Poets&Quants Carrying The Torch Of Disruption Forward

Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma and a Harvard Business School professor, died last month. Normally, this word suggests a negative connotation. The talkative student was disruptive to the rest of the class, or the reckless driver was disruptive to the flow of traffic. Dictionary.com lists the following words as related to disruptive: upsetting, disturbing, troublesome, rowdy, troublemaking. Yet this word is used routinely in society and business, often with a positive, or at least neutral, connotation.