Publications

Educators

2000
Working Paper

The Process of Strategy Development and Implementation

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan

01 Apr 1999
News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

Recently featured on the cover of Forbes with Intel chairman Andrew Grove, Associate Professor Clayton M. Christensen is the author of The Innovator's Dilemma: When New... View Details

Article

Course Research: Using the Case Method to Build and Teach Management Theory

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Paul R. Carlile

Some in the Academy have questioned the usefulness of case studies in teaching sound management theory (Shugan 2006). Our research and experience suggests exactly the opposite-that case studies can unite the development of theory with the teaching of it in a single... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Cases; Research; Theory

May 2008
Teaching Note

Pitney Bowes Inc. (TN)

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Ho Howard Yu

Teaching Note for [607034]. View Details

Keywords: Service Industry

March 2003 (Revised August 2005)
Case

Making SMaL Big: SMaL Camera Technologies

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Scott Duncan Anthony

SMaL Camera Technologies CEO Maurizio Arienzo was trying to decide what market opportunities SMaL should target. The company had developed a revolutionary imaging technology that powered small digital still and video cameras. Its first-generation product--a kit to... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Decision Making; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Electronics Industry; Computer Industry; Massachusetts

Educators

1997
Chapter

Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave

By: Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Disruption

23 Aug 2006
News

Think Like A 'Disrupter'

December 2024
Module Note

Disruptive Innovation: How Can We Beat Our Most Powerful Competitors? (Abridged)

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Derek C. M. van Bever

01 Feb 2002
News

Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference

analyses. Afternoon sessions included a presentation by HBS professor Clayton Christensen on disruptive technologies in health care; a panel, moderated View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

spring 1998
Article

Disruptive Technologies: A Credible Threat to Leading Programs in Continuing Medical Education?

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Elizabeth G Armstrong

Keywords: Disruption; Technology; Programs; Health; Education

November 2001 (Revised September 2005)
Case

What's the BIG Idea? (A)

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Scott Duncan Anthony

CEO Michael Collins must decide if and how a process he developed to further innovation in the kids' industry could port over to other industries. The process was based on Collins' experiences as an inventor and as a venture capitalist, and it allowed his company to be... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship

Educators

September 2000 (Revised December 2000)
Case

Bench Strength at Bell Atlantic

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Sarah S. Khetani

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry

March 1997
Teaching Note

Eli Lilly and Company: Innovation in Diabetes Care TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Bret J. Baird

Teaching Note for (9-696-077). View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry

2005
Working Paper

The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research

By: Paul R. Carlile and Clayton M. Christensen

Read Now

November/December 2003
Article

Performance, Convenience, Price: What's Your Brand About?

By: Scott D. Anthony and Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Performance; Price; Brands and Branding

September/October 2003
Journal Article

Do You Know What You Do Best?

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Scott D. Anthony

fall 2002
Article

The Great Leap: Driving Innovation from the Base of the Global Pyramid

By: Stuart L. Hart and Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Global Range

April 2002
Article

The Future of the Microprocessor Business

By: Michael J Bass and Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Hardware; Business Ventures; Computer Industry