Karen Dillon - Education, Isolationism and Power of Clay Christensen's Market Creating Innovations @thedisruptors-sciencetechn4911

Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

Karen Dillon (@kardillon) is the former editor of Harvard Business Review magazine and co-author of the three books with Clayton Christensen, including the forthcoming The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty and bestsellers Competing Against Luck: the Story of Innovation and Customer Choice and How Will You Measure Your Life? She is also the author of The Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics.

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- How innovation and entrepreneurship both alleviate and income inequality and abject poverty
- The three types of innovation and how they impact our economy and world
- Why we're not living in a new age of robber barons
- How Eric and his team were able to catch the most notorious spy in US history
- The reason Karen thinks today's top tech giants will ultimately be disrupted
- How to combat the growing education crisis
- The dangers of increasing isolationism and why sometimes it is actually beneficial.
- Why individuals need to be thinking about their goals and futures now more than ever
- What's the real future of publishing and media
- Why Karen thinks we'll all be working more, not less, in 20 years time

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