Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

It seems evident that the split does not create a new resource, and it is not obvious why splitting would enable the management team to exploit existing resources better. This theory states that success is dependent on positioning your business in a profitable market, where it will have or can gain a competitive advantage.

RBV 9

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that. And the fact is that the matter does interest us.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. It''s partly because managers of well-moated companies tend to turn complacent — or just don''t need much skill to run such a business in the first place.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?). Lawmakers face a critical choice.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

There was an art to the practice of managing voice mail (one colleague became a legend for figuring out how to get the Audix system to time stamp a message so it appeared like she was working insane hours). We received training on how to place acetates on overhead projectors during presentations.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.” There were other ways in which Kodak could have emerged from the digital disruption of its core business. ” A good line, but not completely accurate.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Though my friend recognizes that he was in part managing his own emotions, he didn't want to lose any sleep over his purchase by "optimizing cost over confidence." This would completely undermine their cost structure, forcing higher prices and eroding their competitive advantage. does it ride smoothly?) And that's the point.

Retail 8

Retail Price Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

Take what seem to be the three central tenants of capitalism as we know it: competition , the pursuit of financial gain , and the basic geography of power. On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. And that focus filters down to companies.

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The agendas may be inchoate and the uprisings chaotic, but the message is clear: the established way of leading, ruling, governing, and managing is not working anymore. My first response was, 'Strategy's secret! You can't collaboratively do strategy.'

COO 12

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." As a company matures and enters a period of exploiting a competitive advantage, it makes sense for the firm to be publicly traded if it requires the capital.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Hence, when a new potential stream of revenue presents itself, the company’s management feels it cannot afford to just leave it. Yet Capitec’s management was thinking ahead. Capitec’s management realized the company had moved on and that those branches needed closing. Will Capitec’s success last forever?

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Headquarters provides accountability and perhaps better metrics than the divisional managers might otherwise have. 3D printing offers even more advantages to these groups.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8