by Clayton M. Christensen - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 May 2014
News

Clayton Christensen: Are Investors Bad For Business?

09 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

solutions to make care accessible and affordable. That's the message of HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen and colleagues in their new book, The Innovator's Prescription: A... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

14 Apr 2011
News

Clayton Christensen's Prescription For Health Care

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

replacement to silver halide film in our core market?" By seeking to create high-priced, performance-competitive digital products, Kodak missed much of the disruptive growth driven by inexpensive... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

01 Sep 2004
News

Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Derek C. M. van Bever

Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

Oct 03 2016
Interview

Clayton Christensen: The Theory of Jobs To Be Done

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Developing Instructor Style - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Professor Delong explores why it is important to know how people experience you, whether you are a student, a teacher, or a manager. Transcript Suggested Reading 1995 The Four Temperaments by Alice M.... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

hiring executives classify candidates by right-stuff attributes. They assume that successful managers can be identified using phrases such as "good communicator," "results oriented," "decisive," and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

through the confusion to identify the next peak that the company should be moving toward? When they're not sure where they're going, how can they guide and inspire others? Grove, author most recently of Swimming Across (Warner Books, 2001), sat down with Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

November–December 1997
Article

Making Strategy: Learning by Doing

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Strategy; Learning

Citation

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29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive innovation as a threat to everything from Microsoft to Japan—and even to a certain prominent business school. But through that disruption comes improved... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

organization? by Ethan Bernstein. What Is Disruptive Innovation? By Clayton Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald. The Capitalist’s Dilemma View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Understanding the Process of Innovation

Idea Group's four-phase process of innovation: the generation of ideas and the winnowing of the ideas down to a manageable few. There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lackluster.—... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gray

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, the three industries most plagued by high cost, inconvenience, and inconsistent quality are healthcare, higher education, and legal... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. At the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference 2003, Christensen provided an advance peek at his new book, which... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

A few years ago, a colleague at Harvard Business School visited Clayton Christensen's office to talk about leading a values-driven life. "He told me that he had decided against having religion in his life," View Details