Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2020

Understanding these pieces is critical for strategy teams, product development units, and organizational leaders.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

In a recent article , I explored some of the flaws in the outwardly healthy-looking startup ecosystem. Focus on outcomes – Last, but not least, is to focus on what Clayton Christensen would refer to as the job the customer is trying to do. This can help provide insights that customers may struggle to articulate.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Forbes recently published our list [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Here is a brief article by Daniel Pink for LinkedIn PULSE: The news and insights you need to know in which he offers some observations about TED an then some advice to those who aspire to present a TED program. Briefly, TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 […].

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2020

A tribute from Christensen’s friend and colleague, Michael B.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

This week marks the release of Clayton Christensen's highly-anticipated book, How Will You Measure Your Life (with co-authors James Allworth and Karen Dillon). The book expands on Christensen's McKinsey-award-winning HBR article , drawing life lessons from the models that form the basis of his business-oriented writing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2020

The former editor of the Harvard Business Review remembers her esteemed colleague and friend.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Clayton Christensen and Michael Overdorf's "Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change" was published 12 years ago, but somehow seems even more relevant and prescient now than it did then. It was written not long before I became CEO of Google, and its message is one that truly influenced me as CEO — and continues to influence me today.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. He had a high level of self-esteem, of course. He was confident in his abilities.

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Tony Mayo

JULY 26, 2010

Christensen titled, “ How Will You Measure Your Life? &# Along with plenty of great advice for new graduates he shared some keen insights on executive coaching.

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Executive Coaching Execution Mayo Strategy 113

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Here are the 20 articles you and your fellow HBR readers spent the most time reading in 2015. Clay Christensen clarifies his theory. I’m biased, of course, but I think it’s a particularly good list this year. And as usual, it reveals a lot about what managers around the world are thinking and worrying about right now.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. This article, by the authors of the book, provides a good introduction to the topic: Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

In this article I explore three barriers to entrepreneurial action: resistance from within the firm, resistance from within the supply chain, and resistance from the customer. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Resistance from Within. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

For more, see the article Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption. The HBS sage and McKinsey head discuss how to stay on top in a rapidly changing industry. Download this podcast. Consulting Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Efosa Ojomo, global prosperity lead at the Clayton Christensen Institute, argues that international aid is not the best way to develop poor countries, nor are investments in natural resource extraction, outsourced labor, or incremental improvements to existing offerings for established customer bases.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Clayton Christensen , Harvard Business School Professor, explains how to approach innovation creatively by studying the problem you are trying to solve and how it was resolved by other industries. For more, see the article Surviving Disruption.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Add to this that more and more interfaces are standardized and subjected to competition (per Clay Christensen ) and we are seeing an emerging alphabet — components that can be assembled in endless combinations as manifestations of unique ideas. But again, the complex interactions require judgment, intuition, data, timing and experience.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author, discusses his new book and explains why it's essential to follow your commitments 100% of the time. For more, read his article, How Will You Measure Your Life?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

We’re glad to hear that you thought the article worked as an entire book. We wanted to make sure we gave enough in the article to get people interested in the book, but we obviously didn’t want to give away everything good in the article. That’s sort of what the article did. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 12, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from a brilliant article by posted by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer. To read the complete article and check out the wealth of resources, please click here. * * * Who is the most influential living management thinker? It is featured at the Thinkers50 website. That [.].

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 17, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Note: This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta, Managing Partner [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” Christensen, Raynor, and McDonald argue that Uber is not disruptive because it offers neither a low-end service, nor a new market. Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 1, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by James Allworth for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * The “zone.” ” Flow. Whatever you want to call it, at [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 15, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Anthony for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * “Make sure you ask the right questions at the right [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * I had just announced to one of my dearest friends that [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Here’s an article written by Bruce Upbin for Forbes magazine. To check out all the online resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscriptions information, please click here. * * * We’re proud to be publishing the first appearance of the World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies, a ranking that we hope to make an [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Over the course of the past few weeks, two articles crossed my desk touching on this issue. Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. The pace of disruption is changing. But the path of disruption is not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The article castigated companies for losing sight of the essence of their business, setting themselves up for challenges from competitors and, ultimately, for obsolescence. As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 4, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson for the Harvard Business Review blog.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 25, 2011

Here is an article written by Herb Schaffner for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network (March 23, 2011). To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Thousands of business books are published every year, so sometimes [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 22, 2011

Here is an article written by Donna Fenn for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. Ignore the dumb title. Only Steve Jobs can train himself to be the next Steve Jobs. He remains a work-in-progress, exploring and embracing (sometimes celebrating) whatever intrigues and delights him in ways and to the extent his circumstances permit.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As a business researcher, I was particularly interested in this recent article that referenced from his biography a list of Jobs's favorite books. That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. That one dark spot on Professor Christensen's prescience was always his predictions on Apple.

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