Disruptive Innovation as a Platform for Growth

• Innovation: The source of competitive advantage, economic growth and wealth creation
• How to create opportunities: On disruptive innovation and asymmetry
• How to make a successful transition from one innovation wave to the next
• Can innovation be "managed"? How to make it a company-wide challenge
• Institutionalizing innovation: The role of the leader
• How to build on competencies and capabilities, and shape an "innovation-friendly" organization
• Challenges in developing new growth businesses: From spotting opportunities to sustaining innovations

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.”

A seasoned entrepreneur, Christensen has founded three successful companies: CPS Corporation, an advanced materials manufacturing company, Innosight, a consulting and training company focused on problems of strategy, innovation, and growth, and Innosight Capital.

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.

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