Disruptive Technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Joe Nagae

concepts and never become complacent, simply accepting things at face value. "Does the nail that sticks out always get hammered in? Does disruptive technology really disrupt?" I want to embrace new... View Details

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Kraft Accelerator

data-driven innovations are disrupting drug discovery. But we must learn how to use these emerging technologies better so that we can ask more sophisticated questions, and come up with deeper insights into... View Details

March 2011
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Cree, Inc.: An Update

By: David J. Collis and Mary Furey

An update to "Cree Inc.: Which Bright Future?" View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Consumer Behavior; Strategy; Technology Adoption; Electronics Industry

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01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck

miles apart? To find a new sort of energy, HBS built a unique technology platform to support classic HBS learning tools, notes HBX's executive director Jana Kierstead. In the case of a cold call, for example, a student is given a question... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

17 Apr 2014
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York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition

more than 10 awards for innovation. Busbud promotes its disruptive innovation as freeing bus travelers from having to go to physical bus stations to buy tickets or plan their travel while expanding their transportation options. It also... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

higher education. Topics include education reform efforts, adaptive and personalized learning approaches, disruptive innovations such as AI and machine learning, and system-level change efforts. The broad set of topics will create an... View Details

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Secretary of Labor; and, fortuitously, Clay Christensen, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and the world's foremost authority on disruptive innovation. "Clay was always that guy in class who would say... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

risk," explains McFarlan. Disruptive Technologies One question facing the established firms is how to launch their Internet services without disrupting their regular offerings.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

if we had been more alert. Fortunately, the benefits gained from confronting the problem will outweigh the pain. What benefits do you foresee? We're learning lessons that will change future behavior. Some of us are finally understanding not only how reliant we are on... View Details

March 2014 (Revised January 2015)
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Prodigy Network: Democratizing Real Estate Design and Financing

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Katja Hutter and Greta Friar

This case follows Rodrigo Nino, founder and CEO of commercial real estate development company Prodigy Network, as he develops an equity-based crowdfunding model for small investors to access commercial real estate in Colombia, then tries out the model in the U.S. U.S.... View Details

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29 Jun 2016
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The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus

first storefront and future site of another microfactory. “We’re not going to disrupt the automotive industry without a serious breakout success.” What does that look like? “I want to be the first company to put a production autonomous... View Details

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FinTech Club | MBA

FinTech Club The FinTech Club educates the HBS community on the latest technology and business model innovations disrupting financial services, and to facilitate recruiting opportunities in FinTech. Annual... View Details

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

housed its two data centers twenty miles apart—in different power grids—outside Phoenix. "A software failure could easily put the whole enterprise at risk," explains McFarlan. Disruptive Technologies One... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

May 2004 (Revised March 2005)
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Music Downloads

By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier

Examines the competition between competing music formats. In the '90s, the MP3 format challenged the traditional means of music distribution by allowing for storage of near CD-quality recordings at 1/10th of their previous size. The threat to traditional distribution... View Details

Keywords: Disruption; Music Entertainment; Legal Liability; Distribution; Competition; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry

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August 2023 (Revised December 2023)
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Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Tom Quinn

As autonomy became a more significant part of modern life – most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas – ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Technological Innovation; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; North and Central America; Oceania; South America

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05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

hockey-stick returns. “We believe that in every technological disruption you have to have hand-in-hand capital model disruption and business model View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

28 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Duolingo

are able to push back. They think outside of the box and can be disruptors, in a good way.” And for a company committed to making language education universally accessible, that good kind of disruption is a powerful way to make it happen. View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Dec 2019
News

From Das’s Desk

written and the insights and lessons they offer. The Disruptive Voice – A series that looks at examples of disruptive innovation being explored by academics, researchers, and practitioners who were inspired... View Details

Keywords: podcasts; lifelong learning; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Sustainability in the Transportation Industry

Mobility which was a collaboration between Bloomberg New Energy Finance and McKinsey, seeks to answer that question. To do so, it explores how a number of existing social, economic, and technological trends will work together to View Details

February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
Case

Priceline WebHouse Club

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust

Priceline empowered consumers to "name their own price" for airline tickets and hotel rooms; then it shopped these offers to marketers. Priceline's founder Jay Walker described the resulting transactions as a new ecosystem, that helped consumers realize lower prices... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Retail Industry

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