Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions? Speed alone is insufficient.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

To a prospective student (or parent), the value lies in assuming these signals will be accepted in employment markets and other times of social evaluation. Education-technology companies EduClipper and Pathbrite , and also general-interest platforms such as Tumblr and WordPress, are used to show online portfolios.

Education 11

Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. Are they "real" innovations or gimmicks?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) David, innovation efforts can fail for a variety of reasons, but rarely is failure of any kind due to a single universal reason. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." It's disruption in its most basic form.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. The product's performance didn't live up to early press releases and has struggled in the market. This pundit makes predictions about markets that she doesn't participate in. Life is tougher for the strategist. The projector.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Transaction costs, Coase argued, explained why some interactions were left to the market and others were internalized in increasingly large, complex enterprises.

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Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Why don't we get her a toy that encourages that interest so she'll be more familiar with the technology as she gets older?". Reflecting on the fact that Holly routinely plays with both our iPad and Kinect , I said to my wife, "I think the odds that Holly actually uses a laptop during her working career are pretty close to zero.".

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. The Internet as we know it didn’t exist yet when I graduated. … Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia'

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8