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. The rest, of course, is history. ” I agree.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

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. Most disruptions have three enablers: a simplifying technology, a business model innovation, and a disruptive value network.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 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.

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Christensen Price CEO Media 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

What you can know is that the markets for disruptive innovations are unpredictable, and therefore your initial strategy for entering a market will be wrong," writes Christensen. During this time, as I volunteered in public affairs for my church, I became acquainted with Professor Christensen. STOP IT.". That decision is all yours.".

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period. ” As experts in medicine, doctors may also lack the administrative skills and business acumen required to lead a new venture.

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Innovation Project Entrepreneur CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. has reached a "technological plateau" and reenergizing economic growth will be extremely hard to do.

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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. The underlying technology is PowerPoint but it is accelerated beyond what one could do in a lecture hall. The problem, as Clay Christensen has recently emphasized, is that students rarely learn at the same rate, let alone in the same way.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

And, on the other hand, it includes being adaptive and agile, demonstrating an ability to connect with different kinds of people through many different communication platforms and technologies. As professor Clayton Christensen writes in his classic HBR article, “ How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. But just like Autotune and other technologies that allow passable music talents to turn into global powerhouses, lower costs and increased understanding of the process of innovation can allow anyone to be a competent entrepreneur.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James. How do you define innovation?

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

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

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. It too will disrupt; it's just lagging the rest. You've got to be in the room.

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Education Tacit Knowledge Execution Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But as I kept thinking about the less obvious harm technology could do, the one possibility that really got me worried was the unstoppable rise of what I will call the “advertising/narcissism complex.”. But they need highly skilled innovators to lead those kinds of innovation efforts.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

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. They tend to be good at connecting things together in fresh ways, and this is a vital skill for companies who are themselves getting disrupted.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. An organization that grew up producing newspapers, for instance, not only lacks key skills to build a digital content company but also might actively resist embracing the new in order to protect the business it knows and loves.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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. Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? That, in essence, is the value of open innovation.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

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. Collectively there are over 3,000 students from over 60 nations on campus, undertaking 55 programs.

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