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- December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
- Case
Intel Research: Exploring the Future
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
It is 2004 and David Tennenhouse, the director of Intel Research, is reviewing the organization he has built since 2000. Intel Research was charged with exploring new and disruptive technologies that lay off the "silicon roadmap" that drove most of Intel's R&D efforts.... View Details
- November 2004 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Kodak and The Digital Revolution (A)
By: Giovanni M. Gavetti, Rebecca Henderson and Simona Giorgi
The introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts and challenges as the photography industry evolves. After discussing Kodak's history and its past strategic moves in... View Details
- May 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Case
Music Downloads
By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Examines the competition between competing music formats. In the '90s, the MP3 format challenged the traditional means of music distribution by allowing for storage of near CD-quality recordings at 1/10th of their previous size. The threat to traditional distribution... View Details
- November 2003 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Reinventing the Automobile: General Motors' AUTOnomy Project
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Describes the history of General Motor's attempts to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell powered car. As of 2003, GM developed several prototypes of such a vehicle to demonstrate the viability of the overall concept. Many uncertainties remained, however, with respect to the... View Details
- November 2003 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire
By: Geoffrey Jones and Ingrid Vargas
Taught in Evolution of Global Business. Globalization and corporate fraud are the central themes of this case on the international growth of Swedish Match in the interwar years. Between 1913 and 1932, Ivar Kreuger, known as the "Swedish Match King," built a small,... View Details
- April 2003 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Kodak (A)
By: Giovanni M. Gavetti, Rebecca Henderson and Simona Giorgi
The introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts and challenges as the photography industry evolves. After discussing Kodak's history and its past strategic moves in... View Details
- 2003
- Conference Paper
Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction
By: John D. Macomber
Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and... View Details
- February 2003
- Teaching Note
Bush Boake Allen (TN)
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Teaching Note for (9-601-061). View Details
- May 2002
- Article
Disruptive Change: When Trying Harder Is Part of the Problem
By: Clark Gilbert and Joseph L. Bower
- March 2002 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Saudi Arabia: Getting the House in Order
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans
Provides a vehicle to explore Islamic development and political issues within BGIE (business, government, and international economy). Set in early 2002, the case focuses on Crown Prince Abdullah's efforts to liberalize a failing rentier state, that had been dependent... View Details
- Article
Disrupted Routines: Team Learning and New Technology Adaptation
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard Bohmer and Gary P. Pisano
- October 2001 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
EU Takeover Directive
By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
The draft 13th Company Law Directive, originally written in the 1980s and first formally proposed in 1990, was intended to harmonize the takeover laws of the member states of the European Union (EU). From its inception, though, this bill was controversial. Nations... View Details
- June 2001 (Revised February 2005)
- Background Note
Creative Destruction of Industrial Age Management Principles and Creative Construction of Information Age Management Principles
By: Richard L. Nolan
Traces the creative destruction of industrial age management principles and creative construction of new management principles more appropriate for the information age. Includes self-administered questionnaire to permit managers to assess the status of the... View Details
- March 2001
- Article
Strategy and the Internet
By: M. E. Porter
Many of the pioneers of Internet business, both dot-coms and established companies, have competed in ways that violate nearly every precept of good strategy. Rather than focus on profits, they have chased customers indiscriminately through discounting, channel... View Details
- November 2000 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Bush Boake Allen
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
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
- 2000
- Working Paper
Disrupted Routines: Effects of Team Learning on New Technology Adaptation
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Gary Pisano
- 2000
- Working Paper
Disrupted Routines: Effects of Team Learning on New Technology Adaptation
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Gary Pisano
- February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Boston.com
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
How aggressively should an incumbent move when developing an online business that threatens its core product? With Internet competitors taking direct aim at the traditional print newspaper business model, the Boston Globe fought back with its own web initiative,... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Priceline WebHouse Club
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
Priceline empowered consumers to "name their own price" for airline tickets and hotel rooms; then it shopped these offers to marketers. Priceline's founder Jay Walker described the resulting transactions as a new ecosystem, that helped consumers realize lower prices... View Details
- January–February 2000
- Article
Patterns of Disruption in Retailing
By: Clayton M. Christensen and R. S. Tedlow