Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. Imagine, if you will, a car engine so woefully inefficient that only 13% of the gas it consumes actually combusts.

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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. businesses, fill 16 percent of seats on U.S.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

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. But one thing is certain: Learning from a missed opportunity and then innovating beyond it helps anyone get back in the game.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. A follow-up article, coauthored with Amy Edmondson and Francesca Gino, delved more deeply into such issues as psychological safety, openness to new ideas, and leadership attention. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

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. As a result, one of the engineers asked him directly: “What the hell does a mobile phone have to do with taxes?” They want to be remembered.”.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A male engineer, for instance, earned $68,000, on average, while his female peer earned $65,817. Andrea Ovans Unsolid Ground Lessons from a Drowning Nation Washington Post On Leadership Executives in struggling industries sometimes find themselves in the unenviable position of having to plan for the end of a company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Robin Li, founder of China’s largest search-engine, Baidu, is a talented software engineer who returned to China from the U.S. China Disruptive innovation Global business' I hope that thanks to the platform we have created, every Haier employee will be able to do extraordinary things. Understanding Chinese Consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, President Obama met with the CEOs of 20 of the largest corporations in the U.S. Each of the industries that have sprung up around these innovations has become an engine for America's economic growth. Instead, it's environmental — and much of the blame rests at the feet of the country's political leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That turns out to be a powerful approach to leadership in a world of expanding complexity, immense challenges and intense change. 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."

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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.).

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