Disruptive Innovation & New Growth Expert

Scott D. Anthony is a Senior Partner at Innosight, where he helps organizational leaders design new growth strategies, build innovation capabilities, navigate disruptive innovation, and manage strategic transformation. He is a former Managing Partner of the firm and led Innosight’s Asia-Pacific practice until 2022. He is also a Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he teaches a course called “Leading Disruptive Change.”

Scott was recognized as the #7 most influential management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of global business thinkers. In 2019, he was ranked as the #9 most influential management thinker, and in 2017 was awarded the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, which recognizes the world’s leading thinker on innovation.

Scott is co-author of the book “Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization“ (Harvard Business Review Press, October 2020).

Scott is a prolific contributor to Harvard Business Publishing. He is the most published digital author on HBR.org and is Harvard Business Corporate Learning’s most in-demand subject matter expert. He is the co-author most recently of the Harvard Business Review magazine article “Persuade Your Company to Change Before It’s Too Late,” as well as other HBR articles such as “Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation” and “Unite Your Senior Team,” and dozens of digital articles for the magazine.

Scott’s previous books are Dual Transformation; The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market; Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (with Innosight co-founder and Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen); The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work; The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times; The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It; and Building a Growth Factory. He has authored or coauthored numerous articles on innovation and strategy for a variety of publications. His Twitter feed is @ScottDAnthony.

Scott is a featured speaker on topics of innovation and growth. He has delivered keynote addresses on five continents and has appeared on Good Morning America, Channel News Asia, CNBC, and FOX Business.

Scott served on the Board of Directors of Media General (NYSE: MEG) from 2009-2013, helping guide that company through a strategic transformation. In 2013 he joined the Board of MediaCorp, Singapore’s leading diversified media company. Scott chairs the investment committee for IDEAS Ventures, a SGD 10 million fund Innosight runs in conjunction with the Singapore government that has invested in 10 Singapore-based companies and generated a 20%+ internal rate of return.

Scott received a BA in economics summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.