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. The Old Dilemma.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Tony Mayo

JULY 26, 2010

CEO Executive Coaching Fees My Protein Shake Recipe One more question. 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

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Clayton Christensen has described his initial “aha” moment as the realization that firms actually abandon some of their best innovations and entrepreneurial initiatives because their customers say they don’t want it.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” By Patrick M.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

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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Article Christensen Taylorism Taylor 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management. Managers, of course, are among the great rule inventors and implementers of the world. What if managers changed their approaches and got that set of rules right? We are not the first to point out to economists that management makes a difference.

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Look around and you will see them: Individual CEOs and their boards deliberately deciding to take a stand. Management thinkers framing the greatest challenges of our time as human ones. ” Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

After 30 contentious months, Carol Bartz is out as the CEO of Yahoo. Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." His basic argument is that it is more effective to evaluate managers by looking at the situations they have been in than their track record of success.

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Christensen Price CEO Media 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Research suggests that eliminating unwarranted variations in medical care can reduce the cost of patient management by at least 35 percent. But while precision medicine is already extending lives and improving the quality of patients’ lives, the experts believe there is much to be done to expand its use.

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Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit. A string of professional managers had led the company straight off the edge of that cliff.

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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

And as usual, it reveals a lot about what managers around the world are thinking and worrying about right now. Reinventing Performance Management. The Best-Performing CEOs in the World. A CEO from Denmark kicked Jeff Bezos out of the top spot. Two regions of the brain are particularly important for managers.

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Article Christensen Disruptive Innovation Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox , Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. billion "managed print services" (MPS) industry ( according to research firm IDC ).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

As part of the fast-growing "managed print services" sector, the company shows organizations how to reduce the number of printers they use. There are a couple core answers to this question: First, as Xerox's CEO Ursula Burns replied when I asked her basically the same question, "Maybe, but someone else doing it is much worse."

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Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

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.”

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

If it’s the former, that question you raised will be carefully considered and may trigger ongoing discussion — and possibly action — by the company’s managers and leaders. Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

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.".

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

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. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. That’s an interesting question that I think far too many CEOs are probably struggling with right now; how do I deal with that? The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate. LARRY: Here it is.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Just four short years ago, GE CEO Jeff Immelt declared that “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.”

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

When asked recently to name the one attribute CEOs will need most to succeed in the turbulent times ahead, Michael Dell, the chief executive of Dell, Inc., Another of the respondents, McCormick & Company CEO Alan D. replied , “I would place my bet on curiosity.”

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Christensen Open-book CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

The business media lit up over the weekend with the news that Steve Ballmer, the college friend who worked alongside Bill Gates to build Microsoft and was heir to the CEO job, will step down within a year. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that. Well, guess what: it does.

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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. Next on deck is his son, Matt, the CEO and portfolio manager; then me. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. It felt like high school all over again, slipping into the adult equivalent of playing dumb.

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Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. 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.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job. At a recent industry conference, Bill Reichert , managing director of Garage Technology Ventures opined, "VCs do not invest with their brains.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models. He was completely right. Use your brain.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

And as Clayton Christensen described in The Innovator’s Dilemma , it can be very difficult for management teams and their organizations to acknowledge that the paradigm around them has changed, and instead of responding in an adaptive manner, too many organizations redouble their investments in legacy business models or technologies.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. 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., For example, the U.S.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

In the late 1990s, I went out to Intel about twenty times, educating about one hundred managers at a time on the principles and language of disruptive innovation. I am willing to bet that you'll get a range of different answers. Education played a critical role in helping Intel formulate and execute the Celeron strategy.

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). In the end, the disruptive company, think the Brownie camera creator of 1900, became the disrupted company one hundred and twelve years later. Totally upended. Just how does drift happen? What role did he play?

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Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The average hourly wage in management and technical consulting is $37.44; in legal services it’s $37.07. And look who’s winning that jobs race: As for the headline, yeah, yeah: most of the people in “management and technical consulting” jobs probably don’t have MBAs. An HBR Insight Center.

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Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 14

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. global information solutions company.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

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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).

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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

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. Managing the transition. There are indications that this is happening.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. And they point toward one key pathway for managing – and even thriving – in a VUCA world: renewables.

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Having signed shared-savings contracts with both commercial payers and Medicare, our CEO, Gary Gottlieb, established a Population Health Management unit. Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen has taught us this is not possible — that an organization will not cannibalize itself.

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