byRory McDonald,Feng Zhu,Cheng Gao
In less than ten years, co-founders Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd had transformed HomeAway from just another Internet startup into the leading vacation renta...
byRory McDonald,Sarah Mehta,Shaye Roseman
The June 2017 news that e-commerce giant Amazon was paying $13.7 billion for organic supermarket chain Whole Foods precipitated a broad sell-off in the shares o...
byEmilie Billaud,Rory McDonald,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 con...
byDavid Lane,Rory McDonald,Samir Junnarkar
Five years on from the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs remained wounded. Revenues at the global investment bank had stagnated below pre-crisis levels, and ...
byDavid Lane,Mel Martin,Rory McDonald
In 2020, augmented reality (AR) was still a nascent technology with blockbuster potential, one which Apple was actively developing as its iPhone franchised wane...
byRory McDonald,Allison Mnookin,Iuliana Mogosanu
As he seeks to place the division he leads on a firm footing for the future, Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, is considering a range of in...
byAndy Wu,Emilie Billaud,Rory McDonald,Ryan Bayer
This note focuses on the development of the drone industry in recent years and provides insights on the drone technology, regulations, applications, market size...
byNicole Tempest,Alix Burke,Emma Franking,Rory McDonald
Founded in 2008, Floodgate pioneered the "micro-VC" category, a new type of investment firm that raised smaller funds and made earlier, smaller investments in t...
byEfosa Ojomo,Rory McDonald, Derek C.M. van Bever
In 2013, a team led by Gopalan Sunderraman, vice president of corporate development at Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.-one of the companies owned by Godrej Group, ...
byClayton Christensen,Daniel West,Jonathan Palmer,Rory McDonald
After twenty years of growth unprecedented in the sports apparel industry, Under Armour finds itself with a new record to beat: making the leap from $5 to $10 b...
byChristopher Bingham,Rory McDonald
How leaders can recast innovation&’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.Why...