Publications

11 Oct 2016
News

Is Samsung Innovating Too Much, Too Fast?

August 2023 (Revised August 2023)
Case

Sky Therapeutics: Innovating in Digital Therapeutics

By: Satish Tadikonda, Olivia Reszczynski and William Marks

Shad Faraz and Alex Youssef were intrigued by the opportunities in the relatively new area of Digital Therapeutics. Despite initial successes, early entrants had struggled with reimbursement and revenue-predictability challenges. However, venture investors still... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Technology Industry; Technology Industry

1999
Chapter

Impact of Disruptive Technologies in Telecommunications

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Disruption; Communication Technology; Telecommunications Industry

12 Aug 2015
News

Google Building New Innovation Model with Alphabet Inc.

08 Feb 2017
News

How Immigrants Changed the Geography of Innovation

October 2012 (Revised October 2013)
Case

Rock Health

By: Robert F. Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell

Rock Health was a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization offering accelerator services to spur innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The company was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Incubation; Healthcare Technology; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; San Francisco; California; United States

19 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

contributing to this effort by facilitating multi-million-dollar transactions that brings new energy technologies to Shell. During my internship, I have had the opportunity to work on three M&A deals in the new energy space. These... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

Web

Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Technology & Operations Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students June 2025 Case FinSec Bank: Charting an AI Course – Build or Buy? By: Michael Parzen May 2025 Case 'Net Zero in... View Details

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators Clay Christensen on "The Innovator's DNA." WORKING PAPERS Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Innovation is not a side business,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

25 Apr 2014
News

Tapping into more effective water technologies

Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) is helping companies and governments apply the most important innovations in water. "Providing solutions to tackle water scarcity is one of the greatest business opportunities of our time," says Shenkar, founder... View Details

1997
Chapter

Discussion of "Microeconomic Policy, Technological Change, and Small Business" by Edwin Mansfield

By: Joshua Lerner

Edwin Mansfield’s thoughtful review of the literature on the economics of technological change raises a variety of interesting issues, far too many to address in a few pages. Consequently I will focus my discussion on the section that I found most challenging and... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Technological Innovation

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25 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

and partners about their technologies can increase innovation and speed the introduction of new products. Specifically, the study finds evidence that openness—in this case, via the use of open-source... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology

Web

Impact & Testimonials | Information Technology

held reaching 11,000+ participants globally, including MBA and Executive Education classes, virtual board meetings, as well as exciting community engagement events. Since Fiscal Year 2021 143 Unique Faculty 13,500 Unique Participants 2,008 Sessions The View Details

September 9, 2024
Article

Ten Questions for a Winning Climate-transition Business Strategy

By: George Serafeim

The move to a low-carbon economy will create opportunities for innovation and growth. To make the most of them, leaders must understand the challenges they could face along the way. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Organizational Transformations; Business Model Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Climate Change; Transformation; Leadership; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Change Management; Entrepreneurship

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09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

noted in The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Harvard Business School Press, 1997), firms innovate faster than our lives change to adopt those innovations, creating... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

December 2003 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (B): Confronting New Digital Formats

Investigates how the rise of digital video formats threatens to make videocassette technology obsolete; how this technological substitution might alter the economics and structure of the video rental and retail industries; and how Blockbuster Inc., the industry leader,... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Competition; Change Management; Service Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

09 Jun 2016
News

Innovative Business/IT Solutions: An interview with Assistant Professor Kris Ferreira

January 2025 (Revised March 2025)
Case

DJI- Striving for Innovation Amid Contestation

By: William C. Kirby and Daniel Fu

DJI was founded in a college dorm room in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. By 2020, DJI, a company manufacturing drones, occupied a 77% share of consumer drone sales in the United States with a wide array of clients including law enforcement and government agencies. Its... View Details

Keywords: Drones; Hong Kong; China; Chinese Manufacturing; Chinese Dream; China's Political Economy