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. But when you combine Amazon's success with its resolute unwillingness to take financial markets too seriously, the result is an amazing thing to see.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. But success depends on learning to do both. When we meet with prospective investors, I don't speak much, and for good reason. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. But here's the rub. When we talk, we acknowledge our own.

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Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. ".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

For every Tumblr there are dozens of companies that had some success but never broke through — and hundreds more that never really got out of the starting block. If you are a growth-obsessed startup and venture capital financing dries up and buyers grow scarce, you can run out of money. just acquired for $1.1

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Lesson 1: Set clear boundaries.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

When I asked professional contacts for their advice to interns, they consistently listed punctuality as a critical success factor. Gary, a finance executive, told me, “Sitting at the desk checking your most recent Twitter feed while you wait for someone to give you something to do is one of the best ways to not get an invite back.”

Critical Success Factor 8

Critical Success Factor Ryan Christensen Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. Between your idea and the helm, there are legal departments, finance departments, marketing departments, other business units, channel partners, and sometimes even your customers.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Competition" has changed when individuals can create value through a centralized network of resources: for example, designing a product from anywhere, producing it through a 3D factory , financing it through community and distribution from anywhere to anywhere. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Michael Mauboussin doesn't write about innovation, but his clear writing that blends finance, strategy, and psychology puts him on my list. The duo (who are affiliated with Innosight) wrote a great book with Clayton Christensen last year called The Innovator's DNA. Some readers have asked why I put A.G. Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen.

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Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 14