Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But it’s familiar territory to innovators, who’ve spent decades wrestling with the problem of how to manage uncertainty when there is little to guide them in getting their new offering to a new audience or market. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. Clay Christensen once used to think so: If anyone can beat the odds against being disrupted, it is our remarkably capable and committed colleagues in higher education..

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Corporations commit the LeBron-on-ice fallacy all the time. A company makes the strategic decision to create a group dedicated to the creation of innovative growth businesses. That doesn't mean that the Corporate Superstar has no role to play in innovation. Innovation muscles can be built. It starts innocently.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Groupthink happens because of basic social and interpersonal dynamics that include a wish for group harmony, pressures for conformity, increased commitment to ill-advised or outdated strategies, and punishment of dissenters.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This time, nearly every country is entering the discussions with a legitimate commitment to cut carbon. And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago. What will be the likely outcome out of the talks? For example, the U.S.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

3) Lack of commitment. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). Christensen. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. The five dysfunctions are: 1) Absence of trust. 2) Fear of conflict.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation. The realities of operating in large companies mean that this is far from always true.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

His approach to splitting out the old business from the new one is a textbook play out of Clay Christensen's prescription for dealing with the possibility of disruption. First, getting a handle on the angst requires understanding Netflix's (and Qwikster's) customers and, in Clay Christensen's language, the job they hire the companies to do.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Innovative shops like Modem Media, Razorfish, and Agency.com were snapped up. And as Clayton Christensen wrote in a recent Nieman Report , those consumers are focused on getting jobs done. A three-minute YouTube video here and there does not represent a commitment to content. Consumers are migrating in droves to mobile devices.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive innovation is a parsimonious theory that explains many business failures.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We know that questioning can trigger innovative thinking. In a collaboration to determine just how disruptive leaders find these compelling questions, Professor Clayton Christensen and I conducted nearly 40 interviews with renowned global leaders. Cook founded Intuit 30 years ago, committed to improving people’s lives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. She''s is a co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, Clayton Christensen''s investment firm, and the author of Dare-Dream-Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream. James Allworth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The time commitment for Words With Friends or Fruit Ninja is significantly less than the time commitment to, say, Call of Duty, as is the upfront cost. To survive disruption, console makers need to find an "extendable core" and integrate around it, a concept explored in "Surviving Disruption" by Max Wessel and Clay Christensen.

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