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Tom Bartman in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Apr 26, 2016

Understanding your business’s priorities is more important than understanding its capabilities

Ask senior executives what their organizations’ capabilities are and you’re likely to hear a laundry list of details about technologies, markets and products. Ask them…

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the Forum at HBS in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Apr 4, 2016

Working sessions with Clay Christensen | On business model innovation — one reason it’s hard

Clay has been studying business models for a long time, having written about them most recently in Harvard Business Review in 2008 and studying the nuances of industries…

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the Forum at HBS in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Apr 4, 2016

What theory did you just use? News brief — week of Apr 4 2016

Here are the headlines pulled from Clay’s news brief this week.

WSJ: JetBlue, Alaska Air Bidding for Virgin America (3/28/16): Takeover offers due by end of week in what could signal next wave of…

the Forum at HBS in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Mar 8, 2016

What theory did you just use? News brief — Capitalist’s Dilemma version, week of Mar 7 2016

At the top of Clay Christensen’s mind these days is the Capitalist’s Dilemma. Clay has written a number of pieces about this paradox— first for the New York Times just ahead…

the Forum at HBS in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Mar 1, 2016

What theory did you just use? News brief — week of Feb 29 2016

Years ago in the days of written correspondence, Clay would give his graduating students a stamp, and ask that they stay in touch after they graduated. There was, of course, a little twist…

the Forum at HBS in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Feb 22, 2016

What theory did you just use? News brief — week of Feb 26 2016

So much has been written about how detrimental to productivity it is to context switch — it can be time consuming and a major mental disruption (in the colloquial sense, not as a theory of competition). But to Clay…

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the Forum at HBS in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Feb 4, 2016

Working sessions with Clay Christensen | Disruption theory — on the trajectory of performance improvement

A key part of the theory-building process, Clay likes to explain, is to identify and study anomalies that enable you to hone in on the causal…

Tom Bartman in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Jan 25, 2016

High-end products can’t be “disruptive.” Here’s why (Part 2)

The 4 types of product innovation

In Part 1 of this post, I explained that high-end products can’t be disruptive under the theory developed by Clay Christensen of Harvard…

the Forum at HBS in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Jan 21, 2016

What Theory Did You Just Use: US Steel in 2015

The news story: Last March, US Steel announced that it was planning to construct a $230 million electric arc furnace (minimill technology) at its steelmaking facility in Birmingham, Ala.

Tom Bartman in taking BSSE out of the HBS classroom

Jan 20, 2016

High-end products can’t be “disruptive.” Here’s why (Part 1)

There are 5 attributes of Disruptive Innovations

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