Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Stop Requiring College Degrees.

Management 17

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 17

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?” This was innovation all right – an innovation-induced wasteland. The picture surprised me. The thought gives me chills.

Advertising 8

Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years.

Mentor 15

Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

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.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

Books 85

Books Review Management Ansoff 85

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. But you know, my leadership team is smart. The Christensen doctrine helped Dayton-Hudson create Target, Hewlett-Packard succeed in inkjet printing, and Qantas create its discount JetStar airline.

Innovation 14

Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

Innovation 9

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 9

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. Disruptive innovation Leadership Organizational culture'

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. For engineers familiar with the concept of distributed intelligence in systems, this is an easily understandable, even obvious, form of structure.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics.

Management 8

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8