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The Forum for Growth & Innovation strives to be a touch-point for all innovative thinkers and general managers.

Here at The Forum and in the Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise classroom, we all share a common language. For practitioners out in the field, getting everyone on the same page is essential. On this page you will find tools to share with your teams or to refresh your own memory on the predictive theories taught by Professor Christensen. That way, you can all look through the same lenses as you face challenges in the modern business world. Here at The Forum, we don’t want to teach you what to think. We want to help you learn how to think.

"I don’t have an opinion, the theory has an opinion"

Articles & Interviews

Africa’s New Generation of Innovators

By: Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo & Derek van Bever

01 JAN 2017 |
Harvard Business Review

The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation

By: Clayton Christensen, Thomas Bartman & Derek van Bever

13 SEP 2016 |
MIT Sloan Management Review

Tesla's Not As Disruptive As You Might Think

01 MAY 2015 |
Harvard Business Review

The Power of Market Creation: How Innovation Can Spur Development

By: Bryan C. Mezue, Clayton M. Christensen, & Derek van Bever

01 JAN 2015 |
Foreign Affairs

Consulting On The Cusp Of Disruption

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Dina Wang & Derek van Bever

01 OCT 2013 |
Harvard Business Review

Surviving Disruption

By: Maxwell Wessel & Clayton M. Christensen

01 DEC 2012 |
Harvard Business Review

The New M&A Playbook

By: Clayton Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising & Andrew Waldeck

01 MAR 2011 |
Harvard Business Review

Unleashing Breakthrough Innovation in Government

By: Nikhil R. Sahni, Maxwell Wessel & Clayton Christensen

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Picking Green Tech’s Winners and Losers

By: Clayton Christensen, Suman ("Shuman") Talukdar, Richard Alton & Michael B. Horn

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Books

Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life

By: Michael B. Horn, Bob Moesta

11 SEP 2019 |
Jossey-Bass

The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovations Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon

15 JAN 2019 |
Harper Business

The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Heath Care

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, Jason Hwang

21 OCT 2016 |
McGraw-Hill

Competing Against Luck

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall, David Duncan

04 OCT 2016 |
Harper Business

How Will You Measure Your Life?

By: Clayton Christensen, James Allworth & Karen Dillon

15 MAY 2012

The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Henry J. Eyring

26 JUL 2011 |
Jossey-Bass

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change The Way The World Learns

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Horn

14 MAY 2008 |
McGraw-Hill

Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

By: Clayton Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

21 SEP 2004

The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor

01 OCT 2003 |
Harvard Business Review Press

Innovation and the General Manager

By: Clayton M. Christensen

05 JAN 1999 |
Harvard Business Review Press

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

By: Clayton M. Christensen

01 MAY 1997 |
Harvard Business School Press

Educational Material

Harvard Business School Online: Disruptive Strategy

Podcasts

The Disruptive Voice

The Capitalist’s Dilemma

Projects

The Capitalist’s Dilemma

Videos

Clayton Christensen - Where Does Growth Come From?

08 AUG 2016 |
Talks at Google

Clay Christensen - Disruption of Financial Services

27 JUN 2016 |
Rise Global

Understanding the JTBD and Competitive Set

01 JUN 2016 |
Stern Technology Group

Forces of Progress

01 JUN 2016 |
Stern Technology Group

Understanding the Context - Milkshake Example

31 MAR 2016 |
University of Phoenix

Horace Dediu - The Modularity Revolution

30 SEP 2015 |
Department of Communications and Networking

Low End and Market-Creating Disruption

30 MAR 2015 |
Stern Technology Group

Theory and Sample Jobs Interview

05 DEC 2013 |
The BLN & Business of Software

Introduction to Disruptive Innovation

22 NOV 2013 |
Harvard Business Review

Capitalist Dilemma

25 SEP 2013 |
The RSA

Introduction to Theory Building

19 JUN 2013 |
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Business Model Innovation

28 FEB 2013 |
Mayo Clinic

Integration and Modularity

11 SEP 2012 |
SMART Health IT