Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

Clayton M. Christensen · Stephen P. Kaufman · Willy C. Shih

Jul 2010 · Harvard Business Review Press

About this ebook

In this seminal article, innovation experts Clayton Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih explore the key reasons why companies struggle to innovate. The authors uncover common mistakes companies make—from focusing on the wrong customers to choosing the wrong products to develop—that can derail innovation efforts, and offer a better way forward for management teams who want to avoid these obstacles and get innovation right. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

About the author

Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Stephen P. Kaufman, a former CEO of Arrow Electronics, is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, in Boston, and has been a director of six public and four private companies. Willy C. Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School.