N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 1, 2015
The 195 member countries, or “parties,” hold a Conference of Parties (COP) annually, and this year is the 21st meeting. But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g.,
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Capital markets is one explanation.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 8, 2011
According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job. At a recent industry conference, Bill Reichert , managing director of Garage Technology Ventures opined, "VCs do not invest with their brains. Kim previously -- and made money.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 18, 2016
On a recent business trip to London, I surprised the conference organizers by turning down the opportunity to stay at the posh hotel hosting the conference in favor of a rather modest Airbnb flat. Measuring Marketing Insights. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. The hotel was clearly much more luxurious. Insight Center.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 3, 2017
However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 30, 2013
That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. When Uncle Wall Street (also known as Mr. Market ) is in a generous mood, Bezos is always ready to take advantage by putting investment ahead of profitability. billion bond issue just before the debt-market meltdown of autumn 2008.
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