Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

that also incorporates former operating executives regularly in its project teams. These are all important questions for the founders of HourlyNerd to consider, but for now, they probably want to celebrate their successful first round of financing (not to mention, get ready for the start of their second year at business school).

McCallum 9

McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Rappaport showed that, in setting a price, the market offers a clear signal that can inform operational and financial decisions. As a liberal arts major with very limited exposure to business or finance, I found the stock market fascinating but bewildering. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. More >>.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. So they are more likely to recognize, for example, when a company’s legacy IT system has become a stumbling block to progress – a common affliction in retail operations.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. It was devastating.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

And while that may seem appealing to unsavvy onlookers, it can be the kiss of death for a CEO facing disruptive entrants. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company. It’s not a level playing field.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 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

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. For instance, all FDA approved medicines were purchased at one-tenth the cost for the same medicines in the U.S.

Health Care 15

Health Care System Innovation Price 15

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. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

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. The manufacturing company is not alone.

Team 8

Team Sharpe Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

George Mason University’s Adam Thierer, reviewing a resurgence of books about the “existential threat” of disruptive innovation, has detailed what he calls a “techno-panic template” in how we react to disruptive innovations that don’t fit into familiar categories.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8