Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

After studying Hollywood actors for three years, MIT Professor Ezra Zuckerman found that actors who typecast themselves (PDF) early in their careers tend to earn more money, have longer lifespans, and enjoy more fame compared to generalist actors. Over the long term, that is a career strategy with diminishing returns.

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Career Long-term Christensen CFO 16

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. Some are little (pass the time while waiting in line); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). We all have many jobs to be done in our lives.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It's not news to anyone who's looked for a job recently that the days of a monolithic career spent at one company or in one well-defined field are over. Many of us have had to — willingly or out of necessity — rethink our career paths. At six years old, I knew what I wanted to be: a designer. I started out designing cars.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Travel 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. In financial terms, focuses expertise is a call option on other careers, and it increases your chance of startup success, to boot. Career planning Entrepreneurship'

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? Here are principles you can follow to find a career — and a specific job —­ you don’t just enjoy, but love. For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer.

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Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Invariably, many people will think some of the choices are poor or that the list is incomplete, but I hope it can serve as a start for young business leaders looking for literature to help them chart their careers. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Invariably, many people will think some of the choices are poor or that the list is incomplete, but I hope it can serve as a start for young business leaders looking for literature to help them chart their careers. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. Finally, management ideas can be the catalyst for a better future.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Communities of practice, where they share a common career or field of business, will extend your offer because it extends their expertise (like McAfee mavens ). This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Everything.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. The desperate-to-prove-himself banker found a chart that showed how the housing market was overpriced. Make sure to seize it.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To borrow Clayton Christensen’s phrase, our hotel laundry’s “job to be done” is not cleaning dirty clothes; it is preserving and enhancing our guests’ sense of participation in the world of fashion. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized.

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Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Problems can range from entering new markets to addressing everyday concerns such as low employee engagement. But inside most companies, working on something that “fails” commercially carries significant stigma, if not outright career risk. Constraints and creativity are surprisingly close friends.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

When Clay Christensen, his son Matt, and I first launched Rose Park Advisors, we considered bringing on investors at the GP (general partner) level. My abilities were market-tested, validated by bulge bracket firms. Even in the middle of my career, it felt like a punch to the solar plexus. Love your returns. I felt invisible.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

As recent research from MIT reminds us, older entrepreneurs are often better equipped to handle the rigors of startup life, not least because they have well developed networks from their career to date that can be tapped into when growing the business.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 88