You could have Googled this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_M._Christensen#Career http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_M._Christensen#Career He founded

You could have Googled this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_M._Christensen#Career http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_M._Christensen#Career He founded Ceramics Process Systems Corporation, and served as chairman and president. He founded Innosight LLC He serves on the board of a number of others, and also works directly with a couple more. I'm all for calling bullshit on "big name, no experience" entrepreneurs, but Clay Christensen is simple not one of them. His work is phenomenal, there is so much to learn from it. Just because he's an academic, it doesn't follow that he's wrong.