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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation, Updated & Expanded (featuring "What Is Disruptive Innovation?" by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation, Updated & Expanded (featuring "What Is Disruptive Innovation?" by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald)

by Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Amy C. Edmondson, Linda A. Hill, Scott D. Anthony
March 2026
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation

by Scott D. Anthony, Paul Cobban, Rahul Nair, and Natalie Painchaud

To catalyze innovation, companies have invested billions in internal venture capital, incubators, accelerators, and field trips to Silicon Valley. Yet according to a McKinsey survey, 94% of executives are dissatisfied with their firms’ innovation performance. Across industries, one survey after another has found the same thing: Businesses just aren’t getting the impact they want, despite all their spending. Why? We believe that it’s because they’ve failed to address a huge underlying obstacle: the day-to-day routines and rituals that stifle innovation.

Fortunately, it’s possible to “hack” this problem. Drawing on the behavioral-change ...

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