Clark Gilbert

Innosight Board of Directors

Clark Gilbert is the president and CEO of the Deseret News Publishing Company and Deseret Digital Media. The Deseret News is Utah’s longest running business and one of the nation’s fastest growing newspapers, both in print and online.

He is also a former Professor of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. Clark’s formal research has focused on how disruptive technologies reshape the structure of existing markets.

He has examined industries including healthcare, media, and high-tech. His doctoral research won awards for best dissertation finalist and best paper at the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management. He was also awarded the 2005 Best Article Award in the Academy of Management Journal. Professor Gilbert has written HBS teaching cases on corporate entrepreneurship in companies such as Merck, Knight Ridder, Intel, and SAP.

Gilbert consults widely to the media, healthcare, and technology industries. He has served on new ventures boards at Johnson and Johnson, Landmark Media, and Scripps. He is also a founding partner of Innosight Ventures, where has served as a founding director of several healthcare and media startups.

Gilbert graduated summa cum laude from Brigham Young University, where he was his department's valedictorian. He earned a M.A. Stanford and a Ph.D. from the Harvard Business School. He and his wife Christine are the proud parents of seven children.

Publication Highlights

Innovator's DNA, Harvard Business Review Press, July 2011.

“Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture,” Harvard Business Review, May 2010.

From Resource Allocation to Strategy, Oxford University Press, 2005.

“The Disruption Opportunity," Sloan Management Review, August 2003.

“Disruptive Change: When Trying Harder is Part of the Problem,” Harvard Business Review, May 2002.