Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2015

Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Professor says that only few people tend to hurt others and be dishonest in the initial stages of their career. Throughout his professional career Ali has been associated with globally recognized consulting firms, including Pricewaterhousecoopers & Mercer consulting. This is a guest post by Ali Jafri.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Christensen is the Kim B. Every two years, the Thinkers50 publishes their definitive list of management thinkers. Below are the results for 2011. For classic HBR content from this year’s winners, please click here.

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Christensen Management Definition Content 75

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

This week marks the release of Clayton Christensen's highly-anticipated book, How Will You Measure Your Life (with co-authors James Allworth and Karen Dillon). The book expands on Christensen's McKinsey-award-winning HBR article , drawing life lessons from the models that form the basis of his business-oriented writing. Persistence.

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Christensen Succession Storytelling McKinsey 11

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. Why do many businesses seem frozen even though the constant changes hitting industries require action?

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Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 105

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective.

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Efosa Ojomo, global prosperity lead at the Clayton Christensen Institute, argues that international aid is not the best way to develop poor countries, nor are investments in natural resource extraction, outsourced labor, or incremental improvements to existing offerings for established customer bases.

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Marketing Innovation Christensen Company 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. GLOBAL CONSULTING & DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION.

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Disruptive Innovation Consultative Innovation Christensen 360

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 15, 2012

Thinkers50 offers the definitive global ranking of management thinkers and is published every two years. The 2009 winner was CK Prahalad. The ranking is based on voting at the Thinkers50 website and input from a team of advisers led by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer. The Thinkers50 has ten established criteria by which thinkers are [.].

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Prahalad Definition Globalization Team 80

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. At IESE, for example, we are experimenting with splicing material developed for my MOOC into the traditional course on globalization that I also offer. The question should be, Can we do better?

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Christensen Education Discount Class 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. Initially, Christensen claimed that the disruptions he observed occurred over the course of 10-30 year cycles. But the path of disruption is not.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. Who is the most influential living management thinker? It's a fair question.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Witness the shift that is taking place in the global conversation about artificial intelligence and other advanced digital technologies. ” 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

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The X Games has had some success here, experimenting with different types of sports, bringing the brand to different types of competition, and expanding globally. The Olympics has smartly kept its eyes on the X Games and other global athletic competitions and jiggered its roster of events in response. But different is not disruptive.

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Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation Christensen Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Autor suggested that financial-market troubles (first the dot-com bust, then the global financial crisis) coupled with “China’s rapid rise to a premier manufacturing exporter” probably played much bigger roles in U.S. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had.

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GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

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.". More recently, ALD has become a very popular course for executives of global companies.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

In an era of greater global trade, knowledge transfer and transparency, Prabhakar unsurprisingly reports DARPA''s core value proposition demands disproportionately greater imagination and ingenuity. Surprises can come from anywhere. Predictability breeds complacency. Amazon had made itself accessibly and invitingly unpredictable.

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Innovation Christensen Brand Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Clay Christensen likes to remind innovators of the importance of remembering the essential “job to be done” by their offerings – what is it that customers “hire” your product or service to do for them? No need to wait for Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

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Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. 7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work and Have Kids. 3-D Printing Will Change the World.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. However, it will not succeed here.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Singapore is positioning itself as the global exchange, where West meets East and where India and China are both reachable via relatively short direct flights.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

This week, global professional services firm EY released new findings from a global survey about the work-life challenges today’s employees confront. Globally, approximately half of managers work more than 40 hours per week and 40 percent say their hours have increased in the past five years. The reason?

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Survey Christensen Globalization Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

While $300 million might sound like a ridiculously large number to small business owners or entrepreneurs, leaders in many global giants consider the amount a drop in the bucket. Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen memorably termed this the "growth-gap death spiral" in his 2003 book The Innovator's Solution ).

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Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 14

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. Christensen. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. This is one of his most popular books.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. I sit on the Investment Committee, along with Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, primarily getting involved when we are getting close to a big decision about a current or potential portfolio company.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

More recently, Clayton Christensen has outlined how managers’ acquired habits in allocating capital are putting capitalism itself at risk. This post is launches a series of perspectives by leading thinkers participating in the Sixth Annual Global Drucker Forum, November 13-14 in Vienna. We can manage. Economy Leadership'

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Clay Christensen’s research explores interdependent versus modular approaches to customer problems (pdf). Disruptive innovation Global business' Another reason for optimism is that Dangote’s move might signal a shift to a conglomerate-led growth phase in Africa.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Clay Christensen''s research explores interdependent versus modular approaches to customer problems (pdf). Disruptive innovation Global business' Another reason for optimism is that Dangote''s move might signal a shift to a conglomerate-led growth phase in Africa.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 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. global information solutions company. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

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.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

In his work on interdependence vs. modularity (pdf, page 13) , Harvard Professor Clay Christensen predicts that firms with integrated architectures perform very well in under-served markets with ‘not-good-enough’ products. Global business Talent management' A good training strategy is a competitive advantage.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

To get that right, companies have to understand what Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen calls the theory of Jobs to Be Done. ” The experience of staying in an Airbnb is central to its customer strategy, explains Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, Chip Conley. How are they greeted?

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Hotels Christensen Competitive Advantage Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

And while Clay Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever say the consultants are next , it’s not showing up so far in the jobs numbers. The dot-com bust appears to have hit it harder than a global financial crisis did: The average hourly wage in that last sector is $48.82, by the way. Which is a lot higher than the $27.49

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Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

After 20 years of global negotiations that got us approximately nowhere near where the science tells us we need to be, this time looks different. These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

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. Combined, these goals are in the gigaton scale range. So when companies get together across value chains, they can think very big.

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