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- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
while studying the manufacturing floor at a leading, technologically advanced global contract manufacturer's plant in Southern China, where tens of thousands of workers assembled mobile devices under close supervision. The plant for years had View Details
- June 2023
- Teaching Note
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: Global Leadership in Chipmaking
By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 321-126. The general purpose of this case is to explore the evolving nature of business relations across the Taiwan strait, focusing on the prominence of Taiwan's high-tech industry. After the legendary founder of Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
this case to develop theory about how the operational and cultural conditions of an organization can disrupt conventional masculine interaction patterns and identity-construction processes by decoupling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
(MBA ’82) (FT Press) Companies that cannot change in response to market disruptions die. Other companies that respond eventually survive but see their profits squeezed, their growth flattened. The long-term winners are companies that... View Details
- December 2007
- Background Note
The Music Recording Industry: Digital Rocks
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett
Digital and mobile technologies profoundly and forever changed the long-held value proposition for the recorded music industry--the 12-song physical CD selling at $15. By 2007, it was apparent that the music recording business had become a digital business, and... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Disruption; Music Entertainment; Distribution; Practice; Technology Adoption; Value; Music Industry
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
us to believe that we are at an inflection point is demographics. You have this new generation of digital natives who are used to operating online. Their default option for shopping is through a digital interface. These consumers do not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
athenahealth was operating 13 practices and achieving 50 percent revenue growth. The only snag was cash flow. “It was almost impossible to get claims paid reliably or to keep track of the basic information flow among practitioners, labs,... View Details
- Web
Self-Catering | About
beverage at all other campus locations must be supplied by Restaurant Associates (RA). Appropriate foods for self-catering include: bagels, pizza, “take-out” food, chips, non-alcoholic beverages in disposable containers, etc. Classes must not be View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
operations at Schwab. "Only when it was clear that there was a huge demand for the new way and that it was actually going to replace their existing brokerage did Schwab reorganize. So it was a one-time View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Wallet READ MORE Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet Operational Efficiency With more and more consumers using the Internet to conduct transactions of all kinds and with the size of firms growing, the reliability of technology... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
promise of the Learning Network was on display during the Business of AI SIP. Among the alumni participating were Kenneth Salas (MBA 2015), cofounder and chief operating officer of Camino Financial, and Morgan McKenney (MBA 2003), now CEO... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
are constantly looking for ways to improve and become better, become more profitable and keep track with a very competitive marketplace. “I talk to farmers all the time. Many farmers that I speak with feel very comfortable in running the agronomic, View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
investment. Detailing a half-century of stock market hits and misses, often with brutal honesty, the book relays lessons learned from both the crucible of failure and the elation of success. The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations... View Details
- March 2003 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Making SMaL Big: SMaL Camera Technologies
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Scott Duncan Anthony
SMaL Camera Technologies CEO Maurizio Arienzo was trying to decide what market opportunities SMaL should target. The company had developed a revolutionary imaging technology that powered small digital still and video cameras. Its first-generation product--a kit to... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Decision Making; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Electronics Industry; Computer Industry; Massachusetts
Christensen, Clayton M., and Scott Duncan Anthony. "Making SMaL Big: SMaL Camera Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 603-116, March 2003. (Revised August 2005.)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
today. Inside Out by Patrick Moffett (AMP 111) Vanguard Press After the protagonist’s wife is murdered, he begins a series of vigilante killings and, as a result, is invited to join an organized covert operations unit, rather than face... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
thousands of HBS alumni. Whether through creative destruction, disruptive innovation, or riding a societal quantum leap forward, HBS alumni entrepreneurs have founded or grown companies that are pervasive and familiar, from consumer... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
A Streamlined Time Inc.
This week, Rich Battista (MBA 1990) was named president and CEO of Time Inc. Among Battista’s first moves was appointing Jen Wong (MBA 2004) as chief operating officer; Wong was previously president of digital for the company. In an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
make in a routine and disciplined way,” Lafley says. The “disciplined way” is the major revelation of the book. For Lafley and Charan, innovation is an operational imperative driving sustainable organic growth, not something left to... View Details