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Karen Dillon
Journalist and Author; Contributing Editor, Harvard Business Review; Senior Research Editor, Clayton Christensen Institute
Karen Dillon is a journalist, author, and speaker. She is a senior research editor on global prosperity at the Clayton Christensen Institute, and a contributing editor of Harvard Business Review, where she was previously the editor. She is also the editorial director of BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors. Dillon co-authored three books with Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen: How Will You Measure Your Life?; Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice; and The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty. She also wrote The Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics. A former deputy editor of Inc magazine and editor and publisher of American Lawyer magazine, she has been named one of the world’s most influential and inspiring women by Ashoka.
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