Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Firms surveyed included companies like Lenovo, Vanguard, Shell, Google, NIKE, Walgreens, Dell, eBay, RBC, Panasonic, Nestle, Progressive, Starwood, Intel, and Deutsche Bank.) There’s no question that the legal industry is going through upheaval. Law schools are shuttering and powerful old firms have fallen.

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Sample Survey Christensen Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

They have opened up offices in London, Amsterdam, and Zurich and were recently highlighted in the Harvard Business Review by Professor Clay Christensen as the prime forerunner of a pending wave of disruption in the consulting industry – albeit with a completely non-digital business model. Remember “Second Life”?

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. In his work on interdependence vs. modularity (pdf, page 13) , Harvard Professor Clay Christensen predicts that firms with integrated architectures perform very well in under-served markets with ‘not-good-enough’ products.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The high salaries investment banks offer draw talented scientists and engineers to figure out ever more complex financial instruments that don’t advance any particular social purpose. Large-scale problems require large-scale solutions, and large companies have the capacity to make meaningful progress on these challenges.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. The entrepreneurial society.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

But those fractions of cents would otherwise most likely be accruing to the big banks instead of these new, smaller HFT firms. Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever dig in on this topic , and they identify a number of reasons companies are being pressured to act with an increasing short-term focus.

Finance 10

Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., renewables are getting cheaper than fossil fuels ) and global peer pressure.” ” Even these significant achievements are insufficient.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

I had worked on a variety of volunteer projects with Clayton Christensen over several years, which led to an overlap of exchanges, including having several common acquaintances. Unlike The Godfather, very few of us can bank favors. Certainly this is true for me, including how I came to be a founding partner at Rose Park Advisors.

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Christensen Project Social Capital Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The consumer banking industry is notoriously difficult to enter, not least because most customers rarely switch banks. In some countries, people change spouses more often than they change banks. It has now become the largest bank in the country. These areas were underserved by the traditional banks.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

When my daughters were little, each time one of them received a birthday or holiday card from their grandparents with a crisp $20 in it, I silently vowed that I would finally get around to opening a savings account for them at our local bank so they could start learning the virtues of saving and compounded interest. That got old quickly.

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Productivity Products Christensen Power 10

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. But to complicate matters, in some particularly competitive fields like investment banking or corporate law, long hours truly are mandatory.

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Christensen Gilbert Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Travel loyalty programs tend to be complex and multicurrency, making them different from retailers, which typically run simple discount programs, or from banks, which offer cash back or a single currency that can be spent easily across a range of merchants. Related Video.

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Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 12

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. Before I knew it I was presenting the ideas in my book to Steve Black, who at the time headed up investment banking at JP Morgan Chase. I honestly think people would want to hear about it."

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17