December 2012 Update: Surviving Disruption

Are you having trouble viewing this email? If so, click here to see it in a web browser. DECEMBER 2012 ISSUE MONTHLY UPDATE SUBSCRIBE TO HBR   |   VISIT HBR.ORG   |   READ THE DECEMBER 2012 ISSUE Surviving Disruption by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen Not every disruption annihilates every business in its path. Here's a systematic way to tell how much danger you're really in. Read the full article » SPOTLIGHT ON HOW TO MANAGE DISRUPTION Two Routes to Resilience by Clark Gilbert, Matthew Eyring, and Richard N. Foster When your business model is upended, you need to do two things: reposition your core, and launch a disruptive start-up of your own. Kiva the Disrupter by Mick Mountz Why is disruption so hard to pull off? Because it's not enough to envision the novel approach and bring it to market. You must also help customers deal with the risk of buying an unprecedented solution. ALSO IN THE DECEMBER ISSUE Your Company's History as a Leadership Tool by John T. Seaman Jr. and George David Smith A sophisticated understanding of the past is a powerful means of shaping the future. Who Can Fix the "Middle-Skills" Gap? by Thomas Kochan, David Finegold, and Paul Osterman Your company can—if it takes a leadership role in creating collaborative training programs. The Microwork Solution by Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats Outsourcing with a mission: breaking the cycle of poverty. Four Ways to Reinvent Service Delivery by Kamalini Ramdas, Elizabeth Teisberg, and Amy L. Tucker To unlock value for you and your customers, reconsider your basic assumptions about how and where you interact with them and what services they need. The CEO of Novartis on Growing After a Patent Cliff by Joseph Jimenez By moving quickly on three new initiatives, the pharmaceuticals division at Novartis avoided heavy revenue losses. What Panasonic Learned in China by Toshiro Wakayama, Junjiro Shintaku, and Tomofumi Amano How Panasonic embraces the tension between global integration and localization. ADVERTISEMENT NEW ON HBR.ORG Online and premium subscribers get access to exclusive HBR.org content. If you're not a subscriber, join today. AUDIO: How to Get the Right Job VIDEO: Hire for Personality INSIGHT CENTER: Putting Social Media to Work IDEA WATCH The Dark Side of Cross-Selling Wall Street Doesn't Understand Innovation Vision Statement: The Vitality of Cities COLUMNS Iqbal Quadir on The Mass Power of India's Other IT Sector Ronald Coase on Saving Economics from the Economists FROM THE HBR ARCHIVES Shaping Strategy in a World of Constant Disruption Disruptive Change: When Trying Harder Is Part of the Problem When Your Business Model Is in Trouble Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming FOLLOW HBR Introducing Mobile ManageMentor Powered by the proven content of Harvard ManageMentor™ iTunes >>   Android >> UNSUBSCRIBE   |   UPDATE YOUR PROFILE   |   MORE EMAIL NEWSLETTERS   |   PRIVACY POLICY Was this email forwarded to you? If so, sign up to start receiving your own copy. ABOUT THIS MAILING LIST You have received this message because you subscribed to the "HBR Monthly Update" email newsletter from Harvard Business Review. If at any point you wish to remove yourself from this list, change your email address, or sign up for other email newsletters and alerts, please visit the Harvard Business Review Email Newsletter Preference Center. OPT OUT If you do not wish to receive any email messages from Harvard Business Review, click here. ADVERTISE WITH HBR This enewsletter is read by thousands of decision makers every month. Learn more about connecting your brand with this audience. Copyright © 2012 Harvard Business School Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing | 60 Harvard Way | Boston, MA 02163 Customer Service: 800-545-7685 (+1-617-783-7600 outside the U.S. and Canada)