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The Clayton Christensen Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the world through Disruptive Innovation. Founded on the theories of Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, the Institute offers a unique framework for understanding many of society’s most pressing issues including education, healthcare, and economic prosperity. Our mission is ambitious but clear: work to shape and elevate the conversation surrounding these issues through rigorous research and public outreach. The Institute is redefining the way policymakers, community leaders, and innovators address the problems of our day by distilling and promoting the transformational power of Disruptive Innovation. The Christensen Institute maintains an office in the Boston area.

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Ann Christensen

President

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Ann Christensen

President

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As president of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, Ann directs the overall strategic and operational development of the Institute and oversees its rapidly growing research programs. She also works closely with the Board of Directors to enhance the Institute’s impact and strengthen its strategic partnerships and resources. Under Ann’s leadership, the Institute has established a visiting fellows program, expanded its education work to include higher education, and added a global prosperity division.

Prior to joining the Institute, Ann worked at Huntsman Gay Global Capital, a private equity firm focused on middle-market companies, assessing potential investment targets across a variety of industries, and providing strategic and operational advice to portfolio companies. Previously, she worked at Deloitte Consulting in New York City, where she was instrumental in establishing the Growth & Innovation practice by drawing on the Theories of Disruptive Innovation to help clients create new growth businesses. Ann led projects for clients in a number of industries, including pharmaceutical, biotech, telecommunications, travel, professional services and insurance. She has also spent time as a strategic analyst for Elan Pharmaceuticals, an Irish biotechnology company.

Ann is on the board of trustees for both Southern Virginia University and the Waterford Institute. Ann holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She earned a BA at Duke University, where she designed her own course of study to examine the political economies of developing nations. Following her time at Duke, Ann lived in Mongolia, where she served a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her work in Mongolia included teaching at high schools and universities, helping grow the local church, facilitating job training, building homes, providing health care, and working with orphans.

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Anna Arsenault

Research Consultant, Education

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Anna Arsenault

Research Consultant, Education

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Anna Arsenault is a research project manager at the Institute, where she works with the Social Capital R&D team to document emerging practices and technology tools designed to expand students’ networks as a pathway to social and economic mobility. Prior to joining the Institute, Anna taught for five years in New York City public and charter schools. She aided in the evaluation of teacher education programs at the Consortium on Chicago School Research and contributed to the development of a locally relevant math curriculum with the Community Based Mathematics Project of Philadelphia.

Anna holds a BA in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ann-Somers Hogg

Director, Health Care Research

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Ann-Somers Hogg

Director, Health Care Research

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Ann Somers is the director of health care research at the Clayton Christensen Institute. She focuses on business model innovation and disruption in health care, including how to transform a sick care system to one that values and incentivizes total health. Her current research addresses why various organizations across the health care landscape are addressing “social determinants of health” and what enables success in this domain. She is tackling these questions through the lens of Jobs to Be Done and Business Model theories.

Prior to joining the Institute, Ann Somers worked for Atrium Health, where she most recently served as the AVP of Strategy and Transformation. In this role, she co-led the formulation of Atrium Health’s long-term Enterprise Strategy, led strategic intelligence and environmental scanning, and served as the Chief of Staff to Atrium Health’s Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer. Before that, she worked in Atrium Health’s Innovation Engine, where she also led environmental scanning efforts and developed potentially disruptive care models. She started her career in consulting at Oliver Wyman, working in their Health and Life Sciences practice to develop value-based care strategies for large payers.

Ann Somers holds an MSPH in Health Policy and Management from UNC-Chapel Hill and a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia.

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Ben Jones

Director, Institutional Relations

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Ben Jones

Director, Institutional Relations

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Ben serves as Director of Institutional Relations at the Clayton Christensen Institute, where he works to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward partnerships with funders and other external collaborators. As part of the senior leadership team, he helps develop overall strategy and secure the resources necessary to accomplish those goals.

Ben’s background encompasses traditional philanthropic fundraising in social services, conservation, and higher education, as well as internet-related startups and early-stage companies. Most recently, at UMass Dartmouth, Ben founded the Business Engagement Center, designed to connect external stakeholders and internal faculty and staff towards shared applied research and workforce development solutions. He also has an extensive background as a volunteer leader in a variety of roles, from developing and conducting capacity building trainings, to board membership with organizations ranging from state-wide conservation groups to local Catholic schools.

