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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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. Or, when they emphasize earnings, it's in the opposite direction from what Christensen's worried about. Most turn out not to. With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS. Nobody complains.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Rare, also, would be the strategy consultant tapped for a CFO role at a Fortune 100. As Clay Christensen argues , it's important to set aside time to discover your passions and work to amplify them throughout your life. That's because over time, the generalists become specialists, too. They just specialize in being generalists.

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Career Long-term Christensen CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever predicted the disruption of elite consulting firms. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles.

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” HBR: Clay Christensen has described this progression in technology from the integrated product to the modular. It was our last show and we were in a big hurry to get the plane. Andreessen: From the incumbent standpoint it all looks very unfair.

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 14