Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. One yes bears watching; two yeses is a standup moment.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J. Spear McGraw-Hill (2009) The power of causal mechanisms that can drive a continuously self-improving system Clayton Christensen’s high praise of Steven Spear and this book is well-deserved.

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Books Review Operations System 75

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Maybe that's just the way it is.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Here, from the new book, Be A Network Marketing Leader , are some tips on how, as a leader, you can connect with your individual team members: Send cards on their birthdays and anniversary-of-joining dates. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Show your support during personal or family crises.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

We all want to start a disruptive company or invest in disruptive ventures, but in reality an innovation that takes place at the low-end of the market or where there is no market (yet) is just not that sexy. Because disruptive innovations are in search of a yet-to-be-defined market, we can't know the opportunity at the outset.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Maybe that's just the way it is.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen identify five "discovery skills" that make for innovative mindsets: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking.

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Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." A board might assume that having generated great returns at the helm of a growth company yielded relevant skills for generating returns at the helm of a failing media firm. She never had to find novel products and revenue sources.

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Christensen Price CEO Media 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This unnamed company had been the gorilla of its market for the past two decades and had gotten used to throwing its weight around, particularly with suppliers that wanted both the positive reputation effects and the volume that came from serving a market leader. There's nothing wrong with a company being proud of its accomplishments.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Within that structure, questioning by employees can be perceived as a challenge to authority. So why open the floodgates? Provide the tools to question well.

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

The skills required to play hockey are very different from those required to play basketball. His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. That's no dig on James. But he wouldn't necessarily be world-class.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to provide that only people with a lot of skill and a lot of money could participate. Because the high end of most markets is where the most attractive profits are made, serving the most profitable customers. and Jason Hwang M.D.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

There is a permanent new dynamism and volatility in the job market, and the cost of experimentation has fallen dramatically. Imagine a marketing consultant — experienced in industries from farming to financial services — being asked to run a $200 million budget for a big bank. But the generalist faces career risks, too.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Conversely, when teams and organizations enjoy too much harmony, they will gravitate toward inaction and complacency, which, as Clayton Christensen noted 20 years ago in The Innovator’s Dilemma , will breed decline and extinction.

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. That point led to spirited discussion with my VC friends.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

We identified two sides to the problem: the jobs gap and the skills gap. Our organization focuses mainly on plugging the ‘skills gap’: we identify, train, and place underprivileged youths in emerging industries like the hospitality sector. Many emerging markets in Africa fall into this ‘not-good-enough’ category.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Still another is moving the older equipment to less-demanding applications or to plants in emerging markets.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? Practice - innovation is a skill that can be mastered. How do I spot opportunities for innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First, the education market overall clearly fits Clayton Christensen's disruption theory : the seemingly inferior (but less costly) online education experience is coming from below and gradually encroaching on the for-now-superior-but-fat-and-happy classroom world. I beg to differ. It too will disrupt; it's just lagging the rest.

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Education Tacit Knowledge Execution Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But they need highly skilled innovators to lead those kinds of innovation efforts. Perhaps the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the Clinton Global Initiative could fund the award, with support from world-leading academics like Clayton Christensen and Rita McGrath. Can we make health care more accessible and affordable?

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. On top of the technical skills, Netflix is building an organization tuned to the needs of a disruptive environment. The DVD business will now go by the name Qwikster, and the streaming business will stay under the Netflix brand.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Developing focused expertise can be a challenge when you’re starting a company: a founder has to do some of everything, but the role of startup CEO is not nearly as transferrable a skill as domain expertise, since your employability strongly depends on your company’s success (in which case, you won’t need the job).

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

That''s partly because, as Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman, and Willy Shih wrote in the 2008 HBR article "Innovation Killers," standard financial metrics make new investments look much less attractive than existing business lines. That''s happening across the industry as papers change hands. But that''s rare.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To borrow Clayton Christensen’s phrase, our hotel laundry’s “job to be done” is not cleaning dirty clothes; it is preserving and enhancing our guests’ sense of participation in the world of fashion. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In her HBR article, "Disrupt Yourself," Whitney Johnson discussed how Clayton Christensen's theories of disruptive innovation can be applied to changing one's career path in a competitive job market. After all, I had wanted to be a designer since childhood, and the job market for user researchers was still nascent and unproven.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

You might find it rewarding to advance the math skills of 80 students in one year, or build six desalination plants over the course of your career. For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. Take on a new assignment that allows you to try out new skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When you have a really tough problem, it often helps to expand skill domains beyond specialists in a single field. Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

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. As the idea gained grassroots traction, the risks of buying in fell for senior management even as their respect for her expert stakeholder communication skills rose.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

These facilities help to fulfil the ultimate ambition of the project to create good jobs for the citizens of Qatar by equipping them with the skills they need to thrive in the future of work. Whilst the US remains the market leader in terms of share of VC investment, there is a clear shift towards Europe and Asia, with China leading the pack.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Four years ago Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted that online education would take off slowly and then hit everyone by surprise: the S-curve effect. And indeed, while it initially grew slowly, online education has exploded over the past several years. courses into their offerings to satisfy students' unmet needs.

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Education Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Rather than a market-leading firm, though, the unit of analysis here is a major political party. Clay Christensen associates these events with innovations that change what customers demand. Or is it just that Trump, someone with a particularly unique set of assets (money) and skills (persuasion), plays it especially well?

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