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Christensen became a leading draftsman at Fraser and Chalmers in Chicago, a machinery manufacturer for industry, mining, and transportation. While working in Chicago, he witnessed an accident of a new electric railway, which resulted in two deaths and a number of injuries because the conductor was unable to stop the rail cars in time using the ...
The market for transportation essentially remained intact until the debut of the lower-priced Ford Model T in 1908. [4] The mass-produced automobile was a disruptive innovation, because it changed the transportation market, whereas the first thirty years of automobiles did not.
Clayton Christensen was born on April 6, 1952, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of eight children born to Robert M. Christensen (1926–1976) and his wife, Verda Mae Christensen (née Fuller; 1922–2004). [8] He grew up in the Rose Park neighborhood of Salt Lake City and attended West High School, where he was student body president. [8]
Feith earned his bachelor's degree in aeronautical studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, where he currently remains on faculty.Early in his career, Feith was the U.S. Accredited Representative and Team Leader of six American investigators who climbed Mt. Illimani to an elevation of 20,098 feet MSL in 1985, to conduct the on-scene wreckage examination of ...
Clayton Christensen demonstrates how successful, outstanding companies can do everything "right" and still lose their market leadership – or even fail – as new, unexpected competitors rise and take over the market. There are two key parts to this dilemma. Value to innovation is an S-curve: Improving a product takes time and many iterations ...
Juanita M. Christensen (formerly Harris) is an American government official and electronics engineer. She is the deputy chief of staff for logistics (G4) of facilities and environmental at the United States Army Materiel Command. From November 2017 until January 2021, Christensen was director of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Center.
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) is an American multinational non-profit public policy think tank and research institute that provides technical, scientific, and policy analysis to environmental regulators on issues related to environmental, energy, and transportation policy.
Merchants and Miners Transportation Company; Merchants Transportation Company; Metropolitan Steamship Company; Mississippi Shipping Company; Montauk Steamboat Company; Moore-McCormack; Munson Steamship Line; Mystic Steamship Company; Mystic Steamship, a Division of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates