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Strategies for growth

• Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Law, "Measuring Emotional Jobs to Be Done," Branding Strategy Insider, February 11, 2020
• David Farber, "Avoiding Analysis Paralysis: When to Make a Decision," Medium, January 21, 2020
• David Farber, "Three Strategies for Becoming an Industry Game Changer," Medium, December 3, 2019
• David Farber, "How Insights Executives at Three Big Brands Are Driving Innovation," Medium, November 14, 2019
• David Farber, "Humanizing Your Brand: Why You Need To and How To Do It," Medium, October 28, 2019
• David Farber, "The Dwindling Shelf Life of Market Insights — And What To Do About It," Medium, June 28, 2019
• David Farber, "How to be More Agile as Competitive Advantages Fade," Medium, May 29, 2019
• David Farber, "Three Ways to Get Buy-in for Unsexy Projects," Medium, April 30, 2019
• David Farber, "The 10 Reasons People Buy New Products," Medium, March 26, 2019
• David Farber, "The Myth of the First-Mover Advantage: Why to be Smarter, Not Faster," Medium, February 12, 2019
• David Farber, "Why Private Label Products Will Be the Savior of Retail," Medium, January 15, 2019
• Jennifer Luo Law, "Where is the innovation for the 90%?" LinkedIn, January 30, 2019
• David Farber, "Why Consicous Customers Should Have You Rethinking Your Next Innovation," Medium, November 6, 2018
• Jennifer Luo Law, "Three Quick Exercises to Jump-Start Innovation," LinkedIn, November 5, 2018
• ​David Farber, "Five Steps for Creating Customer Journey Maps You Can Actually Use," Medium, October 11, 2018
• Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Luo Law, "Don't Stress: When Doing and Spending Less Can Help Your Business Get Ahead," ChangeThis, October 10, 2018
• Stephen Wunker, "Three Innovation Commandments for Building Sleek, Low-Cost Businesses," Forbes, October 8, 2018
• Jennifer Luo Law, "Drive down costs with more customer-centric innovation," American Management Association, September 27, 2018
• Jennifer Luo Law, "Apple launched three new iPhones. And no new ideas," Medium, September 12, 2018
• Stephen Wunker, "Why Apple Needs Less iPhone X And More Costovation," Forbes, September 5, 2018
• Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Luo Law, "20 Strategies for Innovating Lower Cost Business," Branding Strategy Insider, August 28, 2018
• Jennifer Luo Law, "How to create breakthrough customer experiences without breaking the bank," CustomerThink, August 14, 2018
• Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Luo Law, "Doing less for your customers can make them love you more," LinkedIn Weekend Essay, August 10, 2018
• David Farber, "Three Pieces of Advice from Venture Capitalists and Top Executives," Medium, July 12, 2018
• David Farber, "Three Lessons from the Success of Nest's Smart Thermostats," Medium, June 12, 2018
• Stephen Wunker, "Three Steps To Comparing Growth Opportunities Using Jobs To Be Done," Forbes, May 18, 2018
• David Farber, "True Innovation or Marketing Gimmick: A Deeper Look at Pink Gin," Medium, March 30, 2018
• Stephen Wunker and David Farber, “A Winning Formula: Disruptive Innovation + Jobs to be Done,” Rotman Management, Winter 2018
• David Farber, "How to Bypass 3 Common Traps for Startups," Medium, November 6, 2017
• David Farber, "What We Overlook About How Customers Make Decisions," Medium, June 22, 2017
• David Farber, "What Top Beverage Executives Are Saying About How to Build a Brand," Medium, May 2, 2017
• David Farber, “Three Innovation Lessons from Boston’s Women-Led Startups,” Medium, March 21, 2017
• David Farber, "How One Company Keeps Changing the Game by Selling the Same Thing," Medium, ​February 8, 2017 
• David Farber, "What Twitter’s Newest Decision on Vine Teaches Us About Strategy," Medium, ​January 17, 2017 
• Steve Wunker and David Farber, "Bridging the gap: Learn to sell what your customers are trying to buy," Canvas, December 23, 2016
• Stephen Wunker, "How Companies Should Invest in Highly Uncertain Times," Forbes, November 10, 2016
• Stephen Wunker, "Four Lessons For Marketers From The Massive Election Misforecast," Forbes, November 9, 2016
• ​​Stephen Wunker and David Farber, "Dispelling Three Common Myths About 'Jobs to be Done'," Forbes, October 31, 2016
• David Farber, "Why Snapchat is Soaring While Twitter is Stumbling," Medium, October 2016
• David Farber, "The Real Reason Snapchat's Spectacles Can Fare Better Than Google Glass," Medium, September 2016
• Jennifer Law, "More is not always better: Lessons about innovating while cutting costs," Small Business Forum, September 2016
• David Farber, "How Amazon's Battle with Netflix is Teaching us to Rethink Competition," JTBD.info, August 2016
• David Farber, "How Ford Learned That Uncovering a Job to be Done is Only Part of the Battle," JTBD.info, July 2016
• ​Steve Wunker and David Farber, "Why Companies Need Corporate Futurists But Will Fire Them Anyway," Forbes, April 2016
• David Farber, "What Jobs to be Done Predicts for the Future of Food," Medium, February 2016
• David Farber, "How Netflix Socks Proves That Innovation Isn't About Complicated Ideas," Medium, February 2016
• Stephen Wunker and David Farber, "How T-Mobile Binge On Fits The Company's Three Part Strategy," Forbes, November 2015​
• Stephen Wunker, "Five Approaches When You Need Costovation, Not Innovation," Forbes, December 2013
• Stephen Wunker, "Sizing New Markets -- Five Solutions and Four Traps," Forbes, November 2013
• Stephen Wunker, "Five Lessons From Better Place's Collapse," Forbes, May 2013
• Stephen Wunker, "Making Revolutionary Ideas Simple," Forbes, July 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "Better Growth Decisions: early mover, fast follower or late follower?" Strategy & Leadership, No. 4, Iss. 2
• Stephen Wunker, "Titanic's Seven Lessons for Fast-Moving Firms," Forbes, April 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "Fiat's Smart U.S. Launch Strategy -- Really," Harvard Business Review, February 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "Growing Big by Targeting Small," Ivey Business Journal, February 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use," Harvard Business Review, January 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "Achieving Growth by Setting New Strategies for New Markets," Ivey Business Journal, November 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Why Peter Drucker Distrusted Facts," Harvard Business Review, November 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "The Jeff Bezos Formula for Asymmetric Competition," Forbes, September 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "How to Capture a New Market," Change This, September 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Does Your Company Have Motorola Disease?" Forbes, August 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Five Rules for Innovating in a Shaky Economy," Harvard Business Review, August 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Case Study: Walgreens," Financial Times, August 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "In Praise of Going it Alone," Harvard Business Review, July 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "The New War on Science," The New Republic, July 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Barnes & Noble's Smart Strategy," Harvard Business Review, June 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Capturing New Markets," TEDxBayArea, June 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "What the Special Forces Can Teach Us About New Markets," Business Insider, June 2011
• Darren Coleman, "Service Brand Identity: Construct Dimensionality and Influence on Brand Performance," Midlands Doctoral Colloquium, June 2009
• Darren Coleman, Leslie de Chernatony and George Christodoulides, "Service Brand Identity:  Scale Development and Validation," 5th Thought Leaders International Conference on Brand Management, April 2009
• Stephen Wunker, “In Need of an Innovation Fill-Up,” Innovator’s Insight, 2008
• Stephen Wunker, “Industry Consolidation as the Canary in the Coalmine, Innovator’s Insight, 2008
• Steve Wunker, "Choosing the Path to Market Penetration," Strategy & Innovation, November / December 2006
• Stephen Wunker, "Get the Job Done," Harvard Business Online, August 2005

