Prof. Clayton M. Christensen is a preeminent expert on disruptive innovation and business strategy, and is world-renowned for his work on managing innovation and its ability to disrupt existing mature markets, creating new commercial enterprises and growth opportunities.  He 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. 

Before joining the faculty of Harvard Business School in 1992, Prof. Christensen served as chairman and president of CPS Corporation, an advanced materials manufacturing company that he founded in 1984 with several MIT professors.  He also founded Innosight, a consulting and training company, and Innosight Capital.  From 1979 to 1984 he worked with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and was named a White House Fellow, working as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole.

Prof. Christensen is author or co-author of five books: The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997; The Innovator's Solution (2003), also a New York Times best seller; and Seeing What’s Next (2004). In addition, he has edited two case books on innovation: Innovation and the General Manager (1999) and Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, 4^th edition (2004).  

Prof. 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 Management Society's William Abernathy Award for the best paper in the management of technology; 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.

Prof. Christensen holds a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975), and an M.Phil. in applied econometrics and the economics of less-developed countries from Oxford University (1977), where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar, and was awarded with DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.