Disruptive Technologies - 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

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

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

restaurant to scaling to leadership of multinational chains, and evaluate opportunities inherent in typical restaurant business models as well as those created by disruptive changes affecting and shaping the industry. Michael and Andy... View Details

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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

a wide range of topics across K-12 and 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... View Details

February 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia

By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais

Taffi was a tech-enabled fashion styling startup founded by Shahad Geoffrey in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Within three years of operating, Geoffrey had pivoted the business multiple times. In 2023, Geoffrey was attempting the business’s most ambitious pivot yet, shifting... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Saudi Arabia; Arabian Peninsula

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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

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53918 forthcoming Journal of Management Studies Disruptive Innovation: An Intellectual History and Directions for Future Research By: Christensen, Clayton M., Rory McDonald, Elizabeth... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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

12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

Swing by Swing is a disruptive technology platform for golf—we provide tools to engage golfers and a platform for golf courses and advertisers to connect with these golfers. Swing by Swing has registered 1... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

01 Mar 2012
News

Health Care’s New Frontier

The existing information infrastructure couldn’t support our concept of outcomes-based, disruptive health-care delivery.” As “the waters swirled around our noses,” Bush recalls, “Todd Park’s brother Ed came up with a web-based program to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

15 Nov 2020
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Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

technology for creating podcasts, videos, and webinars. During the pandemic, podcasts are being recorded remotely. Popular Episodes Walmart’s Strategy to Beat Amazon; and Millennial Socialism Three professors discuss how Walmart is trying... View Details

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

information from VIN numbers collected by mobile car shoppers. AI Exchange is a Boston-based technology financial services company whose mission is to reinvent hedge fund investing through disruptive... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

introduce innovations that transform the way companies do business and consumers behave. Disruptive changes that might serve as the source of innovation include technology shifts, new business models,... 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

25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners

affected by the significant disruptions in global supply chains. Unfortunately, being on the developing side of the world means your shipments get deprioritized first. Your supply chain gets disrupted first.... View Details

05 Aug 2010
What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

determining how and when to weight the importance of customer inputs? Jonathan Hinkle believes it does. As he put it, " the question may really be, 'Will this product be marketed as a disruptive product or fit with customers' paradigms?'... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)

understand my strengths and weaknesses, passions and longer-term direction before beginning my MBA. Where are you currently working? Can you describe your role? I am a technology investor at Francisco Partners (FP). At FP, we partner with... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course

3 million students had benefited from DreamBox's adaptive learning technology and its colorful video-game-style math lessons. Five weeks later—with an estimated 124,000 of the country’s K–12 schools closed to prevent the spread of... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

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

December 2019 (Revised July 2020)
Case

Ray White

By: Boris Groysberg and Tricia Gregg

Ray White is an Australian real estate business that has been owned and operated by the White family for four generations. The business has expanded and prospered. However, as the industry faces new challenges and opportunities, how should the White family respond?... View Details