Innovation drives the markets and creates cycles of consumer demand. No business can stay alive without competitive innovation, but it takes more than just a new player in town to disrupt a market. We ...

Disruptive innovation isn’t just about simplifying technology — it also requires a new business model. The theory of disruptive innovation, first introduced in a 1995 HBR article, endures as a way to ...

Q: What is disruptive innovation? A: Depends on who you ask. The blogosphere is so stuffed with discussion about disruptive innovation that there’s now a mobile app that replaces the overused word ...

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.

Michael E. Raynor, who collaborated with Clayton Christensen on the development of the theory of disruptive innovation, extends its use to predict the future, better understand the past, and prosper ...

His answer surprised me: “I don’t know how, I just know how to describe it.” Christensen described it well. He shared compelling examples. He argued that companies, and entire industries, can be ...

As innovators mature they realize that innovation for its own sake is less important than creating a portfolio of innovation outcomes. The biggest challenge many face in this regard is the balance ...

An exchange-traded fund that seeks to invest in stocks linked to disruptive innovation is sending a “risk-off” signal for ...

Judging by the headlines in our various trade publications, whatever higher education’s next chapter looks like, it must be innovative — OR ELSE. Judging by the headlines in our various trade ...

All students learn differently. Most of us know this intuitively. We learn best through different methods, with different styles, and at different paces. We remember being in school and struggling to ...

Fithra Faisal Hastiadi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

A recent study and accompanying news story in the preeminent journal Nature provocatively concludes that disruptive innovation in science has dramatically and mysteriously declined 90% since 1945. The ...