Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2020

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

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Christensen Review Innovation Article 14

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. The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership. Google prides itself on being a nimble and inventive company, even as it grows larger and larger.

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Article Christensen Taylorism Taylor 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Here are the 20 articles you and your fellow HBR readers spent the most time reading in 2015. You believe the right kind of leadership can make things better (the two leaders who made it onto this list — Novo Nordisk’s Lars Sørensen, our best-performing CEO of the year, and Pope Francis — are both proving that).

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Article Christensen Disruptive Innovation Comparison 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? 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.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

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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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

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. Personal leadership and character become more important.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

At this juncture, what you think, what you say, and how you show up — in effect, your leadership presence — can have a direct impact on those you are now leading and managing for the first time. Set a leadership values-based goal. Leadership presence is therefore an “and/both” versus an “either/or.”

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Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 15

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

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.” Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

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. Perhaps the root problem is leadership limitations. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

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.". The practice of mindful leadership gives you tools to measure and manage your life as you're living it.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15

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

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D., Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School. and Jason Hwang M.D.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. Read just a few of the articles — some of the buzzier ones have been a condemnation by The New Yorker ''s Nicholas Thompson, an incisive critique by Derek Thompson of The Atlantic , and a counterargument by Timothy Lee in The Washington Post.

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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the July-August 2010 edition of HBR, Clay Christensen wrote a remarkable article, How Will You Measure Your Life? As Christensen put it, "It's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time." Every situation is unique, but one's values can serve as a constant guide.

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Christensen Ethics Letter Finance 9

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state. via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 412

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. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Thirty years ago, in a period of hand-wringing over America’s economic competitiveness, Bob Hayes and Bill Abernathy published a clarion call of an article in HBR : “Managing Our Way to Economic Decline.” More recently, Clayton Christensen has outlined how managers’ acquired habits in allocating capital are putting capitalism itself at risk.

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” Dell was responding to a 2015 PwC survey of more than a thousand CEOs, a number of whom cited “curiosity” and “open-mindedness” as leadership traits that are becoming increasingly critical in challenging times. replied , “I would place my bet on curiosity.”

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Christensen Open-book CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents. For the cash-strapped Tesla, waning sales may cut short any hopes of securing a sustainable leadership position in a reinvented transportation industry.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life. The Transformation 10 Judges Chris Chadwick , former CEO of Boeing Defense. Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article , which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class. Leadership compensation. Environmental impact.

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Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 13

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. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. 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

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. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. 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

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. I’ll give a few examples, starting with his first HBR article but mostly concerning later work. (A One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.)

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. Information and authority flow in linked circles, with people taking on shifting roles as needed.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

While it might have been written as a treatise of what women could be doing to more of to gain more leadership positions in our organizations, and how we would all benefit from that happening, there was something else that stood out for me: it read as a pretty comprehensive list of things that the men have been doing wrong. The end result?

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Career Long-term Christensen Advice 8

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. One of the reasons for this is that leadership responsibilities begin in earnest at the age of 12.

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Management Covey Ulrich Christensen 9