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MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. LARRY: No, but they shut … This is just in the last six months they’ve announced they’re shutting all the rest of their retail locations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

But does the fact that it earned more money in one quarter than any company in history mean that our beloved Apple is alive and well? To see that larger picture, let’s locate Apple within its larger context as a once disruptive innovator that’s now essentially an incumbent. And for a good reason.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, Amazon.com launched Amazon Source, a program that will pay retail outlets for selling Kindle e-reading devices and accessories. Retailers can buy the products at a 6% discount and earn a 10% commission on ebook sales recorded for a given device for the next two years. Other independent booksellers echoed Teicher’s claim.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

We had assembled a database of companies that we called "on-the-brink" disruptors. These were companies following the pattern of disruptive innovation. We named seven publicly traded companies that appeared to fit the pattern: Alibaba.com (1688.HK): Actually, in this case it was even easier than that.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. It seems that at this point both the company and its legendary CEO, Jeff Bezos, can do no wrong. Amazon’s business model is based on three pillars.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

To take advantage of new, cloud-based opportunities, today’s companies will need to fundamentally rethink their orthodoxies about value creation and value capture. Value creation , which involves performing activities that increase the value of a company’s offering and encourage customer willingness to pay, is the heart of any business model.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. That’s a healthy company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. But in today’s ever-connected world, finding radical ideas seems to be getting tougher for companies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I am a firm believer that companies need society’s permission to grow, and it would appear that Mr. Kalanick and the management team at Uber are coming to this realization as well. Attractive retail locations? Companies need society’s permission to grow. The company is only five years old (only five years old!),

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. When faced with disruption, many leaders cling to their legacy business. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

If retail pharmacies had immediately embraced 90-day mail programs, they would have expedited the cannibalization of their existing business. Often when pundits suggest the presence of "high-end" disruptions, what they're really witnessing is a very effective disruption by a better alternative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Now, well over a decade later, as developing-economy competitors take the lead, U.S. companies still don't get it. companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Disruptive businesses, like online retailers, are often uniquely positioned to perform a handful of jobs-to-be-done, but poorly positioned to perform others. Knowing the difference is the key to directing your legacy business in the face of disruption. While I never bought a pair, I'd heard of the company and was intrigued.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

You might see this fledgling business (Mine Kafon is being prototyped and tested now, thanks to a fully funded Kickstarter campaign to finance its development) as a brilliant act of business strategy. The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next. Disruptive innovation Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In my work analyzing the thinking styles of leaders in organizations, I’ve found that strategy is usually developed by people who have a big-picture orientation, while execution is often done by those with a detail orientation. I consistently see measurement as an afterthought in strategy development.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. As a result, more companies are being valued based on their current earnings than on their growth potential. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

This insight resonates with our work on disruption across industries: disruptive innovations create new systems or “value networks” that eventually displace the old ones. You get the sense that there’s a broad, bold blueprint beyond any particular product or partnership that Musk is announcing right now.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber has used petitions to demonstrate consumer—and voter—support in at least 10 cities, mostly in North America and Europe, where it has met resistance from local taxi companies. In Toronto, to cite just one example, Uber amassed more than 90,000 signatures in support of ride-sharing. In the U.S., Consumer clubs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Best Buy is a company on the brink. So, naturally, watching their profit margin drop precipitously as customers flock to these other retail centers, Best Buy is trying to figure out a way to compete. Based on the theory of disruption alone, it's hard to say what the retail giant should do.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Companies have been splitting off and de-merging businesses for more than twenty years, and the logic is usually pretty obvious to the lay observer. Typically, resources that satisfy these conditions are capabilities or know-how that have been developed over time and are hard to transfer or document.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

They began grouping clients by practice and focused sales associates on developing industry trends and insights. The results were dramatic: the following year, the company reached its annual sales goals three months into its fiscal year. Creativity Disruptive innovation Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

As much as companies like to tell you the customer is king, that's hardly true in most industries. These efforts are obvious in the bricks and mortar world, where retailers control what goes on the shelves, but it's not all that different for e-commerce. Right now, this power of incumbency is enormous and very undemocratic.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

More companies want far greater flexibility with far fewer people. Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. Something profoundly structural is going on. Even healthier economic growth won''t make it go away.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. Executives who need reminding can examine their companies' websites from the early 1990s through the Wayback Machine , an archive of the internet.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. “The camaraderie develops naturally.” Tweet an article that mentions him or his company. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

With Kodak balancing on the precipice , a classic case study on the company offers powerful lessons that still resonate 20 years after it was written. High-value functions such as infrastructure development and database administration were retained; others, including PCs, networks, and mainframes, were outsourced.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Yet the struggles at the company are not new. The news is part of a larger trend of closings that some are calling the retail apocalypse. Amazon has made a big push into physical retail, capped off by its $13.7 So, clearly, the problem isn’t with retail itself but with the inability of legacy firms to adapt to a new model.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. The company’s most important customer — by far — was Russia’s government. State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption. The unhappy innovation inference?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. The average U.S. Distributed Database. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This follows last quarter's 51% growth in sales, the company's largest year-over-year growth in a decade. So why did investors punish the company? Amazon missed its earnings because the company has been investing more heavily than Wall Street expected. And most companies aren't willing to wait 10 years.".

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

One of the most critical challenges facing growth-seeking executives in large companies is deciding what constraints they should be placing on their organizations’ innovation efforts. On the other hand, incorrectly constrained innovation efforts carry well-documented risks. What kind of margins does the offering have to provide?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Consider Zappos’ new “holacracy” organizational design as a novel example of how a company is trying to prevent efficiency from hampering new net growth. You would think that launching an innovative company, selling it to Amazon , and having sales of over $2 billion is enough for an entrepreneur, but not for Hsieh.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. New companies can be set up in hours, if not minutes. ” Sure, I would respond.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the prime drivers of economic growth inside America over the past century has been disruptive innovation ; yet the phenomenon that Lessig describes is increasingly being used by large incumbent firms as a mechanism to stave off the process. How to combat this if you're a big cable company?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

As mobile devices increasingly serve as the center of the consumer’s world, their importance to a range of companies is increasing. One of the basic principles behind Clayton Christensen’s famous conception of disruptive innovation is that the fundamental things people try to do in their lives actually change relatively slowly.

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