As the leader of one of the world’s first smartphone development projects, and having consulted for six years with Harvard Prof. Clayton Christensen as he translated his theory of disruptive ...

In his new book, Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025), Scott D. Anthony looks at how disruptive innovations—including the iPhone, ...

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The notion of disruptive innovation provides a welcome framework for considering the prospects for low-cost alternatives in American medicine. Such innovations as have been seen, however, are largely ...

A recent study and accompanying news story in the preeminent journal Nature provocatively concludes that disruptive innovation in science has dramatically and mysteriously declined 90% since 1945. The ...

The National Academies will host a workshop examining the current state of disruptive innovation and what future activities might be undertaken to better understand, assess, and accelerate scientific ...

A conversation with INSEAD professor Renée Mauborgne on how to spot a nondisruptive market opportunity and evaluate its potential. Disruptive innovation has proven to be such a powerful idea that the ...

More than a decade ago, business gurus were quick to label any idea or development that was mildly novel as "disruptive innovation." Originally coined by American academic and business consultant ...

Digital disruptors do not just come up with new, more valuable offerings for their customers, they often disrupt the fabric of society. We live in a digital era. And in contrast to earlier phases of ...

When we think of innovation, we often do so through the lens of "creative destruction". The phrase, which was memorably coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter, suggests that innovation typically ...