Joshua Gans
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262034487
- eISBN:
- 9780262333832
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034487.003.0003
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
This chapter demonstrates that there are in fact two fully articulated theories of disruption. Interestingly, both originated with Harvard Ph.D. students in the early 1990s who eventually became ...
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This chapter demonstrates that there are in fact two fully articulated theories of disruption. Interestingly, both originated with Harvard Ph.D. students in the early 1990s who eventually became famed Harvard Business School professors: Rebecca Henderson and Clay Christensen. Both are extremely relevant but one has obviously been neglected in discussions among practitioners and the business academy.Less
This chapter demonstrates that there are in fact two fully articulated theories of disruption. Interestingly, both originated with Harvard Ph.D. students in the early 1990s who eventually became famed Harvard Business School professors: Rebecca Henderson and Clay Christensen. Both are extremely relevant but one has obviously been neglected in discussions among practitioners and the business academy.
