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

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. This is the title of the first day of the 28-day training program in the back of The Little Black Book of Innovation. Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

One key to success is recognizing that transforming a business involves three activities: Transforming the core business to maximize its resilience ("Transformation A"). You may need to cut the core (Gilbert cut 42 percent of newspaper staff in August 2010) or lead a large course-correction in new growth efforts. Persistence.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Our colleague Clark Gilbert described more than a decade ago a great irony of disruption. Gilbert’s research showed how executives who perceive threats are rigid in response; those who see opportunities are expansive.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Readership had been dipping for four successive generations, as most youth turned to social networks and other online media for news. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Even the most naive of them agree that, like it or not, relationships hold the key to both their current capac­ity and future success. Make you more innovative. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Except funding, of course. Yale School of Management Professor Dick Foster notes that a single firm cannot innovate faster than the market in which it participates. It has to zig and zag to find success before it runs out of money. A large company just can't innovate faster than the market. Why is that?

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