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- 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
McDonald, Rory M., Emilie Billaud, and Vincent Dessain. "Parrot: Navigating the Nascent Drone Industry." Harvard Business School Case 619-085, June 2019. (Revised September 2024.)
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Michael Maples
grown up working on one of the original IBM PCs and writing video game software in high school. He went to Stanford and became even more involved with computers. His father, Mike Maples, Sr., was a successful IBM executive and a... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
private equity funds, and institutional investors." Jacqueline Crespo MBA 2015 | At the Nexus of Change "My experiences have taught me that there are no shortcuts or easy paths to solving the energy and climate problem. My view is that the View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
visits to South Africa's Kruger National Park, Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, or other game reserves on the continent. Reflecting on their experiences at the conference, alumni were enthusiastic. Edward F. ("Ted") Fischer (71st PMD) found... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8, no. 1 (July 2008) Abstract We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this lottery option, mean transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
of the setting and that participants who pool are rewarded by the less informed party with higher payoffs. Finally, we demonstrate through a reexamination of Lai et al. (2012) and Cachon and Lariviere (2001) how pooling outcomes can substantively extend the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
our time period. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/Anna_tom.pdf 2006 pub How Caesars Entertainment Is Betting on Sustainability: Response By: Toffel, Michael W Abstract—One of the largest gaming companies in the world... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
spirit-ual advances might overtake the forces of materialism. Throughout the 1930s, Bulletin articles dealt gamely with a dark side of business barely imaginable to most of the magazine's current readership - bank runs, depression, New... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
fast? Are business schools right in buying into a method of scoring the game that threatens to reduce their diversity of intellectual and social capital? All for the sake of a best list ranking? Are these really the right signposts on the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before, During, and After a View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
education and research institute. “Excess liquidity is the name of the game today. With a lot of cash chasing too little product, the question is, are people paying too much?” That question is at the heart of a long-running debate within... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
to change the rules of the game to get to outcomes that are good. I'll bet they'd come up with lots of great ideas. They would go out into the field and grapple with these difficult questions, and it would give them a solid foundation for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
behavior. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51072 forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
workplace negotiation and the way academics study negotiation are overwhelmingly masculine. But despite evidence that the game is rigged against them, women still believe they'd be better negotiators if they only tried harder. Scholars... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
structure of the game can have a powerful impact on outcomes. Principle 2: Breakthrough Negotiators Organize To Learn Skilled negotiators learn by doing the necessary preparation to negotiate: They diagnose the essential features of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
Science When Novel Rituals Impact Intergroup Bias: Evidence from Economic Games and Neurophysiology By: Hobson, N., F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Inzlicht Abstract—Long-established rituals in pre-existing cultural groups have been linked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
McDonald’s gift certificates every Christmas. Flatley would usually head to McDonald’s with her mom and siblings after gymnastics class—a special, happy family moment amidst the chaos of crammed schedules. Cunningham’s local McDonald’s was a go-to post-soccer View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
design; 27 proven “plays” from the UXReactor playbook to put concepts into practice, and game planning examples to execute at different levels of an organization. A comprehensive and practical book for business leaders, design leaders,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
organizational overhaul. Long-term coach Ron Rivera was fired and Matt Rhule was hired as the new head coach. Newton, having started only two games all last season, was in the last year on his contract. With his injury concerns, Carolina... View Details