Authors

Clayton M. Christensen first introduced the concept of disruptive innovation to the business community in his groundbreaking bestseller, The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). In his latest work, THE INNOVATOR’S PRESCRIPTION: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, Christensen teams up with physicians Jason Hwang and Jerome H. Grossman to apply his theories of disruptive innovation to health care, offering an insightful analysis of the problems of cost and access related to America’s medical system and outlining a framework for improvement.

Christensen, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School since 1992, is the bestselling author of five books, a renowned management consultant, and a seasoned entrepreneur. His research and teaching interests center on managing innovation, creating new growth markets, and making practical the theory of disruption by focusing on problems of strategy, innovation and growth. Through Innosight, the Boston-area consulting firm he co-founded in 2000, Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation have been used to shape the management strategies of well-known industry giants, such as P&G, J&J, Best Buy, and Time Warner.

Christensen’s books include The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), Innovation and the General Manager (1999), The Innovator’s Solution (2003), Seeing What’s Next (2004), and Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (2004). The Innovator’s Dilemma received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997, and The Innovator’s Solution was named a New York Times bestseller. In 2008, he also released DISRUPTING CLASS: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, an examination of America’s education system through the lens of disruption.

The late Jerome H. Grossman, M.D., Senior Fellow and Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program, was a nationally recognized health care policy expert, widely known as an advocate for market-driven solutions for the reform of the medical care industry. Over his 40-year career, Dr. Grossman advanced the use of outcome and health services research to shape the delivery of medical care, and was a pioneer in health informatics. His experience as an administrator, practitioner, and employer put him in a unique position to bridge the divides between business and government, and between policy and implementation.

Prior to joining the Kennedy School in 1997, Dr. Grossman served as a leader at major medical centers in Boston. He spent 16 years at the Tufts Medical Center as Chairman and CEO, and 13 years at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Additionally, he was a founder of four health care companies, including two leaders in the medical information technology sector. Dr. Grossman served on numerous boards across the country, including the Mayo Clinic, PENN Medicine, the Stryker Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he served as chairman from 1994 to 1997. Dr. Grossman was a graduate of M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Jason Hwang, M.D., M.B.A. is an internal medicine physician and Senior Strategist for the Healthcare Practice at Innosight, an innovation and strategy consulting firm in Watertown, Massachusetts. He also co-founded and serves as the Executive Director of Healthcare at Innosight Institute, a non-profit social innovation think tank in San Francisco, California.

Previously, Dr. Hwang taught as chief resident and clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine, where he received multiple recognitions for his clinical work. He has also served as a clinician 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 and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.