Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

You've started a company and it goes belly-up. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. Or is failure a tool that will help me innovate more effectively? The business I fronted that went belly-up: shouldn't I have better read the situation?

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Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

You've started a company and it goes belly-up. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. Or is failure a tool that will help me innovate more effectively? The business I fronted that went belly-up: shouldn't I have better read the situation?

Ries 17

Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Comstock is out.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." And they were all big," Barnholt recalls, "But they all failed!

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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