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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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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. Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.

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Elon Musk’s Patent Decision Reflects Three Strategic Truths

Harvard Business Review

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. Auto industry Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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You've Come a Medium-Length Way, Baby

Harvard Business Review

At the highest level, women have made barely a dent; of the 100 top-performing CEOs in the world, according to HBR's January-February 2010 issue, exactly one was female. What Your Stock Price Really Means. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. Watch for our January-February 2013 issue, which revisits this study.).

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Entrepreneurship Always Leads to Inequality

Harvard Business Review

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.