Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.". Clay observed that few people, if any, intend at the outset of their career to behave dishonestly and hurt others.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

in revenue per lawyer over the 5-year period from 2007-12. There’s no question that the legal industry is going through upheaval. Law schools are shuttering and powerful old firms have fallen. In comparison, a sample of 15 smaller, comparatively less known firms posted average growth in revenue per lawyer of 12.7% in the same period.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

And as Clayton Christensen wrote in a recent Nieman Report , those consumers are focused on getting jobs done. Three spring to mind: Red Bull launched Red Bull Media House in 2007. There's a perfect storm building that will give us all the chance to redeem ourselves, and change the course of advertising forever.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. For new growth, in 2007 Faber helped form a new business unit called Nutricia, anchored off a $17 billion acquisition, to pursue baby foods, protein bars, and health shakes. The Transformation 10 Judges Chris Chadwick , former CEO of Boeing Defense.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's Clayton Christensen's famous contribution to strategy , and you can certainly see elements of it in Apple's story. True, none of the company's three huge successes of the past 11 years (the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad) really fit Christensen's classic disruption model of starting at the low end and moving upmarket.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain. .” It’s tempting to think the third camp — reacting opportunistically to emerging possibilities — represents the field’s most recent thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

If this sounds familiar to some of you it is because we mentioned it to a BusinessWeek reporter in 2007, and IBM created a series of commercials with “innovation man” in them). We have nothing against spandex, and believe fun and play have a big role to play in a culture of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

By 2007 it broke through the barrier of 1 million active customers; 10 years later it had more than 10 million clients and about 800 branches. The banking industry in South Africa was no exception; for decades the industry was dominated by “the Big Four” (Standard, FNB, Nedbank, and Absa).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

It is a textbook example of what Clayton Christensen dubs a sustaining innovation , a product aimed at existing customers that improves on what went before it and is able to demand a premium price. In 2007, Christensen called the iPhone "a sustaining innovation relative to Nokia" and predicted that it would flop.

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