Events

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Join us to hear from a group of funders across the spectrum – from angels and institutional investors, to social impact funders. You’ll learn about the metrics that funders look for in early-stage startups and how to approach them. You’ll also learn tactical ways to effectively communicate with investors, and what you need to do to prepare a winning investor pitch. Finally, you’ll hear about the current funding environment and learn what it’s like to do deal flow, pitch meetings, due diligence, and other elements of fundraising during the pandemic.

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Please join HBS Women's Association of Greater New York and HBS '87 classmates, Rachel Brannan, Corinne Nevinny, and Linda Greub to discuss the venture capital opportunity in women’s health and life sciences. They'll discuss femtech, unmet needs in women's healthcare, inequities in female-specific disease areas, and the role of femtech startups in disrupting women's healthcare and empowering women.

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Are you an entrepreneur wanting to commercialize a new biomedical technology? If you are currently working on a technology, come spend a year post graduation building a venture with support from the Harvard community and 1-1 mentors.Since 2013, Blavatnik Fellows have started 23 companies and have collectively raised more than $350M in funding. To get more program information, please attend this virtual Meet & Greet and connect with Faculty Chair Peter Barrett, current and past Fellows, and members of the program's Key Advisory Board. The program will start accepting applications for its 8th cohort on January 4, 2021. Please RSVP to get Zoom link.

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Join HBS Association of Northern California for a discussion with venture capitalists Linda Greub (HBS '87), co-founder of Avestria Ventures, and Stasia Obremsky (HBS '87), director of Rhia Ventures. Alice Zheng, (MBA ‘14) leader of McKinsey’s knowledge center on women’s health, will moderate and provide insights. We will discuss the intersection of venture capital and women’s health including trends and opportunities in a previously overlooked segment of the health care and life sciences industry.

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Calling all Harvard researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, students and others interested in equity, diversity, and inclusion in health care and the life sciences. Join us at the second Harvard Health Innovation Network webinar on December 10th at 5:30 PM (ET) for an in-depth conversation with Dr. Pardis Sabeti, Professor, Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health; and LaShyra Nolen, Harvard Medical School 2nd year student, a Young Futurists as selected by The Root, and the first Black woman to become HMS class president. Dr. David Mou, MD/MBA ’14, Blavatnik Fellow ’19, and cofounder and chief medical officer for Valera Health will moderate the discussion.

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Minority racial and ethnic groups in the US have long experienced disparities in access to health care and worse health outcomes, undermining broader social, political, and economic equality. One component of these disparities are various stereotypes that affect how minority patients are perceived and treated. This session will explore how medical discourse and the health system it supports can be altered to address these harms, and how legal changes can improve outcomes in the future.