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Bolstering innovativeness

• David Farber, "Avoiding Analysis Paralysis: When to Make a Decision" Medium, January 21, 2020
• David Farber, "Five Ways to Fight the Inertia Holding Back Innovation," Medium, December 10, 2018
• David Farber, "When Creative Destruction is the Right (or Wrong) Foundation for Innovation," Medium, August 20, 2018
• David Farber, "Why Innovation Isn't Everyone's Job," Medium, April 20, 2018
• Stephen Wunker, "The Iron Triangle That Shackles Innovation," Forbes, December 2015
• Stephen Wunker, "Growth Platforms, Not Idea Competitions, Drive Innovation," Forbes, September 2015
• Stephen Wunker and David Farber, "Five Strategies Big Businesses Use to Build A Culture of Innovation," Forbes, July 2015
• Stephen Wunker, "Innovation Zombies, and Other Hazards For Great Ideas," Forbes, June 2013
• Stephen Wunker, "Asking the Right Question," Forbes, December 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "Seven Signs of a Successful Incubator," Forbes, December 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "Six Steps to Put Christensen's Jobs-to-be-Done Theory into Practice," Forbes, February 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "How to Keep Big Ideas Big," Forbes, October 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "What Zipcar Can Teach the S&P 500," Harvard Business Review, May 2011
• Scott D. Anthony, Steven Fransblow and Steve Wunker, "Measuring the Black Box," Chief Executive, December 2007
• Steve Wunker, "Incubating Innovation:  Three Guiding Principles for Success," Strategy & Innovation, October 2007
• Stephen Wunker and George Pohle, "Built for Innovation," Forbes, October 2007
• Stephen Wunker, Inovação: Quebrando Paradigmas para Vencer (book chapter), Saraiva: 2007
• Steve Wunker and Natalie Painchaud, "A Culture of Innovation: Separating Myths from Truths," Strategy & Innovation, February 2006

