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  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing payment systems and perhaps monetary systems, and also for the wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2018 (Revised May 2021)
  • Background Note

Making UK Energy Smarter

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
This case describes the history of the United Kingdom's domestic energy industry and the country's efforts to create a more competitive, greener, and distributed power sector. On July 24, 2017, the United Kingdom government and the industry regulator, the Office of Gas... View Details
Keywords: Energy Policy; Regulation; Energy Markets; Subsidies; Oligopolistic Competition; Barriers To Entry; Wholesale; Electric Vehicle; Batteries; Energy Storage; Competition Policy; Energy; Policy; Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Vertical Integration; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Disruption; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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    Dutch Leonard

    Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
    • 16 Nov 2021
    • HBS Case

    How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

    about the numbers.” A compassionate approach to restructuring France Télécom’s story should be a wakeup call for companies that charge ahead with disruptive reorganizations. Some employees—especially older, longtime workers—can feel left... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 07 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Sept. 7

    the global financial system, environmental degradation, and inadequate government and international institutions are just a few of the forces that threaten to disrupt global market capitalism in the decades ahead. In conversations with... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Alan D. MacCormack

      Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

      Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
      • 05 May 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

      cost-cutting plan” to slash $3.6 billion in expenses by 2019. In 2021, well into the economic disruption caused by the pandemic, P&G management announced price increases for a range of products, from adult diapers and baby care... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 19 Dec 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

      Two intense years of pandemic distancing and disruption gave way to another sort of distress in 2022—a year of soul searching, burnout, and quiet quitting. The 10 most-read articles on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge showed a... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?

      By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
      Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets
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      • 10 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

      mean there is change on the horizon? “We basically saw increases in e-commerce penetration among people happen in months that we expected to happen over 10 years. So I think any crisis that disrupts basic consumer behavior allows for... View Details
      Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
      • 2021
      • Book

      Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere

      By: Tsedal Neeley
      The rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by COVID-19 have accelerated the transition to remote working, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in just weeks, leaving managers and employees scrambling to adjust. This massive... View Details
      Keywords: Remote Work; Health Pandemics; Employment; Disruption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management
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      • September 2018 (Revised May 2021)
      • Teaching Plan

      Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs

      By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee
      Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were... View Details
      Keywords: Banks; Fintech; Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Strategy; Technological Change; Technology And Innovation Management; Entrepreneurial Management; Intrapreneurship; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Management
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      • 22 Nov 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

      strategy is, it won't work forever. There will be booms and busts, customer preferences will change, competitors will introduce new products, and disruptive new technologies will emerge in unexpected places. This brings us to the final... View Details
      Keywords: by Robert Simons
      • 14 Aug 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

      Keywords: by Karen Mills & Brayden McCarthy; Banking; Financial Services
      • 20 Oct 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College

      • Web

      Faculty & Research - Health Care

      News These Are the Most Common Habits That Prevent You From Achieving Happiness, Arthur Brooks Says Re: Arthur Brooks 01 Nov 2024 | Today When Politics Disrupts Our Happiness Re: Arthur Brooks 23 Oct 2024 | Trey Gowdy National Academy of... View Details
      • Web

      Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

      describes its co-founders' motivations and their strategy for disrupting an industry in the midst of dramatic structural change; and asks whether a16z's success to date has been due to its novel organization structure. a16z's 22... View Details
      • Web

      Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

      disruptive automation, the nature of middle skills jobs is evolving much faster than educators’ abilities to change curriculum. Surveys of educators and employers reveal the disconnect behind this partnership’s underperformance and... View Details
      • Web

      Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

      Development Economics (33) Diasporas (3) Disruption (22) Disruptive Innovation (27) Distribution Channels (20) Distribution (45) Diversification (1) Diversity (248) Duopoly and Oligopoly (2) Early Childhood... View Details
      • 04 Sep 2013
      • What Do You Think?

      How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

      confronting large corporations facing innovative upstarts with disruptive ventures, the non-innovator's dilemma. But it also dealt with the challenges of achieving innovation in a world of entrenched ideas about how products are developed... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett