Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Innovation has emerged as a key means by which the US can pull itself out of this lackluster economy. In the State of the Union, President Obama referred to China and India as new threats to America's position as the world's leading innovator. Startups — the engine of America's growth — will just go elsewhere.

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Content Innovation Technology Disruptive Innovation 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. Instead, what they should have done is innovate a new business model.

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Innovation Company Engineering Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Four million subscribers later, Khoja was running the largest company in Afghanistan and still marveling: " Those were our engineers."

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

As disruptive innovations enter the market with faster velocity and increased firepower, entrepreneurs are finding themselves dealing sooner and more intimately with the law. Sometimes, the innovation is just too new, creeping out consumers and lawmakers who hurriedly work to ban it. and urged Congress to outlaw the technology.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Constraint Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As Kodak president Philip Faraci told a group of newspaper executives in 2008 (oh, the irony), one of Kodak’s biggest problems was the apparent stability of its core film business. In 1999, Kodak’s photography business peaked at $10.3 So how can you spot circumstances where an apparently healthy business masks an existential threat?

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption.

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Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. How often have you seen a firm revolutionize an industry by creating a superior product using a new business model? In much of the 20 th century, technological innovation produced products that had plenty of room for improvement, opening up opportunities for high-end disruption.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Bureaucracy Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Most pundits, however, jumped over the details of the contact to point out that United Launch Alliance (ULA) will use engines made by Bezos’ Blue Origin. It’s not hard to see why a partnership between a strong, but staid incumbent and an innovative startup appears attractive. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

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Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. Find Pivots.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

What defines success for a business? The leading enterprises of the world were ones that fashioned a profitable business model and leveraged it over time. Profits appear more and more as a lagging indicator of yesterday’s innovations. For most of the last century, it was profits.

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Company Software Long-term Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Last year’s WEF Summit on the Global Agenda saw multinational CEOs, academics, and consultants alike preaching the need for business to adapt to the on-demand economy. ” When a company fights this same type of market inefficiency, it can create a sizable business. Because not all on-demand businesses are created equal.

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Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

The word disruption implies that things are going to get broken up. But for companies that take advantage of what digital can do, disruption will have the opposite effect. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing' Don''t Let Mobile Apps Get Pushy.

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Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. Disruptive innovation Global business' Collaborate with domestic partners or go it alone. Navigate the market’s voids or try to fill them/.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. Disruptive innovation Global business' Collaborate with domestic partners or go it alone. Navigate the market''s voids or try to fill them/.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

That’s why the most successful innovators usually do the reverse. But this isn’t a simple process; the company needs to triple its model lineup while simultaneously competing in the Model S market. Disruptive innovation' The first is the company’s overhead structure.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

. • Amazon Kindle — disrupting the paper book format and paper book retailers. CreateSpace — a self-publishing solution that disrupts traditional publishing houses. Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

s position as a global economic leader has been based on one thing more than anything else: its ability to innovate. Each of the industries that have sprung up around these innovations has become an engine for America's economic growth. Ironically, this lack of IP is making China a more innovation-rich environment.

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Politics Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". It's the business model, stupid. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift. photography. Start before you need to.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

—Andy O''Connell Wage Wars The Techtopus PandoDaily If you''re interested in a compelling, robber-baron-esque narrative about how Silicon Valley’s preeminent tech companies conspired to drive down engineers'' wages (duh, you are), look no further than this deeply troubling account from Mark Ames.

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Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

The irony is that Patch is AOL's last, best chance to build a growth engine. Investors shouldn't be calling for AOL to back off the business. Most important, Patch's current business model is unsustainable. It might partner with innovative service sites like Redbeacon so you could find contractors in your area.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Advertising Business Model Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. The camera was as big as a toaster, took 20 seconds to take an image, had low quality, and required complicated connections to a television to view, but it clearly had massive disruptive potential.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? There is no one “true” path to innovation. Sustaining innovation.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

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. Engineers gave it rave reviews, and investors were lined up. He then maneuvered nerdy engineers to build his sexy devices. ” It was not established AM, but FM. Since 1994 the U.S.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8