Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Investors’ core valuation methods ( comparables and discounted cash-flow analysis) both extrapolate past performance into the future — but they fail to predict when the future will be radically different from the past.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis try to adjust for such quality changes in calculating inflation and real GDP. The software and devices of today can do vastly more than those of a decade ago, usually for the same or lower prices.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As Clay Christensen and colleagues point out in the latest issue of HBR , the consulting industry is ripe for disruption. One reason for this pattern goes back to our MBA students’ definitions: Underlying their view of consulting is the belief that most business problems can be solved through rigorous analysis to develop the “right” answer.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. Christensen. This is one of his most popular books. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

This kind of disciplined approach works very well when companies have knowledge that lets them be precise in their analysis, and executives have the relevant domain experience to make informed decisions. Applying this same discipline to nascent opportunities in new spaces can be disastrous.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

And then we have Clay Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations : how a new technology that is initially not good enough for mainstream customers, initially gains a foothold with a set of low-end customers who are happy with a less expensive, “good enough” product.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

The potential upside for those in business who are able to be empathetic is huge, and is eloquently described in Professor Clay Christensen's jobs-to-be-done theory. Serious people will regularly dismiss empathy for the more concrete and defensible virtues of rational analysis. and so they "hire" a product to do the job.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

However, as the survey and financial analysis reveal, this ends up opening the door for other law firms (as well as non-traditional providers) to slip in and chip away at what we all once assumed were unassailable relationships between the most pedigreed law firms and their clients.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Money scales, time spent on analysis does not. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze."

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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

MARCH 21, 2011

When doing a deal, I now spell out the rules of engagement early on, and hew closely, if not religiously, to the mantra of Clayton Christensen , our managing partner at Rose Park Advisors — "patient for growth, impatient for profits." Start a business, yes. Be discovery-driven, yes. But the company needs to reach profitability quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

With these criteria in mind, our final list is as follows: Our analysis revealed characteristics shared by the winning firm’s leaders as well as common strategies they employed. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. For more on our methods, see the sidebars below.)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's Clayton Christensen's famous contribution to strategy , and you can certainly see elements of it in Apple's story. True, none of the company's three huge successes of the past 11 years (the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad) really fit Christensen's classic disruption model of starting at the low end and moving upmarket.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. By the end of the '80s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had realized, through rigorous analysis, that Microsoft needed to abandon its still-struggling new operation system, Windows, because of a memory flaw.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Rather than a market-leading firm, though, the unit of analysis here is a major political party. Clay Christensen associates these events with innovations that change what customers demand. We use it to understand how businesses that were at the top of their game were struggling a few years later or, worse, on death’s door.

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