Innovating in Health Care

Regina E. Herzlinger

Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration

Harvard University

Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on a number of corporate boards. She is widely recognized for her innovative research in health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of consumer-driven health care, a term that she coined. Her work was key to introducing consumer-driven health plans and “focused health factories,” such as centers for orthopedics, cardiology, and cancer care.

She teaches an MBA course, Innovating in Health Care and two related field study courses. Based on that work, she is currently completing three text and cases books on Innovating in Health Care for the life sciences, healthcare insurance, and healthcare delivery. In 2013, she launched a new HBS Executive Education program “Business Innovations in Global Health Care.” In 2012, she launched a continuing series of conferences, “21st-Century Health Care Management Education: Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum,” with 156 global academic attendees.

Regina Herzlinger received her Bachelor’s Degree from MIT and her Doctorate from the Harvard Business School.

Margo I. Seltzer

Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science

Harvard University

Margo I. Seltzer is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. She is the Phreesia case study instructor for BUS5.1x. Her research interests include provenance, file systems, databases, transaction processing systems, and applying technology to problems in healthcare. She is the author of several widely-used software packages including database and transaction libraries and the 4.4BSD log-structured file system. Dr. Seltzer was a founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB, and is now an Architect at Oracle Corporation. She is currently the President of the USENIX Association. She is a Sloan Foundation Fellow in Computer Science, an ACM Fellow, a Bunting Fellow, and was the recipient of the 1996 Radcliffe Junior Faculty Fellowship. She is recognized as an outstanding teacher and mentor, having received the Phi Beta Kappa teaching award in 1996, the Abrahmson Teaching Award in 1999, and the Capers and Marion McDonald Award.

Kevin Schulman

Gregory Mario and Jeremy Mario Professor of Business Administration

Duke University

Kevin A. Schulman, MD, MBA, is a Professor of Medicine, Associate Chair of Business Development and Strategy in the Department of Medicine, Director of Industry Partnerships and Education for the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Economics at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He is the Brainlab case study instructor for BUS5.1x. In 2013, he served as a visiting professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. At Duke, he is an associate director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute in the School of Medicine, the country's largest academic clinical research organization. At Duke's Fuqua School of Business, he served for more than a decade as the director of the Health Sector Management program and the Master of Management in Clinical Informatics degree program. He is President of the Business School Alliance for Health Management (BAHM).