Publications

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

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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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

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

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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