In early July 1997, I began a weekend morning much the same as I began every other Saturday morning, at the Oxford Bookstore in Atlanta, where I’d sit, from open to close, reading up to five books ...

In many ways, Christensen’s seminal book, The Innovator’s Dilemma (Harvard Business School Publishing, 1997), is about big-company defense. In it, he explained how corporations become vulnerable not ...

Unless you’re an avid reader of the sort of books CEOs tote around, you may not have heard of Clayton Christensen. You have, however, felt the impact of his work. Christensen, who died at 67 on ...

Clayton Christensen, a longtime professor at Harvard Business School who became famous worldwide after authoring the best-selling business book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause ...

BOSTON, MA—Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School’s Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, acclaimed author and teacher, and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive ...

Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor who became world-famous for his book, The Innovator's Dilemma (HBR Press, 1997) and his ideas on disruptive innovation, passed away last ...

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Clayton M. Christensen, a prominent Utah-born business theorist and consultant, devout Latter-day Saint and framer of the influential concept of “disruptive innovation,” died Thursday. He was 67.

Clayton Christensen, who coined and defined the concept of disruptive innovation — often named among the most influential business theories of the 21st century — and who regularly applied that theory ...