Clayton M. Christensen
There are 18 articles for this faculty member.
About Faculty in this Article:
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization
| Published: | June 23, 2009 |
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| Feature: | HBS Business Summit |
According to two panel sessions led by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, successful organizations must continually transform themselves in today's dynamic world.
Clay Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
| Q&A with: | Clayton M. Christensen |
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| Published: | April 8, 2009 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
In The Innovator's Prescription, professor Clayton Christensen and his coauthors target disruptive innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more effective in the future. Q&A with Christensen. From the HBS Alumni Bulletin.
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
| Published: | March 9, 2009 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Simple solutions to complex problems lead to breakthroughs in industries from retailing to personal computers to printing. So let's try health care, too. According to HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors of The Innovator's Prescription, such disruption to an industry might look like a threat, but it "always proves to be an extraordinary growth opportunity." Book excerpt.
Published in 2008
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
| Q&A with: | Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson |
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| Published: | August 18, 2008 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, who developed the theory of disruptive innovation, joins colleagues Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson to advocate for ways in which ideas around innovation can spur much-needed improvements in public education. A Q&A with the authors of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns.
Published in 2006
What Customers Want from Your Products
| Published: | January 16, 2006 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Marketers should think less about market segments and more about the jobs customers want to do. A Harvard Business Review excerpt by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, Intuit’s Scott Cook, and Advertising Research Foundation’s Taddy Hall.
Published in 2005
The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research
| Authors: | Paul R. Carlile and Clayton M. Christensen |
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| Published: | July 5, 2006 |
| Paper Release Date: | February 2005 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
How do business academics know they are categorizing or measuring the best things to help us understand interesting phenomena? Scholars waste a lot of time and energy disparaging and defending various research methods. Yet the stakes are high for business academics to create theory that is intellectually rigorous, practically useful, and able to stand the tests of time. The authors describe a three-stage process for building theory; discuss the role of anomalies for building better theory; and suggest how scholars can refine research questions, carry out projects, and design student coursework.
Published in 2004
The Innovator's Battle Plan
| Published: | September 6, 2004 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Great firms can be undone by disruptors who analyze and exploit an incumbent’s strengths and motivations. From Clayton Christensen’s new book Seeing What’s Next.
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
| Published: | August 9, 2004 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
You have three potential innovations, but resources to develop just one. Here are diagnostics to help you make the best decision. From Strategy & Innovation newsletter.
Published in 2003
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
| Published: | October 13, 2003 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
"Right stuff" managers may be entirely wrong to lead a new-growth business. An excerpt from The Innovator's Solution by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Raynor.
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
| Published: | April 21, 2003 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Clayton M. Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, talks about his upcoming follow-on book on creating sustainable new-growth businesses. His conclusions may surprise you.
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
| Published: | April 14, 2003 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Intel’s famous chairman discusses decision making, intuition, and corporate governance with professor Clayton M. Christensen and Harvard Business School Publishing Editorial Director Walter Kiechel.
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
| Published: | March 10, 2003 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Managers know they need growth to survive—but innovation isn't easy. In this Harvard Management Update article, HBS professor Clayton Christensen and co-authors detail the six keys to creating new-growth businesses.
Published in 2002
Understanding the Process of Innovation
| Published: | August 5, 2002 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Just what is the BIG idea? In this Harvard Management Update piece, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen helps us understand the sources of innovation inside companies and what blocks it.
Published in 2001
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
| Published: | December 3, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
What's plaguing healthcare? Experts including HBS professor Clayton Christensen make the diagnosis on future trends for biology and medicine—and the business opportunities within—at the 2nd HBS Alumni Healthcare Conference.
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
| Published: | May 29, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
From countries to companies, HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive technologies upsetting applecarts all over the globe. In his talk at the HBS Global Alumni Conference 2001, Christensen discussed how disruptive technologies could change forever the health field, Microsoft, and even the Harvard Business School.
Angels Face the Innovator's Dilemma
| Published: | April 16, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
According to HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, the venture capital industry—like computers, telephony, and brokerage before it—is susceptible to the same forces that have waylaid many seemingly invincible players. What that means, said the author of the influential bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, is that the time is ripe for the right people to create new, disruptive forms of financing.
David, Goliath, and Disruption
| Published: | February 26, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
When introduced with speed and flair, disruptive technologies have the power to boost new companies and lay low other, seemingly invincible incumbents. Technology-savvy experts at Cyberposium considered their own successes and failures with the volatile medium, and passed on a bit of advice, too.
Published in 2000
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
| Published: | February 15, 2000 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
The health care industry may look seriously ill, says HBS Professor Clayton M. Christensen, but it's merely suffering the growing pains of a natural evolution as technology forces change at both the high and low ends of the market.
