The directors of Innosight Institute are:

Clayton M. Christensen, Chairman, Co-Founder

Michael B. Horn, Secretary, Co-Founder

Jason Hwang, Treasurer, Co-Founder

Stacey Childress

Matt Eyring

Gisele Huff

Bern Shen

Biographies

Clayton M. Christensen, Chairman, Co-Founder

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 managing innovation and creating new growth markets.

Professor Christensen holds a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975), and an M.Phil. in applied econometrics and the economics of less-developed countries from Oxford University (1977), where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. He was awarded his DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.

A seasoned entrepreneur, Christensen has founded several successful companies. The first, CPS Corporation, is an advanced materials manufacturing company that he founded in 1984 with several MIT professors. The second, Innosight, is a consulting and training company focused on problems of strategy, innovation, and growth that Christensen founded with several of his former students in 2000. In 2007, he founded Innosight Institute (http://www.innosightinstitute.org), a non-profit think tank devoted to applying his theories of disruptive innovation to develop, disseminate, and promote solutions to the most vexing problems in the social sector, as well as Rose Park Advisors, an alternative investment management firm focused on companies affected by disruptive innovation. From 1979 to 1984 he worked with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In 1982 Professor Christensen was named a White House Fellow, and served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole.

Professor Christensen became a faculty member at the Harvard Business School in 1992. He is the bestselling author of five books, including his seminal work The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997) which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book of the year, The Innovator’s Solution (2003), and Seeing What’s Next (2004). Recently, Christensen has focused the lens of disruptive innovation on social issues such as education and health care. Disrupting Class (2008) looks at the root causes of why schools struggle and offers solutions, while The Innovator’s Prescription (late 2008) examines how to fix our healthcare system.

Professor Christensen’s writings have won a number of additional awards, including the Best Dissertation Award from The Institute of Management Sciences; the Production and Operations Management Society’s William Abernathy Award for the best paper in the management of technology; the Newcomen Society’s award for the best paper in business history; and the 1995 and 2001 McKinsey Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review.

Michael B. Horn, Executive Director, Education, Secretary, Co-Founder

Michael B. Horn is the co-founder and Executive Director, Education of Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. He is the coauthor of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill: June 2008) with Harvard Business School Professor and bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis W. Johnson, president of the Citistates Group.

The book uses the theories of disruptive innovation to identify the root causes of schools’ struggles and suggests a path forward to customize an education for every child in the way she learns. Horn has been featured as a speaker at many education conferences, including the National Evaluation Systems’ conference and the Grantmakers for Education conference.

Prior to this, Horn worked at America Online during its aol.com re-launch, and before that he served as David Gergen’s research assistant, where he tracked and wrote about politics and public policy. Horn has written articles for numerous publications, including Education Week, Forbes, the Boston Globe, and U.S. News & World Report. In addition, he has contributed research for Charles Ellis’ book, Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox (Wiley, 2006) and Barbara Kellerman’s Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Harvard Business School Press, 2004).

Horn earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Yale University, where he graduated with distinction in History.

Jason Hwang, Executive Director, Healthcare, Treasurer, Co-Founder

Dr. Jason Hwang is currently co-authoring a book on innovation in healthcare with Clayton Christensen, professor at the Harvard Business School, and Jerome Grossman, director of the Harvard/Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program.

He is an internal medicine physician and was previously a Harvard Business School Fellow at Innosight, a consulting firm based in Watertown, Massachusetts. Prior to that, Dr. Hwang worked at the Health Horizons Program of the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Palo Alto, California and taught as a clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine until 2004. He has also worked with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California.

Dr. Hwang received his B.S. and M.D. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and he completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of California, Irvine, where he also served as Chief Resident from 2002-2003. He was awarded an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 2006.

Stacey Childress

Stacey Childress is a Lecturer in the General Management unit at Harvard Business School, and a co-founder of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard University. Stacey studies entrepreneurial activity in public education in the United States. This includes the behavior and strategies of leadership teams in urban public school districts, charter schools, and nonprofit and for-profit enterprises with missions to improve the public system.  She is also interested more generally in a range of social enterprise topics, including international social entrepreneurship. She has authored more than two dozen case studies about large urban districts and entrepreneurial education ventures, and is the co-author of the Harvard Business Review article, “How to Manage Urban Districts.” Stacey is also a co-editor of the book Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership, Harvard Education Press, November 2007. Before working in academia, Stacey was co-founder of an enterprise software company and spent ten years in a Fortune 500 company in sales and general management. Early in her career, she taught in a Texas public high school. She is a graduate of Baylor University and Harvard Business School, where she was the first woman in school history to be elected by her classmates to deliver the class day graduation address.

Matt Eyring

Matt is Managing Director at Innosight where he co-leads the healthcare practice by helping clients in the health and medical industries find, develop, and commercialize high potential growth opportunities. He has worked with both Fortune 500 and start-up companies in industries such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, insurance, dental care, and consumer health. Matt co-founded and currently serves on the board of directors of Innosight Ventures, an independent arm of Innosight that creates and invests in early stage disruptive opportunities.  Prior to Innosight, Matt was based at Medtronic, a medical technology company based in Minneapolis, where he led a companywide senior team in redefining the role of the patient in the company’s long term strategy. His extensive prior strategy consulting experience also includes work at Monitor Company in both the telecommunications and retail industries. He was also an early leader in Monitor’s country competitiveness practice, where he advised cabinet level government officials and CEOs on matters of economic development and prosperity. Matt graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Utah, and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Gisele Huff

Dr. Gisele Huff is the executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation in San Francisco. After a decade in the business world, she earned a Ph.D. in political science, with a concentration in political philosophy, at Columbia University. She has taught at Golden Gate University, San Francisco University High School, and Dominican College. While at University High School, she served as the director of development for twelve years. She is a member of the Advisory Board for Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and Governance and of the Advisory Committee for the National Research Project at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. She is the 2003 recipient of the Thomas A. Roe Award, which is presented annually to a person who has contributed significantly to the field of state-level public policy.

Bern Shen

Dr. Bern Shen is Chief Medical Officer & Co-founder of Adjuvo Health, a Board member of The Health Trust, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future, and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy. Previously double Board-Certified in internal medicine and emergency medicine, he practiced clinically for 15 years in the US and abroad, did medical software and business development for Hewlett-Packard Labs and Oracle, led the health practice at the Institute for the Future, and most recently was chief healthcare strategist for Intel’s Digital Health group. Dr. Shen holds an A.B. (biochemistry) from Harvard and an MD, MPhil (molecular biophysics and biochemistry) from Yale.