In the Harvard Business Review article, Persuade Your Company To Change Before It's Too Late , Innosight's Scott Anthony , Pontus Siren , and Utsav Bhatt describe how to break the information-action paradox and gain conviction to act before industry change gets ahead of your organization. In doing so, they draw on the story of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), a law firm whose management team had the conviction required to successfully respond to disruptive change, taking steps to manage it witho...
Apr 12, 2022•35 min
Michael Mauboussin and Matt Christensen ’s paths first crossed over two decades ago, just before the first edition of Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns , co-authored by Michael and Alfred Rappaport, was published. In this episode, Michael and Matt discuss the revised and updated edition of the book, which came out in 2021 and reflects the many changes that have occurred in the business landscape over the last twenty years, along with a number of related topics. From...
Mar 22, 2022•44 min
In the acknowledgments section of Competing Against Luck , co-author Taddy Hall wrote, “Twenty-four years ago, when I walked into the classroom for the first day of Clay’s class, I had no idea of the adventure that was about to begin. Over these many years, there has never been a conversation with Clay that didn’t leave me feeling a humbled sense of gratitude for his patience, wisdom, and kindness. Thank you, Clay.” In this episode of The Disruptive Voice, the adventure continues as Taddy joins ...
Mar 01, 2022•35 min
A few months ago, Professor Scott Kominers and Cliff Maxwell , former Chief of Staff to Clayton Christensen and an HBS alumnus, co-authored an HBR article entitled, What Makes An Online Marketplace Disruptive? They pointed out that rather than digitize or make existing transactions more efficient, truly disruptive marketplaces create entirely new transactions, engaging non-consumers and/or non-producers. In this episode, Scott joins Cliff to discuss a number of topics relevant to online marketpl...
Feb 08, 2022•40 min
In 2015, when Matt Lerner jumped from Director at PayPal to early-stage VC and advisor, Clayton Christensen’s ideas flipped from being interesting theories to essential daily practices. Matt has now worked with over 100 startups, helping them to find product market fit and scale. He runs Startup Core Strengths and helps companies use Jobs interviews to speed growth, even with startup budgets. In this episode, Matt joins host Katie Zandbergen to discuss the five tactics that drove 90% of PayPal’s...
Jan 18, 2022•39 min
During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, many parents opted or were directed by their children’s schools to enroll students in online learning. However, for a number of reasons – including students feeling lonely, the online model often requiring heavy involvement by parents in the learning process, and the practicalities of caregivers needing to return to work – online learning hasn’t gained longer-term traction but is instead seen by many families as a short-term solution during challeng...
Dec 14, 2021•29 min
The challenges faced by senior leaders seeking to transform well-established organizations are well documented. What’s more, roadmaps for tackling these challenges are widely available. Still, incumbent organizations continue to fail at an ever-increasing rate and senior leaders struggle to take the steps they know they should take to keep their companies innovative and thriving. Why? In this episode, Alex Slawsby and Christian Stadler join host Katie Zandbergen to delve into this dilemma of sen...
Nov 16, 2021•34 min
In her new role as CEO at Officinae Bio , Christina Nesheva is working to create an inherently innovative organization that pushes the boundaries of nature co-design. In doing so, she draws on her experience having led one of the pharmaceutical industry's first innovation labs, at ViiV Healthcare , along with her time driving innovation, change, and new product commercialization at the pharmaceutical giant, GSK . In this episode, Christina, who is also a startup mentor and author of The Entrepre...
Oct 19, 2021•31 min
Tom Arnett is Senior Research Fellow – Education at The Clayton Christensen Institute , where he studies instructional models and demand for innovative resources and practices across the K-12 education system. In this episode, he joins host Michael Horn to dig into his latest research, sharing insights on what Clay’s frameworks can tell us about recent developments in online learning and also how the incorporation of new techniques in K-12 schooling models might evolve as we slowly emerge from t...
Oct 05, 2021•33 min
In this episode, Dr. William Hait , Global Head of Johnson & Johnson External Innovation, discusses how the 135 year old company is using the principles of disruption to improve the trajectory of healthcare across the globe. Dr. Hait, who leads a unit comprised of Johnson & Johnson Innovation , the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson, and the company's World Without Disease Accelerator, oversees the creation of transformational new growth platforms. Hosted by Innosight 's Jos...
Sep 20, 2021•33 min
In honor of The Disruptive Voice's 80th episode, along with the start of the new academic year at Harvard Business School , we decided to re-release this recording from our archives. Originally released in September of 2016, Clay had invited some of his former Building & Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) students back to campus to talk about the goals of the course, while also taking questions from the audience. In this episode, he discusses not only what the BSSE course has set out ...
Sep 01, 2021•24 min
Back in 2003, Steve Kaufman was the first partner who Clay brought on to teach the BSSE course with him, and he has subsequently had a tremendous impact on generations of our students. At the end of June, Steve officially retired from the Harvard Business School. As such, we wanted to sit down with him to have him to reflect on his career and time working with Clay, his thoughts on the course and its cases, and his forecast for the future of management education. Hosted by Derek van Bever , the ...
Aug 02, 2021•37 min
One consequence of the coronavirus pandemic has been the acceleration of many industry trends that had already been underway in 2019. The ever-increasing pace of change in the restaurant industry is no exception, and one particular development of note has been the rise of dark kitchens, also known as cloud kitchens or ghost kitchens. A few months ago, Sam and Prashant (along with co-author Yury Adamov ) published a paper entitled, “ When Kitchens Go Dark: How Covid-19 Could Transform the Restaur...
Jul 19, 2021•41 min
Many listeners will know Ann Christensen as President & CEO of The Clayton Christensen Institute . To Clay, however, she was his oldest daughter, Annie. How Will You Measure Your Life , published with co-authors James Allworth & Karen Dillon in 2012, is one of Clay’s most popular books, challenging each of us to think more deeply about our life and our purpose, including how we nurture our relationships to become enduring sources of happiness. In this episode, and through the lens of How...
Jun 28, 2021•33 min
Snigdha Sur is a Harvard Business School alumna and founder of The Juggernaut , a premium publication and community that publishes smart and well-reported stories about South Asia and South Asians. Hosted by Anibha Singh , Snigdha discusses developments and gaps in the news and media landscape, including how these impact South Asian diaspora communities; the story behind the founding of The Juggernaut, along with how the organization has evolved from conception, through its development, to its c...
Jun 15, 2021•37 min
In this conversation, hosted by Michael Horn , Julia builds on her foundational statement, “Opportunity really sits at the intersection of what you know and who you know.” Together, they discuss the important distinctions between our strong tie and weak tie networks; innovation in education; the ed tech market and which tools are best suited for network building, and in which circumstances; the Cadillac versus the KIA of mentoring organizations and strategies; performance metrics; the rise of ch...
Jun 01, 2021•31 min
John de Souza is an entrepreneur and investor who, over the course of his career, has accumulated a great depth of experience in sectors of technology, automotive, health, and finance. In this episode, he joins Steve Geskos to discuss his current role as Co-Founder and President at Ample , a company whose mission is to accelerate the transition to electric mobility through the offering of an energy delivery solution that is as fast, as convenient, and as cheap as gas, while also being powered by...
May 18, 2021•37 min
Along with his work as a Managing Director at Innosight , the consulting firm co-founded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson over two decades ago, David Duncan is also a co-author with Clay on Competing Against Luck and co-author with Scott Anthony , host of this episode, on Building A Growth Factory . Most recently, David - a leading authority on the Jobs To Be Done framework, and drawing on his wealth of experience conducting market investigations – has published The Secret Lives of Custom...
May 04, 2021•34 min
In this episode, Efosa Ojomo returns to The Disruptive Voice to discuss his latest research at The Christensen Institute ’s Global Prosperity group. He and his colleague, Lincoln Wilcox , recently published a report highlighting six innovative strategies for creating new markets in emerging economies. This conversation, hosted by Katie Zandbergen , focuses on the findings from their research, along with the implications for those looking to create prosperity around the globe. Efosa speaks not on...
Apr 19, 2021•30 min
Talenia Phua Gajardo , an alumna of HBS Executive Education’s Disruptive Innovation course , is Founder & CEO of The Artling , an online gallery and arts consultancy featuring a curated collection of art and design pieces from a myriad of artists, galleries, and designers. Founded in 2013, the organization aims to both showcase stunning works of art and to make them more accessible to a broader, international audience. As you’ll hear more about in this episode, the pandemic has presented The...
