Clayton Christensen - Publications - Faculty & Research

Provides instructors with an overview teaching note for the second module of the Managing Innovation course in which students explore the challenges and methods for defining and creating new markets for new technologies. In addition to summarizing each of the cases... View Details

Keywords: Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Emerging Markets; Planning; Problems and Challenges

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March 1998
Teaching Note

Unilever's Butter-Beater: Innovation for Global Diversity TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Teaching Note for (9-698-017). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Europe

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November 1996 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Vallourec's Venture into Metal Injection Molding

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Vallourec, a leading maker of seamless tubing, developed a radically new technology that used steel powders to create the tubes. To ensure a supply source, Vallourec ultimately had to acquire its supplier of metal powder, and then, to build the volume required to... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Business Model; Diversification; Innovation and Management; Manufacturing Industry

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1995
Working Paper

The Drivers of Vertical Disintegration

By: Clayton M. Christensen

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27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

accounting have to do with improving patient outcomes in Haiti? HBS faculty members discuss their research and what it means for patients, providers, and industries. A Good Place to Start Clayton Christensen... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

winter 2001
Article

The Past and Future of Competitive Advantage

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Competition

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June 16, 1977
Article

Fatal Attraction: The Dangers of too Much Technology

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Technology

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July 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Module Note

Targeting Nonconsumption: Who Are the Best Customers for Our Products?

By: Clayton M. Christensen

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1999
Book

Innovation and the General Manager

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Innovation and Management

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June 1999
Teaching Note

Markets for Technology and the Returns on Research TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

The purpose of the readings and class discussion is to help students understand why it often is so difficult for companies that conduct research to capture its value in their commercial businesses. Often new technology leaks more easily to the market. Students can... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Research; Commercialization; Technology Adoption; Value

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