Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The site''s early ambitions were modest — provide a website for cash-strapped out-of-towners to find cheap places to crash, a form of budget travel known as couch-surfing. For one thing, the success of disruptive innovators often inspires incumbents to implement long-overdue innovations of their own.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

It has the potential to begin disrupting the travel and entertainment markets and become a pillar of the high-end gaming industry. VR might very well become a major platform for consuming content, but until we all decide to plug into the Matrix, the disruption of VR can’t be equated to the disruption of mobile computing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

Many modern businesses take stock in the reality of disruptive innovation and try to react accordingly. In the software industry, giants like Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM have all invested heavily in the cloud technologies that are disrupting software. Customers Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

At a minimum, this Apple TV could change education, hospitality, work, and travel. Let''s think about the travel industry. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. Once we have traveled by Apple TV, we won''t go back. Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Or in simpler terms, they were the types of innovations that reject the existing basis of competition in an industry. Despite tending to underperform their upmarket competitors, disruptive innovations tend o make complex, expensive technology cheaper or more accessible to customers (think PCs vs. Minicomputers or Salesforce.com vs. Oracle).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

I'm sure many of you have traveled more, but it felt like a pretty big number to me. Anyway, during my travels, I've kept a running list of observations, travel tips for those of you coming to Asia for either a short trip or an extended stay, and thoughts on innovation, all gleaned from my first year based here.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Richard Branson, who is also a Planetary Resources investor, is already selling tickets for space-travel on Virgin Galactic’s commercial spacecraft, and he’s competing with the dreams of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin , and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. China Disruptive innovation Global business' Understanding Chinese Consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In her HBR article, "Disrupt Yourself," Whitney Johnson discussed how Clayton Christensen's theories of disruptive innovation can be applied to changing one's career path in a competitive job market. If you've taken an unconventional career path, what advice do you have for fellow travelers?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

The HCCI model is potentially very disruptive to U.S. Even with zero copays and deductibles and free travel for the patient and a chaperone for 1-2 weeks, insurers would save a lot of money. Similarly, HCCI saved 40% on energy by building its own 1.2-megawat megawat solar farm. health care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Similarly, in business travel, apps such as those from American Airlines provide customers with high virtual service levels, giving users information before the ground staff has made any announcements. Global travelers don't want to be hampered by license limitations that make content inaccessible. Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Networked smart vehicles, for example, can safely travel much closer together — a technique known as platooning. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from. The cities, states, and countries that get there first will attract new investment in industries having nothing to do with transportation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). As for sudden, it did feel so to me. I haven''t actually seen Prof. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. ” It could be a new assignment at work, upcoming travel, or a new product lineup. What the Experts Say. ” Follow up.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

What they focus on instead are the common areas, where they can bring travellers together in social environments that distributed Airbnb properties struggle to match. Another interesting response to Airbnb is pod-style hotels which offer guests relatively small rooms and standard furniture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

To be sure, both Google and Bing are moving toward standardized content formats for information on restaurants or movies or travel. That makes it easy to understand what you are getting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

What does "four walls" mean if you are a travelling salesperson, or on call after work hours to respond to crises? Is its use governed by company-level policies? Are you allowed access to critical company data outside the four walls of the business?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Meanwhile their short ranges, low speeds and limited payloads don’t detract from their value because the people using these vehicles weren’t traveling very far or very fast or hauling very much to begin with.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Mr. Honda believed that the company's larger bikes were their best bet given the incumbent machines and the longer distances Americans must travel compared to Japanese. As Kawashima recalled, "We had no strategy other than the idea of seeing if we could sell something in the United States." Instead Honda stayed open and entrepreneurial.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. The average U.S. Distributed Database. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

And this hybrid can be lifted into online education, which is already happening: you listen to a lecture online, and then you discuss a case with a group of students and guided by an instructor in small groups in your own location (no need to travel for everyone to be in the same room).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

However, he also kept misleading logbooks to allay member fears related to how far they had actually traveled. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship Leadership' At sea, Columbus would rationalize anything in the environment (seaweed, changing wind, birds, whales, currents) as signs of sure success.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. And it traveled in your pocket. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted. It would make teenagers — and business executives — drool.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

Consider the following examples: In the late 1800s, gasoline-powered vehicles promised to revolutionize transportation, allowing people to travel further, faster and more safely. Being optimally distinct—and marketing yourself as such. But getting people to adopt early cars required a huge mind shift.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

When I travel more, my pile will be reduced. Joshua Gans will take up the Skoll Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto) in July.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This is why former Governors Jim Hunt (North Carolina Democrat) and Jeb Bush (Florida Republican) are travelling around the country encouraging school districts to take advantage of online learning tools. courses into their offerings to satisfy students' unmet needs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. He was shocked to be asked to train leaders in their fifties and sixties.

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