Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

He and his co-author proposed a new causal mechanism that explained the surprising failure of highly-regarded companies. The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Some can, but many cannot.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

So is iTunes Radio an innovation? Sounds great, I guess, and probably even innovative. The subject of whether Apple is still innovative has become an extremely touchy one over the past year. Can''t innovate anymore, my ass," senior VP of product marketing Phil Schiller declared Monday after unveiling Apple''s new Mac Pro.

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Schiller Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen 9

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.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

The software and devices of today can do vastly more than those of a decade ago, usually for the same or lower prices. Or maybe modern information technology just keeps getting cheaper. The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis try to adjust for such quality changes in calculating inflation and real GDP.

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GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Is 23andMe potentially disruptive to pharmaceutical companies?

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. Like its 60% price increase did earlier this year, this move is understandably causing consternation amongst some customers. Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.".

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14

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? And companies like Google, Apple, and even telecommunications titans are eying the industry.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Whenever I share stories about "green" business strategy, someone inevitably asks me whether pursuing sustainability is against a company's best interests. As part of the fast-growing "managed print services" sector, the company shows organizations how to reduce the number of printers they use. But the present status quo.is

Positioning 13

Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation. three times.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. I hope Christensen is right, but I fear that Shirky may be. Business education'

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Christensen Education Discount Class 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Life's a storm for most people, most companies, and most governments. In the end, the disruptive company, think the Brownie camera creator of 1900, became the disrupted company one hundred and twelve years later. Make your Innovator's DNA come alive. Observe the environmental consequences of your company's actions.

Leadership 13

Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems. Being nice makes you a better leader and your company more profitable – new research proves it.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

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. But every organization needs one core competence: innovation.".

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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. When these forces are weak, as in software and soft drinks, many companies are profitable.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 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. 3-D printing.

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Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. The Burn Rate 51 was made up mostly of now-forgotten companies like drkoop.com and CDNow. But it also included a certain Internet bookseller from Seattle. In Morten T.

Training 9

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Of course, every innovator knows that new technology doesn’t always translate into profits. In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen explains how incumbents actually pay a high price for actually doing a great job and constantly improving their technological offerings and creating overserved consumers.

Technology 8

Technology Industry Business Model Film 8

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

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.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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. The previous price hike , the name of the new company , the fact that Qwikster hadn't locked down their Twitter handle — everything was fair game.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Although the comparison may seem incongruous, in my life as a management consultant, the phrase “Eddie Would Go” often comes to mind when I look at the way managers and companies make risky, high-stakes decisions. Do you buy that company? Do you take prices up? Second, great innovators have a love for the art of the possible.

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Christensen Core Competence Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

A recent survey of General Counsel at 88 major companies conducted by AdvanceLaw (an organization founded by Firoz) supports this argument. Firms surveyed included companies like Lenovo, Vanguard, Shell, Google, NIKE, Walgreens, Dell, eBay, RBC, Panasonic, Nestle, Progressive, Starwood, Intel, and Deutsche Bank.)

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Sample Survey Christensen Efficiency 8

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

JUNE 24, 2013

Advocates of that second, get-big-fast approach inevitably point to companies like Tumblr (the company founded by a high school dropout that Yahoo! For every Tumblr there are dozens of companies that had some success but never broke through — and hundreds more that never really got out of the starting block.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. HP rise had been remarkable. People inside HP were torn about what to do.

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

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

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman has said his company loses roughly €400 million annually from climate change and extreme weather.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

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? Maxwell Wessel.

Advice 12

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

"This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.". Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

I’m on the board of Time Warner, we have just parsed off our third major part — our original company, Time Inc., So, it’s not uncommon to add a bunch of companies together, much less software products, and then divest yourself of them as the shareholders think they have more value standing alone than standing together.

How To 13

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Take my company, athenahealth. As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

What successful companies are doing right. The implications of that insight were becoming obvious for companies that sold information, like newspapers and encyclopedias. But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. Or a healthcare data offering evaluating physicians’ perceptions on a new drug may be useful not only to brand managers at pharmaceutical companies, but also to portfolio managers at asset management firms seeking to find promising investment opportunities. In some cases, they’re right.

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Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8