Student Profile

Daniella Patrick

Why did you decide to take Disruptive Strategy?

I had been looking for courses in innovation and strategy that would help me think more strategically, find new ways to solve new and old problems, and make effective recommendations to the business. This course had the benefit of being an online course offered by Harvard Business School and taught by Professor Clay Christensen. I simply had to give it a try.

What did you find most insightful about the course?

The course equipped me with new ways to think about problems, products, businesses, and just everything in life. From the jobs to be done theory, emergent versus deliberate strategies, to the different types of innovations, Professor Christensen's concepts and theories equipped me with new lenses through which I can view and analyze the world.

How do you plan to apply what you've learned in Disruptive Strategy to your career?

I’ve found that I already apply it to my career, my passions, and even my family. For example, I apply the jobs to be done theory to myself and to the people whom I'm building products for so that I can do my job better as a partner, relative, employee, team member, and product manager.