Prerequisite

One member of the team, at a minimum, must be enrolled in the Spring Term 2108 - Innovating in Health Care in the COVID Era .

Career Focus

Students interested in careers in financing, leading, or creating innovative health care services, health insurance, health IT, digital health , consumer-based innovations, or medical technology.

Educational Objectives

Additional field -based experience in innovating new health care ventures on topics chosen by the students or from those made available by the faculty. Students will gain exposure to the key players in their chosen research topic with the help of Prof. Herzlinger’s network , the course advisers, and that of their classmates

Course Content and Organization

Students will meet on selected dates:

January 30 - Professor Herzlinger discusses research strategies and the course overview. Students present preliminary ideas .

February 6 – Students discuss their research ideas and plans with their classmates

Students will develop a work plan after the second session that contains a detailed, time phased description of how they will develop a feasible business plan. In subsequent individual team meetings with Prof . Herzlinger ,students will discuss their progress on this work plan. These meetings will occur on a biweekly basis with an agenda sent to Prof Herzlinger four business days prior to the meeting .

March 20- Students present their progress in class

April 3 and April 10 - Students present their results to their classmates. Students email their presentations to Professor Herzlinger and their fellow classmates four business days before their presentation.

Students discuss their progress in regular bi weekly meetings they schedule with Prof. Herzlinger. They send their agenda two business day prior to the meeting

Classmates send written feedback to other teams and Prof. Herzlinger by Tuesday, April 25

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