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  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50234 December 2015 Harvard Business Review What Is Disruptive Innovation? By: Christensen, Clayton M., Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald Abstract—For the past... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

  Working Papers Competition As Strategic Interaction By: Eisenhardt, Kathleen, Rory McDonald, and Cheng Gao Abstract—Strategic interaction has been a topic of scholarly inquiry dating back to the 1960s. Drawing on several seminal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2017 (Revised August 2021)
  • Teaching Note

chotuKool: 'Little Cool,' Big Opportunity

By: Rory McDonald and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS No. 616-020. View Details
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Right Mix: Angels, Venture Capitalists, and the Assembly of Entrepreneurial Resources

By: Benjamin Hallen and Rory McDonald
New ventures rely on external relationships for capital, knowledge, and networks. We examine how ventures assemble these resources—and whether they are all accessible from the same sources—in relationships with two types of investors: venture capital firms and angels.... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship
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  • November 2018
  • Article

Disruptive Innovation: An Intellectual History and Directions for Future Research

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Rory McDonald, Elizabeth J. Altman and Jonathan E. Palmer
The concept of disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent citation and vibrant debate in academic circles,... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Metrics; Systemic Industries; Technology Trajectories; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; History; Competitive Strategy; Research
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  • March 2017 (Revised August 2021)
  • Teaching Note

HomeAway: Organizing the Vacation Rental Industry

By: Rory McDonald and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS No. 615-036. View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Technology; Acquisitions; Operations Management
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  • May 1998 (Revised August 2017)
  • Case

DuPont Kevlar: Commercializing a Miracle Fiber

By: Clayton Christensen and Rory McDonald
Describes Dupont's efforts to build commercial markets for its miracle fiber, Kevlar. Initially, it sought to create a market for Kevlar tire cord, primarily because its existing tire cord business was languishing. This market never developed, even after Dupont spent... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Crisis Management; Product Launch; Emerging Markets; Research and Development; Technology
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  • March 2017 (Revised November 2021)
  • Case

Floodgate: On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards

By: Rory McDonald, Alix Burke, Emma Franking and Nicole Tempest
Founded in 2008, Floodgate pioneered the “micro-VC” category, a new type of investment firm that raised smaller funds and made earlier, smaller investments in technology startups than traditional venture-capital firms. By 2015, Floodgate had raised three funds totaling... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Business Models; Angel Investors; Crowdfunding; Incubators; Accelerators; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Information Technology; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Competitive Strategy
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  • March 2017 (Revised September 2021)
  • Teaching Note

Floodgate: On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards

By: Rory McDonald and Helena Lyng-Olsen
Teaching Note for HBS No. 617-044. View Details
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Pivoting Isn't Enough: Principled Pragmatism and Strategic Reorientation in New Ventures

By: Rory McDonald and Cheng Gao
New technology ventures often experience deviations from their original plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and target customers. Yet research is largely silent on how entrepreneurs explain and justify their... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Reorientation; Technology Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Product Development Processes; Organizational Adaptation; Qualitative Methods (General); Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Communication; Entrepreneurship; Alignment; Innovation and Invention; Product Development
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  • 2022
  • Book

Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs

By: Chris Bingham and Rory McDonald
Why is leading innovation in nascent business environments so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90% of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80% of executives consider innovation crucial to their growth strategy, but only 6%... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Decision Making
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  • December 2019 (Revised April 2021)
  • Teaching Note

Under Armour

By: Rory McDonald and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS No. 618-020. View Details
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  • 16 Nov 2015
  • News

What Is Disruptive Innovation?

  • Other Article

Entrepreneurship: Every Pivot Needs a Story

By: Rory McDonald and Cheng Gao
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  • Article

Managing Political Misfits

By: Y. Sekou Bermiss and Rory McDonald
Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. View Details
Keywords: Management; Organizational Culture
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  • March 1997 (Revised October 2017)
  • Case

Hospital Equipment Corporation

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Rory McDonald
Hospital Equipment Corp. is a very successful maker of hospital beds. Due to outstanding performance in new product development, it grew to dominate its primary market and is searching for other opportunities to grow through new product development. It discovers that... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Opportunities; Business Processes; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Expansion; Markets; Problems and Challenges; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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  • Article

Mastering Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs

By: Christopher B. Bingham and Rory M. McDonald
Leaders must answer eight key questions to address the hidden tensions underlying innovation strategies. View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership
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  • 31 Jul 2014
  • News

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO

donated by club members and sponsors. “This is the second year that the gala has supported Dallas Reads,” said Marla McDonald (MBA ’91), acting liaison between the club and the charity. “We selected Dallas... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 21 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

across the country. During the “IFC: Immersive Field Course,” HBS students had the opportunity to visit the site of a rooftop solar facility in Bangalore, India. The solar site is deployed and managed by CleanMax, the largest B2B provider... View Details