N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation. Bottom line…don’t be the CEO who causes your management team to continually say “the boss won’t go for that one.&# or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

Business Model 300

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 300

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Every winter, my colleagues and I invite CEOs of some of the world’s largest businesses to join our students at Stanford University. Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. Today’s Paradox.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

They represent the logical extension of a topic that’s captured the attention of a lot of great business minds for some time: the ongoing battle between those who view companies through the lens of building something, and those that view it through the lens of finance. Economy Finance' But what about everyone else?

Finance 10

Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

To start, here’s how things have gone for the main broad job categories (and three smaller ones of interest: finance, construction, and information) since 1980: The most remarkable line in the chart is education and health services, which just keeps rising and rising, paying no mind whatsoever to the rest of the economy.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Although this only concerns my personal finances, the fact that I serve as editor in chief of Harvard Business Review means I've implicitly accepted not only responsibility for defending the integrity of the institution, but also for having integrity myself. Every situation is unique, but one's values can serve as a constant guide.

Christensen 9

Christensen Ethics Letter Finance 9

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. Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. In Morten T.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

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