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Clayton Christensen's Speech Video: Disruptive Innovation
Clayton M. Christensen, best-selling author of “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. He has been recently featured in a Forbes Cover Story on his recovery from a stroke and heart attack, with lessons learned about the heatlhcare system.
Professor Christensen’s research and teaching interests center on managing innovation and how to create new growth markets. Through co-founding Innosight, a management consulting and training firm based near the Harvard Business School in Watertown, Massachusetts, Christensen and his colleagues sought to make practical the theories of disruption by focusing on problems of strategy, innovation and growth. Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation are practiced and implemented today through the company’s work with clients ranging from Proctor & Gamble to General Motors to Credit Suisse.
Professor Christensen holds a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975), and an M.Phil. in applied econometrics and the economics of less-developed countries from Oxford University (1977), 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. He was awarded his DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.
A seasoned entrepreneur, Christensen has founded three successful companies. The first, CPS Corporation, is an advanced materials manufacturing company that he founded in 1984 with several MIT professors. The second, Innosight, was founded by Christensen with the company’s current chairman, Mark Johnson, in 2000. Innosight Capital, the third firm, was launched in 2005. From 1979 to 1984 he worked with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In 1982 Professor Christensen was named a White House Fellow, and served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole.
Professor Christensen became a faculty member at the Harvard Business School in 1992. He is author or co-author of six books. His latest is The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education From The Inside Out. His 1997 book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published. The Innovator's Solution” (2003) was also a New York Times best seller. In 2008, Professor Christensen published two timely books that apply his theories to some of the most significant topics of our day: education and healthcare. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, outlines the core problems within the America’s public educational system and offer disruptive innovation as a solution. The Innovator's Prescription - A Disruptive Solution for Health Care examines America’s healthcare system and explain why disruptive innovation is needed to make medical care affordable and accessible for all.
Professor Christensen's writings have won a number of additional awards, including the Best Dissertation Award from The Institute of Management Sciences; the Production and Operations Management Society's William Abernathy Award for the best paper in the management of technology; the Newcomen Society’s award for the best paper in business history; and the 1995 and 2001 McKinsey Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review.
Clayton Christenen's Topics: (Adaptable to Various Industries)
The essential principle in Professor Christensen's disruptive innovation theory (DI) is that companies innovate faster than people's lives change. He's especially interested in getting across basic principles, such as DI, while elevating your audience’s understanding for the new business models and strategies that are in the process of disrupting and redefining the world of industries that make up health care.
Education:
1) Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (K-12)
2) Disruptive Innovation and Catalytic Change in Higher Education
Healthcare:
1) Fixing the Broken Healthcare Model
The innovative work by Professor Christensen, his coauthors and partners will result in a new view on the state of health care systems as they have evolved to three distinct and new business models.
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