Harvard Medical International turns spotlight on disruptive innovation in healthcare

The January/February 2008 issue of Harvard Medical International profiles Clayton Christensen and his thoughts on disruptive innovation in healthcare. Read about it on the Web at: http://www.hmiworld.org/hmi/issues/jan-feb08/briefcase.php.
With Massachusetts agreeing to allow the operation of retail health clinics, Christensen talks about the potential this business model innovation has to revolutionize the healthcare industry — and […]

Futurescan 2008 profiles business model innovation in healthcare

In Futurescan 2008, a journal from The Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development of the American Hospital Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives, Clay Christensen and Jason Hwang write about the importance of coupling innovative business models with emerging advances in medical technology.
Purchase the book here: http://www.ache.org/pubs/redesign/productcatalog.cfm?pc=WWW1-2105
or here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0980029015

Forbes publishes article on Disruptive Innovation in Education

In Forbes’ online education feature titled “Educating Our Children”, Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn pen an article on how utilizing the principles of disruption can allow us to customize an education for each individual child in the way he or she learns — a dramatic departure from the current system that forces standardization in the […]

Boston Globe spotlights Christensen, Hwang’s work on Retail Health Clinics

In the Jan. 18, 2008 Boston Globe, columnist Steve Bailey spotlights Clayton Christensen and Jason Hwang’s work on retail health clinics, particularly CVS’s MinuteClinic, which recently gained approval in Massachusetts, and yet has sparked controversy because of Mayor Thomas Menino’s opposition. Read about it at http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/01/18/unhealthy_turf_war/.
In his column Bailey talks about disruptive innovations and […]

Christensen gives talk about disruption in education at WGBH

Clayton Christensen presented his talk about how disruption will change the way the world learns at WGBH in Boston Jan. 11, 2008. To view video of the talk, please visit http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3838.