Ben earned a masters degree in professional writing and communications from UMass Dartmouth, and received a bachelor’s degree with a dual major in anthropology and history from Washington University in St. Louis. He also holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate, is a Certified Fundraising Raising Executive (CFRE), and completed the inaugural Network of Corporate Relations Officers (NACRO) executive education program.

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Bob Moesta

Research Fellow
Jobs to Be Done

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Bob Moesta

Research Fellow
Jobs to Be Done

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Bob Moesta is a research fellow at the Christensen Institute and the CEO & Founder of The Re-Wired Group, providing end-to-end innovation consulting that revolutionizes markets through the application of quality and disruption principles to product development. He specializes in solving seemingly unsolvable problems and increasing the skills of innovators, and has personally launched more than 3500 products, services, and businesses across nearly every industry. Bob is an adjunct lecturer of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Entrepreneurship, and many other universities. 

Bob, along with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, is one of the principal architects of the Jobs To Be Done Theory: the revolutionary innovation framework that identifies Disruptive Innovation through understanding what causes customers to make choices that help them achieve progress. He has continued to develop, advance, and apply the innovation framework through the addition of quality principles to everyday business challenges,  making innovation more predictable and successful.

A lifelong learner, Bob continually seeks to learn from the best of the best approaching learning through experimentation and managing unknowns. He began his career as an intern with Dr. W. Edwards Deming and worked with Dr. Genichi Taguchi in Japan to bring quality methods and tools to the world of product development. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, and  has studied extensively at MIT, the Harvard Business School, Stanford, and Boston University. 

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Dallin Wilcox

Special Projects Manager

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Dallin Wilcox

Special Projects Manager

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As the special projects manager at the Clayton Christensen Institute, Dallin collaborates with the team on a variety of strategic projects and initiatives. He supports the Institute’s Executive Learning initiatives and leads a variety of marketing and strategic efforts to help promote the work and brand of the Institute.

Before joining the Institute, Dallin worked for over six years in higher education and was the VP of marketing and innovation at a university in Virginia. He also founded a strategy and marketing consulting business.

Dallin holds a BA in Business Management and Leadership from Southern Virginia University and is currently pursuing an MBA from Pepperdine University.

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Efosa Ojomo

Director
Global Prosperity

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Efosa Ojomo

Director
Global Prosperity

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Efosa Ojomo is a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. His work focuses on understanding how best to create prosperity in low- and middle-income countries. The pillars of his research include understanding why poor countries have remained poor despite the trillions of dollars spent on development over the past several decades; analyzing a country’s capabilities to help it better predict the viability of projects; and helping investors, entrepreneurs, and development professionals improve their project success rates.

In January 2019, Efosa alongside co-authors Clayton Christensen and Karen Dillon released The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty. The book focuses on the important role of innovation in the process of creating prosperity across the globe.

Prior to joining the Institute, Efosa worked as a researcher under Professor Christensen at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at the Harvard Business School. He also worked as an engineer for a number of years at National Instruments. At that time, he co-founded Poverty Stops Here, a nonprofit organization that provides Nigerian communities with access to wells, small business microloans, and primary education for children.

A native of Nigeria, Efosa moved to the U.S. to attend college. He earned a BS in Engineering from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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Emmanuelle Verdieu

Research Fellow, Health Care

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Emmanuelle Verdieu

Research Fellow, Health Care

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Emmanuelle is a health care research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. She focuses on business model innovation in the child welfare system. Her current research addresses how child and family well-being organizations are moving towards a focus on prevention and what enables success in this domain. She is tackling these questions through the lens of Jobs to Be Done and business models.

Prior to joining the Institute, Emmanuelle worked as a staff attorney at the Health Law Advocates, Inc. helping children with unmet mental health needs obtain special education services and divert them from the juvenile justice system. She was also a staff attorney and fellow with the Project on Predatory Student Lending, where she investigated and litigated against predatory for-profit colleges that target and harm students of color. Emmanuelle holds a BA in crime and justice studies, magna cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and received her law degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School.

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Heather Staker

Adjunct Fellow
Education

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Heather Staker

Adjunct Fellow
Education

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Heather Staker is an adjunct fellow at the Christensen Institute, specializing in educator professional development for student-centered teaching. Her aim is to nurture innovations that will help every learner access a student-centered education. Her latest paper is “Educator competencies for student-centered teaching.” From 2010-2015, she helped organize the field of K–12 blended learning by developing definitions, a taxonomy, and theory-based design principles for blended-learning models.

