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- February 2018
- Case
Stealing Time: America's Disruption of the Swiss Watch Industry
By: Eric Van den Steen and Aaron Stark
After years of growth, the Swiss watch industry faced an existential crisis. Exports to the U.S., their primary market, had dropped by more than two thirds over the past five years. Swiss watches were being disrupted by high-quality and affordable American products.... View Details
Van den Steen, Eric, and Aaron Stark. "Stealing Time: America's Disruption of the Swiss Watch Industry." Harvard Business School Case 718-500, February 2018.
- September – October 2000
- Article
Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Richard M.J. Bohmer and John Kenagy
Christensen, Clayton M., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and John Kenagy. "Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?" Harvard Business Review 78, no. 5 (September–October 2000): 102–117.
- 13 Oct 2022
- Other Presentation
4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation
By: Amy Bernstein, Rita McGrath, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Derek van Bever
A roundtable conversation takes stock of Clayton Christensen’s influential theory. This first in a series of roundtable conversations assessing the origins and impact of four breakthrough ideas.
In the 1980s, Clayton Christensen cofounded a startup that... View Details
In the 1980s, Clayton Christensen cofounded a startup that... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation
"4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation." HBR IdeaCast (podcast), Harvard Business Review Group, October 13, 2022.
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
established companies lament the disruption they’re facing at the hand of technologically savvy startups. But Teixeira, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, argues that these newcomers simply spotted and served... View Details
- December 1998
- Teaching Note
Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave TN
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Teaching Note for (95103). View Details
- Research Summary
Market Implications of Supply Chain Disruptions
Identifying how and why the financial markets respond to problems in corporate supply chains. View Details
- April 2017 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
CarMax, Inc.: Disrupting the Used-Car Market
By: John R. Wells and Hong Luo
Wells, John R., and Hong Luo. "CarMax, Inc.: Disrupting the Used-Car Market." Harvard Business School Case 717-506, April 2017. (Revised December 2019.)
- Comment
Demonetization: The Politics of Visible Disruption
By: Akshay Mangla
Mangla, Akshay. "Demonetization: The Politics of Visible Disruption." India in Transition (January 30, 2017).
- 2016
- Conference Paper
The Pressing Game: Optimal Defensive Disruption in Soccer
By: Iavor I. Bojinov and Luke Bornn
Soccer, the most watched sport in the world, is a dynamic game where a team’s success relies on
both team strategy and individual player contributions. Passing is a cardinal soccer skill and a
key factor in strategy development; it helps the team to keep the ball... View Details
Bojinov, Iavor I., and Luke Bornn. "The Pressing Game: Optimal Defensive Disruption in Soccer." Paper presented at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, March 2016.
- March 1998 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Teradyne: Corporate Management of Disruptive Change
By: Joseph L. Bower
Two cases deal with the introduction of a new product to Teradyne's line of semiconductor test equipment. This case deals with the problems facing the head of a start-up division responsible for developing and bringing to market a new product based on technology deemed... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Management; Market Entry and Exit; Product; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology
Bower, Joseph L. "Teradyne: Corporate Management of Disruptive Change." Harvard Business School Case 398-121, March 1998. (Revised October 2001.)
- February 2018 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Kyle Thomas
This case highlights the business challenges associated with a financial technology firm, New Constructs, that created a technology that can quickly parse complicated public firm financials to paint a clearer economic picture of firms, remove accounting distortions,... View Details
Keywords: Fundamental Analysis; Machine Learning; Robo-analysts; Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Analysis; Information Technology; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; North America; Tennessee
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Kyle Thomas. "New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts." Harvard Business School Case 118-068, February 2018. (Revised June 2021.)
- November 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
HP Instant Ink: (Self) Disrupting the Consumer Printing Market
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg and George Gonzalez
Seeking to disrupt the consumer printing market (before being disrupted by others), and in response to customer pain points, in 2013 HP Inc. launched an ink replenishment service called Instant Ink, where customers pay a monthly subscription fee based on the number of... View Details
Keywords: Printing; Ink; Subscription Model; Customers; Information Infrastructure; Service Delivery; Business Model; Disruption; Growth and Development Strategy
Ofek, Elie, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, and George Gonzalez. "HP Instant Ink: (Self) Disrupting the Consumer Printing Market." Harvard Business School Case 521-016, November 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 02 Oct 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Gimlet Turn a Podcast Network into a Disruptive Platform?
- Article
Vertical Merger, Collusion, and Disruptive Buyers
By: Volker Nocke and Lucy White
In a repeated game setting of a vertically related industry, we study the collusive effects of vertical mergers. We show that any vertical merger facilitates upstream collusion, no matter how large (in terms of capacity or size of product portfolio) the integrated... View Details
Nocke, Volker, and Lucy White. "Vertical Merger, Collusion, and Disruptive Buyers." International Journal of Industrial Organization 28, no. 4 (July 2010): 350–354.
- September 2020
- Case
Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses issues such as defining and pivoting a business model, organizational requirements for a pivot, investor relations,... View Details
Keywords: Legal Aspects Of Business; Startup; Teams; Pivot; Financing; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Legal Services Industry; Germany
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Amir Reza Rezvani. "Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish." Harvard Business School Case 821-027, September 2020.
- November 2017 (Revised March 2022)
- Teaching Note
CarMax: Disrupting the Used Car Market
By: Hong Luo
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-506. View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
eliminates the need to open the rib cage, a procedure that leads to much of the pain and extended recovery time of traditional heart surgery. The benefits of MICS may be clear, but it was the challenges of implementing it— especially the View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 2003
- Class Lecture
The Opportunity and Threat of Disruptive Technologies
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Christensen, Clayton M. "The Opportunity and Threat of Disruptive Technologies." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2003. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 1482C.)
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
venture between Intel and SAP that was launched in 1997 to create a new-market disruption selling enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to small businesses. Intel and SAP hand-picked some of their most successful, tried-and-true... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 2018
- Working Paper
Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Matrix: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape
By: Das Narayandas and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
Executive development programs have entered a period of disruption catalyzed by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication and are driven by renewed demand for high-level executive and managerial skills. Unlike other segments of higher education,... View Details
Keywords: Executive Education; Internet and the Web; Disruption; Management Skills; Leadership Development
Narayandas, Das, and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu. "Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Matrix: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-020, September 2016. (Revised June 2018.)