Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Companies with a clear purpose include Patagonia, Ikea, Nike, and Southwest. In his McKinsey Award winning 2010 HBR Article, " How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen writes, "Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life's strategy." The bad news is that you're lost."

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

This begs an interesting question: Do we act more ethically when we become leaders of companies because of the tacit expectations (and heightened risks)? In the July-August 2010 edition of HBR, Clay Christensen wrote a remarkable article, How Will You Measure Your Life? Life is full of ethical dilemmas.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

pace in the first quarter of 2010. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. That was down from 9.7%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. The latest set of contracts, penned in 2010 , have run aground due to haggling over Chinese access to oil blocks and the threat of unfavorable regulation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. The latest set of contracts, penned in 2010 , have run aground due to haggling over Chinese access to oil blocks and the threat of unfavorable regulation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Consider it a summary of what's on my mind as 2010 comes to a close. How a company creates, captures, and delivers value; codifying the current business model is the critical first step of business model innovation. How do you define innovation? Something different that has impact. What are different types of innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. in 2010, and HP has been criticized for a decade-long R&D slide.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. Beyond drawing individual lessons from the book, corporate leaders should turn the central framing question on their organizations — asking how they will measure their company's lives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

After some introspection, she agreed to head up Clayton Christensen’s venture fund, Rose Park Advisors , to help companies grow. Experiment : Every company has someone somewhere doing non-commissioned work. Why don’t you try to find a few of those people in your company and give them some time to focus on that work?

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