At HBS, Wolf studied with Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation describes a process by which a product or service begins with simple applications at the bottom of a market and then moves up. “His theory has very much shaped what I have chosen to do with the second part of my life,” observes Wolf, a former Goldman Sachs analyst. “Those that are given opportunity via education can transform their lives, and those that can’t have a real challenge. Talent is universal but opportunity is not.”

Board member Michael Horn (MBA 2006) says that Imagine Worldwide is “the purest example of Clay Christensen’s disruptive innovation theory in action. When you think about really transforming education, the theory of disruptive innovation says you have to go to areas where the alternative is nothing at all.”

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