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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business School's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
You're the top performer in your market. Your products are of such a high quality that they exceed the requirements of all but the most demanding customers, and you're the only one able to serve them. Clear sailing ahead, right? Wrong, according to HBS professor View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business Review Press) Christensen, the Robert... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth (MBA 2010), and Karen Dillon (HarperBusiness) At a time of intense personal reflection, Christensen,... View Details
- August 2001
- Case
Aurora Health Care: Finding "a Better Way"
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Kevin M. Dwyer
The largest hospital system in Wisconsin is trying to respond to new threats from nontraditional care providers. This case presents the hospital's dilemma as it tries to create change from within. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry
Christensen, Clayton M., and Kevin M. Dwyer. Aurora Health Care: Finding "a Better Way". Harvard Business School Case 602-043, August 2001.
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
non-integration when specificity is high. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-119.pdf PublicationsEntrepreneur Behaviors, Opportunity Recognition, and the Origins of Innovative Ventures Authors:Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological... View Details
- October 2009
- Case
A Big (Double) Deal: Anadarko's Acquisition of Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis Rising
On June 23, 2006, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced that it was simultaneously acquiring two public companies, Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources, in all-cash deals. The total price was about $24 billion, a figure close to Anadarko's market cap at the time.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Transformation; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Alignment; Valuation; Energy Industry; United States
Christensen, Clayton M., and Curtis Rising. "A Big (Double) Deal: Anadarko's Acquisition of Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources." Harvard Business School Case 610-020, October 2009.
- February 2003 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Reaching the Bottom: UniGlobe's Small Local Stores Dilemma
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Lana Newishy
To distribute products to very small retailers in a very fragmented retail environment, the local subsidiary of a large consumer products company created an innovative distribution mechanism. The subsidiary's Small Local Stores division employed middlemen who... View Details
Christensen, Clayton M., and Lana Newishy. "Reaching the Bottom: UniGlobe's Small Local Stores Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 603-114, February 2003. (Revised April 2006.)
- March 2000
- Teaching Note
Disruptive Technology a Heartbeat Away: Ecton, Inc. TN
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Teaching Note for (9-699-018). View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
- June 1999 (Revised November 1999)
- Background Note
Processes of Strategy Definition and Implementation, The
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Jeremy Dann
Strategy definition is not a short, discrete process. Rather, outside influences (market, political, technological, etc.) and the company's own resource allocation process continually reshape an organization's strategy. View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Strategic Planning; Situation or Environment; Strategy
Christensen, Clayton M., and Jeremy Dann. "Processes of Strategy Definition and Implementation, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 399-179, June 1999. (Revised November 1999.)
- March 1999 (Revised May 1999)
- Background Note
Putting Your Finger on Capability
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Presents a model or theory about the competence or capability of organizations. Written to help managers be more precise about what the capabilities and disabilities of an organization are, and to be able to put their finger precisely on the place in the organization... View Details
Christensen, Clayton M., and Tara Donovan. "Putting Your Finger on Capability." Harvard Business School Background Note 399-148, March 1999. (Revised May 1999.)
- 2001
- Working Paper
Getting the Innovation Job Done: Matching the Right New Product with the Right Market
By: Clayton M. Christensen and David Sundahl
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312034-PDF-ENG Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (B) Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Supplement 312-035 The case describes Albert "Jack" Stanley's response to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2006 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
The ColorMatch Hair Color System
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Matthew Beecher
Describes the challenge of finding the right market for a product. View Details
- October 2000 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Nick Fiore: Healer or Hitman? (A)
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Many general managers face this predicament at one time or another: if I don't deliver the numbers, senior management won't invest in our growth. But what it takes to deliver the desired numbers may include layoffs and other undesirable solutions. Is it better to back... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Strategic Planning; Decision Choices and Conditions
Christensen, Clayton M., and Tara Donovan. "Nick Fiore: Healer or Hitman? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-062, October 2000. (Revised March 2007.)
- April 2000
- Teaching Note
Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992 (Abridged) TN
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Teaching Note for (9-300-002). View Details
- April 2000
- Supplement
Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992 (Abridged): Supplement II
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Supplements the case. View Details
Christensen, Clayton M., and Tara Donovan. "Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992 (Abridged): Supplement II." Harvard Business School Supplement 300-060, April 2000.
- April 2000
- Supplement
Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992 (Abridged): Supplement I
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Supplements the case. View Details
Christensen, Clayton M., and Tara Donovan. "Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992 (Abridged): Supplement I." Harvard Business School Supplement 300-059, April 2000.