N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Let’s just take a moment and look at a few notable examples of what happens to companies that become complacent…Why didn’t the railroads innovate? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 16, 2011
Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. Finally, reaching profitability quickly ensures that when outside financing dries up, the venture can succeed on its own.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 7, 2012
Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 13, 2014
As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 7, 2012
Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
We don’t know enough of its finances to know precisely how successful it has been, but with tens of millions of viewers and sponsorship packages north of $2 million, it is a good bet that ESPN has done well on its bet. The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 30, 2013
Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. Most turn out not to.
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