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MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The people to blame for Yahoo's failed turnaround sit on the company's board. Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." However, during her tenure, Bartz engaged in many efforts to increase Yahoo's stock price , grow earnings, and placate investors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The metric was an attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on what are extremely disconcerting profitability numbers for the company. Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1 Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big.

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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. They suggested that companies should find a customer who loved the disruptive solution despite its limitations and create a separate organization to commercialize it. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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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

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Sustaining innovation inhabits the world of incremental change, deliberate strategy , and most financial and management theory. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory?

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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.

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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).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The pattern that simple, convenient, low-priced solutions would grow from humble beginnings to create and transform industries had not yet been identified. Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. Today's leaders have no excuse.

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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. Observe the environmental consequences of your company's actions. Take today's most valuable company, Apple.

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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? But this is increasingly less frequent.

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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. Core r epositioning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. For a company our size, with reported revenue of $24.4 But the key was knowing when to stop growing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. 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., What shifts should companies expect, post-COP21?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that. He pointed out that companies had much more to gain in the short-term, and therefore were tooled to compete, by exploiting opportunities already found than by exploring the business landscape for new ones.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Whether a company is saddled with fixed infrastructure, highly trained specialist employees, or an outmoded distribution system, quickly adapting to new environments is challenging when one or all of those things becomes obsolete.

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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.

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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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

How can you make yourself a connector in your company, and share information with those that need it? The ones you know about are often safe and unobstructed: work for a big company in a narrow role, get a promotion, get a slightly bigger role, take on a mortgage, buy a house, wait for the next promotion to pay down your debt, etc.

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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. HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. HP rise had been remarkable.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

It was clearly a superior method of managing commerce. Companies will likely be able to experiment with the shape and size of the cars they make. Ridesharing companies such as Uber will care less about incremental features that add to personalization or comfort and more about gas efficiency and cost. Apple is a perfect example.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Take my company, athenahealth. 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. Something similar is just starting to happen in health care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, a product evaluating nonprofit organizations may be highly useful to a wealth manager seeking to help his client to select a charity as part of a value-added tax efficiency service. Consider comparable offerings from competition and their pricing structure. Execution Knowledge management' Sometimes that makes sense.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

After Tuesday, when News management told 60% of its editorial staffers, including several old friends of mine, that they were being fired , I think I can finally and conclusively forget about that little dream. Yes, Warren Buffett has recently bucked the trend with his purchase of the Media General chain. But I doubt he's reversed it.

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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.

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