Clayton M. Christensen

Clayton M. Christensen
Clayton M. Christensen
Born April 6, 1952 (1952-04-06) (age 59)
Salt Lake City, Utah
Nationality United States
Alma mater Brigham Young University (B.A.)
Oxford University (M.Phil.)
Harvard University (MBA, DBA)
Occupation Teacher & consultant
Known for The Innovator's Dilemma
Religion The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Spouse Christine
Children 5
Website
claytonchristensen.com

Clayton M. Christensen (born April 6, 1952) 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. He is best known for his study of innovation in commercial enterprises. His first book, The Innovator's Dilemma,[1] articulated his theory of disruptive innovation.

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Early life

Christensen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of eight children. He holds a B.A. with highest honors in economics at Brigham Young University (1975), an M.Phil. in applied econometrics and the economics of less-developed countries at Oxford University (1977, Rhodes Scholar), an MBA with High Distinction at the Harvard Business School (1979, George F. Baker Scholar), and a DBA at the Harvard Business School (1992).

Career

Before joining the faculty of Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1992, Christensen worked for the Boston Consulting Group and then served as chairman and president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (Now CPS Holdings), a firm he co-founded with several MIT professors in 1984. In 2000, he founded Innosight LLC, a consulting and training firm which describes itself as "focusing on idea generation, strategy development, commercialization, and innovative process development." In 2005, together with his colleagues at Innosight he launched Innosight Ventures, a venture firm focused on investing in India. In 2007, after incubating the processes for six years, Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors LLC (named after the neighborhood of Salt Lake City where he was raised), an investment company which applies his research as an investment strategy.

He serves on the board of directors of Tata Consultancy Services (NYSE: TCS), Franklin Covey (NYSE: FC), and Vanu, Inc.

He worked as a consultant and project leader with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) (1979–1984); instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy consulting practice. He took a leave of absence from BCG to serve as a White House Fellow (1982–1983) 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 currently teaches an elective course he designed called Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which teaches managers how to build and manage an enduring, successful company or transform an existing organization. Christensen received an Extraordinary Teaching Award by the MBA class of 2010. He also teaches in many HBS executive education programs.[2]

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 the American healthcare system. The latter two books have received numerous awards as the best books on education and health care in their respective years of publication. The Innovator's Prescription was also awarded the 2010 James A. Hamilton Award, by the College of Healthcare Executives.[3]

Personal life

Clay Christensen lives in Belmont, Massachusetts with his wife Christine. They have five children: Matthew, Ann, Michael, Spencer and Kate. Clayton is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[4] From 1971 to 1973 he served as a missionary in the Republic of Korea (1971–1973), and speaks fluent Korean.[5] He has served in several leadership positions in the Church. He served as an Area Seventy beginning in April 2002. Prior to that he served as a counselor in the Massachusetts Boston Mission Presidency. He has also served as a bishop.[6]

In February 2010, Christensen announced that he'd been diagnosed with follicular lymphoma.[7] Despite Christensen’s health setback he is once again actively teaching, speaking and writing. In 2011, Christensen published two seminal books: The Innovative University[8] and The Innovator’s DNA (Harvard Business Press), with another scheduled to be published in early 2012.

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Bibliography

Journal articles authored or coauthored by Christensen

Books authored or coauthored by Christensen

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