Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. I’ve learned this is not always true.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation. World Economic Forum – Global Leader for Tomorrow.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Old thinking: Take existing products created for rich customers in developed markets and scale them down for emerging markets. New thinking: First develop innovative solutions that work for customers in poorer emerging markets, and then apply those innovations globally.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

We in the West tend to think of innovation as the next, new, shiny, tech, globally-accepted thing. But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., But innovators such as CashU have created safe gateways (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Marketing Challenge. Kudos to Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar for taking a moment to reflect on Affordable Housing Institute founder David Smith's observation that markets alone will never successfully house any nation's poorest people. and global organizations that work with the Rapid Results Institute.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

"Similarly, Japan's automobile industry has been plagued by a series of embarrassing quality problems and recalls, and has lost market share to companies from South Korea and even (gasp!) Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders.

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