Disruptive Technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some 2.7 million jobs, with companies marshaling technology and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

disruptions and revenue losses will require even more transformational thinking.” Mills believes three important lessons from the pandemic can help point the way. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

29 Apr 2021
News

Equal Partner

private sectors to discuss safety, education, and opportunity in a sector where the majority of workers are women. Indeed, Aditya was already disrupting the traditional investment model with her work at Republic. The company, which... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

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Ruzwana Bashir

fulfilled that entrepreneurial dream before she turned 30. As founder and CEO of Peek, Bashir has gotten the full startup experience in a short time. With Peek.com she is already disrupting the $100 billion global activities market.... View Details

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Whitney Wilson

Camp is a pitch before a panel of VC and equity investors. “Two of the three investors were women who said they’d like to be our customers!” “I’m still figuring out what I’d like to do after school,” Whitney says. “I would love to start a business or join an... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Shop Talk, Different Avenues

disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

07 Sep 2021
News

September 2021 Alumni Books

equip and support entrepreneurs in Africa, through the process of starting and growing successful and resilient agriculture and food businesses that will transform the continent. Through case studies and practical guidance, the book reveals how entrepreneurs can... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

are also shown to be actors in periodic deglobalization waves. This was because their function was to reinforce the gaps in wealth and income rather than disrupt them. Business enterprises proved disappointing institutions for knowledge... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

By: Willy Shih

For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry

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23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students worked at this summer... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

to disrupt the financial sector to materially improve financial services, including expanding access to financial products to underserved communities through the use of new technologies. Salas, who studied with Lakhani while he was a... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Feb 2020
News

Ink: Your Best Self

a colleague. And technology disruption has really changed industries and driven new competition. The folks I’ve worked with describe that external environment as always tugging on them. How did you develop... View Details

Keywords: April White

November 2000
Case

Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank (B)

Describes the evolution of Wit Capital from its origins as a small brewery to an online investment bank advising both small technology-based companies seeking to raise capital and large companies seeking to acquire Internet companies, as well as offering retail... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Disruptive Innovation; Service Delivery; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship

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17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

is still by far the leading academic research center in Europe in terms of science and technology. ls. A focus on attracting more technologically intensive industries and better connecting the country’s academic institutions with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2019
News

Case Study: Farming It Out

fund, with no proof of concept or track record of success—and the competitors he sought to disrupt are already sweeping over him. Hubris gets in the way of hitting singles and doubles; you hit the home runs when you have already swung at... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

September 2020 (Revised February 2023)
Teaching Note

Uber: Competing Globally

By: Alexander J. MacKay

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404. View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Strategy; Globalization; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation Networks; Transportation; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai; Shanghai Shi; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; London; England; Latin America; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); South America; Colombia

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September 2011
Case

Driving Profitable Growth at US Auto Parts

USAP faces extraordinary opportunities to change the way that automobiles are serviced in the US by selling parts at fair prices though online channels. View Details