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  • April 1998
  • Case

Geffen Records

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
Geffen Records faces new challenges due to emerging technologies, namely, streaming audio and CD-recordable drives. These technologies have the ability to reshape the foundation on which the music industry is founded. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Change Management; Distribution Channels; Music Industry
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  • November 1996 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Vallourec's Venture into Metal Injection Molding

By: Clayton M. Christensen
Vallourec, a leading maker of seamless tubing, developed a radically new technology that used steel powders to create the tubes. To ensure a supply source, Vallourec ultimately had to acquire its supplier of metal powder, and then, to build the volume required to... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Business Model; Diversification; Innovation and Management; Manufacturing Industry
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  • Article

What to Know About Locating in a Cluster

By: Willy C. Shih and Sen Chai
As a study of two industry clusters in Denmark shows, factors that can make clusters attractive—easy people movement and knowledge spillovers—can also make it harder for individual companies to retain proprietary knowledge. View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Clustering; Competitiveness; Life Sciences; Telecommunications; Science-based; Research And Development; Industry Clusters; Research; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Geographic Location; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Denmark
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
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  • July 2022
  • Teaching Note

TraceTogether

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This Note provides guidance for teaching "TraceTogether," HBS Case No. 820-111. View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore
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  • 26 Feb 2018
  • News

Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space using data analytics and sharing... View Details
  • November 1995
  • Teaching Note

Rattling SABRE: New Ways to Compete on Information TN

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Teaching Note for Harvard Business Review article (90307). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Competitive Advantage; Technological Innovation
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  • September 2001 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

Priceline.com v. Microsoft (A)

Describes Priceline's patent of its "reverse auction" pricing mechanism, its discussions with Microsoft regarding Microsoft's license of the patent for its Expedia service, Microsoft's subsequent use of the technology without a license, and Priceline's decision whether... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Patents; Rights; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Software; Information Technology Industry
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  • September 1996
  • Case

Silicon Graphics, Inc. (B)

By: Marco Iansiti and Alan D. MacCormack
After the release of the "Challenge" computer in 1993, Silicon Graphics executives meet to discuss the follow-up project. Should they pursue an incremental improvement to the Challenge, or opt for a radically new design recently demonstrated at Stanford University? View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Technological Innovation; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Hardware; Computer Industry
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  • November 14, 2022
  • Article

Policies for Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the Anthropocene

By: Andrew J. Hoffman, P. Devereaux Jennings and Nicholas A. Poggioli
Keywords: Natural Environment; Environmental Management; Economic Systems; Behavior; Technological Innovation
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  • November 2018
  • Teaching Note

reMarkable: e-Writing the Future

By: Elie Ofek
Teaching Note for HBS No. 517-018. View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Product Development; Product Launch; Entrepreneurship; Computer Industry; Europe; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Core Values Keep Airline Flying High

Amidst Change: A Conversation with Southwest Airlines' Top Management Team," a new working paper written by HBS assistant professor Jody Hoffer Gittell, MIT professor R. John Hansman, and MIT doctoral student Anne E. Dunning. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • Web

Rembrand M. Koning | Working Knowledge

Rembrand M. Koning Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration Rem Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research explores how we can help more... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Ideas: Books

innovations in management practices and production technology in the Thyssen firms. Restoring Trust in American Business edited by Jay W. Lorsch, Leslie Berlowitz, and Andy Zelleke (MIT Press) HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chandler
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

infrastructure updates are happening so that we can provide the support and the risk management and the code enforcement, if you will, that is needed for the infrastructure piece. And so I think to climate-proof at scale, to me, it has to... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Up by the Roots

intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • News

The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

it worked. "We saw an opportunity to bring the fragrance to the United States and to create a new innovative category—a fragrance with a function for the outdoor-chic lifestyle. Once we tracked down our supplier, we learned that the... View Details
  • Career Coach

Philippe Taieb

Media, Sports & Entertainment, and CPG) on the entire career transition continuum, from self-assesment to salary negotiation. He has also coached participants of Executive Education programs and he has mentored over a dozen teams of entrepreneurs at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Manufacturing; Social Enterprise; Sports; Clean Technology; Energy
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, has been studying the health care sector for nearly half a century. In that time, she has seen significant innovation in the field—and she has also seen the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 15 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

to managers and stimulating reflection among scholars, a new working paper by HBS professors James E. Austin and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard looks at how and why such acquisitions occur and how to View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage