Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. Finally, reaching profitability quickly ensures that when outside financing dries up, the venture can succeed on its own.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Business Model 20

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

It's an essential primer on the history and current state of finance. 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

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

It's an essential primer on the history and current state of finance. 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

JUNE 5, 2014

They represent the logical extension of a topic that’s captured the attention of a lot of great business minds for some time: the ongoing battle between those who view companies through the lens of building something, and those that view it through the lens of finance. Economy Finance' The arguments against doing so continue to mount.

Finance 10

Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Without theory to tell us how the rules are changing, many tools of management and finance seem to break down. Disruptive innovation Finance' But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory?

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

To start, here’s how things have gone for the main broad job categories (and three smaller ones of interest: finance, construction, and information) since 1980: The most remarkable line in the chart is education and health services, which just keeps rising and rising, paying no mind whatsoever to the rest of the economy.

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Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Competition" has changed when individuals can create value through a centralized network of resources: for example, designing a product from anywhere, producing it through a 3D factory , financing it through community and distribution from anywhere to anywhere. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. More recently, Christensen has acknowledged that perhaps Apple, the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, achieved the task. per share by nearly a dime.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Although this only concerns my personal finances, the fact that I serve as editor in chief of Harvard Business Review means I've implicitly accepted not only responsibility for defending the integrity of the institution, but also for having integrity myself. Every situation is unique, but one's values can serve as a constant guide.

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Christensen Ethics Letter Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We don’t know enough of its finances to know precisely how successful it has been, but with tens of millions of viewers and sponsorship packages north of $2 million, it is a good bet that ESPN has done well on its bet. But different is not disruptive.

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Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation Christensen Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. Most turn out not to.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. When we meet with prospective investors, I don't speak much, and for good reason. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. But here's the rub. To get women talking, here are three suggestions: 1) Invert the listen/talk ratio.

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Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Michael Mauboussin doesn't write about innovation, but his clear writing that blends finance, strategy, and psychology puts him on my list. The duo (who are affiliated with Innosight) wrote a great book with Clayton Christensen last year called The Innovator's DNA. Some readers have asked why I put A.G. Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen.

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Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Lesson 1: Set clear boundaries.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If you are a growth-obsessed startup and venture capital financing dries up and buyers grow scarce, you can run out of money. Harvard scholar (and Innosight co-founder) Clayton Christensen guides innovators to be "patient for growth, and impatient for profits." A pure focus on growth carries risks.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. ".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth.

Hedge 15

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Gary, a finance executive, told me, “Sitting at the desk checking your most recent Twitter feed while you wait for someone to give you something to do is one of the best ways to not get an invite back.” Renowned management thinker Clay Christensen recommends spending time formulating the right questions.

Critical Success Factor 8

Critical Success Factor Ryan Christensen Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill. By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Christensen. Buckle down on your finances. Neglect your finances so that when you want to make a change, you don’t feel able to. Case study #2: Get your finances in order. Find people who are doing what you think you want to do and ask them lots of questions. Further Reading. How Will You Measure Your Life?

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Between your idea and the helm, there are legal departments, finance departments, marketing departments, other business units, channel partners, and sometimes even your customers. As Clay Christensen often points out, successful companies are designed to capitalize on sustaining innovations that jibe with their existing business models.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

And Clay Christensen talked about the increasing pace of disruption across all sectors. At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping.

Politics 8

Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8