The Disruptive Voice

Earlier this summer, members of the Innosight team attended The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit 2022 in Dublin, Ireland, where they joined industry leaders and spoke on the topic of Dispelling The Myths of Customer-Centricity. In this Disruptive Voice episode, Scott Anthony is joined by his colleagues, Claudia Pardo and Pontus Siren , to further delve into these myths. Through the lenses of the...

After college, Kareem Farah became a high school math teacher, teaching in the traditional way that most of us experienced as students, with the instructor standing in front of the classroom and lecturing on the information that students were supposed to learn. Much to his frustration and dismay, however, he soon discovered that there were some things that were shockingly wrong about traditional t...

Southeast Asia is a vibrant, fast-growing, and diverse region of the world, home to vast opportunities, particularly for those supporting market-creating innovations. In this episode, Nick Ongkowijaya - an HBS and BSSE alumnus who also worked as an Associate at Innosight - joins host Katie Zandbergen to share the story of the new venture studio that he's building in Southeast Asia, called Gradient...

In this episode, The Christensen Institute 's Ann Somers Hogg joins host Ann Christensen to, through the lens of the business model framework, discuss the significance of drivers of health to the future of the health care industry. In her newly-released paper, You Are What You Treat: Transforming The Health Care Business Model So Companies And People Thrive , Ann Somers provides a compass to guide...

In her book, The Long Game: How To Be A Long-Term Thinker In A Short-Term World , Dorie Clark both reflects on the importance of having a longer-term strategy for our personal and professional lives, and provides readers with practical steps that can be taken to optimize for the future. In this episode, she joins hosts Derek van Bever and Katie Zandbergen to discuss the book and, in doing so, draw...

In the Harvard Business Review article, Persuade Your Company To Change Before It's Too Late , Innosight's Scott Anthony , Pontus Siren , and Utsav Bhatt describe how to break the information-action paradox and gain conviction to act before industry change gets ahead of your organization. In doing so, they draw on the story of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), a law firm whose management team had the c...

Michael Mauboussin and Matt Christensen 's paths first crossed over two decades ago, just before the first edition of Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns , co-authored by Michael and Alfred Rappaport, was published. In this episode, Michael and Matt discuss the revised and updated edition of the book, which came out in 2021 and reflects the many changes that have occurr...

In the acknowledgments section of Competing Against Luck , co-author Taddy Hall wrote, "Twenty-four years ago, when I walked into the classroom for the first day of Clay's class, I had no idea of the adventure that was about to begin. Over these many years, there has never been a conversation with Clay that didn't leave me feeling a humbled sense of gratitude for his patience, wisdom, and kindness...

A few months ago, Professor Scott Kominers and Cliff Maxwell , former Chief of Staff to Clayton Christensen and an HBS alumnus, co-authored an HBR article entitled, What Makes An Online Marketplace Disruptive?   They pointed out that rather than digitize or make existing transactions more efficient, truly disruptive marketplaces create entirely new transactions, engaging non-consumers and/or non-p...

In 2015, when Matt Lerner jumped from Director at PayPal to early-stage VC and advisor, Clayton Christensen's ideas flipped from being interesting theories to essential daily practices. Matt has now worked with over 100 startups, helping them to find product market fit and scale. He runs Startup Core Strengths and helps companies use Jobs interviews to speed growth, even with startup budgets. In t...

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, many parents opted or were directed by their children's schools to enroll students in online learning. However, for a number of reasons – including students feeling lonely, the online model often requiring heavy involvement by parents in the learning process, and the practicalities of caregivers needing to return to work – online learning hasn't gaine...

The challenges faced by senior leaders seeking to transform well-established organizations are well documented. What's more, roadmaps for tackling these challenges are widely available. Still, incumbent organizations continue to fail at an ever-increasing rate and senior leaders struggle to take the steps they know they should take to keep their companies innovative and thriving. Why? In this epis...

