Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Travel to Singapore, for example, and you will see why. And they are losing money: Uber’s losses in just the first half of 2016 totaled over $1.27 That logic sometimes holds, but more often it does not. That is because networks are rarely exclusive. Eden McCallum shows that not all disruption need to be digital.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant. In the past century, air travel, phone networks, the PC, the internet, VOIP, and many more technologies have redefined industries by breaking value chains. Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First, the education market overall clearly fits Clayton Christensen's disruption theory : the seemingly inferior (but less costly) online education experience is coming from below and gradually encroaching on the for-now-superior-but-fat-and-happy classroom world. It too will disrupt; it's just lagging the rest.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In her HBR article, "Disrupt Yourself," Whitney Johnson discussed how Clayton Christensen's theories of disruptive innovation can be applied to changing one's career path in a competitive job market. If you've taken an unconventional career path, what advice do you have for fellow travelers?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

For a little bit of context, I’d recommend traveling back in time 50 years and looking at an entirely orthogonal industry: shipping. We may be entering an era in which cars are built in entirely different ways — and we might be surprised by what comes out the other side.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. But others were surprising, given their states before embarking on transformation. The Transformation 10 Judges Chris Chadwick , former CEO of Boeing Defense. Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Christensen. It fit many of the criteria she was looking for — it allowed her to travel internationally, work in emerging markets and build an organization from the ground up. Find people who are doing what you think you want to do and ask them lots of questions. Further Reading. How Will You Measure Your Life? Ethics Feature.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen described in his mega-bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Karen Dillon and James Allworth), the ROI of work is immediately apparent. Indeed, when he recently cut back his travel schedule due to several family health crises, he got significant pushback from his colleagues. “I

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Decades later, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expanded on this concept by putting structure around the augmented product. Southwest Airlines delivered it with air travel. They argued that every product "hired" into a consumer's life had not only functional characteristics, but also social and emotional characteristics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

For example, we were once discussing whether it’d make sense for him to travel to China. Reid is not someone who can recite Clay Christensen or Michael Porter verbatim. There was the LinkedIn expansion activity in China; some fun intellectual events happening; the Chinese edition of The Start-Up of You was launching.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Later, his love for the Hawaiian people and culture prompted him to join the Hokule’a —a bold quest to travel by canoe from Hawaii to Tahiti (a distance of 2,600 miles) using only the stars for navigation. On the beach at Waimea Bay, he gained renown for rescuing more than 500 swimmers in distress. But this is increasingly less frequent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. As one data point, while something in the range of 1.9% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Four years ago Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted that online education would take off slowly and then hit everyone by surprise: the S-curve effect. And indeed, while it initially grew slowly, online education has exploded over the past several years.

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