ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to his most recent book, How Will You Measure Your Life?, he is the author or coauthor of many 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 management consultancy; Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm; and the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a nonprofit think tank. In 2011 he was named the winner of the global Thinkers50 Innovation Award.

Michael E. Raynor is a director at Deloitte Services LP where he leads the firm’s research into innovation. Raynor is the author of four books, including The Strategy Paradox, which was named one of 2007’s ten best business books by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and The Innovator’s Manifesto (published in 2011, with a foreword by Clayton Christensen), which uses real-life corporate investment portfolios to demonstrate the predictive power of disruption theory. His most recent book, coauthored with Mumtaz Ahmed, is The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think (2013), which explores the drivers of long-term superior profitability.