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12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

individuals willingly succumbing to "group think," waving through a lukewarm idea rather than disrupting the comfort of the status quo. "Questioning long-held beliefs and traditional ways of doing things is a painful but... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

March 2021
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Facebook's Libra (B): The Privatization of Money?

By: Marco Di Maggio, Ethan Rouen, George Serafeim and Amy Klopfenstein

This case addresses the events that took place following the conclusion of the case “Facebook’s Libra (A): The Privatization of Money?” In October 2019, several months after the conclusion of the A case, multiple members of the Libra Association announced that they... View Details

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22 Feb 2022
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When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

Texas, to Nevada, where the tax rates are significantly lower. That is causing disruptions in those local markets because of the influx of new people. The delta between the cost of homes in California or in Boston or New York relative to... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

topics such as entrepreneurship and innovation; disruptive innovation, growth, and strategy; and the microeconomics of competitiveness. Finally, HBX this summer will introduce HBX Live, a virtual classroom allowing participants worldwide... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

knew that if they did something that looked weird, it would draw attention and, quite frankly, would disrupt their current work process. If they didn't look weird, then that wouldn't happen. And they knew that just for the sake of getting... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

influential…, PTCA has been used less frequently than in hospitals with less influential surgeons." And even if PTCA and other innovations make it past initial gatekeepers, it's a long road to adoption because of learning curves View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

usual reasons have become clichés: Disruptive technologies, emerging global competitors, changing workforce expectations, and heightened investor concerns over immediate stock price have put pressure on boards to find reassuring,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

of their use. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/314097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-506 CarMax, Inc.: Disrupting the Used-Car Market No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

return the business to a sound footing. Or the resulting restructuring may severely disrupt the business. If it is necessary to layoff 20 percent of your workforce to achieve the same cost efficiency as your competitors, better to do this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

these marketplaces is that they mitigate one of the biggest problems borrowers and lenders face: search costs. Typically, these marketplaces earn revenue by charging a small fee on top of the loan if the borrower gets funded and accepts the terms of a loan from its... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

populations. The authors call it "catalytic innovation." Based on Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation model, catalytic innovations challenge organizational incumbents by offering simpler, good-enough solutions aimed at underserved groups. Unlike View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

crunch. Could the eurozone survive the storm? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/713034-PDF-ENG Digital Microscopy at Carl Zeiss: Managing Disruption Shih, WillyHarvard Business School Case 613-039 Ulrich Simon, the head of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

Janisse Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2012). Abstract We examine the internal supply chains at two service organizations to discover the source of disruptions that erode employees' efficiency. Through... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

disruptive social innovations intrinsic to the CSE approach amplify this zone of discomfort. Fortunately, the experiences of innovative companies such as Timberland and Starbucks show how these challenges may be overcome. Key concepts... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Feb 2012
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new question for the research community: How should proposed enhancements to TFM be evaluated in a CDM environment? A sequential evaluation procedure, developed in this paper, addresses this question. The procedure includes airline View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
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Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu

By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the... View Details

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31 Aug 2010
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repetitive in nature. We introduce the concept of a restart effect—task and temporal disruptions that stimulate worker productivity—as a means of addressing challenges of repetitive work. For our empirical analyses, we use two and a half... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2013
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which it creates a digital platform for publishing digital magazines on the iPad. The case is intended, in part, as an introduction to the challenges media companies face due to the disruptive effects of digitalization, where traditional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

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Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

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Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

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