Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." He and his co-author proposed a new causal mechanism that explained the surprising failure of highly-regarded companies. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. How willing are customers to continue to pay for further improvements in performance that historically merited attractive price premiums? Are competitors with disruptive strategies having a material impact on portions of the industry?

System 15

System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders. This despite the fact that the company lost nearly two billion dollars in the past two years alone. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Best Buy is a company on the brink. It's too bad they're doing so by fighting their biggest disruptor head-on: by offering to match Amazon's price on everything. In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption.

Price 9

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The hope was their lower cost structure and focus on convenience and price transparency — two things sorely lacking in traditional health care — would engender radical changes. In summary, retail clinics exemplify both the potential of and challenges for disruptive innovators to improve value in health care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. The pattern that simple, convenient, low-priced solutions would grow from humble beginnings to create and transform industries had not yet been identified. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. Previously, he launched Hulu.com from inside of NBC, and was on the founding team of MLB Advanced Media, the five billion dollar digital media company collectively owned by the Major League Baseball team owners. Larger companies, on the other hand, are more like tankers.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. And so, even with the price premium, Michelin was the only company that had figured out how to produce radial tires profitably at scale.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

We are seeing, as Jack Shafer and others have pointed out, a death spiral in which newspapers react to their loss of readers by cutting back on their news-gathering resources and raising prices, thus making themselves even less attractive to readers. Dealing with disruptive innovation is difficult at any time, in any industry.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Business Model Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. These days, it''s an open question whether newspaper companies can maintain any kind of a profit margin at all. But that''s rare.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Put another way: Hastings was concerned about the possibility of Netflix being disrupted. His approach to splitting out the old business from the new one is a textbook play out of Clay Christensen's prescription for dealing with the possibility of disruption. But apparently, not from the perspective of customers.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

How can you make yourself a connector in your company, and share information with those that need it? A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. How can you lend a unique perspective to corporate discussions?

Advice 12

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

billion rand in 2017 (about $260 million), while the company’s share price appreciated by a whopping 61,800% (from 117 to 72,500 rand). ” Indeed, Capitec is more focused, in terms of what it does and does not do, than most companies and certainly most banks. It serves individuals only, not companies or trusts.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8