Disruptive Strategy
with Clayton Christensen
HBX, a digital learning initiative from Harvard Business School, leverages technology and multimedia to deliver engaging online
learning experiences to business leaders around the world. Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen is an HBX program
providing world-renowned tools and frameworks for growth, strategy and innovation.
Syllabus
Introduction:
Lenses on the
World
EXAMPLE: INTEL
Learn how Clay helped Intel Chairman Andy Grove confront
a disruptive threat by showing him how to think and not
what to think.
MODULE 1
Aligning with
Innovation and
Disruption
CASE STUDIES
MODULE 2
Discovering
Customer Jobs
to be Done
CASE STUDIES
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Adopt a strategic mindset
Articulate your strategic questions
KEY TAKEAWAYS
WR Hambrecht and the Google IPO: A New Approach to
Investment Banking
Identify the three types of innovation and disruption
and predict when they will happen
Honda Motor Company: Entering a New Market
Harness disruption and position your business for
new growth
CircleUp: Re-imagining Private Equity
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The Walt Disney Company: Expanding the Theme Park
Business
Focus on what causes your customers to buy your
products and why
The Godrej Group: Understanding Refrigeration Needs in
India
Achieve differentiation, better margins, and avoid
disruption
WEEKLY
ASSIGNMENT
TEAM
DISCUSSION
GROUP PROJECT
ASSIGNED
WEEKLY
ASSIGNMENT
TEAM
DISCUSSION
Minute Clinic: A New Approach to Healthcare Delivery
MODULE 3
Organizing
for Innovation
CASE STUDIES
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Nypro, Inc.: Seeking Growth Through a New Product Line
Identify what your organization can do and cannot do
Charles Schwab: Trading in the New World of Internet
Align your resources, processes, and profit formula to
develop an innovative culture and position your
business for growth
EMC: Merging Competing Products Through an Acquisition
MODULE 4
Maintaining a
Disruptive Scope
CASE STUDIES
MODULE 5
Managing the
Strategy
Development
Process
CASE STUDIES
Conclusion
Following a brief course wrap-up, you will be asked to write a final paper on a
company of your choice that demonstrates your mastery of the course principles.
Music Industry: Producing and Performing in a New Age
MediaTek: Expanding Accessibility to New Technologies
in Asia
OnStar: General Motors New Innovation
Netflix: The Evolution of Home Entertainment
Sears, IBM, and AOL: Understanding Internet Consumption
During the Boom of the Digital Age
GROUP
PROJECT DUE
FINAL PAPER
ASSIGNED
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Build a strong intuition to skate to where profit will
be as your industry evolves
WEEKLY
ASSIGNMENT
Determine which operations are critical to be done
in-house and which operations can be out-sourced
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Effectively balance the deliberate and emergent
strategy processes to unlock innovation within your
organization
Determine which type of money will empower new
business ideas to flourish
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WEEKLY
ASSIGNMENT
WEEKLY
ASSIGNMENT
TEAM
DISCUSSION
FINAL PAPER
DUE
