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Prof. Ian Mackenzie will answer questions on planning for an Independent Project in your EC year. Hosted by MBA Program.

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For Demo Day, the ten finalist student teams (including three healthcare finalists!) for the President's Challenge will show their projects to the Harvard and local communities and share ideas during a lunch reception. Meet the students to speak with them in person about their ideas and plans. Hosted by Harvard iLab.

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Professor Regina Herzlinger, the first woman tenured HBS professor, is the keynote speaker for this year's Annual Meeting and Dinner. In this 50th year of HBS women MBA’s, she will share what it looked like for a woman on the inside at HBS. Hosted by HBS Association of Boston.

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In this panel, three speakers will share their experiences and answer questions on how to prepare for and build a successful career whether in academia, industry, or both. Dr. Orkin will draw on his own successful academic research career as well as years of experience building departments and mentoring young academicians. Dr. Springer will give a case study of his experience achieving excellence both as a professor and as an entrepreneur. Dr. Boger will share his experience of transitioning from an industry scientist to an entrepreneur and business leader. For more information and to register to attend, please click here. Hosted by Harvard iLab.

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Ginger Graham, MBA '86, will discuss the 1974 HBR article, "Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?" (This article is one of HBR’s two most popular articles ever.) Combining this article with her personal career experiences, Ginger will demonstrate the ideals of leadership with basic behaviors and choices.  She asks the question, "How do you "show up" at work?�, and will discuss leadership as a conscious set of actions - not a concept. Hosted by HBS Healthcare Alumni Association.

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Co-chaired by Dean Flier (HMS) and Dean Nohria (HBS), the Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge will hold its Demo day on May 22nd, 2013.  Featuring students and postdocs from around the university, the finalist teams will showcase their ideas of how they can help improve global health and therapies.  The grand-prize winner and runner(s)-up will also be announced; the teams will share a purse of $75,000 and the grand-prize winner will be granted summer residency at the i-lab. Hosted by Harvard Innovation Lab.

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This symposium will include seven presentations by the leaders in the field: Janet Woodcock, MD, FDA; Scott Gottlieb, MD, American Enterprise Institute; Elliott Antman, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital; William Chin, MD, HMS; Elazer Edelman, MD, PhD, MIT; Michael Rosenblatt, MD, Merck & Co; and Daniel Carpenter, PhD, Harvard University. Following presentations, the audience will be invited to explore these topics further during an hour-long panel moderated by Joshua Boger, PhD. Reception to follow. Hosted by Harvard Catalyst.

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Boston Quantified Self & IDEO: Health & Wellness Innovation Night will feature researchers, entrepreneurs and companies who are leading the way to more personalized health and wellness using self-tracking systems. The evening will start with live product demonstrations showcasing cutting-edge innovation that is transforming health and wellness, followed by world-class speakers and finally a compelling panel discussion moderated by IDEO's Life Sciences Chief Strategist Rodrigo Martinez. Hosted by Harvard Innovation Lab.

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The Food and Drug Administration, the US government’s oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency, bears the monumental task of safeguarding the public health through regulation of food, drugs and biologics, devices, cosmetics, animal products, radiation-emitting products, and now, tobacco. How is the agency faring in the 21st century? What are the greatest challenges to the FDA’s success, and what does success look like? What lessons has it learned and how can it best meet the challenges of today? Should we keep the agency we have, pull it apart, or rebuild from scratch? This conference will gather leading experts from academia, government, and private industry to evaluate the FDA based on these and other questions, and to begin charting a course for the agency’s future. Hosted by Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.

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The goal of this event is to bring together inventive, forward-thinking minds to change the status quo and create disruptive solutions in healthcare today. If you are an engineer, entrepreneur, physician, designer, or scientist, then come get involved to help drive the much-needed change in healthcare. Hosted by athenahealth and Hacking Medicine.

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Speaker: Dr. Anita Tucker, Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School. "Fostering Organizational Learning: The Impact of Work Blockages on Workarounds, Errors, and Speaking Up about Internal Supply Chain Problems." Hosted by MGH, Harvard and MIT.

