Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

On a recent business trip to London, I surprised the conference organizers by turning down the opportunity to stay at the posh hotel hosting the conference in favor of a rather modest Airbnb flat. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. The hotel was clearly much more luxurious. The flat would require me to take the tube or an Uber to the event.

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Hotels Christensen Competitive Advantage Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. The wisdom of such a strategy has been discussed in business circles for years, most notably in the work of Harvard's Clayton Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job. At a recent industry conference, Bill Reichert , managing director of Garage Technology Ventures opined, "VCs do not invest with their brains.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Speak at an industry conference. Like Clayton Christensen did , spend an hour a day thinking about what things you're passionate about. Go on a secondment to another country. This way, you'll keep challenging yourself and avoid that feeling of being locked in. Spend time defining your passions.

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Career Christensen Hedge Short-term 19

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. After that the No.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. It would be terribly naïve to assume that nothing in your business will need to change.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

More recently, Clayton Christensen has outlined how managers’ acquired habits in allocating capital are putting capitalism itself at risk. For more information, see the conference homepage. Economy Leadership'

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” The picture surprised me. We’d been asked to wear clothes that represented artifacts from the future.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Clay Christensen used to advise auto manufacturers to focus on their customers’ jobs-to-be-done, understanding when their customers were looking for mobile offices and when they wanted family transport vehicles. We certainly won’t need driver’s seats any longer. Cars will probably be able to have less metal and more glass.

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Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. For more information, see the conference homepage.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

“Join industry groups, go to conferences, volunteer for a nonprofit,” advises Dillon. Christensen. . “I’ve never known many managers to say no to people offering to help out.” ” If you can’t run experiments within the constraints of your job, look outside the company. Further Reading.

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Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. When HBS professor Clayton Christensen introduced the concept of disruptive innovation in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma , it was a revelation. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. See More Videos > See More Videos > Disruptive innovation.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On the conference call, Szkutak explained that significant capacity investments are being made in distribution centers so Amazon can continue to grow its core retail business. More recently, Christensen has acknowledged that perhaps Apple, the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, achieved the task.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The first day of the conference, customer service guru and Zappos chief Tony Hsieh gave his spiel about Zappos being a service company that just happened to sell shoes. We got his book, Delivering Happiness , free in our conference bags. This is the story of how I learned the key to great customer service. It was so simple.

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Conference Mission Statement Christensen Rogers 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. Moreover, instead of conferring authority, the hierarchy establishes an unambiguous sequence of levels of accountability.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

That’s what makes the annual BIF conference so important: 30 plus stories of amazing, cool, disruptive, transformative innovation models. After some introspection, she agreed to head up Clayton Christensen’s venture fund, Rose Park Advisors , to help companies grow. It’s just not in the mainstream media.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. The key to its phenomenal success over the past decade, though, has been — to use Christensen''s terminology again — disruptive innovation.

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Schiller Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Today, their annual conference brings together well-known corporate innovators, such as Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and author Daniel Pink, to mix with an eclectic assortment of social entrepreneurs and devise solutions to society’s thorniest problems. BIF’s annual conference serves as its focal point.

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