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01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

risk," explains McFarlan. Disruptive Technologies One question facing the established firms is how to launch their Internet services without disrupting their regular offerings. One of the benefits of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

June 24, 2016
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Why Brexit Is a Big Deal

By: John A. Quelch

The consequences of yesterday's vote by the British people to leave the European Union will be far-reaching, but there is no reason for global markets to panic.
Brexit is a vote against the European Union. Once heralded as the engine of a one-for-all and... View Details

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26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

prior to coming to HBS in 2007. A member of the School’s Technology and Operations Management unit, Shih closely studies disruptive technology and technological strategy, and took time to analyze the Pokémon Go phenomenon below. Christian... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

at coping with industry change is not just due to such commonly cited barriers as insufficient resources, he says. "Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia, or management's tendency to respond to the most View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details

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2.3.6 Dangerous Weapons & Threats | MBA

more than $10,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Whoever willfully communicates or causes to be communicated such a threat thereby causing either the evacuation or serious disruption of a school, school related event, school... View Details

January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
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Ocado Group: Ready for the Future

By: José B. Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin and Natalie Kindred

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12 Jul 2020
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Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

20 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

behavior. The leading causes of passenger disruptions on airplane flights. (Source: Research Report: Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage.) Source: Micaela Brody They pored through a private database of all... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel

23 Apr 2014
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Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

percent of high school students have tried them, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and a growing percentage of middle school students are joining the list. In 2012, Goldman Sachs declared electronic cigarettes one of the top 10 View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

With the sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, the newspaper enters a crucial phase in its 136-year history amid disruptive changes in communications, technology, and reader habits. According to HBS professors Bharat Anand and David... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

the central role many Chinese companies play in global supply chains, pandemic-imposed disruptions are being felt around the world. Shih addresses the challenges companies now face in making their global supply chains more resilient... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of change—to innovate? In the past 10 years, the importance of this question has increased as more industries and firms confront disruptive change. The pandemic has accelerated this crisis,... View Details

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Entrepreneurship | MBA

including The Founder Mindset , Launching Technology Ventures , and Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI. Harvard Innovation Labs Available to all Harvard students who are looking to explore entrepreneurship, the Harvard Innovation Labs... View Details

08 May 2018
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Meet the Entrepreneurship Club

Disrupt Telecom”). Through our mission to create an entrepreneurial community that lasts beyond HBS, we seek to facilitate connections at the right time, whether it’s for a little inspiration after a rough day, or to fill a knowledge gap... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Sustainability in the Transportation Industry

Mobility which was a collaboration between Bloomberg New Energy Finance and McKinsey, seeks to answer that question. To do so, it explores how a number of existing social, economic, and technological trends will work together to disrupt... View Details

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Student Handbook | MBA

significantly disrupting campus life or learning. Supporting the health, safety, and well-being of every member of the community is Harvard Business School’s highest priority. Discretionary measures available to Harvard Business School... View Details

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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

Featured Case The Reinvention of Kodak The Kodak multimedia case highlights the company's reinvention efforts by its leadership to navigate near bankruptcy and industry disruption from new technology. It explores the resurgence of older... View Details

29 Jun 2016
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The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus

first storefront and future site of another microfactory. “We’re not going to disrupt the automotive industry without a serious breakout success.” What does that look like? “I want to be the first company to put a production autonomous... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Clubs Hopping

technology that included Sequoia Capital partner Todd Cozzens (PMD 60, 1990), who invests in digital health companies. What trends does Carter see disrupting health care? Health and wellness insights driven by cognitive computing. Carter... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

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