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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 ...

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.

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 ...

As social media and now AI dramatically alter how we consume and create information and relate to each other, worries are mounting. What’s notable is that we’ve been here before. Despite similar ...

A recent study and accompanying news story in the preeminent journal Nature provocatively concludes that disruptive innovation in science has dramatically and mysteriously declined 90% since 1945. The ...

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.

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 ...

In his new book, "The Prosperity Paradox," coauthored with Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen provides a framework for marrying successful ...

Airships capable of carrying heavy loads, a plane that circumnavigates the globe without refueling, a drone designed for the consumer market, or a segway that allows you to move vertically on two ...

Doing things differently is difficult and demands commitment and hard work. That’s the reason examples of disruption are rare – particularly in the traditional, risk-averse world of B2B marketing.