Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

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Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

CEOs of competing automakers are reassured to see a large group of consumers getting excited about purchasing cars again. This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. As Ford CEO, Mark Fields, explained to The Verge : “Our approach is to first disrupt ourselves.”

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Look around and you will see them: Individual CEOs and their boards deliberately deciding to take a stand. This is part of why Larry Fink’s open letter to CEOs , sent on the occasion of his investment company BlackRock’s 30th anniversary, has generated such acclaim.

Drucker 13

Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

I had begun to focus too much on impressing other people and positioning myself to become CEO. 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.".

Christensen 14

Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Within that structure, questioning by employees can be perceived as a challenge to authority. How can a company create an environment where people are more inclined to question?

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . Usually, startup success means hiring a “professional CEO,” so domain expertise also means you have the option of staying on at your company and learning the CEO ropes. Other risk-mitigation strategies . Equity — When given the chance, take some money off the table.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. Because when these innovations show up, they are better and cheaper right from the start.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen identify five "discovery skills" that make for innovative mindsets: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking. Once the candidate has devised a strategy, have her present it to your team as if she is presenting to the CEO.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. I do agree with your basic premise though.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

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. However, in the process of unleashing this potential, leaders must make sure their innovators develop sustainability.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. In Morten T. Most turn out not to.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

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., Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman has said his company loses roughly €400 million annually from climate change and extreme weather.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

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. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

Innovation 9

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. For example, the outposts of a pharma company develop and distribute a company-wide newsletter of the latest trends and news from the hotspot. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. As long making the right decision on a short-term basis (trying to drive more value out of outdated infrastructure) is the wrong decision on a long-term basis (failing to adopt new technology platforms), CEOs are destined to struggle.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

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. the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). Our group welcomes the competition.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

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. They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. HP rise had been remarkable. A billion dollars kind of became a mantra.".

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

(See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. There are examples of universities forging ahead. As one university trustee said to me, “We need to get in the game.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years. Develop a shared innovation philosophy.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Pressure has never been greater on CEOs to create organic, sustainable growth. R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. These approaches are often beyond the reach of traditional marketing mindsets and practices — that's why I'm addressing the CEO. Find your customer product developers.

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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Nathaniel Koloc, the CEO of ReWork , which provides recruiting services to companies that offer purposeful work, says that’s because no one really ever teaches us how: “Very few parents, teachers, and mentors urge us to think about this or give us mental models to use,” he says. Christensen. What the Experts Say.

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

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. So she wrote a memo to the CEO explaining why gender balance is good for business. If you say we should, let’s do it. Initially there was no buy-in.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

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. These misconceptions lead CEOs and other would-be change agents to underestimate the challenges arising from holacracy.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

CEOs and organization leaders who read only his column (or worse, only the title) and split HR as he suggests, will make a serious mistake that will destroy value for their shareholders and constituents. Lets be clear. Ram Charans recommendation is wrong. While he may be wrong, he may also be as wise as Solomon.

Charan 13

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

He talked about how they hire — and fire — on their core values, how they'd developed and refined those values over the course of several years, and how their company mission was grounded in the latest science of what makes people happy. In fact, he said, their primary business wasn't even delivering shoes or clothing.

Conference 15

Conference Mission Statement Christensen Rogers 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. The technology (browser-based apps and "cloud" infrastructure) for these apps didn't exist five years ago, according to Steve Christensen, CEO of Babbleware. In a previous post, I described how MITRE, which manages five research and development centers for the U.S.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. In response, I usually tell the following story.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

After a successful career as a corporate consultant, he became the Director of Economic Development for Rhode Island, a cabinet level position, where he saw the opportunity to put his ideas into action and create innovation at scale. American Express has developed “Small Business Saturday.” The contrast is stark.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation strives to develop innovative solutions, both for the unique challenges faced by the nation, but also those of the wider world. Curating inspiration. So what lessons can be learned from both countries?

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz offered an even more direct broadside. And Clay Christensen talked about the increasing pace of disruption across all sectors. It's not the America we were promised."

Politics 8

Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8