Steve Kaufman, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, discusses some of the lessons which can be gleaned from the rise and fall of Pandora, a popular radio streaming company that was acquired by Sirius XM for $3.5bn in January 2019. Over the course of two decades, Pandora destroyed over $1bn of value and never turned a profit. How did the company survive for so long? How can entrepreneurs learn from this situation, so as never to repeat Pandora's mistakes? [...]

Professor Derek van Bever, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, uses the LBM/RBM framework for business model innovation to understand the success of the Chewy acquisition by PetSmart. [...]

Professor Chet Huber discusses Apple’s recent announcements to enhance the capabilities of the new iPhones through the lens of Disruptive Innovation. While Apple continues to move up market, will its size and interdependent architecture be a challenge to innovation? Can Apple protect itself against market disrupters? [...]

Bob Moesta, co-architect of the Jobs To Be Done theory, explains how a fast-growing Boston startup called Toast, after identifying the struggling moments of restaurant owners, launched a mobile app that scaled into a cloud-based tech system. [...]

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn have predicted that within the next 15 – 20 years, at least 25% of colleges and universities are likely to merge, go bankrupt, or close. With the recent example of Hampshire College in mind, Michael (HBS Class of 2006 and Co-Founder of The Clayton Christensen Institute), considers current challenges facing many colleges, including the “perfect storm” of demographic changes, disruption in the form of online learning, and business models not well suited to current needs. Of these three, business model innovation may well be the most pressing and most crucial to sustaining future success. [...]