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Disruptive Innovation and the Way We Learn
January 11, 2008
Clayton Christensen professor, business administration, Harvard

Clayton Christensen discusses his model of disruptive innovation and its application to the field of education.

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the technology and operations management, and general management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on managing innovation and creating new growth markets. Author of numerous books, the most well known of which is The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business, Christensen is considered the world's leading authority of innovation management and disruptive innovation.

Copyright 2008 Clayton Christensen

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Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages
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