Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Over time, their products and services became better and better, and those innovative entrants moved up market, slowly increasing performance. If an organization could isolate a unit and focus it exclusively on the disruptive market, it had an opportunity to succeed. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Of course, nobody thinks technology companies should be left unregulated. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Alfred Rappaport's article, " Stock Market Signals to Managers ," in the November-December 1987 issue of the Harvard Business Review, provides managers with a clear method for understanding how price reflects the market's expectations about the company's future financial performance.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

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. It boldly enters a space where no real market has previously existed , and could well inspire investors to create one.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Strategy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The Solyndra scandal, of course, was even worse; mere months after an infusion of over $500 million from the federal government that was supposed to fuel a rapid expansion, the company and its much-lauded breakthrough technology (this time, cylindrical CIGS) went belly up, giving President Obama and his cleantech agenda a major black eye.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. 2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. As I write this, on Thursday morning, the loss for the week is nearing 10%.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Instead, his initial advantage came from his creation of a virtuous circle that underpinned his vision for the first durable mass-market automobile. But everything changed with the onset of the innovations introduced by General Motors in the 1920s , which took the direct opposite of Henry Ford's tack of "Any color. Used car trade-ins.

Innovation 15

Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. This story of disruption should feel familiar. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post about the forces of competition and market change that are affecting the legal profession, causing many firms to now take the once unthinkable step of letting even senior partners go if they can't produce sufficient revenues to contribute to the firm's bottom lines (as reported in the Wall Street Journal ).

Creativity 8

Creativity Short-term Trends Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The threat of Blue Nile has been felt most by mom & pop jewelers , but increasingly by the middle market retailers like Zales Corporation, as well as high-end brands like Tiffany and Cartier. Of course, some men buying diamond engagement rings have another "job" they want done: signaling status. And that's the point.

Retail 8

Retail Price Brand Competitive Advantage 8