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Social innovation

• Sanjay Gurung, Sasha Muench, and Jessica Wattman, Visibility and Vulnerability:  Understanding Instability and Opportunity in Myanmar, MercyCorps, May 2014
• Stephen Wunker, "After the Budget Deal, How Government Can Support Market Creation, Cheaply," Forbes, August 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "The New War on Science," The New Republic, July 2011
• Jessica Wattman, Dangerous Diasporas: Emigre Nationalism and Ethnic Violence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010
• Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen Wunker, and Hari Nair, "Innovation vs. Poverty," Forbes, October 2008

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Winning in Emerging Markets

• Stephen Wunker, "Four Lessons for Wal-Mart on Corruption in Emerging Markets," Forbes, April 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "A Foothold Market -- In Rickshaws," Forbes, January 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "How the Vespa Became Vietnamese," Forbes, November 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Fundamental Changes in How Emerging Markets Innovate," Forbes, September 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "The iPhone's Struggle in Emerging Markets," Forbes, August 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "The First Customers," The Conference Board Review, Summer 2011
• Steve Wunker, "Innovation in Emerging Markets," Strategy & Innovation, July / August 2006

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New Markets in Healthcare

• Stephen Wunker, "How the Swasthya Slate is Revolutionizing Healthcare, and Why it Steers Clear of the US," Forbes, November 22, 2014
• Stephen Wunker, "Health Insurance Exchanges And The Innovator's Dilemma--Is The Future Costovation?" Forbes, ​December 2013
• Stephen Wunker, "A New Age for Healthcare Kiosks: Five Ways Next Generation Kiosks Disrupt Medicine and Healthcare Marketing," Forbes, July 2013
• Stephen Wunker, "Healthcare's Elusive Economic Customers," Forbes, March 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "Genetic Testing, Electric Cars, and Powerful Intermediaries," Forbes, November 2011
• Steve Wunker and Joe Sinfield, "Early Market Testing Can Benefit Healthcare," BusinessWeek, November 2009
• Kevin Bolen, Jason Hwang and Stephen Wunker, "Swallowing the Innovator's Rx," Pharmaceutical Executive, July 2009
• Stephen Wunker and Matt Eyring, "Speak to Me," Inside Healthcare, June 2009
• Stephen Wunker and Andrew Waldeck, "Resuscitating the Hospital Business Model," Hospital and Health Networks, May 2009
• Stephen Wunker and David Duncan, "Health Plans: Disrupt and Prosper," Managed Care, January 2009
• Stephen Wunker, "CVS Caremark, Walgreen Attempt to Connect the Dots," Innovator's Insight, 2008 
• Stephen Wunker, "Retail Healthcare: Disruptive Innovation Begins," Novartis Practice for Patients, Vol. 1, Issue 3
• Clayton Christensen, Charles McLaughlin and Steve Wunker, "The Road to Nowhere," Pharmaceutical Executive, April 2006

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New Markets in Financial Services

• Stephen Wunker, "Disruptive Innovation:  Keys to Surviving It and Thriving from It," Insurance Journal, January 2007
• Steve Wunker, "Organic Growth through Innovation," US Banker, November 2006

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New Markets in tech and telecom

• David Farber, "Why the Newest EdTech Companies are Focusing on the Oldest Problems," Medium, ​December 15, 2016 
• ​Stephen Wunker and David Farber, "How T-Mobile Binge On Fits The Company's Three Part Strategy," Forbes, November 2015
• Stephen Wunker, "Apple's Business Model Vulnerability, Exposed by a French Upstart," Forbes, April 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "$13.9 Billion Gone, and the Wireless Disruption Has Just Begun," Forbes, February 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "Why Samsung is Betting $41 Billion in Turbulent Times," Forbes, January 2012
• Stephen Wunker, "RIM's Innovator's Dilemma, and Two Routes Out," Forbes, October 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Why Apple's Amazing Siri May Herald the End of the iPhone," Forbes, October 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Why Apple, Not Private Equity, Could Be Best For Yahoo," Forbes, October 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Is Google Too Rushed to Pioneer?" Forbes, August 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Four Morals from MySpace's Fall," Forbes, July 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Six Lessons from the New Tech Titans," Forbes, July 2011
• Stephen Wunker, "Why Nokia Bought Symbian, Then Gave It Away," Harvard Business Online, 2008
• Stephen Wunker, "Good Call," Harvard Business Online, January 2005
• Steve Wunker, "Beyond the Mobile Hype Curve," New Media Age, January 2002
• Steve Wunker, Mobile Marketing: The Message Revolution (book foreword), Kogan Page: 2002
• Steve Wunker, "More than a One Hit Wonder?," Marketing Week, September 2001
• Steve Wunker, "Lessons that Wireless Marketers Need to Learn," New Media Age, September 2001
• Steve Wunker and Andrew Hughes, "Mobile Marketing -- The Next Big Thing and How to Use It," Admap:  The Journal of the World Advertising Research Council, February 2001

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