Disruptive Technologies - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

disrupted. At a plenary session at the HBS Global Alumni Conference 2001, Christensen expanded on the work highlighted in his 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

05 Nov 2008
News

Sweetly Disruptive Technology

06 Apr 2021
Cold Call Podcast

Disrupting the Waste Industry with Technology

Keywords: Re: Shai Benjamin Bernstein

December 1998 (Revised March 1999)
Case

Disruptive Technology a Heartbeat Away: Ecton, Inc.

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Edward G Cape

Describes an innovating start-up company with a disruptive technology to the large, expensive echocardiography machines that leading cardiologists use to create images of heart functions for diagnostic purposes. Ecton's machine is small, cheap, portable, and can't... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Machinery and Machining; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Product; Commercialization; Technology; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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06 Apr 2021
News

Disrupting the Waste Management Industry with Technology

06 Jun 2019
News

Disruption Starts with Unhappy Customers, Not Technology

17 Sep 2016
News

Keeping an Ear Out for Disruption

Keywords: disruptive innovation; currency exchange; management; leadership; technology; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

established companies lament the disruption they’re facing at the hand of technologically savvy startups. But Teixeira, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, argues that these... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

1999
Chapter

Impact of Disruptive Technologies in Telecommunications

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Disruption; Communication Technology; Telecommunications Industry

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21 Feb 2020
News

“Businesses Should Use Technology To Disrupt Their Core Competencies”

04 Jun 2014
News

The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next

Keywords: disruptive innovation; Apple

10 Feb 2020
In Practice

6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

Even though the internet has been publicly available for almost three decades, executives at just about every company are wrestling with how to use digital technology to advance their business strategy. We asked professors from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Sep 2018
News

Food Citizenship In An Age Of Technological Disruption

2003
Class Lecture

The Opportunity and Threat of Disruptive Technologies

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities

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23 Jun 2010
News

Disrupt the G-20 Summit With This Technology

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

HBS working paper "Disrupted Routines: Effects of Team Learning on New Technology Adaptation" delves into the disruptive nature of MICS technology on the dynamic of... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

Article

Disrupted Routines: Team Learning and New Technology Adaptation

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard Bohmer and Gary P. Pisano

Keywords: Learning; Information Technology; Groups and Teams; Disruption

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September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
Case

Chai Point: Disrupting Chai

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani

Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based tea... View Details