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Clayton Christensen

Harvard Business School professor whose disruption theory was frequently invoked in discussions of online higher education in the 2000s and 2010s.

Clayton Christensen was born on April 6, 1952, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of eight children born to Robert M.

Christensen (1952–2020) was one of the most influential thinkers in business and innovation of the modern era.

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