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01 Sep 2011
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Faculty Books

Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business Review Press) Christensen, the Robert... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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 Dec 2011
News

Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments

Professor Clay Christensen Professor Joshua Margolis Professor Joshua Coval Professor Tom Eisenmann Dean Nitin Nohria recently appointed four HBS professors as the first incumbents of newly created faculty chairs. View Details

01 Sep 2012
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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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Invention; Markets; Product; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

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

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

Keywords: Computer Industry; California

April 2000
Supplement

Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992 (Abridged): Supplement II

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan

Supplements the case. View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry; California

April 2000
Supplement

Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992 (Abridged): Supplement I

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan

Supplements the case. View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry; California

2000
Working Paper

Disruption, Disintegration, and the Dissipation of Differentiability

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Matt Verlinden

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

2001
Working Paper

Technology Markets, Technology Organization, and Appropriating the Returns of Research

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Henry Chesbrough

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

01 Jun 2010
News

Three Profs Win McKinsey Award

Christensen have won the 2009 McKinsey Awards, presented by HBR and McKinsey & Company. Pisano and Shih took first-place honors for their July-August 2009 article, “Restoring American Competitiveness.”... View Details

Keywords: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

technologically advanced product money can buy, right? Not necessarily, says Associate Professor Clayton M. Christensen. Sometimes a cutting-edge item is more than people need or want. "When does the... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Feb 1997
News

Case Method Experts Share Their Wisdom

Corporation, the two-day program was led by the School's John D. Black Professor Louis B. Barnes, coauthor with Christensen and Abby J. Hansen of Teaching and the Case Method. During the seminar,... View Details

March 2010 (Revised May 2010)
Case

Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co.

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan

Bill Hambrecht faces a dilemma: should he accept a high profile client for his online Dutch auction IPO? Though it would be viewed as a real coup, what would accepting the business mean to WR Hambrecht? Should he seek other high profile clients like this, or should he... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Initial Public Offering; Disruptive Innovation; Auctions; Online Technology; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

September 2006 (Revised March 2007)
Case

QuickBase

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Mark Szigety

Describes the challenge that engineers and marketing executives at Intuit Corp. faced when finding markets and applications for their QuickBase product. The breakthrough occurred when they abandoned their conventional modes of market segmentation, and instead strove to... View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Engineering; Product Marketing; Segmentation; Jobs and Positions; Consumer Behavior; Information Technology Industry