Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. He was right.

Hedge 16

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

Insurance 16

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Advice 16

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, Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. But consider the basics.

Debt to Equity Ratio 14

Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 14

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.

Innovation 9

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 9

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.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Michael Mauboussin doesn't write about innovation, but his clear writing that blends finance, strategy, and psychology puts him on my list. After all, Lafley's bent is to manage innovation in a systematic, disciplined way. He is one of the most thoughtful students of disruptive innovation you'll meet.

Innovation 16

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 16

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.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 15

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. Next on deck is his son, Matt, the CEO and portfolio manager; then me. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. But here's the rub.

Christensen 17

Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 17

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.

Mass Marketing 13

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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

Management 24

Management Emotional Intelligence Disruptive Innovation Finance 24

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. Virtually every industry is in the midst of massive upheaval, thanks to unprecedented applications of creativity, innovation, and imagination.

Innovation 10

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Strategy Creativity 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is a fascinating relationship between executives and the stock prices of the companies they manage. Next, compare the expectations of the market with those of management. Gaps between those sets of expectations supply management with a basis for decision making. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. Pandora''s future success is anything but assured, but they''ve managed to carve out significant share in a space that SiriusXM should have owned. Competition Disruptive innovation' The story is the same with Weight Watchers.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

Insurance 9

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. Patient capital. Maximize autonomy.

Company 12

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The answer may be that the innovator’s dilemma is no longer the only paradox at play in innovation management. During my time with Harvard Business School’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, we regularly referred to disruption as a problem of accounting and organizational design. The Old Dilemma.

Christensen 9

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 9

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. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts.

Christensen 18

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Steve Jobs’ successors are at least an order of magnitude more credible as disruptive innovators than the heirs of Ford and Sloan. According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. Engage executives in continuous small sprints.

Retail 15

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Merchandising 15

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.

Team 10

Team Sharpe Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

.” In this case, it’s also the scene of a fierce and long-running battle between Apple loyalists and skeptics , joined over the past couple of years by a few activist hedge fund managers badgering the company to give them more money. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance'

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Recent developments, such as falling solar panel prices and increases in efficiency rates (the rate at which sunlight hitting panels is turned into usable energy), have made distributed energy increasingly economical, while new business models and financing methods have made it more accessible. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Doyne Farmer , a Los-Alamos-National-Laboratory-scientist-turned-hedge-fund-manager-turned-Santa-Fe-Institute-professor, has bent over backwards not to be ignorant and arrogant about economics. So they moved on (Brock's Santa Fe affiliation ended in 2002). In recent years J.

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Though my friend recognizes that he was in part managing his own emotions, he didn't want to lose any sleep over his purchase by "optimizing cost over confidence." No company facing disruption likes to acknowledge that they can't win it all. A car is more than mileage, year, make and model (does it smell? does it ride smoothly?)

Retail 8

Retail Price Brand Competitive Advantage 8

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.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context. It’s not just products.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. But that’s just not true. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Attrition Business Model 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. Newcomers like Harry’s still represent only a fraction of the overall market , but they’ve captured the majority of the growth in that time—a defining feature of disruptive innovation. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Price competition hurts.

Brand 14

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. The average age of a traditional wealth management firm’s customer is in the mid 50’s. index funds). on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 14