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Clayton Christensen. Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Michael Porter. Professor, Rotman School of Management. Richard_Florida. Professor, Harvard Business School. claychristensen. Chair, Åbo Akademi University. Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School. Bob Sutton. Professor, Stanford University. work_matters.

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Why "Break Technologies" Will Change Your Business

Harvard Business Review

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". 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.

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What Business Schools Don???t Get About MOOCs

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And But I dont have to.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

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. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology' How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management.

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What Is a Business Model?

Harvard Business Review

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. They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.”

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

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.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

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.