Clayton Christensen, world-renowned for his work on innovation and disruption, is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A highly sought-after business consultant, some of America's biggest companies invite him to advise them on their policy and implementation of innovation within their organizations. He has been featured together with Intel's Andy Grove on the cover of Forbes under the title "Andy Grove's big thinker: Clayton Christensen tells how to survive disruptive technologies."

Professor Christensen is the author of the bestselling books Seeing What's Next, The Innovator's Dilemma, which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997, and The Innovator's Solution, a New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller. His latest book is Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Christensen has received the 1995 and 2001 McKinsey Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review, among others.

Christensen received an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard BUsiness School in 1979, and his Doctorate in Business Administration in 1992.