Christensen is the cofounder of Innosight, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and the author of a half-dozen books on innovation.

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Clayton Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and founder of the consulting firm Innosight.

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In 2008, with full support from NBC Universal and personal support from her husband, she applied to Columbia Business School based on the reputation of their administration, student-body and marketing curriculum.

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"We have an approval and reimbursement system that is expensive, risk-averse and basically hostile to start-ups, " said William A. Sahlman, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and an investor in Rest Devices.

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Christensen is the Robert Jane Cizik professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School and author or co-author of five books including The New York Times best sellers The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution.

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She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, rejoined Summers as part of the Clinton administration, and was recruited by Google's Schmidt to join Google in 2001, when the company was just taking off -- a process she drove by improving the reach of AdWords and AdSense, two of Google's major moneymakers.

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Wilcox, professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and author of Whatever Happened to Thrift?

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It is also a book by Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School.

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Hess is professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.

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Owners may be able to win over employees by explaining their logic, such as maintaining productivity and safeguarding proprietary information, says Rocki-Lee DeWitt, a professor of management at the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont.

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