Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. That was down from 9.7% in the previous quarter and from its blistering 11.9% pace in the first quarter of 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

In the 2011 Thailand floods, both hard drive makers and auto giants realized that having a sole key component made in one place made for a fragile system ( Toyota took a $1.5 Think of the famous idea from Clayton Christensen of trying to disrupt or cannibalize your own business before someone else does. Diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register. By loving TEDx, a volunteer army of people are saying they believe that smart ideas that get people to think more about their world is a cause worth putting energy into.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Nuclear reactors melted down, disrupting the national grid, reversing energy policies as far away as Germany, and contaminating a part of Japan for generations to come. Everyone knows the story. earthquake off Japan's east coast triggered a massive tsunami and led to a cascading series of problems.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Indeed, many of the gleaming facilities are crying out for the throngs of people and energy that most characterize the very best innovation hubs around the world. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

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