"Like many people, I had once assumed that business schools teach only strategy, business theories, and financial models. In reality, I learned important life lessons during my time at HBS. Specifically, from one of the greatest thinkers of all time, Clayton Christensen, I learned more about myself and the true meaning of life..." Bastiane Huang, who took BSSE in 2018 and recently graduated from Harvard Business School, reflects on the role the course played in her intellectual and moral awakening. [...]

Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School’s Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, acclaimed author and teacher, and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation, died on January 23, 2020, surrounded by his loving family. Christensen was 67 years old. [...]

Steve Kaufman, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, discusses some of the lessons which can be gleaned from the rise and fall of Pandora, a popular radio streaming company that was acquired by Sirius XM for $3.5bn in January 2019. Over the course of two decades, Pandora destroyed over $1bn of value and never turned a profit. How did the company survive for so long? How can entrepreneurs learn from this situation, so as never to repeat Pandora's mistakes? [...]

After having taken the Building & Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) course with Chet Huber during the Fall Term of 2019, Miho Sakuma reflects on the learnings from and impact of the course, both at the time that she was taking it and looking forward to life after graduation from HBS. [...]

We’re introducing a new initiative called "Peer Insights" through which alumni and other friends of The Forum can harness the power of this network to help find answers to pressing questions and challenges in their professional lives. Our first Peer Insights query comes from an alumna who’s interested in learning more about how high-end advertising agencies that offer premium services can innovate. [...]