April 2, 2012  3:23 PM

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen talks with Andrew Keen about the impact technology has had on us and will have on future generations.

Clayton M. Christensen is the architect of and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation, a framework which describes the process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves ‘up market’, eventually displacing established competitors.  Consistently acknowledged in rankings and surveys as one of the world’s leading thinkers on innovation, Christensen is widely sought after as a speaker, advisor and board member.  His research has been applied to national economies, start-up and Fortune 50 companies, as well as to early and late stage investing. His seminal book The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), which first outlined his disruptive innovation frameworks, received the Global Business Book Award for the Best Business Book of the Year in 1997, was a New York Times bestseller, has been translated into over 10 languages, and is sold in over 25 countries.  He is also a four-time recipient of the McKinsey Award for the Harvard Business Reviews’s best article and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010. He is currently the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture.  Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved.  Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com