About the Contributors

CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to his most recent volume, How Will You Measure Your Life?, he has authored seven critically acclaimed books, including several New York Times bestsellers: The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution, and, most recently, Disrupting Class. Christensen is the cofounder of Innosight, a global strategy and innovation consultancy; Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm; and the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a nonprofit think tank. In 2011 and 2013, Christensen was named the world’s most influential business thinker by Thinkers50.

RICHARD ALTON is a senior researcher at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School.

JOSEPH L. BOWER is the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

SCOTT COOK is the cofounder and chairman of Intuit, based in Mountain View, California.

TADDY HALL is the chief strategy officer of the Advertising Research Foundation in New York City.

MARK W. JOHNSON is the chairman and a cofounder of Innosight, a strategic innovation and investing company based in Boston.

HENNING KAGERMANN is a former CEO of SAP AG, a software corporation based in Germany.

STEPHEN P. KAUFMAN, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, is the retired chairman and CEO of Arrow Electronics.

RORY MCDONALD is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

MICHAEL OVERDORF is a Dean’s Research Fellow at Harvard Business School.

MICHAEL E. RAYNOR is a director with Deloitte Research, and a professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario, Canada.

CURTIS RISING is the managing director of Harvard Square Partners, a consulting practice focused on inorganic growth and leadership assessment and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

WILLY C. SHIH is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. He held executive positions at IBM, Silicon Graphics, and Kodak.

MATTHEW VERLINDEN is a manager at Integral, an international strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

ANDREW WALDECK is a partner at Innosight, an innovation and strategy consulting firm in Watertown, Massachusetts.

MAXWELL WESSEL is a fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation and a senior researcher at Harvard Business School.