RT Book, Section A1 Christensen, Clayton M. A1 Grossman, Jerome H. A1 Hwang, Jason SR Print(0) ID 1150038872 T1 Acknowledgments T2 The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259860867 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1150038872 RD 2024/03/29 AB I was an innocent bystander in 1998, happily ensconced in the study of innovation at the Harvard Business School when Professor Elizabeth Armstrong of the Harvard Medical School changed my career with an irresistible invitation: "Everyone else is trying to solve the problems of expensive, inaccessible health care by studying health care. I'd bet that if you stood aside the industry and examined it through the lenses of your research on innovation, you'd be able to see things that others can't see." A short while later Dr. Jerry Grossman, then a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, made the same invitation. Jerry was a physician, had been CEO of one of Boston's major hospitals, founder of a leading health benefits plan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and a director of several of America's leading health-care companies. I decided if men and women of this stature saw potential in this approach to one of the world's most vexing problems, I ought to accept their invitation.