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- January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change; Disruption; Volatility; Communication; Competency and Skills; Customers; Decision Making; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Goods and Commodities; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Executive Compensation; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Law; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Risk Management; Operations; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Science; Strategy; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; Minnesota
George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 321-073, January 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
financial world demands steady if not increasing margins. Disruptive innovations often promise lower margins than sustaining innovations. It is extraordinarily difficult for good managers to pursue worse... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
If they go, nobody but the textbook publishers will cry." Disruption Happens The Random House-Kindle case, recently taught in the first-year Strategy course at HBS, prompted some interesting conversations in the classroom, Olson... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers
software eating the world. Software is disrupting industry after industry and transforming large swathes of the economy. When I was an entrepreneur in the 1990s, I would debate with my investors what sliver of the $70 billion US software... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
accounting have to do with improving patient outcomes in Haiti? HBS faculty members discuss their research and what it means for patients, providers, and industries. A Good Place to Start Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health CareIn a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
what important groups of customers say they need in the way of products and services of increasing capability (as well as prices and margins) expose themselves to competition from innovators who create alternatives with limited capability... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
famous." After graduation, Huber didn't expect their career paths to cross again. But several years later, Christensen would realize that the OnStar story was a great example of navigating innovation within a large company. A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill)... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
trying to see how this new form of organizing people is disrupting business” He shared some of the team's startling findings in his presentation, Crowdsourcing to Stimulate Innovation: Using Contests and Communities to Solve View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
they know what disruptive innovation means, but I’ve found it’s often misunderstood. The simplest way to describe it — in a way that applies to health care or any industry — is View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into more effective water technologies
competitive advantage going forward. "At Artemis, we aim to bring disruptive innovation to address the big water challenges that we face globally," she explains. "HBS gave me the tools to see the... View Details
- 2002
- Report
Technology Strategy: The Theory and Application of the Christensen Model
By: C. M. Christensen and Steven Milunovich
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child
student. I’ve seen that so many students struggle; they are unmotivated, they’re bored, they’re somehow left behind, or in other ways they’re just not thriving in our current K-12 system. So, a couple of years ago, working with Michael Horn, I wrote the book Blended:... View Details
- January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Microsoft Server & Tools
By: Marco Iansiti and Alain Serels
In 2011, Microsoft's Server & Tools Business (STB) was large, fast growing and highly profitable on the strength of traditional packaged product lines led by the Windows Server operating system. Even as the current packaged business was performing exceptionally well,... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Computing; Enterprise Computing; Servers; Cloud Computing; Microsoft; Technology Evolution; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Alain Serels. "Microsoft Server & Tools." Harvard Business School Case 613-031, January 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
- August 2, 2017
- Article
The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China
By: William C. Kirby
The article examines the role of the Chinese government in transport firm Uber's decision to sell its China operation to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company. View Details
Keywords: Uber; China; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Transportation Industry; China; Asia
Kirby, William C. "The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 2, 2017).
- March 1998
- Teaching Note
Electric Vehicles: Pipe Dream or Product of the Future? TN
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Teaching Note for (1-698-065). (A reprint not in this system). View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned started out as a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne