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His answer surprised me: “I don’t know how, I just know how to describe it.” Christensen described it well. He shared compelling examples. He argued that companies, and entire industries, can be ...

As the leader of one of the world’s first smartphone development projects, and having consulted for six years with Harvard Prof. Clayton Christensen as he translated his theory of disruptive ...

In the early 2000s, Netflix co-founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph found themselves in a meeting that could have dramatically altered the trajectory of their fledgling company. Following the ...

Though the business world glorifies big disruptive ideas, in reality, most progress is achieved by implementing hundreds or thousands of minor improvements that can have a big cumulative impact.

Judging by the headlines in our various trade publications, whatever higher education’s next chapter looks like, it must be innovative — OR ELSE. Judging by the headlines in our various trade ...

Plastic plays a critical role in virtually all industries, from agriculture and construction to healthcare and manufacturing. Time magazine has called plastic one of the four materials (along with ...

Education policy scholars, especially proponents of school choice, have long referenced the late Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovation. Christensen, along with his colleague Joseph Bower ...

Clay Christensen spoke at the 2016 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, which he co-founded with Craig Hatkoff and Rabbi Irwin Kula. Credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images Clay Christensen, an ...

Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain. by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor and Rory McDonald Please enjoy this HBR Classic. Clayton M.