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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? Here’s the fundamental problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation. They lock themselves into one type of strategy and say, “This is how we innovate.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". But in thinking it through, I did eventually end up with a highly personal list I call " The Masters of Innovation " (which appears in my latest book ). To see my selections, click here. So what makes a Master?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. It was better cars, with better financing options. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Closed car models. Annual model changes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. The race for the middle.

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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. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2019

Citigroup leading analyst Ronit Ghose, Lemonade Insurance founder and CEO Daniel Schreiber, and OakNorth Bank founder and CEO Rishi Khosla discuss the new possibilities that AI offers the finance industry. Those who manage to use this emerging technology to reduce friction for customers will win.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

You might see this fledgling business (Mine Kafon is being prototyped and tested now, thanks to a fully funded Kickstarter campaign to finance its development) as a brilliant act of business strategy. He’s an innovator. Today’s rules are simple: Disrupt or be disrupted. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

As we explain in Reverse Innovation in Health Care , Narayana Health’s founder, Dr. Devi Shetty, wanted to disrupt U.S. ” Narayana Health brought innovative practices honed in India to HCCI to offer first-rate care for 25-40% of U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” For senior management in insurance, and any other industry, the big question concerning digital disruption is not If, but When. Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2021

Cryptocurrencies are fueling the emergence of decentralized finance. What is it, how does it work, and who will benefit?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Denmark, for example, has catalyzed the creation of its electric vehicle infrastructure through progressive tax policy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In my experience, most CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite executives involved in strategy formulation know these finance basics. (Or, Financing needs are in large part driven by the cash on hand and the working capital required to conduct and grow the business. Or, they learn fast after a few investor meetings.) But consider the basics.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. These things result in his brain being worked more than mine, and over time, innovative ideas being formed in his brain, not mine. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

If the public sector is to realize the full potential of digital technology to transform public finances and even kickstart national economic growth, governments will have to move beyond streamlining services and cutting red-tape for entrepreneurs. No matter how innovative a new technology is, it’s not automatically profitable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We don’t know enough of its finances to know precisely how successful it has been, but with tens of millions of viewers and sponsorship packages north of $2 million, it is a good bet that ESPN has done well on its bet. The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation.

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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. CreateSpace — a self-publishing solution that disrupts traditional publishing houses. Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. But like disruption before it, the zeitgeist around lean has in some ways grown apart from the power and purpose of the idea. But you how do you get there? You can''t just ask for it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

With traditional sources of financing unavailable, Kellond raised her first round of capital ($408,000) on Kickstarter — the ultimate in creative financing. Think about it — disruptive innovation is about playing where no one wants to play (low-end), or has thought of playing (new market).

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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. Disrupting How We Work. Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” For senior management in insurance, and any other industry, the big question concerning digital disruption is not If, but When. Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

Meanwhile, Quicken did the right thing when they bought Mint.com , a free threat to their personal finance software. Competition Disruptive innovation' Instead, MyFitnessPal''s user based has climbed to over 30 million users and Weight Watchers is scrambling. Is it the right move for every company dealing with the threat?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Apple fanboys and Samsung’s “Next Big Thing”ers would hoot with derisive laughter if The Wall Street Journal or Financial Times reported that GM or Ford planned to rewrite the rules of smartphone innovation. They should. Could Sir Jonny Ive be the next Battista Pininfarina , Harley Earl, or Akihiro Nagaya ?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

As a liberal arts major with very limited exposure to business or finance, I found the stock market fascinating but bewildering. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. Even today, twenty-five years later, a well-executed market-signals analysis provides management with a great deal of insight. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. But putting together a great team is tricky.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

taxpayers have done far more to enable Apple’s innovations — by funding research through DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in particular — than shareholders, who contributed around $100 million in the company’s early days but have since gotten that back many times over in buybacks and repurchases.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

competition from one-year, more focused courses (such as one-year degrees in finance, which are increasingly popular); and the ability to obtain somewhat substitutable credentials of other kinds. Executive education, to me, is at the forefront of innovation in how the study of business and the practice of business can be mutually informed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The conviction spread that, thanks in part to financial innovation, the world's developed economies had become more resilient even as financial markets became more volatile. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S. and Europe, though (and Japan's long struggles were seen as the product of peculiarly Japanese economic traits).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A series of conversations on influential management ideas from HBR’s first 100 years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces.

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