Scott Anthony is President of Innosight, an innovation consulting firm. Scott has worked with Fortune 500 and start-up companies in industries such as media (print and broadcast), consumer products, investment banking, transportation and logistics, health care, medical devices, software, petrochemicals and communications equipment. He recently spearheaded a year-long project to help the newspaper industry grapple with industry transformation (Newspaper Next) and previously led a multi-month project to help the government of Singapore understand how to create an environment that fosters entrepreneurialism and innovation. He is a featured speaker on topics of growth and innovation.

Scott is the co-author (with Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen) of Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (Harvard Business School Publishing, 2004) and is the lead author of a forthcoming book describing how to build new growth businesses (to be published by Harvard Business School Publishing in 2008). He has written articles in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Advertising Age, Marketing Management and PressTime and serves as the editor of Strategy & Innovation a bimonthly newsletter published by Innosight and Clayton Christensen.

Prior to joining Innosight, Scott was a Senior Researcher with Christensen, managing a group that worked to further Christensen’s research on innovation. Previously, he worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., a Strategic Planner for Aspen Technology and a Product Manager for WorldSpace Corporation. While at McKinsey, he co-authored a publicly released report on the United Kingdom's economic prospects.

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.

Blog Entries by Scott Anthony

Is Chrome OS a "Disruptive Innovation?"

Posted July 13, 2009 | 05:42 PM (EST)


Last week Google sent shockwaves through the technology world when it announced plans to introduce an operating system in fall 2010. Pundits quickly termed Chrome OS "classic disruptive innovation" that promised to up-end historic market leader Microsoft. Do the pundits have it right?

Harvard Business School Professor and Innosight co-founder...

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Blockbuster's Questionable Bid for Circuit City

Posted April 14, 2008 | 02:18 PM (EST)


The market reacted with surprise today when it emerged that Blockbuster has offered about $1 billion to purchase electronics retailer Circuit City. The potential deal threatens to distract both companies from the unenviable task of wrestling with disruptive forces affecting their respective core business models.

Over the past few years,...

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The Innovator's Take on Presidential Polls

Posted March 3, 2008 | 01:36 PM (EST)


As the U.S. presidential primary season approaches critical contests in Ohio and Texas tomorrow, pollsters are again taking a prominent place in the daily news. The unreliability of these polls provides an important lesson about innovation.

An unusually tight primary campaign has placed greater importance on frequently updated polling numbers....

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