Healthcare Practice Area

Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice Area

The health & life science sector is ripe for innovation.

Health plans, providers, life sciences companies, and government organizations are grappling with rising costs and uneven outcomes. Their focus is on enhancing care quality and improving health outcomes while simultaneously cutting costs and managing spending.

Which innovations hold the greatest potential to help these stakeholders achieve their goals and revolutionize healthcare in the next decade?  Babson Executive Education faculty experts can help you and your business activate the entrepreneurial leaders and thinkers needed to do just that.

What is Health & Life Sciences Entrepreneurship?

Health & Life Sciences Entrepreneurship is a field of study and practice that aims to:

  • Improve existing healthcare organizations and processes
  • Create new organizations and processes
  • Improve how organizations keep stakeholders healthy & focused on global healthcare practices 

The definition of Health and Life Sciences Entrepreneurship proposes that healthcare entrepreneurship is the innovative, evidence-based value creation process by specialized venture teams that leverage unique business models to achieve multiple stakeholder outcomes simultaneously, ultimately benefiting patient populations.

Breaking down the Health & Life Science Opportunity

As our world’s health care systems strain to deliver prompt effective care under countless, ever-changing barriers, the emerging field of healthcare innovation entrepreneurship at Babson College addresses the challenges posed in the field of health & life sciences. The barriers to delivering quality care are many, and they require us to think not just about one specific disease but rather about health systems overall. Entrepreneurial thought and strategic action help us reimagine the healthcare agenda and think differently about the paths to poverty alleviation and building a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in support of local health delivery systems.

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Babson Executive Education has created a toolkit for companies, organizations, foundations, executives, and medical providers that crystalizes proactive steps you can take to bring entrepreneurship and innovation to the healthcare and life sciences space. This toolkit is designed to empower you to create economic, social, and health value as you develop, implement, and scale health innovations. This toolkit stems from Associate Professor Wiljeana Glover and Associate Professor Alia Crocker’s research and consulting in the United States and abroad. It provides insights into how to apply a new lens to health-related entrepreneurship and innovations.

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Healthcare and Life Sciences

A Toolkit for Effective Health Innovations

Babson Executive Education has created a toolkit for companies, organizations, foundations, executives, and medical providers that crystalizes proactive steps you can take to bring entrepreneurship and innovation to the healthcare and life sciences space.

Our Faculty at the Forefront

Within the field of healthcare innovation, there are a lot of unknowns. Babson Executive Education faculty know how to help individuals and companies develop an entrepreneurial mindset to tackle that challenge. Using our award-winning Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® (ET&A™) methodology, we can help you survey what’s out there and pick the best path forward for your unique businesses. Get research-based processes and support. 

Meet our Experts

Wiljeana Jackson Glover

Wiljeana Glover

Stephen C. and Carmella R. Kletjian Foundation Distinguished Professor of Global Healthcare Entrepreneurship, and Founding Faculty Director, Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Associate Professor, Management Division

Alia Crocker

Associate Professor, Management Division

Gina O'Connor Profile Picture

Gina O’Connor

Fischer Family Term Chair in Healthcare Management, and Professor, Entrepreneurship Division

Michele Bernier, Associate Director of Programs, Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Michele Bernier

Associate Director of Programs, Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Candida Brush, F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Vice Provost of Global Entrepreneurial Leadership

Candida Brush

F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Division

Dessislava Pachamanova, Zwerling Family Endowed Term Chair, and Professor, Mathematics, Analytics, Science, and Technology Division

Dessislava Pachamanova

Zwerling Family Endowed Term Chair, and Professor, Mathematics, Analytics, Science, and Technology Division

Angela Randolph, Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship Division

Angela Randolph

Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship Division

Donna Stoddard, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Faculty, Division Chair, Operations and Information Management

Donna Stoddard P’21

Dean of Faculty, and Professor, Operations and Information Management Division

Andrew Zacharakis, John H. Muller, Jr. Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship Division

Andrew “Zach” Zacharakis

John H. Muller, Jr. Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship Division

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