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  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

technological disruptions. Scholars such as HBS professors Clayton M. Christensen, well known for his research on disruptive technological change and author of The Innovator's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January 2020 (Revised March 2020)
  • Case

LOLA: Do You Know What's in Your Tampon?

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Aldo Sesia
LOLA is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business launched in 2015. What started as a company to provide women with organic and transparent material-labeled tampons via a subscription model, had, by 2019 evolved to include additional menstrual and sexual wellness products.... View Details
Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Channels; Disruption; Business Model; Brands and Branding; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Retail Industry; United States; Canada
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  • 17 Apr 2014
  • News

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
  • February 28, 2020
  • Article

How Tesla Sets Itself Apart

By: Lou Shipley
Tesla and its flamboyant, and sometimes erratic, innovator Elon Musk have turned the more than a century old industry upside down in a mere 16 years. Traditional automakers are ill prepared to compete in today’s software-centered world. Unlike nimble Tesla, they are... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Transportation; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Disruption; Auto Industry
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  • Profile

Jennifer Hurford

worldview through conversation." After completing her joint degree, Jennifer will join a startup that, like IDEO, "focuses on human-centered design thinking and innovative technology to solve big problems." Her larger... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • 12 Apr 2012
  • News

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

    Larissa Bifano

    legal landscape of emerging and disruptive technologies, while helping them understand the legal and compliance risks arising from the creation and deployment of AI systems. She works with clients in diverse industries nationally and... View Details
    Keywords: Legal
    • 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
    • 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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    • 10 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Disruption: The Art of Framing

    the new technology could lower tester costs dramatically and thus had the potential to disrupt Teradyne's core business. But CMOS technology could not initially operate at the... View Details
    Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
    • 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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    • 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
    • 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
    • News

    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
    • 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
    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

    technologies that changed how or what we see, we changed ourselves and the world around us. Visual technologies propelled the human journey from walking apes to masters of nature to self-obsessed screen... View Details
    • 25 Jun 2020
    • News

    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 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
    • 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
    • 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