Team Profiles

Clark Gilbert, Director

Meet Clark

Clark Gilbert is a Director at Innosight. He is also a former Professor of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. Professor Gilbert has published several leading articles on innovation in Harvard Business Review and MIT/Sloan Management Review. He is also the author of From Resource Allocation to Strategy, published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. He is currently the president and CEO of Deseret Digital Media, a disruptive media venture.

Professor Gilbert'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.

Professor 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 start-ups.

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

What Clark Recommends

HBR Working Knowledge

What Clark Has Written

Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture

In this Harvard Business Review article, Innosight President, Matt Eyring, and Director, Clark Gilbert, discuss the challenges of launching a new business and how to overcome those risks.
MAY 1 2010
How Managers' Everyday Decisions Create or Destroy Your Company's Strategy

Harvard Business Review: Senior executives have long been frustrated by the disconnection between the plans and strategies they devise and the actual behavior of the managers throughout the company....
FEB 1 2007
Can the Newspaper Industry Stare Disruption

Nieman Reports: Lessons learned from past failures can help to ensure future triumphs.
APR 1 2006
From Resource Allocation to Strategy

A collection of some of the leading experts on strategy examine how strategy is actually made by company managers across the several levels of an organization. Oxford University Press, December 2005
DEC 1 2005
Newspapers in an Electronic Age

Wall Street Journal: As innovative technologies and business models with transformational potential continue to emerge, the world of the newspaper publisher has grown progressively darker. Five years ago, eBay and...
NOV 8 2005