Disruptive Strategy Syllabus

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Disruptive Strategy Syllabus

Harvard Business School Online leverages technology and multimedia to deliver engaging online learning experiences to
business leaders around the world. Disruptive Strategy is an online program p
 roviding world-renowned tools and frameworks
for growth, strategy, and innovation.

Introduction: Example: Intel Key Takeaways


Lenses on the World Learn how Professor Christensen helped Intel Chairman • Adopt a strategic mindset
Andy Grove confront a disruptive threat by showing him • Articulate your strategic questions
how to think, not what to think.

Modules Case Studies Key Takeaways

• WR Hambrecht and the Google IPO: A New Approach • Identify the three types of innovation and
Module 1

Aligning to Investment Banking predict when they will happen


with Innovation • Honda Motor Company: Entering a New Market • Harness disruption and position your business
and Disruption • CircleUp: Re-imagining Private Equity for new growth

• The Walt Disney Company: Expanding the Theme • Focus on what causes your customers to buy
Park Business your products and why

Team Project
Module 2

Discovering
• The Godrej Group: Understanding Refrigeration • Achieve differentiation, better margins, and
Customer Jobs Needs in India avoid disruption
to be Done
• Minute Clinic: A New Approach to Healthcare
Delivery

• Nypro, Inc.: Seeking Growth Through a New Product • Identify what your organization can do and

Jobs To Be Done
Module 3

Line cannot do

Interview
Organizing
• Charles Schwab: Trading in the New World of Internet • Align your resources, processes, and profit
for Innovation formula to develop an innovative culture and
• EMC: Merging Competing Products Through
an Acquisition position your business for growth

• Music Industry: Producing and Performing in a New Age • Build a strong intuition to “skate” to where
Module 4

Maintaining • MediaTek: Expanding Accessibility to New Technolo- profit will be as your industry evolves
a Disruptive gies in Asia • Determine which operations are
Scope critical to be done in-house and which opera-
tions can be out-sourced

• OnStar: General Motor’s New Innovation • Effectively balance the deliberate and emer-
Managing
Module 5

• Netflix: The Evolution of Home Entertainment gent strategy processes to unlock innovation
the Strategy  within your organization
Development • Sears, IBM, and AOL: Understanding Internet
Consumption During the Boom of the Digital Age • Determine which “type” of money will em-
Process power new business ideas to flourish
Final Paper

After you have completed all five modules, you will be required to complete the Conclusion Module and submit
Conclusion a Final Paper Assignment. The final paper is a solo project. The objective of this paper is to provide a vehicle
to display your mastery of the theories and principles taught during the six weeks of Disruptive Strategy.

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