Clayton Christensen changed my life.
What Clayton Christensen Taught Me
When Karen Dillion walked into Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen’s office a decade ago, she was the editor of Harvard Business Review and in search of an extra article to help fill out a pending double issue of the magazine. It was the spring of 2010, and she was curious how the soon-to-be-graduating class was feeling about heading back into a world crippled by the recession. She’d heard from Harvard Business School students that he had been asked to speak to the graduating class and that the students had been extraordinarily moved by what he said. When she sat down in his office that day, she was focused on a deadline. When she left, an hour and a half later, she was focused on her life. In this reflection on Christensen’s life, Karen explores his notable contributions to management theory and what led her to collaborate with him on several books and other projects.