Christensen Finance Operations 
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
Disruptive Innovation (per the Christensen model) generally takes place in an industry dominated by an oligopoly and having an unserved segment ( towards the lower end in terms of profit margins and product capability) which attains visibility as a result of technological expansion in what is most of the time, a non-related field.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2014
A similar proposal to Split Finance would likely have been rejected out of hand by organization leaders (and Harvard Business Review editors), because its obvious that the Finance function must fit the organization strategy and leader capabilities. Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 30, 2013
In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. 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. Most turn out not to. With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2013
Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 13, 2011
Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation. Unfortunately the approach you are taking is standard management, which in the case of discontinuous/radical/disruptive innovations fails. I look forward to hearing more from you.
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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