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13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the 1983 movie of the same name.4... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

02 May 2016
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Building Startup Skills for Business and Life

business plan competition that awards funding to the most promising ventures. E360 has inspired hundreds of student-led startups and is now based at the Met School’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, founded in 2012 as the... View Details

October 2013
Article

Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Dina Wang and Derek C. M. van Bever

Consulting fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at traditional... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Consulting Industry

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01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014) is cofounder and CEO of the market research firm the Sports Innovation Lab, and when we spoke in May, it... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

well the challenges that lay ahead. DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read how the president and CEO of Trusted Media Brands is spearheading digital innovation at her company in the 3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987). DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Feb 2016
News

Building a Better Boston

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16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

operational innovation to manage the tradeoff between cost and quality. It's an issue you find in every business, whether you're a chef or an executive at Mercedes or BMW or Apple." In November, Oldani visited Pisano's second-year... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

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VeriFone (1997)

By: Richard L. Nolan, Anne Donnellon and Donna B. Stoddard

VeriFone, a leading manufacturer of payment systems technology, was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in June 1997. The case describes the strategic challenges that VeriFone faces as it positions itself to compete in the Internet payment systems marketplace. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Internet; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry

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19 Aug 2011
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i-lab Buzz

Approaching the i-lab on the walkway from Aldrich and Spangler. A kitchen lounge and video gaming area. There’s a small army of workers putting the finishing touches on the Harvard Innovation Lab, which will soon welcome MBA students... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 May 2015
News

Tesla Motors Inc: Is It Really A Disruptive Company?

10 Apr 2015
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Peltz not qualified for board, go after weak companies

17 Jun 2014
News

Disruptive Genius

06 Jun 2014
News

Clayton Christensen: Do We Need A Revolution In Management?

18 Mar 2014
News

Can Design Save Silicon Valley?

04 Feb 2013
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The 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

26 Feb 2013
News

Europe’s Lost Mojo

30 Nov 2018
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Be a disruptor to avoid disruption

26 Jan 2017
News

India love: when Harvard and Tata Trusts joined hands for survival of artistic traditions

14 Nov 2016
News

Why Big Data Isn’t Enough

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Nicolás Jodal

Nicolás Jodal, Co-Founder and CEO of GeneXus, shares his reaction to recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence with Large Language Models (LLMs), comparing their emergence to the industrial revolution and underscoring the need for swift adaptation to the... View Details

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