Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Higher education, however, is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled. But there are also entire sectors of the innovation economy that are ceasing to rely on traditional credentials and don’t even bother with the skeumorph of an adapted degree.

Education 14

Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Japanese manufacturers in the 1950s had a reputation for poor quality, but through a culture of analytical and systematic change Japan was able to go from worst to first. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders.

Six Sigma 18

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions. cut of sales.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Gary Marcus has a reputation for being a contrarian in the AI community. Over the past several years, Marcus, a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and the author of “Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust , ” has been a vocal critic of deep learning as the best way forward for AI.

Reputation 13

Reputation Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Today we call the withdrawal of this permission “ reputation risk ” — how favorably a company’s motives, impact, and agency are regarded by important external constituencies. Business law Regulation Disruptive innovation Growth strategy Transportation'

Reputation 8

Reputation Disruptive Innovation Letter Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

There are two kinds of health-care innovation: more-for-more and more-for-less. is the place to take advantage of the latest innovations such as proton-beam cancer-radiation therapy, for which the equipment and facilities cost about $1 billion. just has not been desperate enough to foster Indian-style health-care innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Disruptive Innovation Travel Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Small businesses are also extremely low-risk proving grounds because there are so many of them that failure with any one customer won’t lead to large reputational damage. Gone are long pre-launch development cycles that attempt to create the optimal product for the most demanding customer.

B2B 8

B2B Disruptive Innovation Short-term Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Typically, resources that satisfy these conditions are capabilities or know-how that have been developed over time and are hard to transfer or document. Indeed, if you have multiple resources, the RBV implies that you should develop a strategy to build and exploit all these resources. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy?

RBV 10

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In 1986, Lotus Development Corporation announced the latest version of its (at the time) wildly popular 1-2-3 spreadsheet, one that now sported a spiffy new "undo" feature.

Early Adopters 15

Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In other contexts, new entrants have developed partnerships with reputable charities with shared interests, leveraging their public legitimacy in advocacy efforts. In the U.S., Uber has partnered with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) to undertake studies on the impact of ride-sharing on the incidence of impaired driving.

Licensing 10

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Many of the new developments have to do with broadening the science underpinning additive manufacturing. Another promising development is multi-jet fusion.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

What leadership position — perhaps that no one else wants — can you leverage to build connections and a solid professional reputation? A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. Maxwell Wessel.

Advice 13

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8