In her new role as CEO at Officinae Bio , Christina Nesheva is working to create an inherently innovative organization that pushes the boundaries of nature co-design. In doing so, she draws on her experience having led one of the pharmaceutical industry's first innovation labs, at ViiV Healthcare , along with her time driving innovation, change, and new product commercialization at the pharmaceuti...

Tom Arnett is Senior Research Fellow – Education at The Clayton Christensen Institute , where he studies instructional models and demand for innovative resources and practices across the K-12 education system. In this episode, he joins host Michael Horn to dig into his latest research, sharing insights on what Clay's frameworks can tell us about recent developments in online learning and also how...

In this episode, Dr. William Hait , Global Head of Johnson & Johnson External Innovation, discusses how the 135 year old company is using the principles of disruption to improve the trajectory of healthcare across the globe. Dr. Hait, who leads a unit comprised of Johnson & Johnson Innovation , the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson, and the company's World Without Disease Accelerator, ov...

In honor of The Disruptive Voice's 80th episode, along with the start of the new academic year at Harvard Business School , we decided to re-release this recording from our archives. Originally released in September of 2016, Clay had invited some of his former Building & Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) students back to campus to talk about the goals of the course, while also taking quest...

Back in 2003, Steve Kaufman was the first partner who Clay brought on to teach the BSSE course with him, and he has subsequently had a tremendous impact on generations of our students. At the end of June, Steve officially retired from the Harvard Business School. As such, we wanted to sit down with him to have him to reflect on his career and time working with Clay, his thoughts on the course and...

One consequence of the coronavirus pandemic has been the acceleration of many industry trends that had already been underway in 2019. The ever-increasing pace of change in the restaurant industry is no exception, and one particular development of note has been the rise of dark kitchens, also known as cloud kitchens or ghost kitchens. A few months ago, Sam and Prashant (along with co-author Yury Ad...

Many listeners will know Ann Christensen as President & CEO of The Clayton Christensen Institute . To Clay, however, she was his oldest daughter, Annie. How Will You Measure Your Life , published with co-authors James Allworth & Karen Dillon in 2012, is one of Clay's most popular books, challenging each of us to think more deeply about our life and our purpose, including how we nurture our relatio...

Snigdha Sur is a Harvard Business School alumna and founder of The Juggernaut , a premium publication and community that publishes smart and well-reported stories about South Asia and South Asians. Hosted by Anibha Singh , Snigdha discusses developments and gaps in the news and media landscape, including how these impact South Asian diaspora communities; the story behind the founding of The Jugger...

In this conversation, hosted by Michael Horn , Julia builds on her foundational statement, "Opportunity really sits at the intersection of what you know and who you know." Together, they discuss the important distinctions between our strong tie and weak tie networks; innovation in education; the ed tech market and which tools are best suited for network building, and in which circumstances; the Ca...

John de Souza is an entrepreneur and investor who, over the course of his career, has accumulated a great depth of experience in sectors of technology, automotive, health, and finance. In this episode, he joins Steve Geskos to discuss his current role as Co-Founder and President at Ample , a company whose mission is to accelerate the transition to electric mobility through the offering of an energ...

Along with his work as a Managing Director at Innosight , the consulting firm co-founded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson over two decades ago, David Duncan is also a co-author with Clay on Competing Against Luck and co-author with Scott Anthony , host of this episode, on Building A Growth Factory . Most recently, David - a leading authority on the Jobs To Be Done framework, and drawing on...

In this episode, Efosa Ojomo returns to The Disruptive Voice to discuss his latest research at The Christensen Institute 's Global Prosperity group. He and his colleague, Lincoln Wilcox , recently published a report highlighting six innovative strategies for creating new markets in emerging economies. This conversation, hosted by Katie Zandbergen , focuses on the findings from their research, alon...

Talenia Phua Gajardo , an alumna of HBS Executive Education's Disruptive Innovation course , is Founder & CEO of The Artling , an online gallery and arts consultancy featuring a curated collection of art and design pieces from a myriad of artists, galleries, and designers. Founded in 2013, the organization aims to both showcase stunning works of art and to make them more accessible to a broader, i...