Professor Clay Christensen - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

lecturer of business administration and the C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell: Watch costs and find channel advantages Given COVID-19 transmission rates as of mid-November, the upcoming... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean startup—a methodology that has proven... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

significant economic development of 2013. Use the "Comments" link to tell us what and why. Most Popular Stories In 2012 1. Clayton Christensen's "How Will You Measure Your Life?" Published: May 9, 2012 World-renowned innovation expert Clayton M.... View Details

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10 Feb 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development

networking—even though it's good for their careers—because it makes them feel physically dirty. To Read More: ARTICLES What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership? James Heskett's readers question the meaning of "gender equality." The Business... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

up on current and past podcast episodes of The Disruptive Voice. I have been a regular listener of the series ever since meeting and working with this talented team. Hearing the voice of the late great Clay View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

31 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

When Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever prepared to write The Capitalist's Dilemma for the June issue of Harvard Business Review, they took an approach rarely tried on the same scale: They outsourced it with 150 Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2016
First Look

October 18, 2016

and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

Community training helps fight Ebola A new case study about Last Mile Health by HBS Senior Lecturer Brian L. Trelstad and V. Kasturi Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, outlines how CEO Raj Panjabi’s determination to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

professors weigh in with their views on leadership in action. Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing (20,015) About 95 percent of new products fail. The problem often is that their creators are using an... View Details

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

“In contrast to the past, the question is not so much whether cities can survive, but whether their growth can be managed and guided, by whom, and for what needs,” said Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Development... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

challenged by what HBS professor Clayton Christensen has called "disruptive technology." In the United States, for example, there is a growing number of Electronic Communications Networks... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

and AIDS exert such power to wreck communities and companies that they should almost be viewed as a metaphor for "disruptive technology" along the lines of the model proposed by HBS Professor Clayton View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

for new products, services, and entire businesses. It may look like innovators are born, not made. But according to Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen anyone can become more innovative. How?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel TVs, but less comfortable for manufacturers hoping to make a profit. That’s according to recent research by Willy Shih, Robert... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually "clueless" about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of Managerial Economics View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the “disruptive” label has been applied too carelessly anytime a market newcomer shakes up well-established incumbents. In this article, the architect of disruption... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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