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The Disruptive Voice
by The Forum for Growth and Innovation
The Disruptive Voice explores Clayton Christensen's theories of Disruptive Innovation across a wide range of industries and circumstances.
Episodes
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120. Butterfly's Digital Revolution In Ultrasound: A Conversation with Darius Shahida
Five years ago, Darius Shahida, a member of the HBS Class of 2019, joined us in the podcast studio to discuss how Butterfly Network, a disruptive startup where he was employed as Chief Growth Officer, was working to revolutionize the ultrasound industry. Now, as the company's Chief Strategy…
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119. Right Kind Of Wrong: A Conversation with Amy Edmondson
In this episode, Amy Edmondson, sharing insights from her new book, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well, reminds listeners, "The most successful among us have not failed less often than the rest of us. They've failed more often – right kind of wrong failures." Hosted by Scott…
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118. Leading Into The Age Of AI Through Fusion Strategy: A Panel Discussion
The promise of artificial intelligence is immense and companies that view AI as an enabler of corporate transformation can reap potentially enormous benefits in terms of both value creation and growth. In this panel discussion, Freddy Solis hosts his Innosight colleague and co-leader in the...
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117. Creating Pathways To Opportunity at Western Governors University: A Conversation with Scott Pulsipher
Higher education has long been on an unsustainable trajectory, with rising costs - and subsequent debt passed on to students - hindering the ability of many to get ahead. In this episode of The Disruptive Voice, education author and researcher, Michael Horn, hosts fellow Harvard Business School...
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116. Four Companies Creating a Market for Solar Energy in Nigeria: A Conversation with Efosa Ojomo and Sandy Sanchez
Last June, Efosa Ojomo and Sandy Sanchez were on the podcast to discuss the process of market creation - discovery, distribution, and democratization - and specifically, as it applied to the creation of a market for solar energy in Nigeria. In this new episode, they return to the recording studio...
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115. Build The Life You Want: A Conversation with Arthur Brooks and Karen Dillon
Arthur Brooks teaches a popular course at Harvard Business School called "Leadership and Happiness." One important underpinning of the course is that science can help us to better understand what will actually make us happier – and Arthur has worked hard to incorporate these concepts into his own...
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114. The Role of Senior Executives in Leading New Growth Initiatives: A Conversation with Robyn Bolton
The Business Model Framework draws an important distinction between a company's Priorities (that is, its Value Proposition and Profit Formula) and its Capabilities. Regarding the latter, which are more effective drivers of corporate innovation – Processes or Resources? The answer to this…
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113. The Capitalist's Dilemma: A Conversation with Derek van Bever
"In our view, the crux of the problem is that investments in different types of innovation affect economies (and companies) in very different ways – but are evaluated using the same (flawed) metrics. Specifically, financial markets – and companies themselves – use assessment metrics that make...
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112. The Microstress Effect: A Conversation with Rob Cross and Karen Dillon
Clayton Christensen, in a 2012 Tedx Talk, while drawing on insights from How Will You Measure Your Life, said, "The way we invest our time and energy and talents (sometimes) causes us to implement a strategy that we wouldn't at all plan to pursue." Now, his co-author on that book, Karen Dillon…
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111. Creating a Market for Solar Energy in Nigeria: A Conversation with Efosa Ojomo
Nigeria is home to the largest energy deficit in the world. What can be done to address the striking level of energy poverty in the country? Clayton Christensen used to say that good theory helps us to explain the world but that great theory helps us to transform it. With this in mind, co-author...
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110. Why AI Hasn't Helped Radiology (Until Now): A Conversation with Cameron Andrews
Radiology touches around 80% of all hospital and health system visits, impacting nearly every specialty in medicine. However, the incumbent radiology IT system infrastructure places the promise and power of AI out of reach for practitioners. Though radiology has historically been on the cutting...
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109. The Application Of Jobs To Be Done At LinkedIn: A Conversation with Craig Mackintosh
In this episode, Craig Mackintosh, Head of User Experience Research at LinkedIn, reflects on how the Jobs To Be Done framework has been used at the company to provide strategic focus. He joins David Duncan, co-author with Clayton Christensen on Competing Against Luck and author of The Secret…
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108. The Portfolio Life: A Conversation with Christina Wallace
Christina Wallace wrote The Portfolio Life: How To Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card, in part, to explain the zig zagging path of her own life, a trajectory that has been markedly different than the more linear and predefined paths often...
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107. Beautiful Trauma: A Conversation with Rebecca Fogg
After a shocking accident left Rebecca Fogg with a partially amputated hand, she found herself faced with the sudden and daunting challenge of recovering, both physically and psychologically, from the trauma. Though her background at the time was not in medicine, she hired – in the language of…
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106. Reimagining Financial Advice For The Modern World: A Conversation with Anders Jones
Currently, over 75% of American households don't have access to high quality, affordable, and unbiased financial advice. Anders Jones co-founded Facet in order to make these financial planning services available to a large population of people who don't qualify to receive them under existing...
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105. Here Be Dragons: A Conversation with Aidan McCullen
In his book, Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention for Individuals, Organizations, and Life, Aidan McCullen writes about how, centuries ago, sailors would set out to sea with maps labelled with the Latin words hic sun dracones - here be dragons - which meant that they didn't know much…
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104. The Innovator's Dilemma: A Conversation with Matt Christensen
In the introduction of The Innovator's Dilemma, first published in 1997, Clayton Christensen wrote that the book "is about well-managed companies that have their competitive antennae up, listen astutely to their customers, invest aggressively in new technologies, and yet still lose market...
