huge crisis that threatened its reputation, one that could have caused it long-term damage. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

As long as I have to pay 70 bucks a month for high speed internet, is the additional cost of cable really that much? And in just one evening, I found my solution in the form of 4G wireless connectivity. In the short term, it might appear that everything is stable in Hollywood. Barriers to entry be damned.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. This was especially daunting during periods of change or growth in which companies needed to hire in large numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system. Consumers use bitcoins to pay for imported cars , among other purchases. Machinery, seeds and irrigation systems will likely witness a surge in demand.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Each research area has a unique focus: Business Unit Laboratories focus on specific markets, with near-term products; Sector Laboratories, on applications with 3-to-10 year time horizons; and Corporate Laboratories, on basic research with a time horizon of as long as 20 years. Give people the room they need."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. The station, to avoid even worse, came to terms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Combining the second-largest wireless carrier with the fourth-biggest entertainment company — one whose impressive assets include HBO and CNN — is likely to create an unassailable mobile-entertainment business. Broadband has made the experience of consuming content far better than it was with dial-up. Rejuvenating the core.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Beacons are battery-powered wireless sensors installed in retail stores or event venues that detect nearby consumers who have opted in to alerts through Bluetooth or other technologies and that relay information to consumers’ mobile devices. This can help increase short-term sales as well as build long-term brand loyalty.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Three things allow firms like Amazon and Renault to succeed in India’s consumer market: The first is their CEOs’ strategic and long-term commitment to the market. For example, telecom companies and banks are now able to open new accounts in five minutes without a single paper document.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

New technologies — including low-orbit satellites and “fixed wireless” — were developed for remote and rural locations. In effect, they are learning to balance long-term objectives against short-term fee maximization. A shift in competition and investor mindsets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

They are realizing it can no longer solely be the charge of HR executives or even of the CEO and top management — and that they must integrate talent management with the long-term strategic goals of the organization if they are to have any hope of claiming competitive advantage. Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Barksdale was the veteran of IBM, FedEx and AT&T Wireless (he mostly worked at it when it was called McCaw Cellular) who was brought on a few months after Netscape’s founding to provide adult supervision as its CEO. Barksdale: I think we use the term “disintermediate” a lot more than we do “unbundle from these terrible corporations.”

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

The term is tossed about with élan, abused by public leaders , and touted by experts as a model, panacea, or Shangri-La of entrepreneurship. The term "Silicon Valley" is a misnomer because most of the first Silicon Valley technology companies developed radio technologies, not semiconductors. The term Silicon Valley was first used: a.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, Huawei surpassed Ericsson – at that time the world leader in telecommunications and networks – in terms of sales revenue and net profit, and this trend continued in the fiscal year of 2014 when Huawei reached an all-time high sales revenue of $46.5 Long-Term Thinking. billion and net profits of $4.49

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

One serial entrepreneur we know had four successful start-ups to his credit (all of which were acquired by big companies), including one that provided key technology to enable wireless systems. ” What do we mean by “world-changing” products or services?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

So while two of the three judges (the Clinton appointees) agreed that the FCC had the right to regulate broadband providers’ relationships with content providers (the FCC term is “edge providers”) even if it classified broadband as an information service, they didn’t think the agency had done it correctly up to now.

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