Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. So they are more likely to recognize, for example, when a company’s legacy IT system has become a stumbling block to progress – a common affliction in retail operations.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.).

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

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

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. It was devastating.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. This is where a startup''s lack of profitable operations would have worked to their advantage.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. But putting together a great team is tricky. The manufacturing company is not alone.

Team 8

Team Sharpe Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company. It’s not just products.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. 3D printing offers even more advantages to these groups.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 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. But very few executives or investors do.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

George Mason University’s Adam Thierer, reviewing a resurgence of books about the “existential threat” of disruptive innovation, has detailed what he calls a “techno-panic template” in how we react to disruptive innovations that don’t fit into familiar categories.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

that also incorporates former operating executives regularly in its project teams. Over time will HourlyNerd, like many other disruptors across industries, want to move up-market to bigger and bigger clients, attracted by the greater profits those relationships promise? Consulting Disruptive innovation'

McCallum 8

McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 8