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Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on managing innovation and creating new growth markets.
A seasoned entrepreneur, Christensen has founded three successful companies. The first, CPS Corporation, is an advanced materials manufacturing company. The second, Innosight, is a consulting and training company focused on problems of strategy, innovation, and growth. Innosight Capital, the third firm, was launched in 2005.
From 1979 to 1984 he worked with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In 1982 Professor Christensen was named a White House Fellow, and served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole.
Professor Christensen's writings have won a number of additional awards, including the Best Dissertation Award from The Institute of Management Sciences, the Production and Operations the Newcomen Society’s award for the best paper in business history and the 1995 and 2001 McKinsey Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review.
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