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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. That vision prompted Danone to divest product lines such as biscuits and beer while broadening its core dairy franchise. The Transformation 10 Judges Chris Chadwick , former CEO of Boeing Defense. Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

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Apple Versus the Strategy Professors

Harvard Business Review

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.