Publications

April 1999
Teaching Note

Issues in Technology Strategy TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Provides instructors with an overview for the module in the Managing Innovation course, Issues in Technology Strategy. Provides an overview of the frameworks introduced in the module that can help managers in their efforts to formulate strategies relating to several... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Investment; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Research; Technology Adoption; Technology Industry

April 1999
Teaching Note

Understanding and Building Organizations' Capabilities to Innovate: Managing Innovation: Overview TN for Module 4

By: Clayton M. Christensen

An overview teaching note showing instructors how to link together the concepts students should learn from discussing the cases in the fourth module of the Managing Innovation course. Summarizes the "Resources, Processes, & Values" framework of organizational... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Framework; Innovation and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Value

March 1998
Teaching Note

Managing Innovation at Nypro (A) and (B) TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Teaching Note for (9-696-061) and (9-697-057). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

December 1996 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Managing Innovation at Nypro, Inc. (B)

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

Educators

January 2006
Article

The Ongoing Process of Building a Theory of Disruption

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Theory; Disruption

March/April 2003
Article

Beyond The Innovator's Dilemma

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Innovation and Invention

1997
Working Paper

Competitive Advantage: Whence It Came, and Where It Went

By: Clayton M. Christensen

10 Feb 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development

networking—even though it's good for their careers—because it makes them feel physically dirty. To Read More: ARTICLES What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership? James Heskett's readers question the meaning of "gender equality." The Business... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

September 2009 (Revised November 2021)
Case

OnStar: Not Your Father's General Motors

By: Clayton M. Christensen

After two years of less than stellar performance resulting in sales well below plan, senior management at General Motors (GM) mobile telecommunications service start-up, OnStar, recognized that without a substantial change in their strategy, support for the venture... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology; Risk and Uncertainty; Joint Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Risk Management; Auto Industry; Telecommunications Industry

Educators

August 1999 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Required Course Sucommittee: A Sentence from Hell , The

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Describes a faculty team at a leading business school that was charged with developing an integrated, cross-discipline curriculum. Shows how and why integrated projects like this are so difficult to manage. View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Integration; Groups and Teams; Problems and Challenges

August 1999
Case

Graduate Center of Marlboro College, The

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Higher Education; Education Industry

May 1999 (Revised September 1999)
Teaching Note

Du Pont Kevlar Aramid Industrial Fiber (Abridged), TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Teaching Note for (9-698-079). View Details

April 1999
Teaching Note

Value Networks and the Impetus to Change: Managing Innovation: Overview Teaching Note for Module 1

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Provides instructors with an overview teaching note for the first module of the Managing Innovation course in which the disruptive technology framework is explored and used. Summarizes this framework and provides a brief synopsis of each of the cases used in the... View Details

Keywords: Change; Framework; Disruptive Innovation; Technology; Value

November 1998
Teaching Note

GE Plastics: Selecting a Partner TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

March 1998 (Revised June 1999)
Teaching Note

Linking Strategy and Innovation TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

An overview note to guide instructors in teaching the third module of the Managing Innovation course. Describes how managers can use aggregate project planning to manage the resource allocation process in new product development. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Managerial Roles; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Planning; Projects; Strategy