Globe correspondent Jay Fitzgerald emailed Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen several questions about his theory of disruptive innovation and recent criticisms of it, including an article publised in MIT Sloan Managment Review. Here are Christensen’s responses.
Q: Have you read the MIT Sloan Management Review article and, if so, what are your thoughts on it?
A: Yes, I have seen the article. When I first heard from the editor of the Sloan Management Review that there was going to be an article on disruption, I was excited because it was nice to hear of other scholars investing effort into researching disruptive innovation. I think the article had great ambitions for what it initially set out to achieve, but due to a number of flaws it ultimately fell short of those goals and the potentially useful contribution it could have made.
Image: PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF/FILE Harvard Business School professor Clay M. Christensen met with research assistants in July 2011.
