Innosight Institute’s staff members are:

Michael Horn, Executive Director, Education
mhorn@innosightinstitute.org

Michael Horn is currently co-authoring a book with Professor Christensen and Curtis Johnson, president of the Citistates Group. Titled Disrupting Class, the book identifies the root causes of why schools struggle and suggests a path forward for improvement. 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 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 (2006) and an AB from Yale University (2002), where he graduated with distinction in History.

Dr. Jason Hwang, Executive Director, Health Care
jhwang@innosightinstitute.org

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.

Shuman Talukdar, Senior Fellow, Green-Tech

Shuman Talukdar is currently a visiting Senior Fellow where he is exploring next generation green-tech solutions. He brings a strong background in strategy, technology, and entrepreneurship. He graduated from the Harvard Business School where he focused on early-stage technology strategy. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rice University where he developed a number of complex hardware/software systems including robotic solutions. More recently, Shuman was a Principal with The Parthenon Group where he formulated strategies for fortune 500 clients, conducted due diligence for private equity investors, and helped a renewable energy project developer explore new business opportunities. He has early-stage operating experience working for North Atlantic Capital’s portfolio companies and Endeavor. Prior to business school Shuman’s worked in product management roles, and has experience defining products in IP intensive industries ranging from software, biotechnology, semiconductor, and telecommunications. He has worked for a number of technology and R&D focused organizations in Silicon Valley including Network Equipment Technologies and Isadra (acquired by VerticalNet) and was the founder of a personalization service provider. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and Bengali, has worked in emerging markets including Mexico and India, and has traveled extensively around the world.

To view his own writings on the greentech space, you can visit his blog here.