2010 Disruptive Innovation Marketing Price 
Harvard Business Review
JULY 4, 2014
Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 16, 2013
Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%. No advertising innovation: The "I'm a Mac/"I'm a PC" campaign ran for three and a half years without a refresh. Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). Amazon's price-to-earnings ratio is now 2,767.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 4, 2014
Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 1, 2014
The fact that any of these theories could be true – and based on the share price movement, all of them are being applauded – says three important things about the nature of industries and competition today: Industries are increasingly irrelevant; it’s now the ecosystem that matters. Personally, we don’t presume to know Elon Musk’s mind.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2013
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.
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. The $19 billion sale of WhatsApp’s to Facebook made Koum and Acton, overnight, vastly wealthier than their next door neighbors.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
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. Then you enter hypergrowth, which typically happens somewhere between 10-15% of market penetration. Saturation is reached at 90%+.
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