Heather is the co-author of Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools (Wiley, 2015) and The Blended Workbook: Learning to Design the Schools of our Future (Wiley, 2017). She is the author of the playbook “How to create higher performing, happier classrooms in seven moves” (Christensen Institute, 2017).

Heather founded Ready to Blend in 2016 to help educators implement the findings from her research. She currently serves as president of this organization. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

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Julia Freeland

Director
Education

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Julia Freeland

Director
Education

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Julia Freeland Fisher is the director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Institute. She leads a team that educates policymakers and community leaders on the power of disruptive innovation in the K-12 and higher education spheres through its research. Her team aims to transform monolithic, factory-model education systems into student-centered designs that educate every student successfully and enable each to realize his or her fullest potential.

Julia is the author of Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students’ Networks (Wiley, 2018). The book focuses on emerging tools and practices that leverage technology to radically expand who students know – their stock of “social capital” – by enhancing their access to and ability to navigate new peer, mentor, and professional networks.

Julia has published and spoken extensively on trends in the EdTech market, blended learning, competency-based education, and the future of schools. Julia’s writing has appeared in outlets including Education Next, Forbes, entrepreneur.com, the Chicago Sun-Times, and CNN. Her recent white papers focus on how disruptive innovations are changing the education landscape. These include The educator’s dilemma: When and how schools should embrace poverty relief with Michael B. Horn, Schools and software: What’s now and what’s next with Alex Hernandez, and Blending toward competency: Early patterns of blended learning and competency-based education in New Hampshire.

Prior to joining the Institute, Julia worked at NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that supports education entrepreneurs who are transforming public education. She also served as an instructor in the Yale College Seminar Program. Julia holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a JD from Yale Law School.

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John Riley

Vice President
Finance and Human Resources

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John Riley

Vice President
Finance and Human Resources

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As vice president of finance and human resources, John oversees the financial management of the Institute and directs all human resources operations of the organization. He contributes to the development and pursuit of the Institute’s strategic goals and objectives, as well as the overall management of the organization, working directly with the president and other members of the leadership team on key strategic projects.

John has served in chief financial officer roles in the banking, broadcasting, and construction management industries. He has extensive experience in managing the accounting and finance, human resource, risk management, technology, investment, real estate, and administrative operations of these firms over an 18-year period. He has taken leadership roles in the strategic planning processes of both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Most recently, his passion for the importance of education led him to partner with his wife, Maureen, in founding The Rooted Mind, LLC, which introduces students to the meaning of Latin and Greek roots, the foundation for over 60% of the English language.

John has a strong commitment to community service and has served as a volunteer and/or board member of Nativity Preparatory School, the Massachusetts Catholic Self Insurance Group, the Friends of Natick Drama Workshop, the Catholic Foundation of the Archdiocese of Boston, the Boston College Alumni Association, and the Boston Liturgical Dance Ensemble, among others.

John received an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a BA in Mathematics from Boston College.

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Karen Dillon

Senior Research Editor
Global Prosperity

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Karen Dillon

Senior Research Editor
Global Prosperity

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Karen Dillon is a senior research editor on the Global Prosperity team. In January 2019, she and co-authors Clayton Christensen and Efosa Ojomo published The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, which focuses on the important role of innovation in the process of creating prosperity across the globe.

Prior to joining the Institute, Karen was the editor of Harvard Business Review magazine. In addition to The Prosperity Paradox, she has co-authored two books with Clayton Christensen: Wall Street Journal best-seller Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice; and New York Times best-seller How Will You Measure Your Life?

Karen was named by Ashoka as one of the world’s most influential and inspiring women and a ”top influencer” by Product Management Review in 2016. She continues to be a contributing editor to Harvard Business Review and editorial director of BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors. She is a graduate of Cornell University and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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Mary Knox Miller

Digital Strategist

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Mary Knox Miller

Digital Strategist

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As digital strategist, Mary Knox helps tell the story of the Institute while communicating our theories across platforms and mediums. She works directly with the president and other members of the leadership team on visual communications strategies across verticals in support of the Institute’s global brand.

Mary Knox joined the Institute after a decade at Harvard Business School where she elevated the public profile of the MBA Program through video, directed visual communications strategy across departments, and became a sought-after producer and consultant on faculty-led projects. Prior to HBS, Mary Knox worked in various marketing and communications roles in higher ed, originally starting her career as an international photojournalist for a Boston-based newspaper.

Mary Knox holds an MS in Journalism from Boston University and BS in English from the University of the South, Sewanee.

