Professor Clay Christensen - Publications - Faculty & Research

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 category, or customer, actually... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

More on the Economics and Business of Space

HBS has a thriving community focused on space, with a robust alumni network in the sector and a group of faculty and staff researching and teaching about it. Below, we list faculty and staff members of this community and some of their research. If you have... View Details

Tsedal Neeley

Tsedal Neeley is the Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA program at Harvard Business School, where she is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Faculty Chair of the... View Details

Blog

Take Control of Your Personal Brand

Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is also faculty chair of the new Executive Education program Creating Brand Value, which features a... View Details

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

opportunities to take your life in directions that you hadn't intended." For those that think it is easy for a Harvard Professor to make such pronouncements from an ivy tower, the book explains that View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

In 26 seasons under Ferguson, United won 38 domestic and international trophies-giving him nearly twice as many as any other English club manager-and became one of the valuable franchises in sports. In 2012, during Ferguson's final season before retiring, Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Person Page

Comments on my health

February 22, 2010

The doctors have been pleasantly surprised that I have responded to therapy better than they would have imagined. I have been greatly blessed through the miracle of medical science. I also attribute doing better to the faith and prayers... View Details

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in New York City, was merely a supporting act in a reunion tour of the erstwhile-boy band, New Kids on the Block. "When you tell that to people now they look at you like you must have your dates mixed up," says Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411042-PDF-ENG MacroMarkets LLC Robin Greenwood and Luis M. ViceiraHarvard Business School Case 211-006 MacroMarkets co-founder and CEO Samuel Masucci III is meeting with a strategic partner for his firm. Co-founded with Yale... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Oct 23 2013
Short Film

The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation

Jill J. Avery

Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage

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Faculty & Research

transformed the who, what, where, and how of negotiation. Today, traditional negotiating tactics, while still effective, need to be tailored to vastly different situations and circumstances. In Negotiation: The Game Has Changed, legendary Harvard Business School View Details

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

(HBS Professor Clayton M. Christensen leveraged the same platform for a new approach to research by reaching out to over 5,000 alumni of his Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

focusing on disruptive technologies, offers his analysis of the Twitter IPO phenomenon. In our second-year MBA elective Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (a course developed by my colleague Clay Christensen), one of the... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

11 Oct 2016
News

Is Samsung Innovating Too Much, Too Fast?

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

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Placement - Doctoral

Business Economics, 2023 Placement: Stanford University, Department of Economics, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2023-2024), Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Assistant Professor (2024) Dissertation: Essays in... View Details

Program

Disruptive Innovation

Summary More than 20 years ago, late HBS professor Clayton Christensen introduced a revolutionary concept that transformed the business world and is still widely applied today: disruptive innovation. In this... View Details

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley discuss their new book by that... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

long-time faculty members, the late Walmsley University Professor C. Roland Christensen and Abraham Zalesnik, now Matsushita professor of leadership emeritus, "is his... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

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