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Speaker: Tim Layton. "Seeing Stars: Information and Selection in Medicare Advantage." Hosted by Department of Health Care Policy, HMS.

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This half-day conference includes a talk entitled, "Who Will Win in the New Healthcare Economy?" and a roundtable with area MedTech CEOs. Hosted by MassMEDIC.

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Lawyers that help their clients respond to a market in flux, exposing both risks and opportunities, are providing a critical service at this time. Hear from health lawyers as well as health care industry insiders living with a dynamic market. This conference distills and addresses key issues and provides essential insight on the skills of lawyering in this evolving practice area. Hosted by MCLE New England.

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Speaker: Dr. Sachin Jain, Chief Medical Information and Innovation Officer, Merck. Topic TBD. Hosted by MGH, Harvard and MIT.

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Speaker: Daniel Carpenter, PhD, Dr. Carpenter, author of Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA, will discuss how the FDA cultivated a reputation for competence and vigilance throughout the last century, and how this organizational image has enabled the agency to regulate an industry as powerful as American pharmaceuticals while resisting efforts to curb its own authority. Hosted by Boston Medical Library in the Countway Library of Medicine.

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Speaker: Mark Shepard. "Competitive Incentives in the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange." Hosted by Department of Health Care Policy, HMS.

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Colloquially known as Obamacare, the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (or the ACA), is the most comprehensive legislation to shape US healthcare since Medicare did so almost 50 years ago. As parts of the law continue to be implemented over time, stakeholders are now making meaningful strategic decisions to successfully position themselves for the future. Join our panel of experts from healthcare services, policy, and law as they discuss what implementing the ACA means for business in 2013 and beyond. Hosted by Columbia Business School Alumni Club of NY.

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Speaker: William Nelson, MD, PhD, Cancer Center Director, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University. Hosted by HSPH.

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This day-long conference will convene key global stakeholders to review recent case studies in clinical trial data disclosure to discuss potential solutions for clinical trial data sharing as well as the implications of data sharing initiatives for pharmaceutical regulation in the U.S. and other countries. Hosted by Multi-Regional Clinical Trial Center at Harvard and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at HLS.

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Speaker: Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, President, The Hastings Center; Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Ethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS; and Associate Clinical Professor of Anaesthesia, Children’s Hospital Boston. Hosted by HMS Division of Medical Ethics.

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Speaker: Dr. Mary Beth Landrum, HMS. Topic TBD. Hosted by MGH, Harvard and MIT.

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The Sachs Cancer Bio Partnering Forum is designed to bring together thought leaders from cancer research institutes, patient advocacy groups, pharma and biotech to facilitate partnering and investment.  There are 9 panels plus Keynote Speeches in the plenary session. Hosted by Sachs Associates.

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Speaker: Dan W. Brock, PhD, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS. Hosted by HMS Division of Medical Ethics.

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Over the years, the process of designing, monitoring, and analyzing clinical studies for evaluating new treatments has gradually fallen into a fixed pattern. Clinical trialists have sometimes been slow to utilize new methodologiesâ€"perhaps to avoid potential delays in the review process for drug approval or manuscript submission. Unfortunately, use of inefficient or inappropriate procedures persists even when better alternatives are available. In this workshop, we will explore various methodological issues and potential solutions to them. More importantly, we will discuss how to improve the current practice for speeding drug development by fostering development of reliable, clinically meaningful conclusions. Hosted by HSPH.

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Countway Library's Health Information Lunchtime Lecture Series: The speakers are Lreana Wen, MD, & Joshua Kosowsky, MD, BWH/MGH Emergency Medicine. They will talk on the subject of their newly published book - When Doctors Don't Listen. "The skyrocketing cost of health care is in the news every day: $2.7 trillion spent on health care, 18 cents of every dollar, with up to a third of medical costs wasted. But the problem goes much deeper than cost. More than 100,000 Americans die from medical error every year, with the majority of error attributed to mistakes in diagnosis. Hosted by BML / HMS Countway Library of Medicine.