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- June 2022 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Disrupting Defense at Anduril Industries
By: Rory McDonald, Timothy Buehn, Aditi Ghai and James Heffelfinger
McDonald, Rory, Timothy Buehn, Aditi Ghai, and James Heffelfinger. "Disrupting Defense at Anduril Industries." Harvard Business School Case 622-081, June 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
In 1995, Harvard Business School professors Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower wrote a seminal article for Harvard Business Review, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. Those words launched the theory of disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2009
- Book
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D. and Jason Hwang M.D.
A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform—from a legendary leader in innovation. Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Disruptive Innovation; Health Industry; United States
Christensen, Clayton M., Jerome H. Grossman M.D., and Jason Hwang M.D. The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care. McGraw-Hill, 2009. (Winner of James A. Hamilton Award Given annually to the author of a management or healthcare book judged outstanding by the American College of Healthcare Executives' Book of the Year Committee presented by American College of Healthcare Executives.)
- 1999
- Chapter
Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
By: Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
Bower, Joseph L., and Clayton M. Christensen. "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave." Chap. 29 in The Entrepreneurial Venture. 2nd ed. by William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J Roberts, and Amar V. Bhide, 506–520. Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
- August 2007
- Article
Exploiting Disruption to Jumpstart Innovation
Applegate, Lynda M. "Exploiting Disruption to Jumpstart Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (August 2007).
- 1997
- Chapter
Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
By: Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
- December 2006
- Article
Disruptive Innovation for Social Change
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Heiner Baumann, Rudy Ruggles and Thomas M. Sadtler
Christensen, Clayton M., Heiner Baumann, Rudy Ruggles, and Thomas M. Sadtler. "Disruptive Innovation for Social Change." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 12 (December 2006).
- Article
What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career
By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and Whitney Johnson
This article discusses how to diagnose the risks that disruptive industry forces pose to individual careers and offers suggestions on how to mitigate such threats. Recommendations are based on analyses of individuals’ career histories in the professional services... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, and Whitney Johnson. "What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career." MIT Sloan Management Review 60, no. 3 (Spring 2019): 57–65.
- January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
- Teaching Note
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
By: Jill Avery
Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods (CPG), offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3.00 price point that promised... View Details
- September 2012 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Digital Microscopy at Carl Zeiss: Managing Disruption
By: Willy Shih
Ulrich Simon, the head of the Microscopy business group at Carl Zeiss AG knew that his unit was facing a disruptive threat, so he chartered a special team to tackle the industrial segment. Given a high degree of autonomy, the project team developed an understanding of... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; High Technology Products; Emergent Strategy; Product Lines; Corporate Strategy; Digital Platforms; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Industry; Germany
Shih, Willy. "Digital Microscopy at Carl Zeiss: Managing Disruption." Harvard Business School Case 613-039, September 2012. (Revised April 2013.)
- January–February 2000
- Article
Patterns of Disruption in Retailing
By: Clayton M. Christensen and R. S. Tedlow
Christensen, Clayton M., and R. S. Tedlow. "Patterns of Disruption in Retailing." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 1 (January–February 2000): 42–45.
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
combination of both. In my framework, there are four types of innovation. Routine innovation builds upon a company’s existing technological competencies and exploits the existing business model. Disruptive innovation, a concept made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- October 2009
- Article
How GE Is Disrupting Itself
By: Jeffrey R. Immelt, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
Immelt, Jeffrey R., Vijay Govindarajan, and Chris Trimble. "How GE Is Disrupting Itself." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009): 56–65.
- September – October 2000
- Article
Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Richard M.J. Bohmer and John Kenagy
Christensen, Clayton M., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and John Kenagy. "Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?" Harvard Business Review 78, no. 5 (September–October 2000): 102–117.
- March 2024
- Case
Ava DuVernay's Array: Disrupting the Hollywood Film Industry
By: Anita Elberse and Morgan Brewton-Johnson
In February 2023 acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay is filming her latest movie, Origin, a daring adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. With Origin, DuVernay is pioneering a method to finance the endeavor—through a combination of... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Intellectual Property; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Disruption; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Morgan Brewton-Johnson. "Ava DuVernay's Array: Disrupting the Hollywood Film Industry." Harvard Business School Case 524-071, March 2024.
- November 2018
- Article
Disruptive Innovation: An Intellectual History and Directions for Future Research
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Rory McDonald, Elizabeth J. Altman and Jonathan E. Palmer
The concept of disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent citation and vibrant debate in academic circles,... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Metrics; Systemic Industries; Technology Trajectories; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; History; Competitive Strategy; Research
Christensen, Clayton M., Rory McDonald, Elizabeth J. Altman, and Jonathan E. Palmer. "Disruptive Innovation: An Intellectual History and Directions for Future Research." Special Issue on Managing in the Age of Disruptions. Journal of Management Studies 55, no. 7 (November 2018): 1043–1078.
- 2000
- Working Paper
Managing the Disruption of Healthcare
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, John Kenagy and Jeffrey Elton
- 02 Oct 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Gimlet Turn a Podcast Network into a Disruptive Platform?
- February 2018
- Case
Stealing Time: America's Disruption of the Swiss Watch Industry
By: Eric Van den Steen and Aaron Stark
After years of growth, the Swiss watch industry faced an existential crisis. Exports to the U.S., their primary market, had dropped by more than two thirds over the past five years. Swiss watches were being disrupted by high-quality and affordable American products.... View Details
Van den Steen, Eric, and Aaron Stark. "Stealing Time: America's Disruption of the Swiss Watch Industry." Harvard Business School Case 718-500, February 2018.
- September 2020
- Case
Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses issues such as defining and pivoting a business model, organizational requirements for a pivot, investor relations,... View Details
Keywords: Legal Aspects Of Business; Startup; Teams; Pivot; Financing; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Legal Services Industry; Germany
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Amir Reza Rezvani. "Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish." Harvard Business School Case 821-027, September 2020.