Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

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.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. This approach begins by focusing on the customer value proposition — what Christensen calls the customer’s “job-to-be-done.”

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant.

Technology 15

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom. Instead of competing with new startups like Lending Club or ProFounder , they might be the ones reinventing the space. Conversations, not chains.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

Review 85

Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do." That's Clayton Christensen's famous contribution to strategy , and you can certainly see elements of it in Apple's story.

Strategy 9

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article , which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class.

Christensen 13

Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up. It’s still worth a look now.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

Reid is not someone who can recite Clay Christensen or Michael Porter verbatim. If you come up with a list of many reasons to do something, Nassim Taleb once wrote, you are trying to convince yourself — if there isn’t one clear reason, don’t do it.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Christensen Information 8