Disruptive Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

care industry to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. He recommends disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and new technologies that give patients... View Details

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

theme is sort of a callback to mechanization, which is digitization. So now suddenly we have the tools to completely change our world again from mechanical processes to digital processes. So those are the five what I would call dominant... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

and I also loved living in Grand Rapids and did not want to disrupt the family by moving. I turned to the Bible; one verse in particular gave me much comfort: “Peace I leave with you...Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

and observable stability using reduced form regressions. The other is an institutional economics conception of how to measure performance. It is focused on understanding whether foreign entry gave rise to difficult-to-reverse changes in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments

meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring... View Details

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

Entrepreneurship Author:Ramana Nanda Abstract This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

sold by knowledgeable associates, The Home Depot became a destination place for customers in need of anything from shovels to a new kitchen sink or supplies to use in recovering from a hurricane or flood. Disasters are thus both a source of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

people from Netflix, Google, Amazon, Snapchat, Starbucks, Nike, and Microsoft. There’s a lot of product management oomph there,” she says. And many of them, like Lee, who worked at Sony and Microsoft, left more traditional tech jobs for the chance to engineer a seismic... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

across ABP Media's channels, Karan Kapur (MBA 2015) provided hundreds and thousands of meals through his international FnB venture K Corp, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) enabled the mission to be displayed in millions of smartphones through View Details

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