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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In recent years, for instance, Christensen has applied his ideas to healthcare and education — showing how enlightened management thinking can tackle the big issues facing society.

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James. The "new normal" of constant change requires mastering perpetual transformation. Why is innovation so hard? Who are your influences?

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Welcome to Thinkers50, one of the best online sources for brain food

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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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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

Academics offer up at least three answers: Clayton Christensen asserts that a single organization can't house two competing systems; companies seeking to drive disruptive growth therefore need to create spinoff organizations. The fundamental challenge, then, is finding the right way to balance this tension.