Richard Foster

S-Curves of innovation, Creative Destruction (with Sarah Kaplan)

Former senior partner at McKinsey & Company and senior fellow at Yale School of Management. Built a track record advising boards on technological discontinuities, captured in his book 'Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage' (1986). Co-authored 'Creative Destruction' (2001) with Sarah Kaplan, arguing that long-lived firms systematically underperform the market by failing to shed and renew businesses at the pace of capital markets.