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Who We Are
The co-founders of Innosight Institute, Michael B. Horn and Dr. Jason Hwang, joined Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen after graduating from Harvard Business School in June of 2006 to co-author two books, one on U.S. K-12 public education and the other on U.S. health care, respectively. After working on the books for nearly a year, the three recognized that the books would be the first foray into an ongoing conversation. The books would, of course, not contain all the answers to these big multi-pronged problems by any means. They knew that having a vehicle to conduct ongoing research and from which to promote their findings would be important.
As a result, in May of 2007, the three founded Innosight Institute to house their ongoing work on both education and health care — and to continue the development and promotion of these ideas.
A year later, Christensen and Horn along with Curtis Johnson published the first of the books, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, and in January of 2009, Christensen and Hwang along with Dr. Jerome Grossman published The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care. The books apply Professor Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation to education and healthcare, respectively, to suggest ways to make fundamental improvement in both fields.
Originally based in Watertown, Mass., in February of 2009, Innosight Institute relocated its primary operations to the San Francisco Bay Area in California. The education and health-care teams continue to make inroads among policymakers and other influential stakeholders, and also are continuing their research to further improve and expand their understandings as represented in those first books.
At this time, Innosight Institute maintains just two practices, but plans in the future to conduct research into several other social sector problems.
Our Team: Meet our team members and visiting fellows.
Annual Reports: Review our Form 990s and financial audits to learn more about us.
Board of Directors: Meet our board of directors.
Professor Christensen has founded other companies as well. Two of them also share our first name although they are independent entities from Innosight Institute. Learn about Innosight, LLC and Innosight Ventures.
