Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” No, it’s to maximize shareholder value. And short-term numbers at that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory? Mostly, though, markets get things right.

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Marketing Innovation Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Many successful venture capitalists observe directional patterns.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. per share by nearly a dime. Sales grew 44%, in line with Wall Street's ambitious expectations. .

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. billion in bonds the year before).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze."

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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 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A “ new model for how winter sports are done” that “feeds an audience hunger for life-treating daredevilry” and drives “ high market penetration and. The disruptive innovator first targets a market segment that embraces those tradeoffs and builds a business model around simplicity and affordability. high dollars.”

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Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation Christensen Market Penetration 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. Thanks David.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

And Clay Christensen talked about the increasing pace of disruption across all sectors. I ran into this conundrum last week, when I was interviewing another CEO interested in policy, Whole Foods Market's John Mackey, for the HBR IdeaCast (the podcast will air in January, when Mackey's new book, Conscious Capitalism , is published).

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Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. By not having achieved product-market fit anywhere, and never having developed strong processes to ensure standardized operations, a startup in many senses resembles a speedboat. Patient capital.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. Christensen. Buckle down on your finances. Neglect your finances so that when you want to make a change, you don’t feel able to. Case study #2: Get your finances in order. ” Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. Finally, reaching profitability quickly ensures that when outside financing dries up, the venture can succeed on its own.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

John Maynard Keynes very famously proposed that the actions of rational agents in a market were akin to a fictional newspaper contest , where entrants were asked to pick who, out of a set of six women, was most beautiful. The financial markets put pressure on you to generate the type of returns they’re looking for: quarterly results.

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Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 14

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. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

labor market since the Great Depression, we learned Friday that 203,000 new jobs were created in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 7%. And while Clay Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever say the consultants are next , it’s not showing up so far in the jobs numbers. And secular shifts make for cool charts!

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Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 15

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If you are a growth-obsessed startup and venture capital financing dries up and buyers grow scarce, you can run out of money. We know that the answers we''ll get are nothing more than hypotheses, which will change as the venture gains experience in the market. A pure focus on growth carries risks.

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