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  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

Bezos was still working on Wall Street. After decades of tax-free sales, ecommerce was just 11.4 percent of US retail sales in 2019, according to the Department of Commerce. Meanwhile, social media usage on the major platforms had been... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • 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
  • Web

Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

around the world can learn from and take to heart for years to come.” Understanding Post-Pandemic Global Supply Chains As Professor Willy Shih discusses in a Harvard Business Review webinar, because of the central role many Chinese companies play in global supply... View Details
  • July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

By: Willy Shih
For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry
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  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50234 December 2015 Harvard Business Review What Is Disruptive Innovation? By: Christensen, Clayton M., Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald Abstract—For the past 20 years, the theory of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

on smashing the menopause taboo. Together with my co-founder Alessandra Henderson and founding physician Dr. Anna Barbieri, an OB/GYN specializing in menopause, we began building Elektra Health as a digital health platform to address the... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2020
  • News

Green Light

entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

expenditures under the entry of new generation lab managers. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46697 Executive Education in the Digital Matrix: The Disruption of the Supply Landscape By: Moldoveanu,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2024
  • News

Driving Change

vision for what you want for humanity. Are we up to the task? I say a resounding, unqualified, categorical yes.” Drawing alumni from 30 countries and spanning six decades of experience, the two-day summit provided a platform to discuss... View Details
  • March 2021
  • Supplement

Facebook's Libra (B): The Privatization of Money?

By: Marco Di Maggio, Ethan Rouen, George Serafeim and Amy Klopfenstein
This case addresses the events that took place following the conclusion of the case “Facebook’s Libra (A): The Privatization of Money?” In October 2019, several months after the conclusion of the A case, multiple members of the Libra Association announced that they... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Accounting; Economics; Money; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Information Infrastructure; Technology Industry; Europe; Switzerland; United States; California
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Mike Maples Jr.

and then I try to develop a point of view about what is happening.” When a startup appears that is congruent with that point of view, Maples sees an investment opportunity. He calls these ventures “Thunder Lizards”, the rare, wildly View Details
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Or should Grace respond to buy-out offers? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309075 Backchannelmedia: Making Television 'Clickable' Harvard Business School Case 509-026 Backchannelmedia (BCM), a three-year-old start-up,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

systems, the influence of cryptography tools and big data on financial services, the deployment of different forms of capital into Web3 startups, and the ways in which blockchain technology will disrupt businesses. Additionally, the... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

market and gain acceptance that might otherwise prove elusive. Although stealth positioning doesn't typically disrupt categories, it can give products a fresh run at the life cycle and keep them from languishing—or dying outright—in the... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
  • 29 Apr 2021
  • News

Equal Partner

private sectors to discuss safety, education, and opportunity in a sector where the majority of workers are women. Indeed, Aditya was already disrupting the traditional investment model with her work at Republic. The company, which... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

theoretical illustrations and Monte Carlo simulations to validate our claims. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52743 Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the Supply Landscape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

survey of nearly 6,000 small-business owners conducted by a team of researchers in partnership with Alignable, an online business networking platform with 4.5 million members. The survey results paint a bleak picture of America’s current... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

healthcare, and microfinance. In the process, a case is made that these disruptive commercial models are a key component in the response to poverty, and that there is a social role for financial returns. Accordingly, the basic goods and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

Peter W. OlsonHarvard Business School Case 710-444 In early 2010, e-readers, like Amazon's Kindle and Apple's impending iPad, threatened to disrupt the book publishing industry. The case provides an overview of the industry, describes the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

lending in this market. Traditional bank loans may yield a return of 5 to 7 percent, but many alternative lending platforms charge yields ranging from 30 to 120 percent of the loan value, depending on the size, term duration, and risk... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services