Christina Wallace Books
Christina Wallace is an entrepreneur, writer, and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. Known for her interdisciplinary approach to career design, she has worked across technology, arts, and education.
Known for: New to Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Transform Like Digital Natives, The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card
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New to Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Transform Like Digital Natives
New to Big explores how large organizations can rediscover their entrepreneurial spirit by adopting the mindset and methods of startups. The authors, David Kidder and Christina Wallace, present a fram...
The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card
In The Portfolio Life, Christina Wallace presents a new model for building a fulfilling and sustainable career in the modern world. Drawing from her experience as a Harvard Business School professor, ...
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Defining 'Big to New' vs. 'New to Big'
There’s a fundamental misunderstanding in the way most corporations approach growth. Typically, they try to extend from 'big to new': taking existing assets, brands, and capabilities, and applying them to adjacent markets or incremental innovations. This path is safer, familiar, and often supported ...
From New to Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Transform Like Digital Natives
The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Every breakthrough begins with a certain posture toward the unknown. The entrepreneurial mindset is not merely about passion or hustle—it’s about radical curiosity and disciplined learning. When I work with teams inside large corporations, I often remind them: entrepreneurs are not smarter than you....
From New to Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Transform Like Digital Natives
The Problem with the Traditional Career Path
The traditional career path was built for a different time and a different economy. Our grandparents were promised stability through obedience to a corporate hierarchy: pick one profession, stay loyal, climb the rungs, retire with a pension. But today’s world runs on innovation and agility, not perm...
From The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card
Defining the Portfolio Life
A portfolio life is a design for living that mirrors the logic of a diversified investment portfolio. Instead of committing everything to one stock—one job, one identity—you hold multiple investments in different areas of your life. Each contributes differently: some provide financial gain, others e...
From The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card
About Christina Wallace
Christina Wallace is an entrepreneur, writer, and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. Known for her interdisciplinary approach to career design, she has worked across technology, arts, and education. Wallace is also a public speaker and co-host of the podcast 'The Limit Does Not Exist.'
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