Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. Can he do it? Apple's transition is not without precedent.

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., Most companies have taken steps toward “digitization.”

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. Who is the most influential living management thinker?

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

To meet these challenges, we believe academic medicine must embrace disruptive innovation in its core missions: educating the next generation of health professionals, offering comprehensive cutting-edge patient care, and leading biomedical and clinical research. Disruptive innovation Health Innovation'

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Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Education 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

There are iterative steps that we all go through to validate the worth of an idea with ever-increasing detail in each iteration until the company can confirm that an idea should be embraced. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 399

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

"Free" product competition strikes again and the latest casualty is Weight Watchers, whose CEO recently left the company in the midst of the onslaught of free weight loss and fitness applications. Too often, established companies fail to marshal their many advantages to mount effective responses of this type. Of course not.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., Most companies have taken steps toward “digitization.”

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

During a recent e-Roundtable , Max Carbone , President of TeamWorks , shared with Executive Roundtable members his top team building tips gleaned from his close to 20 years of working with senior executive teams. Here are some of the highlights. the losers that were at the bottom of the heap).

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Investors in publicly traded companies are understood to desire stable, predictable earnings and growth. The problems with public markets and quarter-by-quarter thinking are many, but for companies in fast-changing environments the biggest issue is that public markets are not patient — miss a quarter and the punishment can be severe.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

What is disruptive innovation? An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? What is a business model (and how do I innovate one)? Why is innovation so hard? How do I come up with an idea?

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The company now operates in 190 countries and 28,000 cities, and its founders expect the service to grow to 100 million annual bookings and revenue of $1 billion. Though the company wasn''t a party to the proceeding, its lawyers appeared at the hearing to argue on behalf of the host. Disruptive innovation Government Internet'

Hotels 8

Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Led by its Steve Jobs-inspired CEO Lei Jun, the company has experienced breakneck speed since its first smartphone launch in October 2011. Barra has his work cut out for him: Chinese companies have had mixed success so far in competing with top Western brands on several fronts at once. Disruptive innovation Global business'

Marketing 8

Marketing B2B Levitt Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. However, once a venture identifies a successful business model and profit formula, the company should transition to executing a deliberate strategy. That was down from 9.7% in the previous quarter and from its blistering 11.9%

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

Sales of iPhones, however, were a little lower than predicted , and the company’s revenue forecasts struck some observers as underwhelming. In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. Even whopping increases in the company’s R&D budget, $4.5

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Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Four longtime Yahoo board members, including the chairman, are leaving the company. Feckless is when a company doesn't know its mission, is weak in its decision-making, and thus ineffective in its output. In this one move, Yahoo is trying to make a clean break from the past — signaling that they are primed to reboot. 24 / share.

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Resistance Disruptive Innovation Business Model Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Now, platforms like AngelList, WeFunder, and Republic enable ordinary retail investors to participate in this stage of a company’s growth. You can now invest in ‘fix and flip’ real estate investments via companies like Groundfloor, Lending Home, and PeerStreet.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 10

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. With all the buzz around disruptive innovation as a driver of business success in recent years, it’s important not to forget this original meaning.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Because he didn't have any capital, and therefore no leverage, his initial equity stake was small, such that even as the company's valuation increased in subsequent financing rounds, he suffered massive dilution. But the company needs to reach profitability quickly. Lesson 2: Establish rules of engagement. Start a business, yes.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences). AppHaus truly embodies SAP's frugal innovation philosophy. The India lab now ranks #1 in employee satisfaction within SAP's global network of 15 R&D labs.

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The current Apple TV, as it stands, is a set top box that enables an end-run around the cable companies and lets us pipe movies and TV into our living rooms. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. Disruptive innovation' The effects could be catastrophic.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. In those days, incumbent companies were stuck in preweb ways of thinking.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Yet the struggles at the company are not new. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. The recent bankruptcy filing at Toys “R” Us has roiled the toy industry. The firm was taken private in a $6.6

Retail 9

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. But when licenses were finally distributed in the 1980s, two companies per market were authorized. Soon, carriers everywhere — and, by 2011, all four national networks in the U.S.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8