Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain. by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor and Rory McDonald Please enjoy this HBR Classic. Clayton M.

My first startup made T-shirts with a cartoon of a stealth fighter jet. Stealth mode. Fly quietly, under the radar. Catch the incumbents off guard. A familiar refrain. Steve Blank recently released an ...

Whereas disruptive innovations of schooling in the U.S. weren't possible before, in many states, the conditions are being laid that make it increasingly possible. As Robert Pondiscio observed recently ...

Just over a decade ago, Clayton Christensen and I predicted that serious challenges were coming to higher education. Thanks to a confluence of factors—unsustainable business models and cost structures ...

This post originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Jeff Selingo and I have had an ongoing dialogue over the decade-plus I’ve known him about the ...

In the early 2000s, Netflix co-founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph found themselves in a meeting that could have dramatically altered the trajectory of their fledgling company. Following the ...