Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The executive team of a consumer healthcare company had concluded that the rise of new competitors meant the company needed to up its innovation game. A creativity consultant said to signal that it was a new era in the organization, all of the top executives should dress up as innovation superheroes. The problem was clear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

The shift helps customers reduce their environmental impacts and costs by cutting back on paper, energy, and waste. In short, if your company doesn't implement green, customer-friendly solutions, someone else will, and you'll be cannibalized from the outside rather than proactively innovating from within. But the present status quo.is

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In addition to using less energy to run machines, slashing paper use also saves large amounts of energy and water upstream in the paper production process. Meanwhile, the other stream of waste will create a potentially significant source of clean energy (adding to the sustainability win).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article , which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation. Regulation should facilitate it.

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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?” My 2-year-old son, Harry, valiantly contributed a range of squiggles, which I suppose represented waves of karmic energy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Businesses have a variety of social responsibilities, but the essential one—and the main reason that private enterprise is given license to operate—is to innovate. Participating in the satisfying work of innovating enriches lives by endowing them with purpose, dignity, and the sheer joy of making progress in challenging endeavors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The pace of innovation is still fast, they say, and we can still expect plenty of technological breakthroughs capable of producing extremely high returns. It’s a lively debate, but here’s the perspective that isn’t being voiced: There’s more to progress than technological innovation. We can make new tools, and we can make new rules.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). Make your Innovator's DNA come alive. But our research on the most innovative leaders of the most innovative companies suggests otherwise. Totally upended. Just how does drift happen?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

I heard people from all over the world arguing that the US government needs to grab the bull by horns, insert itself much more aggressively in economic planning, and start directing American economic resources to "new growth industries" such as clean energy , high-tech manufacturing, or advanced healthcare solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Step 3: As disruptive innovators, from Albert Einstein to Jack Dorsey, put it, "Question everything!" Don''t give preambles to the questions and don''t devote any time or energy to answering them. Innovation' It makes the quest much more intriguing. Ask as many questions as you can. Go for at least 50, perhaps 75.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Why are some brands able to be at once both global and local — to successfully seize the energy of grassroots movements and at the same time leverage corporate assets on a massive scale — while others only come off as artificial and pandering? Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Denmark, for example, has catalyzed the creation of its electric vehicle infrastructure through progressive tax policy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. 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., For example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Nuclear reactors melted down, disrupting the national grid, reversing energy policies as far away as Germany, and contaminating a part of Japan for generations to come. It wiped away whole towns, killing over 15,000 people and leaving almost 3,000 more missing and presumed dead.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

By loving TEDx, a volunteer army of people are saying they believe that smart ideas that get people to think more about their world is a cause worth putting energy into. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom.

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