Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. Leverage technology to allow diagnoses to be made, in many cases, at the initial point of care. As Harvard Business School professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Consider the recent case of The New Republic , in which a new, disruptive CEO came in and vowed to “break s**t.” However, Lepore does Christensen’s work a tremendous disservice. So Christensen’s work was in no way an attack, but in fact an acknowledgement of the shortcomings of his own profession.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Look around and you will see them: Individual CEOs and their boards deliberately deciding to take a stand. Witness the shift that is taking place in the global conversation about artificial intelligence and other advanced digital technologies. Like any social movement, this one has started with many people starting small fires.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets.

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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." Sales were flat and Yahoo managed to lose its allure as a technology focused organization. But should they be?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

But if you’re seeking a CEO for a surgical device company, an MD may not be your best choice. Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period. Matthew Dent/Getty Images. If you need an appendectomy, call a surgeon.

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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.

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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. So the big lesson other CEOs should take away from this public trial is a cautionary one: this is how you, too, will be judged.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

This week, over 10,000 entrepreneurs and investors will descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive , hoping to be or to find the next big thing in technology. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

As CEO Dave Steiner put it, "When your company is called Waste Management, and your customers all talk about 'zero waste,' you better change your business model.". The wisdom of such a strategy has been discussed in business circles for years, most notably in the work of Harvard's Clayton Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

He argues more broadly that all the “low-hanging fruit” produced by some non-repeatable breakthroughs (including fundamental technological triumphs) has been plucked. An impassioned counterargument comes from Erik Brynolfsson and Andy McAfee of MIT, who reject the premise that technology’s big leaps are all behind us.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

But rhyming is different from predicting and the analysts' forecasts remain vulnerable to exogenous shocks and the disruptive technologies described so well in Clayton Christensen's work, The Innovator's Dilemma. As The Economist described it: "Samsung tiptoes into the technology to get familiar with it, then waits for its moment.

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Strategy Christensen Technology Long-term 8

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. But here's the rub. To get women talking, here are three suggestions: 1) Invert the listen/talk ratio.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. They worked with little coordination and control from HQ.

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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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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. A group inside his office, New Urban Mechanics , is charged with coming up with different technological solutions to city problems. He was completely right.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions. Professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

A quick background on the players: the Summit was thrown by a new organization dedicated to green business leadership, with events aided mightily by friend and colleague, the uber-connected Aimee Christensen. CWR's goal is also to find large-scale technologies and strategies for tackling climate change.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. link] Bill Wood Okay, I reposted your piece on CEO strategy direction.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

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.

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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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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. The technology was great. The technology was remarkable and it could fit into your pocket. HP rise had been remarkable. Their ideas made sense. But they still failed.

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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. Diversity. billion hit to earnings).

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First, the education market overall clearly fits Clayton Christensen's disruption theory : the seemingly inferior (but less costly) online education experience is coming from below and gradually encroaching on the for-now-superior-but-fat-and-happy classroom world. Nitin Nohria, Tom Tierney (then-CEO of Bain & Co.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Because of my Institutional Investor ranking, and advances in technology that made virtual co-location possible, I was able to persuade Merrill Lynch to let me work out of my home in Boston. After leaving Merrill Lynch, I co-founded Rose Park Advisors with Clay Christensen, veering ever closer to independence.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever predicted the disruption of elite consulting firms. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Richard Rumelt co-conducted by Dan P. Lovallo and Lenny T. Mendonca and featured by McKinzey & Company’s McKinsey Quarterly (November 2007).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Though the CEO may be driving, anyone sitting on the bow can get a direct line to the captain to suggest a change of direction. As Clay Christensen often points out, successful companies are designed to capitalize on sustaining innovations that jibe with their existing business models. What about a novel technology partnership?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Venture capitalist Chris Dixons declaration , after plunking $50 million down on Buzzfeed, that he was investing in a technology company has been causing a bit of head-scratching and gentle mockery in media circles. When Buzzfeed editors do it, its technology. Which you could, with some justification, call a technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Pressure has never been greater on CEOs to create organic, sustainable growth. These approaches are often beyond the reach of traditional marketing mindsets and practices — that's why I'm addressing the CEO. One place business leaders are not looking for reliable help with this challenge? Their marketing departments.

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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. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. Barksdale was the veteran of IBM, FedEx and AT&T Wireless (he mostly worked at it when it was called McCaw Cellular) who was brought on a few months after Netscape’s founding to provide adult supervision as its CEO. Newspapers have been unbundled by blogs and classified ad sites.

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