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  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

competing against nonconsumption, Sony set a very low technical hurdle for itself: The product just had to be better than nothing in order to find delighted consumers. The second type of disruptive innovation takes root among an... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

specialized arena of MICS, but can be applied, they write, to technologies of a much broader scope, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in manufacturing, or interactive software tools that continue to revolutionize the way... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

excel in small firms, where they can set a goal and then empower others to work toward it. Navy and Air Force officers, who operate expensive, complex systems, such as submarines and aircraft carriers, are trained to follow processes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture that isolates the bottlenecks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Events - Business History

pm - 5:00 pm. Part of the 2025 Business History Seminar, "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History," co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski. Nov 3 03 Nov 2025 Business History Seminar Andrea Lluch (CONICET/Universidad de los Andes), "Global South: Knowledge... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

University’s Earth Institute. The road ahead will not be smooth. “You’re talking about the most important and complex city in the world,” says John Macomber, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who studies public infrastructure,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Growth within the EU has been sluggish, with high unemployment and low investment in R&D. The EU has launched a set of reforms to create a "single passport" system of mutual recognition within the EU for capital, services,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

everything I might have wanted, but the legislative process seldom produces that. Certain elements of this reform are positive and helpful, including the creation of a formal resolution authority and a systemic risk regulator; provisions... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 19 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

making decisions often decide to trust their anecdotal experience rather than AI’s interpretation of the data. The trouble is, sometimes decision makers think they understand the inner workings of an AI system better than they actually... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Investors - Entrepreneurship

Fred Wang Trinity Ventures MBA 1992 Scott Weiss IronPort Systems MBA 1995 Peter Wendell Sierra Ventures MBA 1976 Jennifer Yan Steamboat Ventures Asia MBA 2000 Gwill York Lighthouse Capital Partners MBA 1984 Initiatives focus on societal... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

investors in the infrastructure funding system and shows that there are creative tools that can be used. It focuses on five major areas: the problematic state of fuel taxes; the increasing promise of user fees; innovations in debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Fast Answer

Patent terminology: Classification codes

What are patent classification codes and how are they used? A classification system is an arrangement of hierarchical categories used to organize things by their characteristics or relationships. A patent classification View Details
  • Web

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

of the entrepreneurial process – starting companies with technical teams, providing and raising capital with venture capitalists, buying and selling companies, or taking them public and closing down unsuccessful companies. He has been a... View Details
  • March 2019 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Global Sourcing at Nike

By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael W. Toffel and Olivia Hull
This case explores the evolution of Nike’s global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers’ factories. When the case opens in July 2018, Vice President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s... View Details
Keywords: Sourcing; Factory Conditions; Trade; Geography; Geographic Scope; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Labor; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Labor and Management Relations; Complexity; Sports Industry; Fashion Industry; Oregon; Portland; Asia; North and Central America
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  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

2011. Setting/Participants: Participants included 4,642 employees of a large hospital in Boston, MA, who were regular cafeteria patrons. Interventions: The first intervention was a traffic-light style color-coded labeling system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

systemic pressures related to our theme: race, capitalism and democracy. We aimed to host a thoughtful conversation about these themes, the crises we are facing today, and how we, as a community of scholars and thoughtful practitioners... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background but in a more complex way than the literature has previously suggested: a higher share of entrepreneurial peers leads to lower rather than higher subsequent rates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

he succeeded so convincingly playing the game of market capitalism that first emerged in the late 19th century and grew to great influence during the 20th century. This game or system has been dominated in many industries by large,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman