Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

And because my husband and I were the providers of working capital, I had the luxury of being cavalier. When we came to loggerheads with our partners, which we often did, because of the management and deal structure I had freely agreed to, my husband and I had little say in the critical decisions. No, no, no , I cried.

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