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Meris Stansbury

Senior Director of Communications

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Meris Stansbury

Senior Director of Communications

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Meris is the senior director of communications and promotes the Institute’s education, health care, and global prosperity verticals. Meris works closely with each research team to execute timely and relevant content, as well as craft outreach strategies to help aid leaders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners in their future-looking policies and implementations. Previously, Meris was the director of communications for the education team here at the Institute.

Before joining the Institute, Meris was with eSchool Media, an edtech and innovation media company, for over a decade; most recently as editorial director. Prior to eSchool Media, she was the assistant editor for The World & I, an education publication under The Washington Times. Meris holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Kenyon College.

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Rich Alton

Director
Emerging Research

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Rich Alton

Director
Emerging Research

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Rich is the director of emerging research at the Clayton Christensen Institute, where he analyzes the latest technology trends through the lens of Disruptive Innovation and its related theories. He is also responsible for leading the Institute’s Executive Learning initiatives.

Prior to joining the Institute, Rich was an independent consultant advising on corporate strategy and M&A due diligence. Before that, he worked as a portfolio manager at Q Investments, a billion-dollar multi-strategy hedge fund. In his early career, Rich was an associate consultant at Bain & Company and an associate at mid-market private equity firm Sorenson Capital.

In 2010, Rich was the first fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at the Harvard Business School. The Forum was started by Clayton Christensen as a vehicle to expand research and perform outreach to alumni and other professionals. While at the Forum, Rich co-authored two papers with Professor Christensen: The New M&A Playbook, published in Harvard Business Review, and Picking Green Tech’s Winners and Losers, published in Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Rich holds a BS from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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Ruth Hartt

Chief of Staff

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Ruth Hartt

Chief of Staff

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In her role as Chief of Staff, Ruth aims to bridge the gap between vision and execution. She serves as a “hub,” helping to facilitate communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from board to junior staff. Her multifaceted role allows her to wear a variety of hats, assisting as needed with external relations, human resources, finance, and project management. Additionally, she orchestrates all Institute events, both internal and external. Serving as the primary contact for direct inquiries to the organization provides Ruth a unique perspective, with insight into both internal operations and the sentiments of external stakeholders.

Ruth joined the Institute after a nearly two decade career in music, where she worked as director of choral programs, vocal coach, and professional opera singer, performing with Opera Theater of Saint Louis, PORTopera, and Spokane Opera, among others. Winner of the 2012 American Prize for Vocal Performance in Art Song, Ruth was also the second place recipient of the 2012 American Prize for Vocal Performance in Opera. Ruth also served as Membership & Communications Chair on the board of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Boston chapter.

Ruth received a master’s degree in vocal performance from Boston University, and holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Houghton College.

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Sandy Sanchez

Research Associate, Global Prosperity

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Sandy Sanchez

Research Associate, Global Prosperity

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Sandy Sanchez is a research associate at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, where she focuses on understanding and solving global development issues through the lens of Jobs to be Done and innovation theories. Her current work addresses how individuals can use market-creating innovations to create sustainable prosperity in growth economies. 

Prior to joining the Institute, Sandy worked in a global law firm researching labor and employment legislation. She has also worked alongside nonprofit organizations and congressional offices to address ongoing community issues, and improve resources and relationships. 

Sandy holds a BA in International Development Studies and a minor in French from the University of California, Los Angeles. 

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Thomas Arnett

Senior Research Fellow
Education

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Thomas Arnett

Senior Research Fellow
Education

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Thomas Arnett is a senior research fellow for the Clayton Christensen Institute. His work focuses on using the Theory of Disruptive Innovation to study innovative instructional models and their potential to scale student-centered learning in K–12 education. He also studies demand for innovative resources and practices across the K–12 education system using the Jobs to Be Done Theory.

Thomas began his work in education as a middle school math teacher in Kansas City Public Schools through Teach For America and as an Education Pioneers fellow with the Achievement First Public Charter Schools. He has also served as an elected trustee and board president for the Morgan Hill Unified School District in Morgan Hill, California, and currently serves as a member of the board of Compass Charter Schools in California.

Thomas received a BS in Economics from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Clayton Christensen

Founder


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Clayton Christensen

Founder

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Clayton Christensen (1952-2020) was the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he taught one of the most popular elective classes, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise. He is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth and his ideas have been widely used in industries and organizations throughout the world.

