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. For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

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. That one dark spot on Professor Christensen's prescience was always his predictions on Apple.

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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

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. What I learned from this disastrous magazine venture is that we need to do a thorough SWOT analysis not only on the market opportunity, but also on our partners. No, no, no , I cried. We'll figure it out," I would tell her.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14