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Disrupting Class: Why Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

By Clayton M. Christensen, with Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson

McGraw-Hill, 2008, $32,95; 288 pages.

Clayton Christensen is a professor at the Harvard Business School and the author of a widely used book on innovations in business titled The Innovator's Dilemma. Published originally in 1997, with the subtitle "when new technologies cause great firms to fail," The Inno vator's Dilemma went into a second edition in 2000 with a new tag line, "the revolutionary bestseller that changed the way we do business." I note further editions published in 2003 and 2006. ...

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