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  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Better Care at Lower Cost

The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen told 250 participants at the... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Deglobalization and Entrepreneurial Investment: The Natural Experiment of Brexit

By: Elisa Alvarez-Garrido and Juan Alcácer
We seek to gain insight into the consequences of deglobalization on entrepreneurial investment by analyzing an instance of economic disintegration: the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. Brexit is not only a unique empirical opportunity, a natural... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; International Relations; Trade; Disruption; Globalized Economies and Regions; United Kingdom
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  • 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
  • Blog

Have You Checked out Podcasts from HBS?

Explorations of the impact of climate change on business After Hours: HBS faculty views on the crossroads of business and culture Cold Call: Transformation of HBS cases into podcast format The Disruptive Voice: Insight on View Details
  • 2023
  • Other Unpublished Work

Visions of Vision Pro

By: Randolph B. Cohen
Daily ups and downs of the market are often driven by changes in interest-rate expectations and investor risk aversion. But over the long run, it's often technological change that is the primary driver of value. A decade ago, Tyler Cowen argued in his book The Great... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch
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  • August 2001 (Revised January 2015)
  • Case

SonoSite: A View Inside

By: Clayton Christensen and Jeremy Dann
After its spin-off from one of the world's largest ultrasound makers, Sonosite attempts to popularize a new kind of handheld ultrasound units. Sonosite needs to decide if it should focus on new markets that will value the portability and ease of use of its products, or... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Disruptive Innovation; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers
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    Gil Addo

    The Huffington Post named RubiconMD one of the “Five Companies Defining the Future of Healthcare” and, in 2020, AllianceBernstein ranked RubiconMD number 12 on its list of the top 25 private companies disrupting healthcare. The company... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Health
    • 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
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    • 03 Dec 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

    profligate consumers of it," he said. "Maybe we just need to figure out how to get the high-end, expensive hospitals and doctors to somehow get good at providing inexpensive care. Or maybe we just need to subsidize it with taxes." According to... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
    • 2007
    • Book

    Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Creativity; Disruption
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    • 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
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    • 21 Sep 2016
    • Blog Post

    How HBS Changed My Life

    Professor Clayton Christensen on how disruptive innovation is the causal mechanism behind growth and prosperity of nations. Without HBS, I would not have been able to develop the voice to speak at an event alongside fellow HBS alumnus and... View Details
    • 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
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    • 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
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    • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    DVD War

    By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
    In 2006, the DVD was the most popular storage medium in the entertainment and computer industries. The development of high-definition (HD) technology created a need for a format with greater storage capacity. Instead of agreeing on a single standard for a new HD disc,... View Details
    Keywords: Disruption; Entertainment; Business History; Intellectual Property; Product; Competition; Technology Adoption; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • Web

    HBS Alumni Research Tips: Industry Research | Baker Library

    keyword, or navigate to a select industry from the industry classification tree. GlobalData Disruptor Covers technology-focused innovations and trends disrupting industries. Areas of focus include artificial intelligence, blockchain,... View Details
    • 19 Jan 2024
    • News

    Blockchain for Good

    sharp declines in cash use and other major disruptions to small businesses and personal livelihoods. Enter Millicent, the blockchain-based digital financial venture Dyer cofounded a year ago. Both a financial network and a social impact... View Details
    • Web

    Commercial Videotaping & Photography | About

    rpassias@hbs.edu , Director of Digital Media & Marketing Projects. Harvard Business School reserves the right to refuse to grant permission for any reason, including the potential disruption of academic, research, business or student... View Details