This month we showcase Harvard professor Clayton Christensen.
Dr. Christensen is a Rhodes Scholar and received an MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School. He is currently the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the HBS faculty he co-founded and was chairman and president of CPS Technologies (CPS).
The following quotes are from the HBS Website. “His seminal book The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), which first outlined his disruptive innovation frameworks, received the Global Business Book Award for the Best Business Book of the Year in 1997, was a New York Times bestseller, has been translated into over 10 languages, and is sold in over 25 countries. He is also a three-time recipient of the McKinsey Award for the Harvard Business Reviews’s best article.”
I like Dr. Christensen’s perspective because it comes from an entrepreneur and an Academic. His books The Innovator’s Dilemma and Disrupting Class, where he applies the concept of disruptive technology to education, are truly insightful and are a must read for anyone with an interest in technology, business and education.
Here is a video of Dr. Christensen in action.
