Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The answer may be that the innovator’s dilemma is no longer the only paradox at play in innovation management. During my time with Harvard Business School’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, we regularly referred to disruption as a problem of accounting and organizational design. The Old Dilemma.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources. Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. In classic cases of industry disruption, such as in steel or airlines , incumbent firms have tens of thousands of employees.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

You might see this fledgling business (Mine Kafon is being prototyped and tested now, thanks to a fully funded Kickstarter campaign to finance its development) as a brilliant act of business strategy. It boldly enters a space where no real market has previously existed , and could well inspire investors to create one.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Strategy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. 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

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. 2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. As I write this, on Thursday morning, the loss for the week is nearing 10%.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. This initial surprise led to an even bigger one: the market for small-business-accounting software was ripe for the taking. Here’s the fundamental problem.

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Uncertainty Meyer How To Disruptive Innovation 164

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. This story of disruption should feel familiar. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 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

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. Engage executives in continuous small sprints.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. Patient capital. Maximize autonomy.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. But putting together a great team is tricky.

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Team Sharpe Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company. It’s not just products.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The threat of Blue Nile has been felt most by mom & pop jewelers , but increasingly by the middle market retailers like Zales Corporation, as well as high-end brands like Tiffany and Cartier. No company facing disruption likes to acknowledge that they can't win it all. So what should premium diamond retailers do? And that's the point.

Retail 8

Retail Price Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In the sense that financial markets and the economy in general are far more fragile than most mainstream economists contemplated before 2008, there was a bit of unlearning done in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 1987 stock market crash was a scare. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S. I know I believed it.

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Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In my experience, most CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite executives involved in strategy formulation know these finance basics. (Or, Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. But consider the basics.

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Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Steve Jobs’ successors are at least an order of magnitude more credible as disruptive innovators than the heirs of Ford and Sloan. According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is a fascinating relationship between executives and the stock prices of the companies they manage. He calls it the "market signals approach," and it provided a lightning bolt of insight for me. He calls it the "market signals approach," and it provided a lightning bolt of insight for me.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 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. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. Big Law’s commanding market lead in specific practices areas is also being challenged by boutique firms. But that’s just not true.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

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. Disrupting How We Work. What could you do together? Everything.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Second, Uber and Netflix appealed to a younger superconsumer before they entered the category, which caught the market leaders flat-footed. Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. index funds).

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 10