Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

The skills required to play hockey are very different from those required to play basketball. His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. That's no dig on James. But he wouldn't necessarily be world-class.

Sports 13

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

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

MAY 28, 2015

The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

That''s partly because, as Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman, and Willy Shih wrote in the 2008 HBR article "Innovation Killers," standard financial metrics make new investments look much less attractive than existing business lines. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% Scripps 6.9%

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. The 5 domains of EQ are: 1) Self-Awareness, 2) Self-Regulation, 3) Motivation, 4) Empathy, 5) Social Skills. Christensen. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. By Daniel H. by Peter Senge. By Clayton M.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Hart does not quite do what the Kahn Academy does but she operates in the same space. And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. The problem, as Clay Christensen has recently emphasized, is that students rarely learn at the same rate, let alone in the same way. Want to get a taste? Check out this story.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

I had worked on a variety of volunteer projects with Clayton Christensen over several years, which led to an overlap of exchanges, including having several common acquaintances. We had vetted one another in a variety of contexts, they knew my skills, and I theirs, resulting in an already high level of trust. They came straight to me.

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Christensen Project Social Capital Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. An organization that grew up producing newspapers, for instance, not only lacks key skills to build a digital content company but also might actively resist embracing the new in order to protect the business it knows and loves.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

These facilities help to fulfil the ultimate ambition of the project to create good jobs for the citizens of Qatar by equipping them with the skills they need to thrive in the future of work. Collectively there are over 3,000 students from over 60 nations on campus, undertaking 55 programs.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78