disruptive innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2000 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Bush Boake Allen

Bush Boake Allen, a flavor and fragrance firm, is considering strategic options that would integrate customers into its innovation process via a potentially disruptive Internet-based technology. As this approach could result in dramatic changes to the firm's business... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Management Teams; Product Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict Management; Internet; Chemical Industry

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10 Jul 2022
News

Manufacturing Process Innovations: A “Bessemer Moment” For Titanium?

30 Mar 2023
Video

Implementing Innovation: How to Overcome Adoption Challenges

Research Summary

Reinvention and "Technology Reemergence"

By: Ryan L. Raffaelli

The prevailing view of industry and technology evolution has emphasized displacement, on the assumption that old technologies and organizational forms will disappear when newer ones arrive. Professor Raffaelli's research challenges this view by illuminating how and... View Details

Keywords: Turnarounds; Innovation And Management; Technology Evolution; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Transition

May 2025
Teaching Note

Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (B): A New Model in Kansas City

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

This Teaching Note helps instructors teach students the HBS Case, Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (B): A New Model in Kansas City. In late 2016, Bridj was expanding its digital platform to help address urban mobility problems faced by cities across the country... View Details

Keywords: App Development; Innovation; Stakeholder Engagement; Collaboration; Ride-sharing; Entrenchment; Digital; Transportation; Urban Development; Disruption; Business Startups; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion

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16 Jul 2020
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VC Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Today's World

January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
Case

F-Secure Corporation: Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Security Solutions Market

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, Kalle Lyytinen, Esko Penttinen and Timo Saarinen

Describes the development of a business model based on "software as a service" (SaaS) for security solution distributed through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). F-Secure disruptively entered a mature business with dominant players by executing an innovative new... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Service Delivery; Internet; Information Technology Industry

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16 Aug 2013
News

What We’re Reading Friday

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

to a virus that kills 100,000 in the United States alone and creates unimaginable unemployment. However, cloud kitchens show how we might leverage innovative ways of doing business to create new opportunities and jobs, while bringing some... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

24 May 2017
News

J.Crew Boss Mickey Drexler Confesses: I Didn’t Get the Web

July 2024
Case

Porsche

By: Stefan Thomke and Daniela Beyersdorfer

The case reveals how Porsche has become one of the world’s leading car companies. Central to Porsche’s growth strategy is creating great products, including its legendary 911 Carrera sportscar, and offering innovative customer experiences. As the automotive industry is... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Product Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Auto Industry; Germany; Europe

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14 May 2012
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Book Review: How Will You Measure Your Life?

2018
Book

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business

By: Sunil Gupta

Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted entire industries and incumbents have often struggled in this new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve efficiency,... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Information Technology; Transformation; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Organizational Structure; Digital Strategy

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23 May 2013
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Six Ways to Befriend Future Tech Billionaires

12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT, 16 Jul 2020
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VC Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Today's World

How are certain industries changing in a COVID/post-COVID world? What are the opportunities for disruption in these industries? In this session, Professor Bill Sahlman will be sitting down with six exceptional leaders in venture capital to hear their unique... View Details

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Leading Professional Service Firms

By: Andy Wu

As entry barriers rapidly disappear, competition is accelerating and reshaping the business landscape for professional service firms. Navigating this continual change successfully requires extraordinary leadership abilities. This professional service firm... View Details

28 Jun 2018
Video

Improving Health Care Through Research

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

care. It’s all the other expensive stuff that we need when we’re really sick. And Amazon is no expert in managing any of that. “Because Amazon might be able to introduce supply-chain disruptions that increase its profit margin does not... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health