A 2011 cover story in Forbes magazine noted that ‘’Everyday business leaders call him or make the pilgrimage to his office in Boston, Mass. to get advice or thank him for his ideas.’’ In 2011 in a poll of thousands of executives, consultants and business school professors, Clayton was named as the most influential business thinker in the world.

Clayton received his B.A. in economics, summa cum laude, from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in applied econometrics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He subsequently received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. In 1982 Clayton was named a White House Fellow, and served as assistant to US Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. He was awarded his DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992, and became a faculty member there the same year, eventually receiving full professorship with tenure in 1998. He holds five honorary doctorates and an honorary chaired professorship at the Tsinghua University in Taiwan.

Prior to his academic career, Clayton worked as a management consultant with BCG in their Boston office and helped co-found Ceramics Process Systems, a Massachusetts-based advanced materials company. He has subsequently helped establish many other successful enterprises, including the innovation consulting firm Innosight, the public policy think tank Innosight Institute, and the investment firm Rose Park Advisors.

Clayton is the best-selling author of nine books and more than a hundred articles. His first book, The Innovator’s Dilemma received the Global Business Book Award as the best business book of the year (1997); and in 2011 The Economist named it as one of the six most important books about business ever written. His other articles and books have received the Abernathy, Newcomen, James Madison, and Circle Prizes. Clayton is a five-time recipient of the McKinsey Award, given each year to the two best articles published in the Harvard Business Review; and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tribeca Films Festival (2010). Clayton passed away in January 2020.

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Mark Johnson

Board of Directors


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Mark Johnson

Board of Directors

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Mark Johnson is a co-founder and Senior Partner of Innosight, a strategic innovation consulting and investing company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore and Switzerland, which he co-founded with Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. He has been a strategic advisor to both Global 1000 and start-up companies in a wide range of industries—including automotive, health care, aerospace/defense, enterprise IT, energy, and consumer packaged goods. He has advised Singapore’s government on innovation and entrepreneurship. Mark’s most recent work has focused on helping companies envision and create new growth, manage transformation, and achieve renewal through business model innovation, and he is a frequent writer and speaker on these topics. He is the author of the new book Reinvent Your Business Model: How to Seize the White Space for Transformative Growth (July, 2018) and coauthor of the book Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business While Creating the Future (April, 2017), a blueprint for how successful companies can leverage disruptive change to fortify today’s business and create tomorrow’s growth engine.  He is also the author of the best-selling book Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal and coauthor of the McKinsey award-winning Harvard Business Review article, “Reinventing Your Business Model.” In addition, Mark has published articles in the Sloan Management Review, BusinessWeek, Advertising Age, andNational Defense. Prior to co-founding Innosight, Mark was a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he advised clients on managing innovation and implementing comprehensive change programs. Before that, he served as a nuclear power-trained surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. Mark received an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree in civil engineering and engineering mechanics from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy. Mark, his wife, Jane Clayson Johnson, and their children live in Belmont, Massachusetts.

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Michael B. Horn

Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow, Chairman


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Michael B. Horn

Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow, Chairman

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Michael B. Horn strives to create a world in which all individuals can build their passions and fulfill their potential through his writing, speaking, and work with a portfolio of education organizations. He is the author of several books, including the recently released From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child; the award-winning Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns; Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools; Choosing College; and Goodnight Box, a children’s story.

Michael is the co-founder of and a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a non-profit think tank, and teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He co-hosts the top education podcasts Future U and Class DisruptedHe is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and writes the Substack newsletter The Future of Education. Michael also serves as an executive editor at Education Next, and his work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and NBC.

Michael serves on the board and advisory boards of a range of education organizations, including Imagine Worldwide, Minerva University, and Guild Education, and is a venture partner at NextGen Venture Partners.

Michael was selected as a 2014 Eisenhower Fellow to study innovation in education in Vietnam and Korea, and Tech&Learning magazine named him to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education. Michael holds a BA in history from Yale University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Michael was selected as a 2014 Eisenhower Fellow to study innovation in education in Vietnam and Korea, and Tech&Learning magazine named him to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education. Michael holds a BA in history from Yale University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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Rebecca Fogg

Visiting Researcher
Healthcare


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Rebecca Fogg

Visiting Researcher
Healthcare

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Rebecca was a full-time senior researcher at the Christensen Institute from 2014-2019. Her research focused on business model innovation in healthcare delivery, particularly new approaches to population health management and patient-centered care. Rebecca’s work with Clayton Christensen includes The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health, published in Harvard Business Review; and two research papers: How Disruptive Innovation can finally revolutionize healthcare, and Health for hire: Unleashing patient potential to reduce chronic disease costs, both published by the Institute.

Prior to joining the Institute, Rebecca led business development at London’s Air Ambulance (LAA), a medical service pioneering the delivery of physician-led trauma care to critically injured patients at the scene of emergencies. There she co-founded The Institute of Pre-Hospital Care at LAA, which she continues to advise; and negotiated a joint venture with Queen Mary University of London to develop and run the U.K.’s first undergraduate degree program in pre-hospital medicine, which continues today. In addition, Rebecca has over a decade of experience in consumer financial services, managing strategy, innovation and operations in functions from product and technology development to customer acquisition and servicing.

Rebecca has been a volunteer in the trauma surgical wards at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and is currently a ward volunteer at St. Christopher’s Hospice in London. She holds a BA from Yale University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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Aroop Gupta

Visiting Research Fellow
2015-2017


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Aroop Gupta

Visiting Research Fellow
2015-2017

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From 2015-2017, Aroop was a visiting research fellow from Tata Consultancy Services. Aroop’s research at the Institute focused on Disruptive Innovation within the banking and finance industry. For more than seven years, Aroop has worked for Tata Consultancy Services, with a focus on program management for IT consulting projects for banking and financial service clients.

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Chandrasekar Iyer

Visiting Research Fellow
2017-2019


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Chandrasekar Iyer

Visiting Research Fellow
2017-2019

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From 2017-2019, Chandrasekar was a visiting research fellow from Tata Consultancy Services. Chandrasekar’s research at the Christensen Institute focused on the future of manufacturing with a primary focus on the automotive subsector. His research resulted in two papers: Driving Disruption, and The Race for Autonomous Ride-Hailing.

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Jon George

Visiting Research Fellow
2017-2018


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Jon George

Visiting Research Fellow
2017-2018

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From 2017-2018, Jon was a visiting fellow from Li & Fung, a Hong Kong-based trading and supply chain management company. During his one-year secondment from his business development management role at Li & Fung, Jon’s primary research at the Institute focused on the global supply chain of the future in order to identify how organizations should develop to serve the existing and emerging needs of stakeholders. Jon has extensive global experience across multiple retail and supply chain functions. Prior to joining Li & Fung, Jon was the vice president of a leading Hong Kong/ China based trading and sourcing company. He has detailed supply chain experience gained as a management consultant working with retailers and CPG customers in both the United States and United Kingdom, as well as extensive direct line experience working with multiple global retailers. Jon has a BS in Management from Arizona State University and a MBA with dual concentrations in Finance and Strategy from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Parthasarathi Varatharajan

Visiting Research Fellow
2017-2018


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Parthasarathi Varatharajan

Visiting Research Fellow
2017-2018

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From 2017-2018, Parthasarathi was a visiting research fellow from Tata Consultancy Services. His research focused on the implications of emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality on business models. Parthasarathi visited the Institute from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where he worked in corporate research and development for seven years as an innovation evangelist, exploring initiatives on employee experiences, platform models, conversational systems, crowdsourcing, and innovation ecosystems. Prior to his role in R&D, Parthasarathi worked for three years in data warehousing and business intelligence support at TCS, providing enhancements for many business-critical applications. Parthasarathi holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Instrumentation from SASTRA University, Thanjavur.

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Peter Ting

Visiting Research Fellow
2018-2019


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Peter Ting

Visiting Research Fellow
2018-2019

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From 2018-2019, Peter was a visiting research fellow from Li & Fung, a Hong Kong-based trading and supply chain management company. Peter’s primary research at the Institute focused on advancing the global research agenda on the future of the apparel supply chain, where Disruptive Innovation is having a profound impact on incumbent companies.

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Subhajit Das

Visiting Research Fellow
2015-2017


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Subhajit Das

Visiting Research Fellow
2015-2017

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From 2015-2017, Subhajit was a visiting research fellow from Tata Consultancy Services. Subhajit’s research applied the theory of disruption to questions of economic growth. Since 2010, Subhajit has worked as a business analyst for Tata Consultancy Services, focusing on business process management and technology solutions for sales, marketing, and after-sales functions of consumer-oriented industries. Subhajit began his career as a software engineer in enterprise application integration and helped manage the vendor payments systems for a major FMCG company across 17 countries. Subsequently, he worked as a software developer on multiple enterprise software platforms and contributed to the development of software for billing, payments, and ERP integration. Subhajit received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Indore.

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