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  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

least until the acquirer proves otherwise. The other alternative is the subject of a new book, The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, by Clayton View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

In 1995, Harvard Business School professors Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower wrote a seminal article for Harvard Business Review, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. Those words launched the theory of disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

gravely ill, HBS professor Clayton Christensen finds its prognosis encouraging. These symptoms, he says, merely reflect inefficient delivery systems that market forces have already begun to reshape.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 1997
  • Book

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

By: Clayton M. Christensen

His work is cited by the world's best known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller, innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Leadership
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Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Moderator: Clayton View Details
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

The venture capital industry is ripe for disruption: just like other leading mainstream companies have been for years, according to HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen. As a keynote speaker at the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

problem. Bottom line: By not dealing effectively with "too big to fail" and the funding issue, Dodd-Frank may actually raise the risk to the system. Luis M. Viceira, George E. Bates Professor: The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 2009
  • Book

The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D. and Jason Hwang M.D.
A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform—from a legendary leader in innovation. Our health 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... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Disruptive Innovation; Health Industry; United States
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Christensen, Clayton M., Jerome H. Grossman M.D., and Jason Hwang M.D. The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care. McGraw-Hill, 2009. (Winner of James A. Hamilton Award Given annually to the author of a management or healthcare book judged outstanding by the American College of Healthcare Executives' Book of the Year Committee presented by American College of Healthcare Executives.)
  • 14 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

discovered that 40 percent of the milkshakes were purchased first thing in the morning, by commuters who ordered them to go. The next morning, he returned to the restaurant and interviewed customers who left with milkshake in hand, asking... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

Clayton M. Christensen and Tara DonovanHarvard Business School Case 610-065 Bill Hambrecht faces a dilemma: should he accept a high profile client for his online Dutch auction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

promising trends, the questions raised by economic inequality in San Francisco are not easily solved. Rose is teaching the case in a relatively new MBA elective, Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems, taught with John and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 18 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

How can schools around the world educate their students better? What does the future hold? Most researchers who study these questions in the field of education peer through the lenses of sociology and public policy. HBS professor Clayton... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 21 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 21, 2007

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsFinding the Right Job for Your Product Harvard Business School Note 607-028 Asserts that the typical ways that companies have learned to segment their markets, by product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2015
  • Article

What Is Disruptive Innovation?

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor and Rory McDonald
For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive"... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Theory
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Christensen, Clayton M., Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald. "What Is Disruptive Innovation?" Harvard Business Review 93, no. 12 (December 2015): 44–53.
  • 2016
  • Book

Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price.... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Consumer Behavior
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Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan. Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice. New York: Harper Business, 2016.
  • 2016
  • Book

Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma

By: Charles A. O'Reilly and Michael Tushman
In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed—think of Blockbuster, Kodak, and RadioShack. When we read about their demise, it often seems inevitable—a natural part of "creative destruction." But closer examination reveals a disturbing truth:... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management
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O'Reilly, Charles A., and Michael Tushman. Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2016.
  • May 2005 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

Gallardo's Goes to Mexico

By: Clayton M. Christensen
The theories of market segmentation and brand building in Chapter 3, What Products Will Customers Want to Buy? in The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor suggest that when companies segment markets and build brands in ways that match how the... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Global Strategy; Brands and Branding; Segmentation; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Mexico
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Christensen, Clayton M. "Gallardo's Goes to Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 605-072, May 2005. (Revised September 2005.)
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

I am also looking at how incentive systems can be designed to promote long-run performance. Excerpt From rethinking The Mba: Business Education At A Crossroads By Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

employee and customer mind sets, and innovations, evolve at a rapid rate. The conversation was stimulated (can it be 16 years ago?) by Clayton Christensen's work leading to his book, The Innovator's Dilemma.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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