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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
not to say the founders don’t realize the challenges ahead. In general, the mining industry is considered to be traditional, capital-intensive, and slow to adopt new technologies. To their knowledge, no one else is trying to disrupt the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential. Value as a Service: Embracing the Coming Disruption by Rob Bernshteyn... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business Review Press) Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, and his... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Great Firms to Fail, which sounded the alarm on how disruptive innovations — such as the personal computer and discount retailers — caused many otherwise strong and healthy companies to fail. The Innovator’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
those seven people. It’s clear that the engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
interface on the internet-- I ended up putting together with partners, the fun that seeded Twitter and invested in companies like TweetDeck and other social things, that got me very connected to a very innovative group of people that were... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
a Boston-based technology financial services company whose mission is to reinvent hedge fund investing through disruptive technology, transparency and liquidity. PhytoTEK supplies a unique biologic solution for the infection-control... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
up front, given people a discount for paying a year’s worth of services in advance, and employed a number of other innovative tactics, the company turned cash-flow positive in its third week of operations and thereafter simply coined... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
care industry to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. He recommends disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and new technologies that give patients... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
that has been disrupted by the earthquakes, including agriculture and animal husbandry—to remain in place and not have to settle elsewhere. “This allows them to modernize their lifestyle but still allows them to live with their animals... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
individuals face stubborn resistance to new ideas. Managers and executives often reject innovation and unconventional approaches due to misplaced allegiance to the status quo. In this climate of stifled creativity and inflexible adherence... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
fund, with no proof of concept or track record of success—and the competitors he sought to disrupt are already sweeping over him. Hubris gets in the way of hitting singles and doubles; you hit the home runs when you have already swung at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
group that first voiced skepticism, demanded accountability, and catalyzed dissent. Andrew Zimbalist is the leading researcher on the hidden costs of hosting megaevents like the Olympics and the World Cup. They provide a blueprint for citizens who seek to challenge... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
disruptions to small businesses and personal livelihoods. “For many small businesses, that meant tough times got even tougher, which inspired us to look for alternative solutions that put people first,” Dyer says. Ezeji-Okoye asked Dyer,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
they experience the cultural, sexual, and student revolutions and the music of the age. The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us by Ray Fisman (PhDBE 1998) and Tim Sullivan (PublicAffairs) Breakthrough companies like Amazon and Uber have... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
would have the capacity to do it. So, I think what we don't do well as a society and we need to do much better when there's disruptive technology going on, which has been as long as I've been alive, is to create the tools for people and... View Details