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  • 06 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

aerospace industry where she led highly technical teams at The Boeing Company developing disruptive technologies to usher in the future of mobility and responsible innovation. The major focus of her work was... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund
  • 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
  • Profile

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
  • 29 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

Credit: Nicolas McComber Uber’s roller coaster ride from ride-sharing pioneer to shunned bad boy should be a lesson to other disruptive startups: Fighting hard is good, while fighting unfairly loses you respect, customers, and perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

says. “Digital technology has the potential to completely disrupt the kinds of channels they’re used to. Take the music industry: new technologies allow someone like Beyoncé to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 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
  • Profile

Luciana Baigun

says. She had thought she would get a PhD in economics, but she instantly changed her plans. “I didn’t want to be an academic anymore,” she says. “From that point forward, I wanted to be involved in disruptive View Details
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • June 2001 (Revised February 2005)
  • Background Note

Creative Destruction of Industrial Age Management Principles and Creative Construction of Information Age Management Principles

By: Richard L. Nolan
Traces the creative destruction of industrial age management principles and creative construction of new management principles more appropriate for the information age. Includes self-administered questionnaire to permit managers to assess the status of the... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Disruptive Innovation; Goals and Objectives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Development and Career; System; Information Technology
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  • April 2025
  • Supplement

ZEISS: Commercializing Science

By: Maria P. Roche and Richie Zitomer
Spreadsheet Supplement for HBS Case No. 725-359. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Organization; Decisions; Business Strategy; Competition; Business History; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Organizational Culture; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Commercialization; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Germany; Europe
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  • 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
  • Web

Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

disruption. There is no industry that has seen as much disruption – both good (innovation) and bad (crisis) – as financial services. In Managing and Innovating in Financial Services , we examine the challenges and opportunities faced in... View Details
  • 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
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Machinery and Machining; Cost Management; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

the central role many Chinese companies play in global supply chains, pandemic-imposed disruptions are being felt around the world. Shih addresses the challenges companies now face in making their global supply chains more resilient... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

at coping with industry change is not just due to such commonly cited barriers as insufficient resources, he says. "Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia, or management's tendency to respond to the most View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt conventional masculine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

and the consequences of CEO succession and selection decisions for subsequent firm performance and strategic choices. Industry wisdom, company relationships, and technological expertise all matter in our new knowledge-based enterprises.—... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace