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11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

after she finishes work. His cell phone beeps: It's a message from the Soda X portal. The Chicago Fire soccer team is playing tonight, and the Guess? store that Tommy is approaching is offering him half-price tickets for the game if he... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

05 Nov 2013
News

Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

game in town," he says. "People thought they were nuts, but now we have this plethora of organizations." He then rattles a few off: Propeller, which helps startups with social missions; the New Orleans BioInnovation Center; The New... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

the extensive margin, and market(place) creation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54402 February 2018 Journal of Experimental Child Psychology The Interplay Between Sharing Behavior and Beliefs About Others in Children During Dictator... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the government just isn’t perceived as a cool place to work. Faced with the opportunity to spend your days in brightly colored offices with video game rooms and bountiful cafeterias, why would young talent choose buttoned-up cubicle life... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

Wheeler. "Even after making a good deal, people wonder if they could have done better." Such self-doubt is a costly distraction. "It gets in the way of constructive engagement and relationship-building." Staying In The Game Being centered... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

envisioned in my book. These tools will be game changers in the post-pandemic economy.” Yet technology can come with a “dark side.” In her HBS classroom, Mills challenges MBA students to consider the responsibilities of business leaders... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2001
News

Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal

O’Neal says he sometimes finds time to “play a bad game of golf.” He is a member of the HBS Visiting Committee and sits on the boards of the Ronald McDonald House, the National Urban League, and Nasdaq. Recently, he also joined an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Merrill Lynch; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jan 2007
News

A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

(including recent winners of the wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon who raced to victory in special chairs fabri_cated by an Invacare subsidiary), arranging for them to visit with children with disabilities in schools and hospitals. And it has long been... View Details

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Note on January 6 Events at U.S. Capitol | About

kind of capable, accountable government that can set the rules of the game that keep markets genuinely free and fair. And only democracy can ensure that governments are held accountable, that they are viewed as legitimate, and that they... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)

the pin. At the Sochi Games in 2014, I knew all the women’s hockey players and was close to the action. It felt like I was still part of the team, but obviously I wasn’t. It was so hard. Being a student at HBS helped me make the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Olympics; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

for soccer fans, FirstRowSports. The NFL’s as-yet-unnamed foray into online streaming will test the waters with an October 25 game only available online. The cable and telecom industry has taken note, evidenced by its heavy lobbying... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

about all those youthful excesses anymore, like fun and games in the office, and extra food, and casual dress." But that was not what we should learn from the dot-coms. The youthful, fun overlay was just superficial. That wasn't the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

that comes from satisfying the Wall Street “beasts” quarterly-earnings estimates. If you don’t hit the number, your stock falls. This is an unfortunate game where Wall Street research had become the corrupt handmaiden of the investment... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

June 2019 (Revised September 2024)
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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; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Europe; France; Paris

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01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

Vadim Kogan Abstract—"The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games lost $223 million, astonishing for a 17-day event. Next year's London Summer Games, which cost a record Olympic rights fee of $1.18 billion, are expected to lose at least as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

established middle-market and even lower-market players." For example, she said, "eight years ago, Starbucks was a luxury game on the east coast. . . . Now, Starbucks is daily standard operating procedure—a mass business."... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products

01 Apr 2002
News

"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues

significantly since the end of the Cold War. Panelist Nancy Aossey, president and CEO of International Medical Corps, was a sophomore in college when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Her primary memory from that time was of the U.S. boycott of the 1980... View Details

Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2012
News

Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

Stanford Business School. Johnson’s father, also called Pitch, was a track coach who participated in the 1924 Olympic Games as a high hurdler and passed a love of running down to his namesake. The family moved to Palo Alto when Pitch was... View Details

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