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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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The Problem with Groupon's Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Groupon is poised for its debut as a public company. One of the fastest growing of the recent hatch of Internet darlings, the deal-a-day company was worth $5.3 Somewhat astonishingly, Google's offer was spurned and the company set its sights on going public. billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010.

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The Good Business Model at Goodwill

Harvard Business Review

And for-profit companies have something to learn from our philosophy — by putting social good at the center of their business models. It's also critical to make the greater good an essential part of your business model. First, in any social enterprise it's important to remember not to start with an "ask."

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business Review

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. But they will need to adopt the more hard-headed way that Silicon Valley companies evaluate acquisitions for their deals to pay off.

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Building a Direct-to-Consumer Strategy Without Alienating Your Distributors

Harvard Business Review

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. As a result, many B2B companies remain stuck in a stalemate.

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Where the Money Is in the Tumblr Deal

Harvard Business Review

billion Tumblr deal pay off when she said that the 14,000-employee company would work very hard to ensure it didn''t "screw it up" by imposing Yahoo!''s Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Since Yahoo!

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies.