In 2006, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen partnered with HBS graduates Michael Horn and Jason Hwang to co-author two books; Horn would research U.S. K-12 public education and Hwang would research U.S. health care industry. After working for nearly a year, the three recognized that the books would be an initial foray into an ongoing conversation and that having a vehicle to conduct and promote ongoing research would be essential. As a result, in May 2007 the group founded the nonprofit think tank Innosight Institute. A year later, Christensen and Horn along with Curtis Johnson published Disrupting Class, and in January 2009, Christensen and Hwang along with Dr. Jerome Grossman published The Innovator’s Prescription.
Since then, the Institute’s growing Education and Health Care programs continue to make inroads among policymakers, community leaders, and innovators with their unique approach to society’s most pressing problems.