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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Marketing Innovation Christensen Company 8

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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Disruptive Innovation Definition Innovation Christensen 8

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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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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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

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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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

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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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

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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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 17

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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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

One of Sulzberger's utterances — "a New York Times article is tweeted every four seconds" — is itself tweeted every 10 seconds for an hour or two. Breyer (who is Schoendorf's partner at Accel, a VC firm that appears headed for survival) at one point does say that "content developers are better off than ever before."

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Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 14

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.". Early on, even Bernie Madoff and Enron's Jeff Skilling planned to live honest lives.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

” Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

” That’s a concept Drucker introduced in a 1994 HBR article that in fact never mentions the term business model. This approach begins by focusing on the customer value proposition — what Christensen calls the customer’s “job-to-be-done.” That is it may be new in either end.”

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Precise definition of the problem, in this and in every industry, is a prerequisite to the development of a predictably effective solution. xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D., Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School. In the past, business model innovation was common in health care.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. ” [Ford Smart Mobility’s] role is to design, develop, build, invest, and grow these mobility services. Here is the problem: none of the three disruptors I have outlined here are traditional Christensen-style innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

” Judging by the headlines and opening lines of recent articles and business books, digital is about to disrupt your industry and you with it – unless you act now (and buy the book). Digital is changing the nature of competitive advantage in many businesses – just like major technological developments have done before.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Help connect work deliverables or professional development to what’s happening at the organizational level. As professor Clayton Christensen writes in his classic HBR article, “ How Will You Measure Your Life? Don’t dilute your message. Instead, make it more powerful by sharing more about the context.

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Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In January 1980, Harvard's Ted Levitt wrote an article titled " Marketing Success Through Differentiation of Anything." Decades later, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expanded on this concept by putting structure around the augmented product. This isn't meant to be one of those articles. And it shows in profit.

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Levitt Succession Wireless Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

A number of scholars at Harvard Business School have gotten in on the act, studying how crowds solve problems in new product development, scientific breakthroughs, and even trying to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. This response was in marked contrast with other open source situations, but very much in line with HBS culture.

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Christensen Open-book Software Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

In this month's HBR magazine , Clayton Christensen and I explained how corporate executives and strategists can use a framework to evaluate the speed and scope of disruption. The article, Surviving Disruption, outlines how not all waves of disruption are uniform. Well, actually, I bought three. You might wonder why this is noteworthy.

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Retail Apparel Christensen Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

The article (it's behind a seemingly unbreachable paywall) has acquired the reputation of having marked the end of the dot-com boom. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. The Burn Rate 51 was made up mostly of now-forgotten companies like drkoop.com and CDNow.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. Orchestrating a communications campaign with blogs, articles, and video interviews with internal innovators.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. This was the core thesis of the first article in this series. He was completely right.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

For instance, a recent study of 100 product development teams found that two common disruptors of team harmony, namely diversity and task uncertainty, were positively associated with creative performance. Give the team a chance to settle. Sometimes there is no substitute for the passage of time.

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. Fourth, a focus on developing leaders. As one data point, while something in the range of 1.9% of the U.S.

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Management Covey Ulrich Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Finally, we need to develop training programs that give leaders the necessary skills to master the paradoxes that increasingly appear on management's agenda. One book that I'm looking forward to reading next year on this topic is Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton Christensen's work on The Innovator's DNA.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry. The group developed an internal “Get Connected” manifesto that helped guide and leverage the web at IBM.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

For the sake of this article, we can assume that much to be a fact of life. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant.

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. At EMC, we make up for the staffing shortfall by assigning all our consultants to an “office development” team, such as recruiting, training and onboarding, knowledge management, or social committee.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. Conceivably.

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Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

That''s partly because, as Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman, and Willy Shih wrote in the 2008 HBR article "Innovation Killers," standard financial metrics make new investments look much less attractive than existing business lines. Most of today''s new owners appear to be looking for something out of the investment beyond profit.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. Forbes.com uses external bloggers (not just internal staff) to write articles. The technology (browser-based apps and "cloud" infrastructure) for these apps didn't exist five years ago, according to Steve Christensen, CEO of Babbleware.

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