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Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
November 26-30, 2001
Plenary Session
Talk Presentation
Matching the Trajectories of Technological
Progress with the Customers' Ability to Utilize Progress
Clayton M. Christensen
Harvard Business School
Monday, November 26, 6:00 p.m.
Grand Ballroom, Sheraton
Clayton M. Christensen is professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. He holds a BA in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Christensen received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. He was awarded a DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.
His research and teaching interests center on the management of technological innovation, developing organizational capabilities, and finding new markets for new technologies. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Christensen served as chairman and president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation, a firm which he co-founded with several MIT professors in 1984. CPS, now a publicly traded company, is a leading developer of products and manufacturing processes using high-technology ceramics materials such as silicon nitride, silicon carbide, aluminum nitride and aluminum oxide.
Past honors include the Production and Operations
Management Society's 1991 William Abernathy Award; the 1993 Newcomen
Society's award; and the 1995 McKinsey Award. Christensen's book,
The Innovator's Dilemma, received the Global Business
Book Award for the best business book published in 1997. Christensen's
writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal,
the Harvard Business Review, Business History Review, Research
Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Strategic Management
Journal, Production and Operations Management, the European
Management Journal, Management Science and Engineering
Management Review.
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