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103. Unlocking Opportunities Through The Application of Jobs Theory: A Conversation with Alasdair Trotter
Jobs Theory, when correctly applied, has the potential to be a huge unlock for organizations that have yet to realize the full value from their agile transformations. In order to benefit from the full potential of the Jobs To Be Done framework, a systems lens is required in its application. In…
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102. Customers Think In Trade-Offs: A Conversation with Pontus Siren and Shahriar Parvarandeh
In an earlier episode of The Disruptive Voice, Pontus Sirén discussed the Jobs methodology and how it relates to customer centricity. Companies exist to address customer problems, i.e. their Jobs To Be Done – and the first critical step for any innovator is to identify a good problem to solve. In...
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101. Learning To Build: A Conversation with Bob Moesta
This is a true story of one man, his four children, four mentors, and five skills. It began when Bob Moesta's now-grown children moved out of the family home. Bob and his wife decided to clean things out a bit and during that process, in their attic, Bob came across eight hundred and forty-seven...
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The Disruptive Voice's 100th Episode - Anomalies Wanted
Many listeners will know that Clay had a homemade "Anomalies Wanted" sign in his office at Harvard Business School – it was the backbone of his approach to research and theory building, as he worked to strengthen and refine his frameworks over the years. Many past guests on this podcast, when…
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99. Rebuilding Arts Audiences Through Customer-Centric Engagement: A Conversation with Ruth Hartt
When you receive a brochure in the mail from your local symphony or visit a website for your regional orchestra, what do you typically see? You're very likely going to read flowery language about the beauty of the art and the skill of the artists, accompanied by photos of the conductor and the...
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98. How Covid Crashed The System – And Where To Go From Here: A Conversation with Dr. David Nash
Founding Dean at Jefferson College of Population Health, Dr. David Nash, recently co-authored a book entitled "How Covid Crashed The System: A Guide To Fixing American Health Care", in which he and Charles Wohlforth draw parallels between flying a plane and delivering healthcare services. Leaning...
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97. Fueling The Energy Transition: A Conversation With Frank Mycroft
One of the items you'll find on Booster Co-Founder & CEO Frank Mycroft's desk is a BSSE placemat, highlighting the frameworks that are covered in the course, which Frank took at Harvard Business School in 2012. Since its founding in 2015, Booster has built an energy-agnostic, modular, mobile...
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96. Seeing Around Corners: A Conversation with Rita McGrath
Clayton Christensen and Rita McGrath, one of the top management thinkers in the world, spent over two decades as both colleagues and friends. To this day, the concept of Discovery-Driven Planning, first widely introduced in a 1995 HBR article by Rita and Ian MacMillan, is taught in the Building…
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95. The Myths of Customer-Centricity: A Conversation with Scott Anthony, Claudia Pardo, and Pontus Siren
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...
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94. The What, The How, And The Jobs To Be Done Served By The Modern Classrooms Project – A Conversation with Kareem Farah
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,...
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93. Bringing The Venture Studio Model to Southeast Asia: A Conversation with Nick Ongkowijaya
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...
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92. To Transform Lives, Transform Business Models: A Conversation with Ann Somers Hogg and Ann Christensen
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...
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91. Playing The Long Game: A Conversation With Dorie Clark
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...
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90. The Information-Action Paradox - And What To Do About It: A Conversation with Scott Anthony, Pontus Siren, and Utsav Bhatt
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…
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89. Expectations Investing & More: A Conversation with Michael Mauboussin and Matt Christensen
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…
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88. Using Jobs To Be Done To Build Successful Brands: A Conversation with Taddy Hall
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...
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87. The Disruptive Potential of Online Marketplaces: A Conversation with Scott Kominers and Cliff Maxwell
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,...
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86. How To Grow A Startup Using Jobs To Be Done: A Conversation with Matt Lerner
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...
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85. An Out Of The Box Model for Education: A Conversation with Amar Kumar
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...
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84. The Senior Leadership Dilemma: A Conversation with Alex Slawsby and Christian Stadler
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...
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83. Corporate Innovation and Venture Building: A Conversation with Christina Nesheva
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,...
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82. K-12 School Systems, Seize This Moment! A Conversation with Thomas Arnett
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...
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81. Innovation at Johnson & Johnson: A Conversation with Dr. William Hait
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...
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80. From the Archives: Clayton Christensen On The Power of Good Theory and a Common Language
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...
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79. The End Of An Era: A Conversation with Steve Kaufman
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…
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78. Shining A Light On Dark Kitchens: A Conversation with Prashant Srivastava and Sam Pogosov
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…
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77. Improving The World Through Disruptive Innovation: A Conversation with Ann Christensen
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...
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76. The Juggernaut's Journey: A Conversation with Snigdha Sur
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,...
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75. Building & Strengthening Students' Networks: A Conversation with Julia Freeland Fisher
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…
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74. Electric Cars For Everyone: A Conversation with John de Souza
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…
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73. The Secret Lives of Customers: A Conversation With David Duncan
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...
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72. Making Your Own Luck in Emerging Economies: Innovative Strategies for Creating New Markets
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...
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71. Leading The Artling Through the Covid-19 Crisis: A Conversation with Talenia Phua Gajardo
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...
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