Remembering Clayton Christensen (with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria)
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen died January 23, 2020. Christensen, one of the world’s leading business thinkers, is remembered in this conversation with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria.
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| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone this is Young Me. It's been a tough week at HBS as you may have |
| 0:49.2 | heard Professor Clay Christensen passed away this week. |
| 0:58.8 | In their obituary, the New York Times called him a superstar management guru best known for his theory of disruptive innovation, but the three of us knew him more simply as a dear friend and colleague. |
| 1:06.0 | For years my office was next door to his and I'll never forget how gracious and patient he was with every single person who came knocking on his door and believe me there are so many |
| 1:17.7 | He was a kind beautiful purpose driven man and the three of us will miss him dearly. |
| 1:24.0 | Felix was able to sit down with our dean at Harvard Business School, Dean Nittin Noria, for a conversation |
| 1:29.2 | about Clay and in memory of him we thought we'd share that conversation about him with you. |
| 1:35.0 | Thanks for listening. |
| 1:37.0 | The very sad news is still with us. |
| 1:40.0 | It's hard to believe that Clayton Christensen is no longer here, but I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you about him as a scholar, as a teacher, as a person. |
| 1:52.8 | You followed his career for a long time. |
| 1:55.6 | First, as a colleague on the faculty, |
| 1:58.0 | the last decade as Dean of Harvard Business School, |
| 2:01.9 | his early research found such amazing resonance. |
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