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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

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. I felt like those rules as I was reading what sort of makes these big bang disruptive innovations succeed, those rules I think are still in place.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions. cut of sales.

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The Internet-Connected Engine Will Change Trucking

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' It is creating new opportunities that were only dreams a decade ago. Take a look at your business.

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The Internet-Connected Engine Will Change Trucking

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' It is creating new opportunities that were only dreams a decade ago. Take a look at your business.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. For universities, joining the league of innovation may require casting aside the firewall between endowment money and innovation in education.