VLS with Prof. Clay Christensen
Join HBS Professor Clay Christensen for a discussion on his new book The Innovators Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care.
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Clayton M. Christensen 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. His research and
teaching interests center on the management issues related to the
development and commercialization of technological and business model
innovation. Specific areas of focus include developing organizational
capabilities and finding new markets for new technologies.
Prior to joining the HBS faculty,
Professor Christensen served as chairman and president of CPS
Technologies (CPS), a firm he co-founded with several MIT professors in
1984. CPS is a leading developer of  products
and manufacturing processes using high-technology metals and ceramics
such as silicon nitride and silicon carbide. From 1979 to 1984 he
worked as a consultant and project manager with the Boston Consulting
Group (BCG), where he was instrumental in founding the firm's
manufacturing strategy consulting practice. In 1982 Professor
Christensen was named a White House Fellow, and served through 1983 (on
a leave of absence from BCG) 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 taught courses in
Technology and Operations Management, General Management, and
Operations Strategy. He then developed a course called Managing
Innovation. Professor Christensen currently teaches an elective course
he designed called Building a Sustainably Successful Enterprise, which
teaches managers how to build and manage an enduring, successful
company or transform an existing organization. He also teaches in
several HBS executive education programs, including Building New
Ventures and Leading Change and Organizational Renewal.
Professor Christensen is the bestselling author of five books, including his seminal work The Innovator's Dilemma (1997) which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book of the year, The Innovator’s Solution (2003), and Seeing What’s Next
(2004). Recently, Christensen has focused the lens of disruptive
innovation on social issues such as education and health care. Disrupting Class (2008) looks at the root causes of why schools struggle and offers solutions, while The Innovator's Prescription (2009) examines how to fix our healthcare system.
Professor Christensen's writings have been featured in a variety of
publications, and have won a number of awards, such as the Best
Dissertation Award from The Institute of Management Sciences for his
doctoral thesis on technology development in the disk drive industry;
the Production and Operations Management Society's 1991 William
Abernathy Award, presented to the author of the best paper in the
management of technology; the Newcomen Society's award for the best
paper in business history in 1993; and the 1995, 2001 and 2008 McKinsey
Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review.
Monday, April 27th
- Location: Your Office or Home
- Time: 12 Noon
- Cost: No Charge; Members Only Event
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RSVP by COB Monday, April 20
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