Mar 31, 2021•27 min
Many students of Clayton Christensen’s will be familiar with the US Steel case that he wrote as a graduate student in the 1990s, one that is still used today in the BSSE curriculum at Harvard Business School. The case tells the story of the minimills’ low-end disruption of US Steel, entering the market with rebar and then steadily moving up-market to bars & rods, then on to structural steel, and finally to sheet steel at the high end of the market. The incumbent, US Steel, was caught in a cl...
Mar 16, 2021•26 min
We're delighted to begin Season 4 of The Disruptive Voice with Anna Marie Wagner , Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Ginkgo Bioworks . Hosted by Derek van Bever , Anna Marie discusses the transformative potential of bioengineering and the work her company is doing to help facilitate it. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar, Anna Marie worked as an investor with Bain Capital Private Equity for several years before diving into the...
Feb 26, 2021•44 min
In the early days of venture capital, investors played a dual role as financiers and innovators, partnering with their portfolio companies to design and develop their operations from the ground up. Nowadays most VC firms don't generate and pursue innovations but rather source and grow start-ups that already exist. For established businesses seeking to self-disrupt with autonomous units, these circumstances pose a distinctive challenge that contemporary venture capitalists are generally ill-equip...
Jan 14, 2021•42 min
Michelle Weise is an expert in higher education and in the development of more innovative workforce and talent pipelines. A former Senior Research Fellow in Higher Education at The Christensen Institute , she joined us on The Disruptive Voice to reflect on her career over the last decade, which has concentrated on preparing working-age adults for the jobs of both today and tomorrow. Hosted by Katie Zandbergen , they discuss Michelle's experiences working with Clayton Christensen, her thoughts on...
Dec 10, 2020•49 min
Over a year ago, The Forum for Growth & Innovation team ventured to North Carolina to learn about the ways in which a group of innovators had spread the gospel of disruption to the senior leadership of Atrium Health . Regular listeners of the podcast may remember when we interviewed Atrium's Ann-Somers Hogg on her experience of studying the theories of Disruptive Innovation and Jobs To Be Done as an executive education participant at HBS , before bringing the learnings and language home to h...
Nov 24, 2020•43 min
Online grocery shopping isn't ( really ) catching on. While there has been real growth in the number of Americans who shop for groceries online in 2020, even in the midst of a global pandemic, the vast majority of customers choose to shop in person. Why? This week on The Disruptive Voice, we're delighted to bring you José Vicente Aguerrevere and Max Pedró , co-founders of Takeoff Technologies , for a look behind the scenes at their efforts to build and sustain a technology company aimed at elimi...
Nov 11, 2020•52 min
When was the last time you heard your best friend's voice? This question is at the heart of this week's episode of The Disruptive Voice. We're now seven months into a global pandemic that has torn and kept friends and families apart. In the midst of all this distance and distress, many are searching for ways to deeply and authentically connect with those they love. That's why we reached out to Amelia Lin , an alumna of HBS and Harvard College who is in the early stages of developing a social med...
Oct 28, 2020•35 min
Why are there no sales professors at the Harvard Business School or anywhere else, for that matter? Given that selling products and services is such a fundamental aspect of business, it may surprise you to learn that " most MBA programs offer no sales-related courses at all, and those that do offer only a single course in sales management. " Enter Bob Moesta , President & CEO of the Re-Wired Group , and a well-known presence here at The Forum for Growth & Innovation. With his new book, D...
Oct 14, 2020•38 min
This week, as the New York City public schools scramble to re-open and students across the country settle into routines that are anything but routine , we checked in with Michael Horn to hear his views on the state of education amidst the pandemic. Michael is a widely published researcher, strategist, and innovator who co-founded The Clayton Christensen Institute and currently serves as Senior Strategist at Guild Education . Hosted by Christopher Diak , Program Assistant at The Forum and an M.Di...
Sep 29, 2020•41 min
Over the course of the twentieth century, the growth of the consulting industry was fueled by a series of sustaining innovations that strongly influenced the practice of management and corporate strategy. As a result, leading consulting firms today have well-defined value propositions and business models, offering premium, high cost services to a relatively small pool of clients, while simultaneously creating the conditions for non-consumption across vast swaths of the business landscape. Put si...
Sep 15, 2020•25 min
