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- 09 Apr 2025
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The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
for the government, of course, is that it doesn’t really want the independent thought and social disruption that can come along with that kind of education. Where is China in terms of developing its own education resources? Fifteen years... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
Marketing. Says Godes, “There are so many different layers to this case but, in particular, it captures two important concepts: reaction to competitive entry and the rethinking of one’s entire strategy — and corporate identity — in the face of View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the harder one becomes to imagine (and, perhaps, the easier one becomes to start). A third and final lesson is that when a crisis strikes complacent investors it causes much more disruption than when it strikes battle-scarred ones. For... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
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Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up
friends and family in backyards all over the world. “We’re growing a global company, neighbor by neighbor,” says Andrus. How to: Build a big brand while staying close to your customers Look beyond the obvious metrics. “Competitors focused on getting more BTUs out of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course
workplace disruptions all companies have faced. DreamBox, which is based in metropolitan Seattle, the epicenter of the first-known US outbreak of COVID-19, was among the first wave of companies to transition to a fully work-from-home... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
knew she was onto something when her son started snagging Luvo meals from the freezer after school. “This is a space where the consumer is actually ahead of the food industry,” Day says. “We have the opportunity to disrupt the whole... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
Swing by Swing is a disruptive technology platform for golf—we provide tools to engage golfers and a platform for golf courses and advertisers to connect with these golfers. Swing by Swing has registered 1 million users and generated 2011... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“With the exception of Disney, which is disrupting itself, a lot of other companies in media and entertainment can’t invest fully in what the future might look like because they have a legacy business model that they need to protect.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
“Business Solutions for Inclusive Prosperity.” The intersection of business and society is a topic Chu has been immersed in, as a practitioner and a researcher, for almost 30 years. He is a partner emeritus of the IGNIA Fund, a venture capital firm in Mexico dedicated... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
consumers and shopping habits in the next few years. Real Estate, a Love Story: Wisdom, Honor, and Beauty in the Toughest Business in the World By Joshua Benaim (MBA 2006) Disruption Books With this book, a blend of memoir and strategy,... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
many ways determines my ability to be a successful entrepreneur. And then the third piece: talent, community, your business model. I'm going to bring a novel combination to market and I'm going to disrupt an economic flow. That defines my... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
if anybody has purchased them, they're very, very expensive. And they wanted to disrupt that as well. But what they recognize is that the older customer wanted the hipster brand, they wanted the same frames. They did not want their frames... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
from molds. It was also dependent on tariffs and benefited from disruptions caused by European wars: The first half of the 20th century offered plenty of both. By the 1940s, Westmoreland had moved away from high-quality, hand-decorated,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
fund, with no proof of concept or track record of success—and the competitors he sought to disrupt are already sweeping over him. Hubris gets in the way of hitting singles and doubles; you hit the home runs when you have already swung at... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
of manufacturing, against the background of the evolving U.S.-China trade challenges. The talk was followed by a Q & A session and reception. Shih shared his expertise in manufacturing and product development across multiple industries to illuminate the current View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
not to say the founders don’t realize the challenges ahead. In general, the mining industry is considered to be traditional, capital-intensive, and slow to adopt new technologies. To their knowledge, no one else is trying to disrupt the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres