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Professor Dr. Clayton M. Christensen is Independent Non-Executive Director of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., since January 2006. Prof. Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on the management of technological innovation, developing organizational capabilities, and finding new markets for new technologies. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Christensen served as chairman and president of CPS Corporation, a firm that he co-founded with several MIT professors in 1984 which is now a publicly traded company. CPS is a developer of products and manufacturing processes using advanced materials. Prof. Christensen holds a B.A. in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Christensen received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. He was awarded a DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.