Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

There are lots of corporate executives who think they know better than Wall Street. 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.

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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. It was supposed to be the next big thing.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 13

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?” How much less risky does it feel to embattled executives charged with innovating to instead follow along with the prevailing trends?

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

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

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. “They saved $999,000 and ate the clams for dinner,” the executive told me. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

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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Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

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. So do Apple executives. In 2007, Christensen called the iPhone "a sustaining innovation relative to Nokia" and predicted that it would flop.

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