Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

With traditional sources of financing unavailable, Kellond raised her first round of capital ($408,000) on Kickstarter — the ultimate in creative financing. Think about it — disruptive innovation is about playing where no one wants to play (low-end), or has thought of playing (new market).

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product. Danny Meyer, famed New York restaurateur, told OpenTable’s CEO, “Look, I don’t need more business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. When CEOs lead these meetings, teams can raise any issues, big or small, and get them resolved in minutes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

Which raises the question of what if any heed CEO Tim Cook should pay that stock price. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance' Compared with archrival Google , where investors are quiescent and the stock price just keeps rising and rising, Apple may be less vulnerable at this point to sudden changes in market sentiment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Second, they should consider opening similar near-shore facilities to treat some of their own patients and to serve as a lab for process innovations.

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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. But here's the rub.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Though the CEO may be driving, anyone sitting on the bow can get a direct line to the captain to suggest a change of direction. Between your idea and the helm, there are legal departments, finance departments, marketing departments, other business units, channel partners, and sometimes even your customers. The boat can turn on a dime.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Bertice was now preparing to mediate between her father and the company’s CEO, who had very different ideas about how to respond to what Bertice had seen in Oklahoma City: “showrooming.” ” “Bertice,” the CEO said. ” “We could still match prices,” the CEO said.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In my experience, most CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite executives involved in strategy formulation know these finance basics. (Or, Financing needs are in large part driven by the cash on hand and the working capital required to conduct and grow the business. Or, they learn fast after a few investor meetings.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

George Mason University’s Adam Thierer, reviewing a resurgence of books about the “existential threat” of disruptive innovation, has detailed what he calls a “techno-panic template” in how we react to disruptive innovations that don’t fit into familiar categories.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

One next-generation example already available today is YieldStreet, which offers a wide variety of debt investments—including real estate, marine finance, and litigation finance–that have generated an internal rate of return in excess of 12.5% on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

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