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      Clayton S. Rose

      Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often irreconcilable political and cultural pressures buffeting organizations today. From 2015 until 2023 he served as president of Bowdoin...

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      • December 2024
      • Module Note

      Disruptive Innovation: How Can We Beat Our Most Powerful Competitors? (Abridged)

      By: Clayton M. Christensen and Derek C. M. van Bever
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      Christensen, Clayton M., and Derek C. M. van Bever. "Disruptive Innovation: How Can We Beat Our Most Powerful Competitors? (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Module Note 425-043, December 2024.
      • November 2023
      • Teaching Plan

      Geely SEA: New Electric Vehicle Platforms

      By: Willy Shih
      Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 622-001. Kent Bovellan, the Chief Engineer and Head of the Vehicle Architecture Center for Geely Holding, the Hangzhou, China headquartered global automotive group, was debating the platform choice for an upcoming "D" segment midsized... View Details
      Keywords: Product Innovation; Product Architecture; Product Engineering; Platform Design; Platform Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Cost Management; Competitive Strategy; Industry Structures; Product Positioning; Auto Industry; China; Sweden
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      Shih, Willy. "Geely SEA: New Electric Vehicle Platforms." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 624-055, November 2023.
      • 13 Oct 2022
      • Other Presentation

      4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation

      By: Amy Bernstein, Rita McGrath, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Derek van Bever
      A roundtable conversation takes stock of Clayton Christensen’s influential theory. This first in a series of roundtable conversations assessing the origins and impact of four breakthrough ideas.

      In the 1980s, Clayton Christensen cofounded a startup that... View Details
      Keywords: Disruptive Innovation
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      "4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation." HBR IdeaCast (podcast), Harvard Business Review Group, October 13, 2022.
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      How History Shaped the Innovator's Dilemma

      By: Tom Nicholas
      In 1993, four years prior to the publication of Clayton Christensen’s highly influential book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, the Business History Review (BHR) published an article by Christensen titled “The Rigid Disk Drive Industry: A History of... View Details
      Keywords: Clayton Christensen; Impact; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Research
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      Nicholas, Tom. "How History Shaped the Innovator's Dilemma." Business History Review 95, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 121–148.
      • 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.
      • June 2014
      • Article

      The Capitalist's Dilemma

      By: Clayton M. Christensen and Derek C. M. van Bever
      Sixty months after the 2008 recession ended, the economy was still sputtering, producing disappointing growth and job numbers. Corporations seemed stuck: Despite low interest rates, they were sitting on massive piles of cash and failing to invest in new initiatives. In... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Investments; Creating Markets; Evaluating Business Investments; Innovation; Emerging Markets; Investment; Economic Growth; Capital; Innovation and Invention
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      Christensen, Clayton M., and Derek C. M. van Bever. "The Capitalist's Dilemma." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 6 (June 2014): 60–68.
      • June 2012 (Revised August 2013)
      • Case

      Driving Towards a Disruption?

      By: Willy Shih and William Noble
      As Clayton Christensen drove to the studio to deliver an online executive education class, he pondered the future of management education. How big a threat did online degree programs, corporate universities, and other innovations in the delivery of management training... View Details
      Keywords: Disruptive Technology; Performance Trajectories; Disruptive Innovations; Business Education; Business School; Internet And Online Services Industries; Disruptive Innovation; Higher Education; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Performance; Education Industry; Boston
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      Shih, Willy, and William Noble. "Driving Towards a Disruption?" Harvard Business School Case 612-101, June 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
      • 2008
      • Simulation

      Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery

      By: Willy C. Shih and Clayton Christensen
      This online simulation allows students to play the role of a business unit manager at Back Bay Battery Company who faces the dilemma of balancing a portfolio of investment strategies across products in the rechargeable battery space. Players have to manage R&D... View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Investment; Product Development; Research and Development; Battery Industry
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      Shih, Willy C., and Clayton Christensen. "Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery." Simulation and Teaching Note. Watertown, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008. Electronic. (2656-HTM-ENG.)
      • 2003
      • Book

      Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

      By: Robert A Burgelman, Clayton M. Christensen and Steven C. Wheelwright
      Keywords: Strategy; Management; Information Technology; Innovation and Invention
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      Burgelman, Robert A., Clayton M. Christensen, and Steven C. Wheelwright. Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2003.
      • January–February 2000
      • Article

      Patterns of Disruption in Retailing

      By: Clayton M. Christensen and R. S. Tedlow
      Keywords: Disruption; Sales
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      Christensen, Clayton M., and R. S. Tedlow. "Patterns of Disruption in Retailing." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 1 (January–February 2000): 42–45.
      • 1999
      • Chapter

      Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave

      By: Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
      Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Disruption
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      Bower, Joseph L., and Clayton M. Christensen. "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave." Chap. 29 in The Entrepreneurial Venture. 2nd ed. by William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J Roberts, and Amar V. Bhide, 506–520. Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
      • 1997
      • Chapter

      Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave

      By: Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
      Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Disruption
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      Bower, Joseph L., and Clayton M. Christensen. "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave." In Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation, edited by John Seely Brown. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
      • January 1992 (Revised February 1992)
      • Case

      Quantum Corp.: Business and Product Teams

      By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Clayton M. Christensen
      Describes the adoption and evolution of product development teams and business teams at Quantum. Emphasizes integration of team capabilities with product development and competitive advantage in a rapidly changing environment. View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; Groups and Teams; Situation or Environment; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Consumer Products Industry
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      Wheelwright, Steven C., and Clayton M. Christensen. "Quantum Corp.: Business and Product Teams." Harvard Business School Case 692-023, January 1992. (Revised February 1992.)
      • January 1992 (Revised March 1992)
      • Background Note

      Rigid Disk Drives: An Industry Note

      By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Clayton M. Christensen
      Keywords: Software
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      Wheelwright, Steven C., and Clayton M. Christensen. "Rigid Disk Drives: An Industry Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 692-014, January 1992. (Revised March 1992.)
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