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Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2016
Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them. The board of a large chemical company we also worked with took a very different approach. The windfall of goodies follows.
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Marshall Goldsmith
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages. Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Advisor and Speaker at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Non-profit CEOs.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 11, 2014
After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. Almost none of their patents would be useful (the tire business was the second most research-intensive industry in the U.S after chemicals).
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
As Carlos Tavares, chair of PSA Peugeot Citroën, explained to me, “Unit sales will remain important, but this shouldn’t be our driver… To be ready, we must experiment and learn as markets change.” They start in other markets, with other customers, or with stealth incursions into the edges of your market.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. “Businesses have clustered into networks of various sorts throughout history,” writes the U.S.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.
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