Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles.

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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. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. Or, when they emphasize earnings, it's in the opposite direction from what Christensen's worried about. Most turn out not to.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” And so, ironically, the bundlers of that era were operating probably illegally, in the way that they were forcing the bundle and then price-fixing the bundle. It was our last show and we were in a big hurry to get the plane.

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