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id: "quote-innovators-dilemma"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ The Rise of Chinese Competition", "¶8"]
tags: ["strategy", "disruption"]
related: ["concept-amc-innovators-dilemma"]
speaker: "Authors"
speakers: ["Anaeze C. Offodile II", "Kushal T. Kadakia", "Yashodhara Dash", "Whitney Snider", "Joseph C. Wu", "Selwyn M. Vickers"]
sources: ["tail2"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail2"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-tail-131-medical-drug-discovery"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/04/u-s-medical-centers-need-a-new-model-for-drug-discovery-and-development"
sourceTitle: "U.S. Medical Centers Need a New Model for Drug Discovery and Development"
---
# The AMC Innovator's Dilemma

> "For U.S. AMCs, the result is a once-in-a-century innovator's dilemma: when and how incumbents should abandon the business practices responsible for their past successes."

The defining statement of the strategic crisis analyzed in [[concept-amc-innovators-dilemma]]. Attributed to the article's authors collectively.