RESEARCH PAPERS & ARTICLES

HBS Working Knowledge: "Right stuff" managers may be entirely wrong to lead a new-growth business. An excerpt from "The Innovator's Solutios" shows how to think about evaluating the schools of experience key managers have...
OCT 23 2003; By Clayton Christensen and Micheal E. Raynor (research papers and articles)

HBS Working Knowledge: While the traditional air carriers have been lumbering in and out of bankruptcy court, discount carriers like Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways have been maneuvering to gain more of the buzz and...
OCT 20 2003; By Jeremy B. Dann (research papers and articles)

Harvard Business Review: Theory often gets a bum rap among managers because it's associated with the word "theoretical," which connotes "impractical." But it shouldn't. Because experience is solely about the past, solid...
SEP 1 2003; By Clayton Christensen and Micheal E. Raynor (research papers and articles)

MIT Sloan Management Review: Disruptive innovation has usually been considered by established businesses as an attack that must be met through defensive measures. And indeed, disruptive technologies and business models have...
AUG 1 2003; By Clark Gilbert (research papers and articles)

Managers know they need growth to survive, but innovation isn't easy. HBS professor Clayton Christensen and co-authors detail the six keys to creating new-growth businesses...
MAR 1 2003; By Scott D. Anthony and Clayton Christensen and Micheal E. Raynor (research papers and articles)

Law firms are among the most profitable and least risky businesses in the world. The profit margins of the top 100 U.S. law firms are at least twice those of America's largest publicly traded...
JAN 21 2003; By Scott D. Anthony and Clayton Christensen (research papers and articles)

MIT Sloan Management Review: As multinationals unrelentingly seek new growth to satisfy shareholders, they increasingly hear concerns from many quarters about environmental degradation, labor exploitation, cultural hegemony and...
OCT 1 2002; By Clayton Christensen and Stuart Hart (research papers and articles)

Harvard Business Review: When a company faces a major disruption in its markets, managers' perceptions of the disruption influence how they respond to it. If, for instance, they view the disruption as a threat to their core...
MAY 1 2002; By Clark Gilbert (research papers and articles)

MIT Sloan Management Review: Many companies proudly think of themselves as innovative. The great majority of them, however, are adept at producing only sustaining innovations products or services that meet the demands of...
APR 1 2002; By Clayton Christensen and Mark W. Johnson (research papers and articles)

HBS Working Knowledge: You realize the potential of disruptive innovation, now what do you do? Learn from the response of the newspaper industry in this interview with HBSi by Professor Clark Gilbert...
JAN 28 2002; By Clark Gilbert (research papers and articles)

In this research, we examine the relationship between government intervention and innovation, and reach the perhaps not-surprising conclusion that government actions can have a tremendous impact on...
JAN 1 2002; By Scott D. Anthony and Clayton Christensen and Erik A. Roth (research papers and articles)

HBR OnPoint Article: This is an enhanced edition of the HBR reprint R0110D, originally published in November 2001. HBR OnPoint Articles save you time by enhancing an original Harvard Business Review article with an...
NOV 1 2001; By Clayton Christensen and Micheal E. Raynor, Matthew C. Verlinden (research papers and articles)

Harvard Business Review: It's no secret that health care delivery is convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to consumers. But what is less obvious is that a way out of this crisis exists....
SEP 1 2001; By Clayton Christensen and Richard Bohmer, John Kenagy (research papers and articles)

MIT Sloan Management Review: The quest for competitive advantage often inspires executives to imitate the strategies of the most successful companies. Interestingly, however, precisely opposite factors are considered sources of...
JAN 1 2001; By Clayton Christensen (research papers and articles)

Foreign Affairs: A key reason national economies rise and fall these days is their ability to nurture "disruptive technologies"...
JAN 1 2001; By Clayton Christensen and Thomas Craig, Stuart Hart (research papers and articles)

This paper proposes a model of the mechanisms that can cause the degree of appropriability of technology to change -- thereby affecting the potential for innovators to profit from their investments...
JAN 1 2001; By Clayton Christensen (research papers and articles)

HBR OnPoint Article
SEP 1 2000; By Clayton Christensen and Adrian J. Slywotzky, Richard S. Tedlow, Nicholas G. Carr (research papers and articles)

The authors suggest ways large companies can capitalize on opportunities that normally would not fit in with their processes or values; it all starts with understanding what the organizations are...
MAY 1 2000; By Clayton Christensen and Michael Overdorf (research papers and articles)

The dot com boom and bust seems like light years ago. But what have we learned from the wreckage? This paper helps answer a question that would have seemed a silly circa 1999 but vital in 2000: What...
JAN 1 2000; By Clayton Christensen and et al. (research papers and articles)