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 the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. That 5% margin might come not from scale, but from the absence of stores, retail employees, and reduced working capital requirements.

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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. No, no, no , I cried. I pointed to the importance of discovery-driven planning. We'll figure it out," I would tell her. Start a business, yes. Be discovery-driven, yes. But the company needs to reach profitability quickly.

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