Innovation Killers. Clayton M. Christensen

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      INNOVATION

      KILLERS

      Harvard Business Review

       CLASSICS

      INNOVATION

       KILLERS:

       How Financial Tools DestroyYour Capacity to Do New Things

      Clayton M.Christensen

      Stephen P. Kaufman

      Willy C. Shih

      Harvard Business Press

      Boston, Massachusetts

      Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

      Originally published in the Harvard Business Review in the January 2008 issue

      Reprint #R0801F

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Christensen, Clayton M.

      Innovation killers : how financial tools destroy your capacity to do new things / Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, Willy C. Shih.

      p. cm. — (Harvard business review classics)

      ISBN 978−1-4221−3655-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. Technological innovations—Management. 2. Business enterprises—Finance. I. Kaufman, Stephen P. II. Shih, Willy C. III. Title.

      HD45.C483 2010

      658.1’66—dc22

      2010002894

      The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives Z39.48−1992.

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      INNOVATION

      KILLERS