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- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
disrupting one’s own products and services, and operating with a nonhierarchical organization (à la Hamel). Salim presented many examples of exponential organizations under development; nearly all originated on or near the West Coast. The... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
organization? by Ethan Bernstein. What Is Disruptive Innovation? By Clayton Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald. The Capitalist’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever. (The authors crowdsourced this article... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
set of relationships between audit committees and a very small group of firms who serve them be disrupted in useful ways? What do you think? Original Article Consider this scenario: Acme Corp., the large, long-term client of a Big Four... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52308 Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Vortex: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape By: Narayandas, Das, and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu Abstract—Executive development programs have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
the restructuring process. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/oaktree-and-the-restructuring-of-cit-group-a/an/214035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-467 CarMax: Disrupting the Used Car Market In 2012, CarMax was the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
given difficulties at the portfolio companies and disruptions in credit markets. The case takes the perspective of a private equity firm evaluating the deal to determine whether buying leveraged loans is a good investment opportunity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
growth track but remains chiefly concerned about its vulnerability to supply disruptions and to increases in merchandise costs from higher input prices. The firm appears quite overvalued based on a multiples analysis but considerably... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
and acting. He concluded that tactical and strategic victory hinges on cycling through this loop faster than the enemy (or by disrupting the enemy's ability to connect those activities efficiently). The first two elements—observing and... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
shifting workforce demographics, and changing reimbursement models—threaten to disrupt NWH's organizational model. Similar to other U.S. community hospitals, NWH has historically been staffed primarily with private practitioners; however,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
of Blue album in 1959. Students consider how and why Davis, who had already proven he was tops in his field, created a new disruptive innovation in the field of jazz, in the process creating the most commercially successful jazz album of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR
By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Plan; Disruption; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Nationality; Race; Residency; Higher Education; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Corporate Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Valuation; Value Creation; Employment Industry; United Kingdom
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
think? Original Article There are striking parallels between September 11 and the collapse of Enron. Both events involved widespread destruction of trust and its attendant costs. Both have now involved the loss of human life and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
full price? A: We've seen two main effects. First, some discount voucher services send users to merchants en masse. The day after a Groupon is released, hundreds of buyers tend to swamp a small business unprepared for the rush. That barrage of customers can View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Technologies after hedge fund Blue Harbour Group's investment and when the fund’s Managing Director Robb LeMasters (MBA’05) joined its board of directors. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-068... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
production, delivery, or quality problems, the supposed savings would be quickly forgotten and Caracappa would bear a heavy responsibility both for the problems and for disrupting an otherwise satisfactory relationship with the long-time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
to deter weaker players by disrupting or delaying their plans or imposing burdensome penalties. Delay is often a valuable side effect of government involvement in value-net games. Global Crossing, a small player in the telecommunications... View Details
- April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
UNext: Business Education and e-Learning
By: Michael G. Rukstad, David J. Collis and Tyrell Levine
UNEXT has signed agreements with Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and the London School of Economics to create online business courses. The company is backed by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison and has four Nobel laureates on its advisory board. Describes... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Competition; Disruptive Innovation; Performance Efficiency; Higher Education; Learning; Education Industry
Rukstad, Michael G., David J. Collis, and Tyrell Levine. "UNext: Business Education and e-Learning." Harvard Business School Case 701-014, April 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
prior to coming to HBS in 2007. A member of the School’s Technology and Operations Management unit, Shih closely studies disruptive technology and technological strategy, and took time to analyze the Pokémon Go phenomenon below. Christian... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
at coping with industry change is not just due to such commonly cited barriers as insufficient resources, he says. "Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia, or management's tendency to respond to the most View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
gender diversity can disrupt social cohesion, making people less likely to collaborate. Most of this research, however, has looked at the question within a single country or industry. Could the conflicting research be due to differences... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman