Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen

Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Clayton M. Christensen is a professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School. He is the bestselling author of five books, including his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma, which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book of the year, and most recently, The Innovator's Prescription, which examines how to fix our healthcare system. Christensen serves on several public and privately traded boards and is the founder of a successful consulting company and an investment management firm. He holds a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in applied econometrics and the economics of less-developed countries from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar; he received an MBA with high distinction from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar, and was awarded his DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.

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Clayton Christensen on how companies can thrive in a down market.
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The Harvard Business School professor on the right way to accelerate growth.
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The Harvard Business School professor on how to live in the present and the future.
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The Harvard Business School professor on how to predict future customer behavior.
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The Harvard Business School professor on how to break down barriers to innovation.
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The personal computer is an example of a disruptive innovation that allowed a whole new population of people to use it. Eventually it was improved to the point that the […]
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The Harvard Business School professor talks about how is changing the healthcare industry.