Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. Of course, it takes more than market research and distribution to be an insurer. Insurethebox, a U.K.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? According to the American Institute of Physics (PDF) , as of 2010, there are about 9,400 physics teachers teaching undergraduates every September in the United States.

Education 10

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

My parents faced a prosumer dilemma when my viola teacher in high school noted that for me to better compete on the national level as I had started to, that I'd need a higher quality instrument with a four-to-five-figure price tag vs. a three-figure one. In my teacher's mind, it was an investment in a future career.

Price 8

Price Mass Marketing B2B Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

The market leader is a dead man walking. Of the top 25 corporations listed in Fortune in 2000 , only 12 were still there in 2010. Let's put this another way: in the decade between 2000 to 2010, half the winners lost. The competition forces a new business model. But the market has spoken. All winners lose.

Company 13

Company Price Agility Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

They lack customer insights that would help tune their business model to attract more customers. Their business plans often betray a misunderstanding of how scale generates financial returns. Yet those resources don't exist in the social enterprise market—even though the need is essentially the same.

Finance 8

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

The business model of these firms was to make markets , and they were large enough essentially to monopolize the technology categories if successful. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. Of course, it takes more than market research and distribution to be an insurer. Insurethebox, a U.K.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. And we get feedback from our customers that quality and aesthetics still matter more than smart features. According to the new market data, 55% of U.S.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. Entrepreneurship, per se, can create many social goods. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Shoppers gauged quality by the look and feel of a product. What’s emerging is what I call the “StoreHouse” — a hybrid model that merges the physical benefits of a real-world store with the convenience of home. Kenneth Andersson for HBR. Historically, shopping has been a sensory experience.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

By helping local food processors produce safer and more nutritious foods, could we help create sustainable market access and better livelihoods for millions of African farmers and their families? The name itself describes the business model. With this in mind, we founded the nonprofit Partners in Food Solutions (PFS).

Technology 8

Technology Class Engineering Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Top startups already have market leading solutions. Creating the Venture Client Model. In addition, top startups are heavily oversubscribed, and competition to get into a deal is fierce.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. To see why, please check out "Two Routes to Resilience," an article from Innosight-affiliated authors in the December issue of Harvard Business Review. Look at profit margin trends.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Kodak invested the rich proceeds from this critical intellectual property in creating a strong position in the digital-image-production technology — printers, papers, and inks — that was disrupting its historic analog business. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. The first involves cost reduction through improved data quality. That’s changing. The sums can be enormous. Uber is another example.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Since then its stock has more than doubled.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Another telltale sign of category creation is that it comes with a distinctive business model and profit model. Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00 of revenue growth. in revenue growth.

B2C 11

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. Bharti has enjoyed compounded annual growth in sales revenues of 120% and growth in net profits of 282% per year between 2003 and 2010.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 9

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is a process or journey of becoming : Although certain people are clearly born with innate leadership qualities, without the right environment and exposure, they may fail to develop their full potential. Can you adapt your leadership style to the situation at hand? As the old adage goes “actions speak louder than words.”

Blog 406

Blog Leadership Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 406

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. That’s what makes the annual BIF conference so important: 30 plus stories of amazing, cool, disruptive, transformative innovation models. It’s just not in the mainstream media. BIF-7 Story & Video ).

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a debate in the United States about whether the current measures of health care quality are adequate to support the movement away from fee-for-service toward value-based payment. PSIs remain among the most evidence-based, well-tested, and validated quality measures available. in only five years.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Report System 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. I have long believed in eating my own cooking.

Blog 333

Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off. Apple learned this the hard way.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Four years ago Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted that online education would take off slowly and then hit everyone by surprise: the S-curve effect. According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning , approximately 5.6 Khan's business model is simple, yet impactful.

Education 15

Education Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 15