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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen & Efosa Ojomo on How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The world’s most respect business professor, Clayton Christensen and the co-author of their new book Efosa Ojomo share about the Prosperity Paradox and how innovation can lift nations out of poverty.

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According to research, conducted by the renowned Harvard Business School professor, Clayton

0:06.0

Christensen, more than 750 million people still live in extreme poverty today, surviving

0:13.4

on less than $1.90 per day.

0:18.0

So why does Clayton Christensen spend his time thinking about this problem?

0:23.8

After all, this guy was on the cover of Forbes Magazine in 2011.

0:27.5

In fact, in the story Forbes wrote,

0:29.6

every business leader calls him or makes the pilgrimage to his office in Boston, Massachusetts

0:35.2

to get advice or to thank him for his ideas.

0:37.9

Think about it.

0:38.6

So why in the world would this professor choose to invest his time to focus on the people

0:45.1

who can't help themselves?

0:47.8

It's the same reason Clayton Christensen decided to mental,

0:51.6

he foves a ojomo, one of his standout students, and the co-author of his new best-selling book,

0:57.2

The Prosperity Paradox.

0:59.0

The professor believes in mentorship, helping others.

1:02.0

Clayton Christensen believes in being part of the solution,

1:05.1

and not just talking about the problem, and now, after having conducted copious amounts of research,

1:11.0

the professor now believes that he has power for and practical strategies and solutions

1:17.7

that will help to end the world's poverty problem.

1:20.4

Today's guest is not a delusional optimist.

1:23.4

Today's guest is a practical realist by just the age of 58.

1:28.5

Today's guest beat a heart attack, cancer, and a stroke to survive to be here on today's show.

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