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- Help Me Interview Clay Christensen
- Help Me Interview Clay Christensena QuestionThe education establishment is so entrenched with spoken and unspoken agendas. Does Clay really believe he can change the system?As regards kids learning at different speeds and styles, there' no question personalized pacing would be beneficial. The Homeschool movement began in part as a solution...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Behind the Bust: Bad Ethics Or Bad Luck?
- Behind the Bust: Bad Ethics Or Bad Luck?Bad IncentivesNeither.Bad incentives.Wall Street is paid on revenues, not profit.Misaligned incentives create bad behavior."Heads the trader wins, tails the investor loses."Easy to decide what to do in that environment.No one will dispute that.re: incentiveswell, they aren't doing so well this year. But...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Help Me Interview Clay Christensen
- The master of the Innovator's Dilemma has turned his eye on the educator's dilemma. Clay Christensen has a new book out, Disrupting Class. I'm talking with him next week about this book and his October book, a volume on healthcare called "The Innovator's Prescription."...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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- Clay Christensen Shakes Up School
- I interviewed management guru Clay Christensen about his new book, "Disrupting Class." He's applied his research on business innovation to education, a key issue for 21st century business see my earlier post on the book. Here are four questions and answers from a longer interview. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Harvard's Clay Christensen: Why Public Schools Need Disruptive Innovation
- The hot topics of conversation in America's business schools aren't limited to market meltdowns and job searches. Profs and students are also using business methods to diagnose problems with public policy -- and craft solutions. HBS's Clayton Christensen, best known for his books The Innovator's Dilemma and The...
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Clay Christensen on Reinventing Your Business Model
- Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen, best know for developing the concept of disruptive innovation, provides an enlightening video interview on business model reinvention. Disruptive innovation essentially teaches that established companies are vulnerable to upstarts because they are reluctant to depart from what has made them successful....
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Clay Christensen: In Defense of Rick Wagoner
- Not many folks have rushed to the defense of Rick Wagoner, the GM CEO recently forced out by the White House as a condition of receiving bailout funds. But now Wagoner has a very powerful voice speaking his praises, and disagreeing with the Obama administration's decision to...
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Clay Christensen: Where Obama's Education Plan Fails
- Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen looks at President Obama's stimulus spending for education and finds it missing the grade in important areas. Writing on Harvard Business Publishing with Michael Horn, Christensen suggests that at least some of the spending is throwing money at existing, outdated programs...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Harvard's Clay Christensen: Healthcare Debate Needs Sharper Focus
- Clayton Christensen's views on innovation are oft-cited in discussing the ills and opportunities in many industries. His book The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (co-authored with Dr. Jerome Grossman and Dr. Jason Hwang) presents a distinct view on how health care in the United States...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Clay Christensen: Competition Doesn't Drive Prices Down
- Even though I've heard him say it before, the words from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen always bring me up short. Speaking to a group of health care professionals recently, Christensen said: "Competition doesn't drive prices down." In fact, he said prices increase 8...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Reinventing Your Business Model | HBR IdeaCast
- For big, established firms, introducing a new business model is no easy task, especially when there's some start-up poised to steal business the minute the competitive landscape changes. But according to disruptive innovation expert Clay Christensen, if companies truly understand how their new business model relates to the...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Teachers' Jobs Will be Radically Transformed by Innovation in Public Schools, says Harvard's Christensen
- In our discussion last week, HBS Professor and innovation authority Clayton Christensen explained how America's educational system was in no way set up to cater to the way students truly learn. In his recent book, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, he and co-authors...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Innovation Is Not Overrated
- I was catching up on Sean Silverthorne's excellent blog and found this link to a post by Scott Berkun on Why Innovation is Overrated. Berkun makes a few reasonable points -- most people don't talk about 'innovation' in everyday conversation. Where it does get used, it's done...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
- New Books and Reports For Leaders of Technological InnovationThe Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth; Clay Christensen and Michael E. Raynor; Harvard Business School Press; Boston, MA; 2003; 288pp. $29.95.Four recently published studies show that only one company in ten is able to sustain growth. Harvard Business School professor...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
- Clay Christensen and Michael E. Raynor; Harvard Business School Press; Boston, MA; 2003; 288 pp. $29.95. Four recently published studies show that only one company in ten is able to sustain growth. Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen examined this difficulty in his 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma. He...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Cannibalization: Three Challenges to the Movie Industry
- Joel West submits: Cannibalization is hard. Really, really hard. But it’s often the only way to survive.When a new technology comes along, the biggest problem for incumbents is being willing to cannibalize their existing businesses. We’ve known this for decades, and it was reinforced as a major theme of...
- External links 2008-08-01
- More on the Relevance of a Good Education
- Maybe because it's August, but education continues to be on my mind, particularly whether American universities are out of step with where they need to be for business. A reader who apparently noted my posts on Clay Christensen and whether college is a waste of time sent a link...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- The End of Silicon Valley
- Is the party over in Silicon Valley? Judy Estrin, a serial entrepreneur, investor and former chief technology officer at Cisco apparently thinks it is, in a book coming out Tuesday, "Closing the Innovation Gap." She tells the Bits blog at the New York Times in Does...
- Blog posts 2008-08-31
- The Marketing of a President
- If you look at the just completed presidential race in terms of successful or failed marketing campaigns, there is a lot to learn about what sells in modern America. Harvard Business School professor John Quelch marvels at the marketing acumen displayed by Barack Obama's campaign. "For...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Newspapers and the Internet. (Paying for the Next News).
- Clark Gilbert, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, studies entrepreneurship in large companies. In a recent study in which he worked with Clay Christensen, who has written about disruptive innovation, they spent two and a half years looking at the newspaper industry's response to...
- Research articles 2002-06-22
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