Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. In their 2009 award-winning Harvard Business Review article, " The Innovator's DNA " (soon to be a book ), Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen discussed how successful innovators tend to be careful observers.

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Innovation Licensing Christensen Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. And while it has certainly burned many buyers of Amazon shares through the years — Amazon's stock price took a decade to get back to its 2009 peak — the long-run returns have been spectacular. In Morten T. Nice timing, huh?

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. How can the United States achieve a better record in the future? The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. But real markets are much more precise.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

When Clay Christensen, his son Matt, and I first launched Rose Park Advisors, we considered bringing on investors at the GP (general partner) level. My abilities were market-tested, validated by bulge bracket firms. Love your returns. need someone on the team who's 40-45, a little grey hair, with financial services experience.".

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In 2006, I started my personal blog, Dare to Dream , and in 2009, I began blogging for Harvard Business Review, both of which accomplished the task of getting published and "finding my voice." Moesta, the " milkshake guy " referred to by Clayton Christensen, examines the forces that drive people to purchase new products and services.

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Media Christensen Learning-by-Doing Blog 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., renewables are getting cheaper than fossil fuels ) and global peer pressure.” ” Even these significant achievements are insufficient.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. And these investments do not even include those incurred in building, promoting, and marketing the new Kindle Fire product whose sales have yet to be counted at all. Which begs the question, should Amazon really be punished for this?

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Four years ago Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted that online education would take off slowly and then hit everyone by surprise: the S-curve effect. million students took at least one web-based class during the fall 2009 semester, which marked a 21% growth from the previous year.

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Education Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 15