Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). It’s time for executives, entrepreneurs, and innovators stop quibbling over whether something satisfies the traditional path of disruption.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 #49 Management Thinker 2015, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Magazine nominee, co-founder and CEO TokiDoki, co-founder Hard Candy, visionary entrepreneur. Pooneh Mohajer – Inc. Feyzi Fatehi – Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Have you mastered the five skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Several people I've talked to here in Munich expressed surprise, in fact, that Facebook hasn't seen its business model disrupted yet. I used to think investing in the innovators might be the smart way around, but the venture capital business, which in theory does just that, has been in the tank for a decade.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Magazine nominee, co-founder and CEO TokiDoki, co-founder Hard Candy, visionary entrepreneur. Pooneh Mohajer – Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

If the public sector is to realize the full potential of digital technology to transform public finances and even kickstart national economic growth, governments will have to move beyond streamlining services and cutting red-tape for entrepreneurs. As students of disruption realize, a new technology is never a disruption on its own.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2020

The legendary management thinker was best known for his influential theory of “disruptive innovation,” which inspired a generation of executives and entrepreneurs. In this repeat episode, we honor the legacy of HBS professor Clayton Christensen, who passed away on January 23, 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

Marc Ventresca's recent presentation at TEDx Oxford asks us to rethink the idea of the entrepreneur. He believes, if I have him right, that we subscribe too heavily to the "heroic" model, the one that says entrepreneurs take risks others refuse, freeing themselves from the bounds of convention. It isn't easy. Often, it isn't fun.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 25, 2015

Lea should know - she's co-founder of Women who Innovate a nd a serial entrepreneur in healthcare. Thank you Lea Carey for this short video from last year's BIF! Yup - Just do it!!!! Quick - sign up for BIF2015 before every last seat is gone!!!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Many entrepreneurs have their entire net worth tied up in their companies. First, a lack of diversification exacerbates the fundamental difference in economic incentive between entrepreneur and investor: when all your money is tied up in a startup, you''re happy with a "meager" 1-2X return. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services. In this sense, the corporate entrepreneur must seek ways to build trust and reliance in the offering from the entrepreneurial initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In today''s world, there is still a bias against older people — employers in particular often think (in their mind) what Shark Tank''s Kevin O''Leary is fond of saying to entrepreneurs he doesn''t like, "You are dead to me." Twice as many successful entrepreneurs are over 50 as under 25.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

It lies behind successful product companies like Apple, Dropbox, and Kickstarter, but it can also lead entrepreneurs predictably to failure. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship' “Scratch your own itch,” is one of the most influential aphorisms in entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Disruptive innovation Global business' First, Dangote’s deal is likely to happen.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Disruptive innovation Global business' First, Dangote''s deal is likely to happen.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular. employees), and FTE start and end dates (average of 2.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Disruptive innovation theory expands your view, increasing the odds that you spot important trends early. Of course, the more places you look, the more things you see.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Often lost in the discussion, however, is the fact that the cards are stacked against the Chinese entrepreneur. China is now experiencing a middle income trap — losing their competitive edge in labor-intensive industries and not yet gaining new sources of growth from innovation. percentage points, it is still historically high.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Executive coach for CEOs, emerging leaders and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs. A visionary entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2020

Lessons on market expansion from the cofounder of Square.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. Competition Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Because companies and entrepreneurs are the vehicles for innovation, leaders in developing nations are right in reviewing how policy and other factors drive innovation. However, our research calls for a more intelligent approach towards the promotion of innovation. Economic development Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Organizations such as Y Combinator and TechStars have become magnets for some of the most talented US entrepreneurs by providing expert guidance with limited funds. He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Instead, B2B entrepreneurs should focus their efforts on small businesses. HourlyNerd (which was founded by members of my MBA class at Harvard Business School) is disrupting the consulting industry by connecting businesses with independent consultants. Instead, entrepreneurs can launch quickly with little capital and improve over time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Less than 1% of those investments have focused on helping consumers to play a more active role in managing their own health, an area ripe for disruptive approaches. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

In 2009, two bright, young entrepreneurs in India saw a key pain point with local retailers, who had no ability to engage with their existing customers. These "tried and tested" solutions are ripe for disrupting various developed-nation market segments with shorter deployment times and lower cost structures.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Elon Musk, the South Africa-born entrepreneur, recently unveiled his proposals for the Hyperloop , a groundbreaking high-speed transportation system. The frontier economy has unimaginable appeal to the skilled engineers and savvy entrepreneurs. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Over the past several years, Marcus, a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and the author of “Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust , ” has been a vocal critic of deep learning as the best way forward for AI. Gary Marcus has a reputation for being a contrarian in the AI community.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So what about China? Can you name five?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

In fact, the rarity of a successful high-end disruption is the reason so many new and superior technologies that could do so much to help industries evolve and benefit customers never gain a market foothold. Most entrepreneurs still think that just because their technology is superior it will inevitably be widely adopted in the marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Most market disruptions rest on innovative business models — new ways to create, capture, or deliver value. Innovation is all about improved performance. Our customers will be a critical source of innovation insight. Game changing innovation is done only by entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2019

Thales Teixeira, associate professor at Harvard Business School, believes many startups fail precisely because they try to emulate successful disruptive businesses. He says by focusing too early on technology and scale, entrepreneurs lose out on the learning that comes from serving initial customers with an imperfect product.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

However, when it comes to developing the breakthrough technologies and disruptive innovations that will change people's lives, free markets are much better coordinators of economic activity. The Economist profiled such entrepreneurs in its feature on "bamboo capitalism" in March of this year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations. Entrepreneurs can’t wait for governments to catch up to the 21 st century. entrepreneurs twiddle their thumbs. Both the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Do you believe silicon chips are superior to potato chips? Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers.

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