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24 Jun 2014
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clause in Argentinian sovereign debt instruments have generated considerable controversy. Some official-sector participants and academic articles have suggested that the rulings will disrupt or impede future sovereign debt restructurings... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2024
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SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'

By: Reza Satchu and Tom Quinn

This case explores SnapTravel, a travel startup offering discounted hotel rooms, and its founders’ desire to pivot to a “super app” that saved customers money across many different purchase types. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi saw SnapTravel... View Details

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09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

of Blue album in 1959. Students consider how and why Davis, who had already proven he was tops in his field, created a new disruptive innovation in the field of jazz, in the process creating the most commercially successful jazz album of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
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Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney

Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details

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May 2025
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On (B): The Cyclon Spins On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader and Karen Elterman

A follow-up to the On case (723-430), this short case explores how the performance athletic shoe company On expanded its Cyclon subscription and recycling program through 2024, adding two new shoe models to the subscription and a one-time-purchase recyclable T-shirt. View Details

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01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

which he credited with helping to create a performance-driven, transparency-focused culture, was an information technology dashboard system that provided managers and front-line workers with a wealth of real-time information. Would the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

up on current and past podcast episodes of The Disruptive Voice. I have been a regular listener of the series ever since meeting and working with this talented team. Hearing the voice of the late great Clay Christensen at the start of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908053 Sandhar Technologies Group Harvard Business School Case 808-011 Jayant Davar, CEO and founder of Sandhar View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jan 2013
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Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance Authors:Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2005
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Classic Cases Live On at HBS

to leave, all in about one hour." More than thirty years later, Professor David Upton makes Benihana the very first case he teaches in his Technology and Operations Management course (POM's successor). Explains Upton, "After... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were pulling back. But with technology threatening to disrupt Eastern’s relationship banking... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

customer’s money is safe. Operators also need to think of themselves as more than technology companies and take responsibility for their agents’ actions. “Imagine what kind of trust is needed between the customer and the [unknown] agent... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

04 Dec 2012
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are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Dec 2010
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PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

Business School Case 716-447 UFO Moviez—Gentle Disruption No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716447-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-042 SAP SE: Autism at Work This case describes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2024
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Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney

In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details

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28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

technology firms such as IBM, Microsoft, Google, and HP, as well as by Japanese multinationals such as Sony, Canon, and Fujitsu. Chinese patenting in the U.S. is small but growing rapidly and world-leading for drone technology. Patenting... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

July 2022
Teaching Note

Arçelik (A), (B): From a Dealer Network to an Omnichannel Experience

By: Ayelet Israeli, Fares Khrais and Menna Hassan

Arçelik Turkey, the country’s market leader in household appliances, was at an omnichannel crossroads in January 2020. Arçelik was a B2B player utilizing a dealership network with an umbrella of brands and had one of the largest brick-and-mortar store networks in... View Details

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First Look: June 24

SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'

First Look: December 9, 2008

Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

On (B): The Cyclon Spins On

March 1, 2016

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

First Look: April 22, 2008

First Look: Jan. 22

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

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March 29, 2016

Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

Arçelik (A), (B): From a Dealer Network to an Omnichannel Experience

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