Innosight Institute is a non-profit think tank whose mission is to apply Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation to develop and promote solutions to the most vexing problems in the social sector.

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In the News

Institute co-founders Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn authored a commentary for CNN.com on June 2, 2009 titled “Don’t prop up failing schools,” in which they discuss the recent federal stimulus funds for education and outline a new role for the federal government in transforming the education system.

Institute co-founders Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn authored an op-ed for the Huffington Post on April 15 titled “Don’t stifle Florida’s education innovation,” in which they decry the attempts by some in the Florida legislature to pare back the Florida Virtual School.

Clayton M. Christensen and Jason Hwang have an article in BusinessWeek on February 23, 2009 in which they talk about how disruption can help understand how to frame solutions to the health-care problems in the U.S. Read the piece here, in which they also point to some promising solutions.

Crossover Health Care conducted an interview with Innosight Institute cofounder Jason Hwang on his and Clayton M. Christensen’s recently published book on health care, The Innovator’s Prescription (January 2009). Read the full text of the interview, in which Dr. Hwang elaborates on many of the concepts in the book as well as answers questions about the work, here.