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    Navigation & Guidance in the Age of AI: 5 Trends to Watch

    By: Julia Freeland Fisher, Anna Arsenault

    Will college and career navigation & guidance become more relational in the age of AI, or will it spur further opportunity gaps for students?
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Education
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    Less sugar, more life: Jobs to Be Done Theory reveals why some parents reduce their kids’ sugar-sweetened beverage consumption

    By: Ann Somers Hogg

    Existing research on what leads caregivers to buy sugary drinks for their kids—and their perceived reasons for not stopping this behavior—has asked about what they would do. Our research focuses on what they actually did.
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Health Care
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    Accelerating the adoption of solar energy in Nigeria: A market-creation strategy

    By: Efosa Ojomo, Sandy Sanchez

    Why has Nigeria’s solar market not grown faster—and how can it be accelerated? To answer these two questions, we have taken a different approach and have analyzed the sector through the lens of market creation.
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Global Prosperity
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    The Christensen Institute’s Year in Action: 2024

    By: Christensen Institute

    Discover how the Clayton Christensen Institute has made an impact in healthcare, education, and global development in 2024, how it’s expanded it’s community, and its upcoming research for 2025.
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    • Blog
    schooling disruption and ESAs

    Without education savings accounts, disruptive innovation in US schooling may not be possible

    Michael B. Horn
    October 30, 2025

    • Blog

    Artificial intelligence and the disruption of work society

    Efosa Ojomo
    October 29, 2025

    • Blog

    Will AI take my job or will it address a Job? 

    Sandy Sanchez
    October 22, 2025

    • Blog
    AI and Disruptive Innovation history

    Mass intelligence or dumbing down? Either way, disruption will win.

    Michael B. Horn
    October 21, 2025

    • Blog

    A short note on assessing market-creating opportunities

    Christensen Institute
    October 14, 2025

    • Blog

    Rethinking inequality: What if it’s a feature, not a bug?

    Efosa Ojomo
    October 13, 2025

    • Blog
    electric golf cart

    From ‘get a horse’ to ‘get a car’: Why electric golf carts are flexing their disruptive power decades after they were predicted to

    Michael B. Horn
    October 9, 2025

    • Blog

    What we can learn from the birth and growth of the aviation market in the US

    Sandy Sanchez
    October 6, 2025

    • Blog

    What will happen now that the US is withdrawing from the World Health Organization? An innovation theory sheds critical insight.

    Christensen Institute
    October 2, 2025

    • Video

    AI Won’t Fix Schools—Unless We Change What School Is For

    Christensen Institute
    October 1, 2025

    • Blog

    A market-creation story: Farmacias Similares

    Christensen Institute
    September 29, 2025

    • Blog

    Efosa Ojomo on why Africa needs market-creating innovation, not aid

    Sandy Sanchez
    September 26, 2025

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