Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. Like its 60% price increase did earlier this year, this move is understandably causing consternation amongst some customers.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14

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. Price transparency is exerting downward pressure. BONUS BITS: Life-Saving Goes Social.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

When O’Neill took the helm of the struggling aluminum manufacturer, he didn’t change the business model or even engage in the typical cost-cutting that CEOs tasked with raising the stock price tend to focus on. Instead, he inspired a sense of purpose in employees by charging them to focus on the safety of their fellow workers.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 117

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

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? Haystack provides a solution to a key market failure in popular parking areas: meter prices are too cheap, which results in excess demand. Absolutely! But is this fair?

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Price Transportation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

When O’Neill took the helm of the struggling aluminum manufacturer, he didn’t change the business model or even engage in the typical cost-cutting that CEOs tasked with raising the stock price tend to focus on. Instead, he inspired a sense of purpose in employees by charging them to focus on the safety of their fellow workers.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

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. New challenges for producers.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 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. Rather than trying to duplicate or invent it, they just acquire the startup, and if they acquire it early enough, then they might get a good price.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is a fascinating relationship between executives and the stock prices of the companies they manage. On the other hand, they frequently find their stock price inscrutable. The vast majority of executives think that their price is too low, but few can articulate an analytical case that backs that intuition. More >>.

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Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Over the course of more than 30 rides, prices on UberX averaged about 20% more than taxi fare, in part because of “surge” pricing during rush hours. Disruptive innovation' Lyft came in second, costing a little more than taxis. Sidecar cost about 10% less than taxis.

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Report Disruptive Innovation Price Cost 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

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It's too bad they're doing so by fighting their biggest disruptor head-on: by offering to match Amazon's price on everything. 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.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The hope was their lower cost structure and focus on convenience and price transparency — two things sorely lacking in traditional health care — would engender radical changes. In summary, retail clinics exemplify both the potential of and challenges for disruptive innovators to improve value in health care.

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Health Care Retail Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

It is a textbook example of what Clayton Christensen dubs a sustaining innovation , a product aimed at existing customers that improves on what went before it and is able to demand a premium price. Except for a few dark years in the mid-1990s, Apple has always been very good at sustaining innovation.

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Schiller Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For a new digital technology to deliver a disruptive innovation, a new technology must leverage two things: A new route to market. All disruptive innovators in business have capitalized on a channel of commercialization where the leading firms are not present. A new business model.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the prime drivers of economic growth inside America over the past century has been disruptive innovation ; yet the phenomenon that Lessig describes is increasingly being used by large incumbent firms as a mechanism to stave off the process. Daus called this "unfair pricing."

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Innovation Transportation Disruptive Innovation Price 21

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

JULY 29, 2014

And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. At most product companies, value capture has been as simple as setting the right price to maximize profits from discrete product sales. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

For starters, unlike Apple, Xiaomi is not targeting premium customers; it’s mostly teens buying those high-quality phones, and hardly at a premium, since Xiaomi’s prices are at least 60% lower. 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

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. But the competitively-priced Model 3 is not the iPhone, which in 2007 radically reinvented cell phones, personal digital assistants, digital cameras, and several other disparate products in one remarkable leap.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

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. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

It turns out that disruptive innovation researchers have empirically measured the odds of success in each of these situations, and their findings may not be what you expect. Here’s what they’ve found, and how they explain their results when they look at them through the lens of disruptive innovation theory.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Marketing 8

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 10, 2011

Since then, he has written over a half-dozen books and many more Harvard Business Review articles, almost all of which touch on disruption in some way. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., In the life and retirement services area, start-ups such as LearnVest offer personalized financial advice at fixed prices that most middle-class consumers can afford. Disruptive innovation' Google bought U.K.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Penney: Ditch the Risky Pricing Strategy. It's Still Tough to Get Hired (and to Quit). Here's Why.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

For that job, I valued Tower's music selection, the store's convenient locations, the fact that its music was compatible with my Discman, and the low prices. After iTunes was introduced, its online model beat Tower in selection, convenience, and price. It's business model innovation. Enter iTunes.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

What if you could provide excellent care at ultra-low prices at a location close to the U.S.? ” Narayana Health brought innovative practices honed in India to HCCI to offer first-rate care for 25-40% of U.S. To be sure, this was not as cheap as NH’s services in India, where prices were 2-5% of U.S. Add to Cart.

Health Care 15

Health Care System Innovation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

If you bounce from one strategy (say, low prices) to another (full service) and back again, people won’t know what you stand for. The company struggled, and its stock price fell, until Schultz came back and reversed those decisions. Change management Disruptive innovation Strategy' Will you confuse people?

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Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

But Telsa is starting from the top of a market, selling high-end vehicles at high prices. That’s why the most successful innovators usually do the reverse. Companies that start at the bottom of the market develop overhead structures that are profitable at low unit prices.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

One of the most powerful corporate growth mechanisms – and at the heart of disruption theory — is moving upmarket. Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. And there is a sense in which poor regulation is to blame.

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Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple. Over the past 18 months the company’s stock price has careened from $705 (in Sept.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

Retailers liked several aspects of Capillary''s solution: it elegantly focused on their core pain points, was not cumbersome to deploy, and was available on an affordable pay-as-you-go monthly pricing model with no upfront licensing fees. Disruptive innovation India'

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Technology Innovation CRM Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. The pattern that simple, convenient, low-priced solutions would grow from humble beginnings to create and transform industries had not yet been identified. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age.

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Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy.

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IPO Productivity Products Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

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