Academic Papers

Case study - Apple
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Telecommunication and Media || Fall 2008
This was a short paper on the iPod/iTunes ecosystem extending to the iPhone, reasonsing how Apple has been able to maintain its competitive position.

Strategy and policy recommendations for various stakeholders in the online video age
Information Technology Economics, Strategy, and Policy || Fall 2008
Team size: 3
This paper analyzed the digital video landscape focusing on Internet TV and Terrestrial broadcasters. It also analyzed the social and legal ecology around online video and made recommendations for firms and policymakers. My part primarily involved comparing and contrasting the business strategies of five Internet TV companies – Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Joost and Brightcove.

Cultural differences in the use of IM, audio and groupware for equivocal task completion within global, virtual, corporate teams in India and USA
Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) || Fall 2007
Although a lot of studies have been done on selection of media for virtual teams, a lot still needs to be done in understanding how cultural differences affect the use of CMC systems for geographically dispersed, virtual, corporate teams. This research proposal aimed to motivate the need for understanding cultural differences among members of such teams and discover how culture and media interact to shape perceptions about task performance, focusing on equivocal task completion for global, virtual, corporate teams based in America and India.