Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Consider the recent phenomena of shoestring 3D design labs or the biofabrication labs at MIT , which are taking the plunge into synthetic biology with far fewer resources than the genetic engineers at government labs. Similar dynamics seem to apply in institutional and business model innovation. But it's not stopping there.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

So Netflix could exploit its advantages — a subscription-based business model, a huge catalog of titles, an ever-improving recommendation engine, and a super-efficient system for getting DVDs to your local post office — without having to fear that its reservoir of content would dry up. billion on streaming content.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Since the courts are about to make a ruling that will profoundly affect its prospects, it might interest you to learn more about how its entire business is engineered to exploit existing copyright law. has no television license tax. This isn't a fight about control of new technology that makes television better.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. By applying this kind of arbitrage, a temporary or permanent migrant can decide to replicate a profitable product or business model available in one country but not in another. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

He renamed his company and put a team of engineers to work solving the product’s mechanical, food safety, cost, and design flaws. The business model centers on the old razor blade strategy: Sell the machine at just above cost and make high margins on the system’s consumable element – patented plastic pods.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. Technology. But, he says , ultimately “technology is a resource-liberating force.”

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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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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. Of course this depends on a company’s business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” They are becoming costs of doing business that must be paid by all but provide distinction to none.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. At first only Viacom relented, licensing archived Beavis and Butt-head episodes.

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