Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.” Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. Uber doesn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. The rest, of course, is history.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” The article castigated companies for losing sight of the essence of their business, setting themselves up for challenges from competitors and, ultimately, for obsolescence.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Ferguson is one of our era's preeminent popular historians, and The Ascent of Money traces the evolution of money and financial markets from the ancient world to the modern era.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Over the course of the past few weeks, two articles crossed my desk touching on this issue. Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. Incumbents were happy to walk away from these offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. Still, it enabled Medtronic to expand into the Chinese market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Ferguson is one of our era's preeminent popular historians, and The Ascent of Money traces the evolution of money and financial markets from the ancient world to the modern era.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

” Judging by the headlines and opening lines of recent articles and business books, digital is about to disrupt your industry and you with it – unless you act now (and buy the book). It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market. Complements are not substitutes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The irrational behavior that Apple products provoke represents the piece of the product puzzle that only Apple has uncovered in the mobile-phone market. To understand why Apple's crazy culture is so important, it's necessary to revisit two of marketing's most important contributions. good terms and conditions, excellent delivery).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

.” That’s a concept Drucker introduced in a 1994 HBR article that in fact never mentions the term business model. In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. Introducing a better business model into an existing market is the definition of a disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. This was the core thesis of the first article in this series. He was completely right. Would Gerber own today's V8?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

The article (it's behind a seemingly unbreachable paywall) has acquired the reputation of having marked the end of the dot-com boom. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. billion bond issue just before the debt-market meltdown of autumn 2008. Suria was wrong about that.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In particular, watch for markets that historically were inhospitable to entrepreneurs. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. Strategic Sweet Spot (just the right amount of strategic stress).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Precise definition of the problem, in this and in every industry, is a prerequisite to the development of a predictably effective solution. Because the high end of most markets is where the most attractive profits are made, serving the most profitable customers. xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

For the sake of this article, we can assume that much to be a fact of life. At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. The wrong answer would be to say, “No, because their first product started in the high end of the market.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

For instance, a recent study of 100 product development teams found that two common disruptors of team harmony, namely diversity and task uncertainty, were positively associated with creative performance. Give the team a chance to settle. Sometimes there is no substitute for the passage of time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. Orchestrating a communications campaign with blogs, articles, and video interviews with internal innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. Forbes.com uses external bloggers (not just internal staff) to write articles. That's essential to tweaking products and marketing campaigns — or overhauling them when necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time. Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography. Conceivably.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

That''s partly because, as Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman, and Willy Shih wrote in the 2008 HBR article "Innovation Killers," standard financial metrics make new investments look much less attractive than existing business lines. That''s happening across the industry as papers change hands. But that''s rare.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

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. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. As an analogy, think of sales and marketing and the rise of CRM. For example, the outposts of a pharma company develop and distribute a company-wide newsletter of the latest trends and news from the hotspot. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. Figuring Out What Our Customers Wanted. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. His distributed-management approach drew inspiration from an earlier model, sociocracy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. Enter ING Direct, which looked at the market through a new lens. But without good options for doing that, I ended up doing nothing – what Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen calls “non consumption.” That got old quickly. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. IBM, for example, is partnering with startup Loyyal to develop blockchain infrastructure for loyalty and rewards programs. With only one “wallet” for points, consumers would not have to hunt for each program’s options, limitations, and redemption rules.

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