Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Or you could completely undercut industry pricing models by, say, 90%. Incremental change doesn’t disrupt an industry; radical change does," they note. You don’t cut prices by 90% through marginal improvements in existing products. The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. On February 16, oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela agreed to a tentative deal to freeze their production in an attempt to boost prices.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Tech start-up Haystack has developed an innovative – and controversial — solution to the stressful challenge of finding an open parking meter in congested areas. We explored these and other questions with pricing strategy author and consultant Rafi Mohammed. First off: From a pricing perspective, is Haystack a good idea?

Price 8

Price Transportation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

LDRLB

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. Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. LARRY: Sure.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Two elements of it have caught some attention: Snap’s statement that it is a “camera company,” and its intention to reinvest its revenues in developing new products that will take significant time and expense, but which it believes it can develop faster than competitors. a platform)? a platform)?

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IPO Productivity Products Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn''t necessarily invalidate it. The Two Kinds of MVP.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Some point to Xiaomi’s product introductions, which are eerily just like Apple’s. What’s more, Xiaomi’s products rank among the best in the industry in terms of performance. To sell high-quality cell phones at so low a price, Xiaomi keeps each model on the market far longer than Apple does. A neat trick.

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Industry Price Business Model Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn’t necessarily invalidate it.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

And pretty much every product you can buy at Best Buy, you can get at Amazon cheaper and with free delivery — so people do. It's too bad they're doing so by fighting their biggest disruptor head-on: by offering to match Amazon's price on everything. To survive disruption, managers of legacy businesses need to change the game.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We examined how each initiative impacted a company’s value through changes in its stock price, which we used as a proxy for determining the short-term costs of self-disruption. As we studied the data, we realized that we were looking at the results of a rare natural experiment on the costs of adjustment to self-disruption.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Thanks to disruptive innovations , much of our world today looks radically different than it did just a decade or two ago. In industry after industry, disruptions deliver more for less and change everything from how we communicate with one another to how we work and shop. Remember flying in the old days? Last year, the U.S.

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Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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.” Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

It is walking, talking, and continuing to pretend it's alive, but Spotify , Europe's outrageously successful streaming music product, has just shown us the future. To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. Competition Disruptive innovation' Uber nails this.

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Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

But there’s a critical problem with Tesla’s product strategy: it’s not actually disruptive , which will likely cause it to struggle to scale. But Telsa is starting from the top of a market, selling high-end vehicles at high prices. Consider a Tesla salesperson tasked with selling all three models.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. Pursuing innovation inside a big company is a balancing act. He was completely right. Test to learn.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First, some background: On September 17 th , NASA announced the winners of the $6.8bn “space taxi” contract which will fund the development and launch of new platforms to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Interdependency refers to product architectures where the parts cannot be developed independently.

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Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. They develop chipsets and license to manufacturers who then produce and sell.

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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

It’s easy to assume Apple Pay is one in a long line of disruptive innovations from the master of serial disruption. They would be disruptive if they were selling insurance from a company new to the industry using an independent, low-cost distribution channel, such direct to the customer, either by phone or online.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Retail Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

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. Independent bookstores have few options that would allow them to compete on price or selection. This concern is understandable given the magnitude of Amazon’s disruptive force.

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eBook Retail Discount Disruptive Innovation 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.” Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. And so, even with the price premium, Michelin was the only company that had figured out how to produce radial tires profitably at scale.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

These were companies following the pattern of disruptive innovation. Now, I'm always hesitant to avoid basing too much on a company's stock performance as stock prices can move around for many reasons. We had assembled a database of companies that we called "on-the-brink" disruptors.

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Disruptive Innovation Benchmarking Sample Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

The care, feeding, and culture of productive talent deserve all the attention and debate they get — and more. Relative to the enormous economic value talent can deliver, gluten-free gourmet cafeterias and concierge service represent a small price to pay. Keeping it productively innovative and innovatively productive is another.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Now, well over a decade later, as developing-economy competitors take the lead, U.S. companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? based solar energy companies produce systems that compete on price, opening up huge new mass markets for renewable energy?

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Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

At the time of the Geek Squad acquisition, it was considered foolish by many; a decade later, the $3 million purchase price has been repaid hundreds of times over. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. Yet to innovate, you must be willing to look at all possibilities from a new perspective.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

. “If there ever were an antitrust case where the parties had a dramatically different assessment of the current state of the relevant market and a fundamentally different vision of its future development,” Judge Leon began his decision, “this is the one.” That strategy failed.

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Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

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. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

It makes its revenue and profits not on product sales but on advertising and premium services. Customers can only search for products inside the Alibaba website. This is the classic case of asymmetry of motivation — of the greater attraction of increasing marginal revenues over having to develop new sources of revenue.

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Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years. Patient capital.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The contrast could not be clearer: Amazon – fearlessly making big, risky bets like a serial entrepreneur; and Microsoft, eschewing disruptive innovation in favor of remaining the “ fast follower ” it has always been, wringing profit from previously proven technologies.

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Company Software Long-term Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

With the rise of distributed forms of energy, such as rooftop solar power, and batteries , it’s become much more feasible to match individual demand for electricity with on-site production. The result is a new value proposition: consumers get more personalized, flexible service, and new companies can charge competitive prices.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers.

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9