
出生: April 06, 1952 – Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Clayton M. Christensen was a Harvard Business School professor and business theorist best known for popularizing disruptive innovation. His books include The Innovator’s Dilemma and How Will You Measure Your Life? Widely influential in management and entrepreneurship, he was ranked among the world’s top business thinkers and earned multiple bestselling titles.
Clayton M. Christensen was an American business scholar and author whose work changed how executives, entrepreneurs, and policymakers think about change. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1952, he grew up in a family and faith tradition that emphasized discipline, service, and education. He studied economics at Brigham Young University, served as a missionary in South Korea for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, then continued his education as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before earning an MBA from Harvard. His early career moved across consulting, government service, and entrepreneurship, including time at Boston Consulting Group, work in Washington, and leadership at a technology manufacturing company he helped build. Those experiences gave him a rare vantage point: he had seen strategy from the boardroom, the bureaucracy, and the startup, and he eventually returned to Harvard to complete a doctorate and join the faculty of Harvard Business School.

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Apply business theories to find fulfillment in career, relationships, and personal integrity. A guide to living with purpose.

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Uncover the true reasons customers buy products and innovate strategically using the Jobs to Be Done framework.

Clayton M. Christensen
Groundbreaking insights on innovation from a leading business thinker, offering strategies to become a disruptor or avoid disruption.

Clayton M. Christensen
Apply business theories to find fulfillment in career, relationships, and personal integrity. A guide to living with purpose.

Clayton M. Christensen
Understanding disruptive innovation and its challenges

Taddy Hall Clayton M. Christensen
Uncover the true reasons customers buy products and innovate strategically using the Jobs to Be Done framework.
"Clayton Christensen, 58, is one of the most influential business theorists of the last 50 years"
— Forbes
"Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, known by many as the ‘godfather’ of disruptive innovation, died at 67"
— CNBC
"Clayton Christensen: influential business thinker who propounded ‘disruptive innovation"
— The Independent
"Clayton Christensen is still the most influential business thinker in the world, according to Thinkers50"
— Forbes
"Clayton M. Christensen was a giant both in academia and in stature"
— The Harvard Crimson
"Clayton Christensen, creator of ‘disruptive innovation’ theory and prominent LDS leader, dies at 67"
— The Salt Lake Tribune
"Clayton Christensen, one of the most influential management thinkers of the last century, died Jan. 23"
— Quartz
"Clayton Christensen, influential scholar of ‘disruptive innovation,’ dies at 67"
— The Washington Post
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