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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But whatever the investment, and whether I'm investing personally or professionally for the Disruptive Innovation Fund, my basic parameters are now clear. And because my husband and I were the providers of working capital, I had the luxury of being cavalier. Lesson 2: Establish rules of engagement. No, no, no , I cried.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

The answer may be that the innovator’s dilemma is no longer the only paradox at play in innovation management. During my time with Harvard Business School’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, we regularly referred to disruption as a problem of accounting and organizational design. The Old Dilemma.

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Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

The best professional managers — doing all the right things and following all the best advice — lead their companies all the way to the top of their markets in that pursuit. A string of professional managers had led the company straight off the edge of that cliff. the iPad team works on making their product the best.

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Best Buy Can't Match Amazon's Prices, and Shouldn't Try

Harvard Business Review

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses.

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What You Don’t Know About Sales Can Hurt Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. Smartly reducing assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital requires good links with evolving market realities. (