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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., In the life and retirement services area, start-ups such as LearnVest offer personalized financial advice at fixed prices that most middle-class consumers can afford. Disruptive innovation' Google bought U.K.

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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., In the life and retirement services area, start-ups such as LearnVest offer personalized financial advice at fixed prices that most middle-class consumers can afford. Disruptive innovation' Google bought U.K.

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Just How Valuable Is Google's "20% Time"?

Harvard Business Review

Relative to the enormous economic value talent can deliver, gluten-free gourmet cafeterias and concierge service represent a small price to pay. Keeping it productively innovative and innovatively productive is another. At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity.

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You've Come a Medium-Length Way, Baby

Harvard Business Review

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." So many of the elements," she pointed out herself, "are simply good management procedures. What Your Stock Price Really Means.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

But our predictive power plummets when there is a time delay or non-linearity, as in the case of a CEO who delivers better-than-expected earnings only to wonder at a drop in the stock price. This post was co-authored with Juan Carlos Mendez-Garcia , managing director of 8020world.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. A different sort of pricing scheme?

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The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next

Harvard Business Review

But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. And Nielsen has no reason to cede control of it.