Clayton Christensen's Recommendations for Health Care and Education are Amazon.com's #1 Bestsellers on Policy Reform

Business Wire, June 22, 2009

CRANFORD, N.J. -- As policymakers begin to tackle two major issues of our day – health care and education reform – the work of Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen is revolutionizing both sectors. His latest books, “The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care” (McGraw-Hill, January 2009) and “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns” (McGraw-Hill, June 2008), are currently Amazon.com’s #1 bestsellers in both the health care and education policy reform categories, respectively.

Having already transformed many facets of business strategy through his pioneering theory of disruptive innovation, Dr. Christensen’s recent research has built a unique case for an innovation-based framework for reforming both health care and education.

“The Innovator’s Prescription” presents a viable solution for reducing costs, increasing affordability and minimizing the economic impact of health care. “Disrupting Class” describes how disruptive processes can make the highest quality education products and services more conveniently accessible to the vast majority of learners.

The recommendations from both books are being developed into actionable solutions by Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank Dr. Christensen co-founded with Dr. Jason Hwang and Michael Horn, executive directors and co-authors of “The Innovator’s Prescription” and “Disrupting Class,” respectively.

Leading policymakers and influencers in both fields have endorsed these important and timely books, including Newt Gingrich, Michael Bloomberg, Joel Klein, Jim Collins, Dr. Harvey Fineberg, Michael Leavitt, and top executives at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kaiser Foundation, the Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, and Medco.

Clayton Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the bestselling author of six books. Along with Innosight Institute, he is a co-founder of Innosight, an innovation strategy consulting firm, and Rose Park Advisors. 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.