Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Higher education, however, is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled. But there are also entire sectors of the innovation economy that are ceasing to rely on traditional credentials and don’t even bother with the skeumorph of an adapted degree.

Education 12

Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

Business Model 13

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. This process of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

One of the most frequent challenges we observe in the field is that companies tend to radically underestimate the threat that disruptive change poses to their business. For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The idea of disruption excites some people and terrifies others. Consider the recent case of The New Republic , in which a new, disruptive CEO came in and vowed to “break s**t.” In truth, successful disruption does not merely destroy, but creates a shift in mental models. Kenneth Andersson.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Bureaucracy Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

The game isn't over, and adding Verizon's other innovations might even change the game. There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever.

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Wireless Suri Power Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

But our predictive power plummets when there is a time delay or non-linearity, as in the case of a CEO who delivers better-than-expected earnings only to wonder at a drop in the stock price. Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.

Learning Curve 9

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

"With proper financial engineering, I am absolutely convinced we can solve cancer," MIT professor Andrew Lo says. SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. On the other, startups with women as CEOs – not simply VPs or boardmembers – are more likely to do poorly. Imagining pouring a decade of work into a product.

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Marketing Rate of Return Disruptive Innovation Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The former CEO believes that delivering profits is the main measure of a company, and he’s justly proud of the $250 billion of profits Microsoft generated during his tenure over 14 years. Profits appear more and more as a lagging indicator of yesterday’s innovations. Consider Microsoft under Steve Ballmer.

Company 8

Company Software Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. It seems that at this point both the company and its legendary CEO, Jeff Bezos, can do no wrong. China Disruptive innovation Strategy'

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, President Obama met with the CEOs of 20 of the largest corporations in the U.S. s position as a global economic leader has been based on one thing more than anything else: its ability to innovate. Each of the industries that have sprung up around these innovations has become an engine for America's economic growth.

Politics 14

Politics Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Last year’s WEF Summit on the Global Agenda saw multinational CEOs, academics, and consultants alike preaching the need for business to adapt to the on-demand economy. But “on-demand” is not synonymous with waste arbitrage or business model innovation. .” The importance of this change is lost on no one.

Transportation 8

Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A male engineer, for instance, earned $68,000, on average, while his female peer earned $65,817. BONUS BITS Countering Intuition Has ''Disruptive Innovation'' Run Its Course? Not Yet… (Knowledge@Wharton) Playing Golf, and Other Mistakes CEOs Make (LinkedIn) Linus Torvalds: 2014 Computing Pioneer Award (IEEE Computer Society).

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. Next on deck is his son, Matt, the CEO and portfolio manager; then me. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. Instead, my husband gets the question.

Christensen 15

Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Others found a fresh angle through their own stories, like Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya speaking of the unusual first order he gave as CEO. Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani, speaking at University at Albany. Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, speaking at Johns Hopkins University. Read HBR’s interview with Ulukaya.).

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

It's obvious why every CEO and strategist would want it, but it does not produce the benefits that competition is meant to produce.". We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. So what replaces competition, what drives growth today?

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

Innovation 10

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We know that questioning can trigger innovative thinking. In a collaboration to determine just how disruptive leaders find these compelling questions, Professor Clayton Christensen and I conducted nearly 40 interviews with renowned global leaders. Disruptive innovation Leadership Organizational culture'

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

As disruptive innovations enter the market with faster velocity and increased firepower, entrepreneurs are finding themselves dealing sooner and more intimately with the law. Sometimes, the innovation is just too new, creeping out consumers and lawmakers who hurriedly work to ban it. and urged Congress to outlaw the technology.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Constraint Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He believed that it is not the CEO's job to find ways to make his or her employees happier. According to Ferose, the CEO's job is to give employees the freedom to test and deploy their own solutions that will in turn make them happier at work. Employees already know what will make them happy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

As Vineet Nayar, CEO of the $3.5 billion global IT services firm, HCL Technologies, puts it: "The CEO should be the Chief Question Asker, not the final provider of answers." What would happen if there was no CEO at my company (or at any company in the world)? What things do I control that I should not control?

Organization 15

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Ive been spending some time lately with Dick Fosters fascinating and underappreciated 1986 book Innovation: The Attackers Advantage. Its a precursor  probably the most important precursor  to Clayton Christensens later work on disruptive innovation. And very few old media companies did.

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Technology Company Venture Capitalist Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics.

Management 8

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation.

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