Clayton M. Christensen

Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen on “Surviving Disruption”

November 30, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. Photography: Nash…

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How to Put Failure in Its Proper Place

October 24, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please…

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Why Procrastination Is Essential to Innovation

March 17, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please…

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Harvard Business Review on Reinventing Your Marketing: A book review by Bob Morris

October 3, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Reinventing Your Marketing Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to improve how you create or increase demand for what you offer Those who aspire to maximize the impact of their…

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How and Why to Disrupt Yourself

September 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click…

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Jeff Dyer on “How to think like an innovator”

August 15, 2011

Here is a brief (7:02 minute)  excerpt from a videotaped interview of Jeff Dyer during which he outlines the four ways leaders come up with their great ideas. Dyer is a professor at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management and…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy

June 23, 2011

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of…

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Open Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

June 18, 2011

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology Henry Chesbrough Harvard Business Press (2003) A “new vision” of the innovation process In preparation for my second interview of Henry Chesbrough, I recently re-read his Open Business Models…

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The Innovator’s Solution: A book review by Bob Morris

June 18, 2011

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor Harvard Business Press (2003) Note: I read and then reviewed this “business classic” when it was first published and recently re-read it. I am even…

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The Innovator’s Dilemma: A book review by Bob Morris

June 16, 2011

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this business “classic,” I admire it even more now than I did when it…

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