Athol and I attended a presentation by C. Cristensen at the Harvard Business School.
HBS is well known in the business world so I was excited to attend a lecture there (especially since I am a strategist and we use the Harvard Business Review and Porter's Five Forces). The lecture was at 6pm and there were a lot of eager, engaging students - something rare in SA :)
The campus is really nice - beautiful brick buildings with lots of open spaces with benches. We went to the Aldrich Hall room 108.
The lecture rooms are very nice with wall wood panels, nice seats and desks. The students use name tags so that lecturers know their names. The campus is much nicer than HKS and the Harvard Yard.
There was even a South African flag! can you spot it?
Cristensen is a well known HBS Professor and has written several books, he spoke about the Capitalism Dilemma of the growth in efficiency innovations and not enough growth in 'disruptive innovations' resulting in increasing unemployment in the US. Simply put, man is being replaced by cheaper, more efficient machines :)
It was a good discussion, a tough problem with no clear solution yet, but at least this problem is being discussed by intellectuals - a step in the right direction.
A fun trip!
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