disruption - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jun 2016
News

Reinventing Pharma

and commercial operations before becoming the firm's head of operations and planning in 2014. In a recent interview, Donaldson told the industry website eyeforpharma.com that she credits Professor Clay Christensen and his work on View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

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Inessa Lurye

says. "We're in a $12 trillion business moving from paper to digital processes—many firms are merging or going out of business. The Building and Sustaining Successful Enterprises course, which was based on disruption theory, has... View Details

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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1.2 General Statement of Conduct | MBA

including, for example, in regard to educator/student relationships. In addition, students may not provide false information to university officials or disrupt or obstruct teaching, research or other University activities, nor may they... View Details

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

responses from faculty, principal investigators, post-doctoral researchers and others, or about 1.6 percent of the original inquiry mailing. They concentrated on scientists in Europe and the United States. The pandemic is particularly View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

levels—these days. Why? Is it because large organizations are perceived as lacking agility, unable or unwilling to generate the impetus for development and exploitation of disruptive technologies? Is it because a new generation of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

in digital distribution. Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage Fostering innovation in a mature company can often seem like a swim upstream—the needs of the existing business often overwhelm attempts to create... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

help others," the "acceptance of personal responsibility for outcomes," and a "bias for action." 5. Use a brash communication style to disrupt the status quo. "The new e-world of speed and flexibility demands... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

is an innovation problem. That is, it is hard for exactly the same reasons that any really disruptive innovation is hard. "As the storms get stronger and the harvests fail more often, political pressure for carbon regulation will... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

2023), Luis F Gutierrez (MBA 2023), Seyfihan Usarer (MBA 2023)Our vision is to build a digital marketplace that connects Farmers directly with Restaurants, enabling farmers to earn higher profits by disrupting existing complex supply... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Health Care’s New Frontier

The existing information infrastructure couldn’t support our concept of outcomes-based, disruptive health-care delivery.” As “the waters swirled around our noses,” Bush recalls, “Todd Park’s brother Ed came up with a web-based program to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2004
News

Maasai Village

afar, we had a vision of a simpler life. The village, set up so that outsiders would concentrate their disruptive inquiries to one area, seemed to be a symbol of their having sold out to commercialism. After the adolescent members of the... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality

01 Jun 2012
News

From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’

Investing in HBS Giving Through HBS Giving Together Jump-Start FAQ Renowned as the leading authority on disruptive innovation, Professor Clay Christensen attributes his remarkable success as an entrepreneur and as a scholar to his humble... View Details

Keywords: awards

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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

disruption. There is no industry that has seen as much disruption – both good (innovation) and bad (crisis) – as financial services. In Managing and Innovating in Financial Services , we examine the challenges and opportunities faced in... View Details

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

What would Aristotle think about self-driving cars? As the abilities of artificial intelligence systems to automate complex tasks accelerate, warnings about the dangers of outsourcing life-and-death decisions to machines are pumping the brakes on the powerful... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

Fall 2024
Article

The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors

By: Ryan Raffaelli

In more than a decade of researching innovation, I have observed how organizations respond to new opportunities, technological changes, or unexpected market shifts that threaten to upend their current business model. This process, which I call reinvention, may occur... View Details

Keywords: Innovation And Strategy; Change Leadership; Collaboration; Architecture; Transformation; Disruption; Leading Change; Innovation Strategy; Identity; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure

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March 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Background Note

Physical Climate Risk

By: Michael W. Toffel, Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart

This note describes how managers can identify and manage their company’s physical climate risks, which can increase their operations and supply chain costs and risks, and affect demand for their goods and services. Can be paired with the video “Preparing business... View Details

Keywords: Resilience; Maps; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Modeling And Analysis; Climate Change; Risk Management; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruption

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23 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium

Professor Dani Rodrik and Professor Debora Spar discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Global Economy and Globalization, as a whole. COVID-19: What We Learned in China View Video Flex CEO, Revathi Advaithi, and Professor Willy Shih discuss the company’s... View Details

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

expenditures under the entry of new generation lab managers. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46697 Executive Education in the Digital Matrix: The Disruption of the Supply Landscape By: Moldoveanu,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

October 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Background Note

How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett

What is the response by advertisers as media consumption moves to the digital medium? Provides an overview of online advertising in mid-2006 and discusses the impact of an increasingly fractured media landscape and its accompanying expanding advertising options. View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; News; Media; Emerging Markets; Internet and the Web; Perspective; Disruption; Journalism and News Industry

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