Christensen to Provide Strategic Input and Industry Expertise to Digital Disrupters' Advisory Board.Business Editors DOWNERS GROVE Downers Grove, village (1990 pop. 46,858), Du Page co., NE Ill.; settled 1832, inc. 1873. Downers Grove has undergone population growth and commercial development that include the construction of new office complexes. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. Professor and Disruptive Innovation Thought-leader Will Advise in Leveraging Disruptive Technologies to Build e-Businesses in Established Industries Digital Disrupters today announced that Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and developer of the theory at the heart of Digital Disrupters' business model, will join the company's advisory board. This move is a result of Digital Disrupters' continued effort to harness proven methods to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. industry-disrupting threats posed by the Internet. Christensen will leverage both academic research and demonstrated business expertise to advise Digital Disrupters in building successful new e-businesses. "It's a compliment to us that Dr. Christensen has such strong faith in Digital Disrupters to join our board," said Mohnish Pabrai Mohnish Pabrai is an Indian-American businessman, investor and philanthropist. In June 2007 he made headlines by bidding US$650,100 for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett. , founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "As reflected in our name, Disruptive Innovation theory is a cornerstone of Digital Disrupters' business." "It's rewarding to see my disruptive innovation theories in practice. Digital Disrupters' business model is completely unique. I'm looking forward to being a part of its growth, which I predict will be fast and furious," said Christensen. Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty, Christensen served as chairman and president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he co-founded with several MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors in 1984. From 1979 to 1984 Christensen worked as a consultant and project manager with the Boston Consulting Group, where he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy consulting practice. In 1982 Christensen was named a White House Fellow and served through 1983 as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. In addition, he has served as a consultant to such companies as Intel, Lucent, Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. and Andersen Consulting See Accenture. . Christensen's book, "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail," won the 1997 Global Business Book Award. Christensen's writings have been published in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and , Business History Review, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Strategic Management Journal, Production and Operations Management, Management Science and the European Management Journal.(a) About Digital Disrupters Based in Downers Grove, Ill., Digital Disrupters(TM) is in the business of building e-businesses. Digital Disrupters researches and develops business-to-business models that leverage disruptive technologies like the Internet, then partners with brick and mortar See bricks and mortar. companies to build new organizations that can thrive in the digital economy. Digital Disrupters has developed a business creation methodology called Equity Manufacturing(TM) that begins with new business concept generation and flows through screening and validation, and ends with implementation - ultimately the creation of a new e-business. The BizLab(TM), the first step in the Equity Manufacturing process, is Digital Disrupters' research and development laboratory where new business models are generated. Only 3 percent of the concept models actually make it through the "manufacturing" process. The first two companies created by Digital Disrupters are thebizbank.com and PaperHub.com. For additional information about Digital Disrupters, please visit the company's web site at www.disrupters.com. (a) Dr. Clayton Christensen's biographical information taken from the Harvard Business School Web site, http://ww http://www.hbs.edu. |
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