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  • 29 Jun 2016
  • News

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
  • May 2004 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

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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  • Web

FinTech Club | MBA

HBS community on the latest technology and business model innovations disrupting financial services, and to facilitate recruiting opportunities in FinTech. Annual Events Career-oriented with US and... View Details
  • November 1999 (Revised March 2002)
  • Case

Red Hat and the Linux Revolution

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
The case describes the history of the Linux operating system and the open-source movement in general. Focuses on a critical decision being made by Red Hat, the largest distributor of Linux, about its future development efforts. The decision allows students to explore... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Product Development; Change Management; Research and Development; Business Processes; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology Industry; North Carolina
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  • Fast Answer

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
  • June 2025
  • Case

AI Wars in 2025

By: Andy Wu and Anna Yang
In June 2025, Google leaders in Mountain View, CA convened after its parent company Alphabet shed a quarter-trillion in market capitalization in a matter of months. The immediate spark—the quiet revelation that Google searches had dipped for the first time in 20... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Disruptive Innovation; Mission and Purpose; Business Strategy
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  • 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
  • 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
  • Web

Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Generative AI for Business Leaders Course Number 1301 Professor Suraj Srinivasan Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Project Course Overview Generative AI (GenAI) stands at the forefront of a technological revolution, poised to... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. At the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference 2003, Christensen provided an advance peek at his new book, which follows on his influential The Innovator's Dilemma: When New View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Portrait Project

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
  • News

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
  • Web

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

COVID-19 outbreak might change the way companies think about sustainability. Here’s what they said: Michael Toffel: Companies might prepare better for big disruptions   I hope that the pandemic will increase companies’ attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

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
  • 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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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