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. As we moved from idea to execution, I asked another friend to take a key role in the project.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He was not your standard internet entrepreneur — the student presenting was pitching a project to increase sub-Saharan farm income, by helping farmers shift from traditional crops to rubber trees. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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. Otherwise, issues raised will go unresolved or projects will drift back to more conventional paths.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

A recent OECD study projected that spending by Asian middle class consumers will have grown from $4.9 For example, when GE introduced a low-cost electrocardiogram machine in India, it also developed innovative ways to finance and distribute the device. Some of the emerging Asian giants also feature innovative business models.

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

The next day, Bertice was in Huntsville, Alabama, to join in the ribbon cutting for a redevelopment project. If everyone is amenable, I’d like to arrange a conference call next week to discuss only this and decide on a course of action.” ” New Ways to Make Money. Benjy’s still had a presence but a much smaller one.

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Case Study Retail Price Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

We need to start treating innovation like other business disciplines — as a set of tools that are designed to accomplish specific objectives. It was with this in mind that I created the Innovation Matrix to help leaders identify the right type of strategy to solve a problem, by asking two questions: How well can we define the problem?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

There are basically four ways to create that value: (1) invest in projects that earn more than their cost of capital; (2) increase profits from existing capital investments; (3) reduce the assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital; and (4) reduce the cost of capital itself. But consider the basics.

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Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. He is one of the most thoughtful students of disruptive innovation you'll meet. Horace Dediu.

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Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The company’s website reported that Kickstarter has now funded over 50,000 projects , with pledges coming from over 5,000,000 individual backers. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has helped fledgling projects raise nearly $1 billion in donations. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Founded only last year by a team of current MBA students, HourlyNerd is a prime example of the disruption in consulting that my co-authors and I discuss in our new article , “Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption” in HBR. that also incorporates former operating executives regularly in its project teams.

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McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 9