Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

“This isn’t possible in print, broadcast, or traditional films, which may be why the media industry is such a dysfunctional place,” Peretti has said. That’s why film producers have no choice but to go with their gut. Such a model typically reduces the need for employees and reduces prices to customers.

Software 8

Software Film Information Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This same trend is now playing out in the solar energy sector: yesterday's startups FirstSolar and SunTech are becoming today's acquirers, and GE's acquisition of thin-film solar company PrimeStar Solar earlier this summer is intended to allow the giant to go head-to-head with FirstSolar for the thin-film market.

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

For the past decade, emerging digital markets have operated under the assumption that, despite the obvious similarity between a music CD and an MP3 downloaded from iTunes, digital goods are different. In theory, consumers have implicitly traded the right to resell for a lower price and more content to choose from.

Marketing 8

Marketing Licensing Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". But apparently, not from the perspective of customers.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Despite the stagnant economy, Delacroix was growing at a healthy pace, in part because of its policy of keeping ticket prices reasonably low. Natalia had a mandate from Delacroix's board of directors to take the company in new directions: to explore international engagements and television and film opportunities.

Case Study 12

Case Study Audience Survey Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The inventors, who publicly announced this new approach in March, say they were inspired by the film “Terminator 2” – specifically the scene where a robot reshapes itself after having melted into a puddle. Another promising development is multi-jet fusion. The market is taking these claims seriously, as well.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Innovators betting on "out of the box" thinking or "faster, better, cheaper" innovation paradigms for success all too frequently find themselves — and their customers — disappointed. to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?" This turns more traditional notions of innovation value inside-out.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Innovators betting on "out of the box" thinking or "faster, better, cheaper" innovation paradigms for success all too frequently find themselves — and their customers — disappointed. to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?" This turns more traditional notions of innovation value inside-out.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Like any creative process, any entrepreneur who wants to invent, innovate, or create must be willing to be imperfect and make mistakes in order to learn what works and what does not. Instead, as Pixar historian David Price shows in his excellent book The Pixar Touch , Jobs believed that Pixar was going to be the next great hardware company.

Film 8

Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. They got useful input on menu items and prices. The SFO teams found this autonomy liberating.

Audience 8

Audience Brainstorming Project Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas.

Ries 15

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. The result is that the price premium for air over sea would fall from 10x to 2X (with all the speed advantages of air).". The efficiencies come with 100% robotic operation.".

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 8