Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen and How Will You Measure Your Life?

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.22.2012

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Clayton Christensen may be inspiring, but teaching folks how to value and measure their lives is a stretch.

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A Business Student's New Required Reading

Rahilla Zafar | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Clayton Christensen, Innosight Institute, Michael Horn, Enron, Mitt Romney, Jeff Skilling, Harvard Business Review, Barack Obama, Books News

How Will You Measure Your Life? shows readers how the same principles and theories of management used to examine companies can be applied to themselves.

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Innosight's Michael Horn on How 'Blended Learning' and Technology Can Bridge the Education Gap

Rahilla Zafar | Posted 04.16.2012

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Author Michael Horn predicts that in the future, the majority of students will be engaged in what he calls "blended learning" where they'll learn online with control over the pace of their learning in schools with teachers providing guidance.

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A Student-Centered Future for Higher Ed

Jeff Selingo | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Online Learning, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook, Jeff Selingo, College, The Chronicle of Higher Education, College News

Hardly a week goes by when we don't hear another announcement that has the potential to chip away at the student market that is currently the lifeblood of colleges on the margins, in both quality and financial health.

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Clayton Christensen on the Arab Spring and the Next Wave of Emerging Markets

Rahilla Zafar | Posted 02.26.2012

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Considered the world's foremost authority on the process of disruptive innovation, Christensen discusses his reaction to the Arab Spring, how India and China are developing their economies, and where the next wave of disruptive innovation will come from.

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Health 2.0: Innovators, Opportunists and Delusionals

Dave Chase | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Clayton-Christensen, Arthur Schopenhauer, Arthur-Schopenhauer, Laura Tyson, Health Insurance, Health Care, Laura-Tyson, Health Insurance Reform, Technology News

Health 2.0 just had its largest ever event, with 50 percent more attendees than their previous largest event. A number of companies launched during th...

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Networking for Innovation

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Innovation, Malcolm Gladwell, Networking, Disruptive Technology, Technology News

Can innovation be learned? YES, but only for those with the right personality.

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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Xerox and Waste Management are doing something mostly unheard of: they're working with customers to use less of their traditional product or service. That's a big shift in business as usual.

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The Steelers and Packers Win With Defense -- What About Your Company?

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Troy Polamalu, Green Bay Packers, Defense, Clay Matthews, Pittsburgh Steelers, Doing Both, Cisco, Inder Sidhu, Super Bowl, Business News

When you sit to watch the game this weekend, enjoy the spectacle of the cheesehead, but remember this: the guy with the "D" and the fence may not be as entertaining, but he know how to win.

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Helpful Advice for Rhodes Scholars (For the Rest of Us, Maybe Not So Much)

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

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In replacing aristocracy with meritocracy, are we really opening the gates of opportunity, or merely replacing one narrow ideal with another?

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Is Chrome OS a "Disruptive Innovation?"

Scott Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Disruptive Innovation, General Electric, Microsoft, Google Chrome, Harvard Business School, Nintendo Wii, Google, Tata Nano, Media News

Pundits quickly termed Google's Chrome OS "classic disruptive innovation" that promised to up-end historic market leader Microsoft. Do the pundits have it right?

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Larry Summers: Brilliant Mind, Toxic Ideas

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, Economic Crisis, Larry Summers, Obama Economy, Lawrence Summers, Obama Economics, Wall Street Crisis, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Glass-Steagall, Sleep, Politics News

It was on Summers' watch that the credit-default swaps warhead that has blown up our economy was launched. It would be hard to make assumptions that turned out to be more wrong than his were.

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2009: The Year of Light Green

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Munich Re, 2009 Predictions, Green Business, Wal-Mart Sustainability, Green Wave, Swiss Reinsurance Co, Carbon Principles, HSBC Holdings, Risk, Citigroup, Green News

What will happen now in this damaged economy? It would be silly to suggest that the intensity of the focus on green will continue unabated. But we'll see a form of what I'll call "light green" this year.

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