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June 2023
Case

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Consequences for Agriculture

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred

Russia's brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine that begain in February 2022 caused major destruction to Ukraine's agriculture sector, one of the most productive and important in the world. This note provides a brief overview of certain singificant moments and moments... View Details

Keywords: Food; Agribusiness; War; Disruption; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Shipping Industry; Ukraine; Russia

November 2014
Teaching Note

Carl Zeiss and Free-Form Production: Can We See Clearly Yet?

Keywords: Free-form; Business Model; Disruption

August 17, 2020
Guest Column

The Case for Stakeholder Dividends: Why It’s Time for the Financial Sector to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is

By: Peter Tufano and Timothy Flacke

Keywords: Disruption; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry

01 Apr 1999
News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

established markets - is sounding a wake-up call for corporate strategists. How did you first become interested in these disruptive technologies? It was the sudden demise of Digital Equipment Corporation that first drew my attention. How... View Details

December 2014 (Revised August 2024)
Case

HomeAway: Organizing the Vacation Rental Industry

By: Rory McDonald, Feng Zhu and Cheng Gao

In less than 10 years, cofounders Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd had transformed HomeAway from just another Internet startup into the world's leading vacation-rental marketplace—a global online platform that links customers seeking vacation-home rentals to the... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Innovation; Technology; Acquisitions; Operations Management; Digital Platforms; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Disruption; Accommodations Industry

2007
Book

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Creativity; Disruption

Find at Harvard

2002
Report

Technology Strategy: The Theory and Application of the Christensen Model

By: C. M. Christensen and Steven Milunovich

Keywords: Technology; Business Strategy; Disruptive Innovation

August 2, 2017
Article

The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China

By: William C. Kirby

The article examines the role of the Chinese government in transport firm Uber's decision to sell its China operation to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company. View Details

Keywords: Uber; China; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Transportation Industry; China; Asia

March 1998
Teaching Note

Electric Vehicles: Pipe Dream or Product of the Future? TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Teaching Note for (1-698-065). (A reprint not in this system). View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Performance; Auto Industry

01 Dec 2012
News

The Billion-Dollar Question

trip to all 54 African countries and set it all down in a third book, assuming a cute Masai doesn't convince me to become a herder. Travel, like HBS, is transformative. Both disrupt our lives—usually in positive ways. Yet after HBS, many... View Details

Keywords: Advice; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

Summing Up What's the Downside to Disruption in High Tech? This month's column gave many readers an opportunity to join my rant about the need for disruption to combat the increasing inscrutability and waste... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

November 2008 (Revised January 2013)
Supplement

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Eee PC (B)

By: Willy Shih and Howard H. Yu

Provides an update to the 609-011 (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Disruption; Markets; Computer Industry

2016
Working Paper

The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development

By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas

Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Executive Education; Disruption; Management Skills

November 2024
Case

FedEx Cyberattack (A): Navigating the NotPetya Storm

By: Hise Gibson, Frank Nagle, Alicia Dadlani and Martha Hostetter

In 2017, FedEx’s European division — acquired the year before for $5 billion — was hit by a devastating cyberattack that destroyed thousands of computers and business systems across several countries. Corporate Chief Information Officer Rob Carter put the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Cybersecurity; Crisis Management; Disruption; Planning; Transportation Industry; United States; Europe

November 1, 2022
Article

To Prepare for Future Surges, U.S. Hospitals Must Start Planning—& Sharing Resources—Now!

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: COVID-19; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Disruption; Planning; Health Industry; United States

19 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers

software eating the world. Software is disrupting industry after industry and transforming large swathes of the economy. When I was an entrepreneur in the 1990s, I would debate with my investors what sliver of the $70 billion US software... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang; Advertising; Technology

01 Sep 2008
News

Faculty Books

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate

April 2015 (Revised October 2019)
Case

The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth

By: Sophus A. Reinert

The continent of Europe seemed in the spring of 2015 to be in a weaker position relative to other world regions than it had in centuries. Though comparatively small, it had long played a disproportionate role in world history, to the extent that the modern world system... View Details

Keywords: The Great Divergence; Modern Economic Growth; Empire; Disruption; Economic Growth; Values and Beliefs; History; Globalization; Europe

June 2013 (Revised September 2015)
Case

Procter & Gamble

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that it had purchased about $2 billion of Procter and Gamble (P&G) stock. Shares in the company closed up 3.75% the day the disclosure was made public. Ackman told the New York... View Details

Keywords: Ackman; P＆G; Pershing Square Capital Managment; Disruption; Management Succession; Crisis Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Financial Services Industry

October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
Background Note

Evolution of the Drone Industry

By: Rory McDonald, Andy Wu, Emilie Billaud and Ryan Bayer

This note focuses on the development of the drone industry in recent years and provides insights on the drone technology, regulations, applications, market size, top players, and ecosystem. This note was written in conjunction with the case study “Parrot: Navigating... View Details

Keywords: Drones; Information Technology; Disruption; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Engineering; Product Development; Technology Industry; Asia; Europe; North America; United States

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