Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The 195 member countries, or “parties,” hold a Conference of Parties (COP) annually, and this year is the 21st meeting. 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.,

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job. At a recent industry conference, Bill Reichert , managing director of Garage Technology Ventures opined, "VCs do not invest with their brains.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

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. So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 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. Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say. Scripps 6.9% The Washington Post operated at a 9.2%

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” The picture surprised me. We’d been asked to wear clothes that represented artifacts from the future.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. On the conference call, Szkutak explained that significant capacity investments are being made in distribution centers so Amazon can continue to grow its core retail business. per share by nearly a dime.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

True, Zappos’s recent experience with holacracy, as widely reported in the media, demonstrates that the transformation to distributed management is not easy. Moreover, instead of conferring authority, the hierarchy establishes an unambiguous sequence of levels of accountability. Don’t cringe.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8