"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, transistor, and disposable diapers-reshaped industries and societies. Here's an adapted excerpt from the chapter on Julia Child. is a clinical professor of strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where his research and teaching focus on the adaptive challenges of disruptive change."
"Anthony previously spent more than twenty years at Innosight, a growth strategy consultancy founded by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Thinkers50 named Anthony the world's ninth most influential management thinker in 2023 and named him the world's leading innovative thinker in 2017. He is the author of Scott D. Anthony Epic Disruptions at HBR Press, out now."
Eleven disruptive innovations reshaped industries and societies, with examples spanning the transistor, the iPhone, and disposable diapers. Each innovation disrupted existing business models, altered consumer behavior, and generated new markets and economic opportunities. A case focused on Julia Child illustrates cultural influence and industry transformation through culinary media and changing consumer practices. Strategic and consulting experience informs analysis of adaptive challenges and how organizations respond to disruptive change. Recognition by global management rankings reflects influence in the field of innovation and disruption. Historical context and strategic responses trace pathways from invention to broad societal adoption.
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