Telecom

It frees middle managers from constant project coordination.

Three lessons to guide providers.

An ambitious new law is catalyzing innovation.

A conversation between Hans Vestberg and HBR Editor-in-Chief Adi Ignatius.

iRobot cofounder Helen Greiner has moved on to found a drone company. When we visited, she said, "I can't think of an industry that shouldn't be thinking...

First step: Eliminate all the things people hate about the wireless industry.

How a market creator became a market follower.

And why it’s “reprehensible,” for both employees and customers.

Photography: Lissa Gotwals Some CEOs come across as philosophers, and some just seem to love selling stuff. Yang Yuanqing, the 49-year-old head of the Chinese computer giant Lenovo, is among the latter. And he’s one of the best in the game. Yang, who studied computer science in his native China, assumed the reins in 2001, […]

Has a hands-off regulatory regime really led to more broadband investment?

You glance at your smartphone to check the weather, and a tiny banner ad for a new movie pops up. What are the odds that this fleeting exposure will have any effect on you? There’s no clear answer, despite the sums spent on mobile ads—$8.4 billion in 2012, a number expected to quadruple by 2016. […]

Photography: Timothy Allen / Redux The Idea: Frustrated by Western ignorance about Africa, Ibrahim decided to take advantage of the continent’s enormous telecom opportunity himself. Among the challenges he faced was creating an infrastructure from scratch. As a native of Sudan who has spent most of my adult life in the West, I’ve always been […]

The internet already accounts for a significant slice of the world’s economic output. Here’s how its share is expected to grow in the G-20 countries over the next few years. During the past two decades the internet has transformed industries and become a powerful driver of economic growth. In some countries, according to an analysis […]

The true benefits of cloud computing will surprise you. But you’ll need the right people to lead the transformation.

Free offerings are rapidly spreading beyond online markets to the physical world. Here’s how incumbents can fight back.

What do you do when one of your small competitors pulls out its big gun?

At age 26, while slogging through 14 voice mails on her phone, Christina Domecq realized there might be a business in converting audio messages into text. Within a few months, in 2003, she had turned that idea into the start-up SpinVox. The Marlow, England–based voice-to-text service has already been picked up by a dozen carriers […]

Every piece of the business plays a part, every part is indispensable, every failure breeds success, and every success demands improvement.

Wikis harness the wisdom of crowds, serving as virtual commons where participants can wrestle over ideas and information until something approaching consensus—or the truth—emerges. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is certainly the best known wiki, but it is hardly alone. Thousands of organizations, from Microsoft to the FBI, use wikis to aggregate the knowledge of their […]

Among managers who make strategy and researchers who study it, fierce battles have been fought over the right way to discover a strategy. In one corner stand advocates of analysis, deliberation, and planning: Managers should study the competitive forces in their environment, deduce a set of choices that helps the firm confront those forces, and […]