Publications

June 2019 (Revised September 2024)
Case

Parrot: Navigating the Nascent Drone Industry

By: Rory M. McDonald, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain

In 2018, Henri Seydoux, CEO and Founder of Parrot, believed that his company was at an inflection point in its history. Parrot had been a European leader in consumer electronics since the 1990s, first developing Bluetooth kits for cars before moving on to electronic... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Competitive Advantage; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry; Europe; France; Paris

February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
Case

Open Market, Inc.: The E-Commerce Wars

By: James I. Cash Jr., Janis Lee Gogan, Michael Haselkorn and Mani Subramani

Continues the story of Open Market, Inc., a company founded in 1994 to support electronic commerce on the Internet. Despite a very successful initial public offering, the firm had reached a growth plateau, and the management team was considering several strategic... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry

Find at Harvard

20 Oct 2015
First Look

October 20, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49873 forthcoming Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Development U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—High-skilled... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply and has reduced the relative share of innovation in complex technologies where initial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

survival is at risk. In business there is failure all the time. Our colleague Dorothy Leonard Barton developed the phrase “failing forward” to describe how innovative firms always take risks but learn from their failures. The trick as our... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Susana Balbo

Keywords: Wine

Dr. Yusuf Hamied

Keywords: Pharmaceuticals

Web

Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library

aspirations for its artistic potential reflected the manufacturing enterprise’s commitment to innovation and excellence. Georgia O’Keeffe, test photograph by Ansel Adams, November 18, 1956, © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.... View Details

28 Apr 2008
HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

perspective. There are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In "Sarah... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

Web

Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Polaroid Corporation Chief Marketing Executive Bob Casselman provides instructions on how to market the Polaroid Land Camera. How to Sell a Camera Marketing an Innovation In this silent film, a woman... View Details

Web

Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance.... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

11 Dec 2014
News

Revolutionizing digital medical records

licensed (for free) by Bushkin’s Health Record Corporation enjoy a material new revenue stream—they are paid each time they update a patient’s medical record by sending notes or test results to HRC. Searchable PDFs are then made available... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies

Patricia F. Russo (104th AMP) is executive vice president of New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies, a $30 billion communications powerhouse, where she oversees corporate strategy, business development, and View Details

February 2014
Case

BGI: Data-driven Research

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

BGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an opportunity to apply his training as a plant breeder and his early career work as a biochemist to improving... View Details

27 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 27

generations to come. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9261.html The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:Best Paper Proceedings... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 1996
Case

Biogen, Inc.: rBeta Interferon Manufacturing Process Development

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Biogen, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based biotechnology company, is wrapping up a project to develop a new manufacturing process for a new drug product that will reposition the company from a purely research-oriented company to a fully integrated pharmaceutical manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Technological Innovation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry