Join Aidan McCullen and Stanford professor Robert Burgelman for an in-depth discussion on strategic dissonance at Intel. Discover how internal ecology, resource flows, and competing logics influence innovation and why strategy is always both political and evolutionary.
Join Stanford’s Robert Burgelman as he explores how strategy evolves from within organizations. Drawing on decades of research and his relationship with Andy Grove, Burgelman explains how internal ecosystems, culture, and resource allocation truly shape strategy.
Join Aidan McCullen as he welcomes Clark Gilbert to explore how resource allocation drives real strategic change. From Harvard insights to media industry transformation, this conversation unpacks the processes that shape strategy from the ground up.
Join Aidan McCullen as he welcomes legendary Harvard professor Joseph L. Bower to discuss his influential work From Resource Allocation to Strategy. Bower unpacks how organizations really make strategic decisions—from the factory floor to the C-suite.
As Clayton Christensen reiterated throughout his work, capable managers do not become incapable overnight; they act in what they believe is in the best interests of the organisation they serve. For the executives in Western Union, there was simply no way they could have anticipated that the telephone would ever get good enough to be a competitive threat. As the great innovator Buckminster Fuller said, “There is nothing in the caterpillar that tells you it will be a butterfly.”Â
Joseph L. Bower is the father of Resource Allocation theory included in his 1970 groundbreaking book, Managing the Resource Allocation Process.
He has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for over 5 decades where he is the Donald K. David Professor Emeritus.
He was Clayton Christensen’s doctoral thesis adviser and worked with Clay to develop and stress test his theories.
He is with us today to recognise his friend and revisit that famous 1995 article,
“Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave” that preceded the Innovator’s Dilemma
In a way this episode is a prequel to part one.
It is a great honour to welcome for the hour or Bower: Professor Joseph L. Bower