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What theory did you just use? News brief — Capitalist’s Dilemma version, 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 airline consolidation. Low-fare startup Virgin America Inc. may soon have a new owner. Takeover offers from two other U.S. airlines — JetBlue Airways Corp. and Alaska Air Group Inc. — are due by the end of the week, according to a person familiar with the matter, in what could signal the latest wave of consolidation in the industry.
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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 of the 2012 election and then a couple of years later with the added insight from a number of former students for Harvard Business Review. ¶ Most recently, Clay spoke about the Capitalist’s Dilemma at a conference in San Francisco alongside prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreesen. Watch the recording or check out this great roundup of that conversation here: https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/marc-andreessen-clayton-christensen-venture-capital-is-abundant…the Forum at HBSMar 8
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 such as healthcare in books such as The Innovator’s Prescription. ¶ For the last two years, senior researcher Tom Bartman has been working with Clay to understand why — despite all the literature that is out there on how to innovate your business model — companies still struggle to find success in innovating their business models. ¶ In this short video, Clay responds to an early draft of Tom’s findings, and reminds us to think about what Edgar Schein would…the Forum at HBSApr 4
Working sessions with Clay Christensen | Disruption theory — on the trajectory of performance…
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…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 mechanism behind your new proposed categorization of phenomena. For the last two decades, Clay has used his platform as professor at HBS to do just this — discover and study anomalies. With the help of each new crop of MBA students, eager to explore and test the limit of new frameworks, Clay has continued to improve our understanding of…the Forum at HBSFeb 4
Hardware as a Service — Integrating suppliers to lower costs for consumers
Hardware as a Service — Integrating suppliers to lower costs for consumers
written by Thomas Bartman, Senior Researcher, Forum for Growth & InnovationChamath Palihpaitiya recently wrote about a phenomenon he calls HaaS, or Hardware as a Service, and its potential to transform the future of our cities and our lives when a company like Tesla, which he analyzes, offers on-demand autonomous driving services. ¶ He believes that the coming changes will be revolutionary to the way we interact with physical assets but I see the change as a much more incremental step on the longstanding process of replacing ownership with access.the Forum at HBSNov 18, 2015
What Theory Did You Just Use — Guest Post: How Amplify Broke All the Rules for Innovators (EdSurge…
What Theory Did You Just Use — Guest Post: How Amplify Broke All the Rules for Innovators (EdSurge…
written by Michael B. Horn, Co-founder and Distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and…News) ¶ written by Michael B. Horn, Co-founder and Distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and Principal consultant for Entangled Solutions ¶ For this #whattheoryWednesday post, we asked Michael Horn (MBA 2006), an alumnus of our course Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, to use three of our theories to examine a current events story: why is Amplify, once a promising edtech company, struggling to survive?the Forum at HBSNov 10, 2015
