The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

As recent research from MIT reminds us, older entrepreneurs are often better equipped to handle the rigors of startup life, not least because they have well developed networks from their career to date that can be tapped into when growing the business.

Resources 90

Resources Innovation GDP Education 90

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. I do agree with your basic premise though. Thanks David.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. the absence of market intermediaries or inefficient contract enforcement mechanisms). Navigate the market’s voids or try to fill them/.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. the absence of market intermediaries or inefficient contract enforcement mechanisms). Navigate the market''s voids or try to fill them/.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

It lies behind successful product companies like Apple, Dropbox, and Kickstarter, but it can also lead entrepreneurs predictably to failure. This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Advice Disruptive Innovation CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. One yes bears watching; two yeses is a standup moment.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

This week, over 10,000 entrepreneurs and investors will descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive , hoping to be or to find the next big thing in technology. Some entrepreneurs will find funding, some will not. The emotional aspect may involve my liking the entrepreneur; perhaps he/she is my alter ego.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Because disruptive innovations are in search of a yet-to-be-defined market, we can't know the opportunity at the outset. Time to disrupt myself.

Disruptive Innovation 15

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In particular, watch for markets that historically were inhospitable to entrepreneurs.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

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. But to create new markets, disruptive entrepreneurs often overlook the possibility of emphasizing a different criteria.

Technology 8

Technology Industry Business Model Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. Everything. Disrupting How We Work. In particular some 80% of their business resources are fluid.

Christensen 15

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. However, it will not succeed here.

GDP 12

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. According to the research on successful entrepreneurs, their single most important trait is the ability to persuade. If you say we should, let’s do it.

Innovation 8

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Companies and entrepreneurs can bring a sustainable solution, while unlocking massive economic opportunity, but a change is required from today’s status quo. Some may have short onboarding programs for new employees; at best some multinational companies will budget similar training budgets as in their developed market businesses.

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

Books 9

Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. And some superstars have very innovation-friendly experience, such as launching a new product, opening up an office in an emerging market, or operating in a constrained environment. Look for the aliens.

Sports 13

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. The wrong answer would be to say, “No, because their first product started in the high end of the market.”

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. This is perhaps the most important criterion, since it’s relatively easy for incumbents to use their market power to bar start-ups from established distribution systems. Goodrich, and General Tire). incumbents.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Meanwhile, the halls were filled with hundreds of investors and hundreds more entrepreneurs. It’s a game of responsibility hot potato.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

We know that the answers we''ll get are nothing more than hypotheses, which will change as the venture gains experience in the market. That is, individual transactions are profitable, but the company is investing in building infrastructure or marketing to build long-term advantage. For a long time, Amazon.com fit in this category.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. Related Video.

Innovation 8

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

First, what if we created something that had the prestige of the Nobel Prize for innovation, and award it to an entrepreneur who commercializes a world-changing idea? What if we thought bigger? Here are my two suggestions.

Advertising 8

Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

When doing a deal, I now spell out the rules of engagement early on, and hew closely, if not religiously, to the mantra of Clayton Christensen , our managing partner at Rose Park Advisors — "patient for growth, impatient for profits." Investing in an entrepreneur is a lot like falling in love. Start a business, yes.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze."

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

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. American tech entrepreneurs earned some bad press this year, but in HBR, they proved why more established firms should not stop watching them closely.

Management 14

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

While developing expertise is the most certain way to reduce entrepreneurial risk, many other strategies exist: Process — Using the right processes to deal with market uncertainty (e.g. With all of these options to reduce the risk of starting a company, being a career entrepreneur is actually less risky than you think.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Patient capital.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. Christensen. While being an entrepreneur greatly appealed to her she was afraid of ruining the pleasure she took in her hobby by turning it into a job. These are the strengths that you want to improve. ” Freedom.

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8