MESH Builders™, a new course from the Mass General Brigham MESH Incubator™ - the creator of MESH Core™, MGB's official healthcare innovation bootcamp - is an immersive, limited-capacity, focused workshop series designed for healthcare innovators. This includes clinicians, startup founders, inventors, executives and researchers alike. Each session convenes multidisciplinary teams in breakout workshops to confront real-world challenges. Topics cover building your own startup, design thinking in healthcare, leveraging big data to solve critical needs, refining your pitch for maximum impact, navigating real-world intellectual property challenges, and more.
Guided by domain experts from the MESH faculty at Mass General Brigham, this 1.5 day hands-on program will arm new and seasoned innovators with marketable skills to fast-track their own innovations towards patient impact. In this unique hybrid format, this limited capacity course will join innovators from Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School executive education, and the public for cross-disciplinary networking. All participants receive a MESH certificate at completion, and one year access to the private Innovation MESH Network, where you can join over 3,000 Mass General Brigham and Harvard leaders, faculty, clinicians, and MESH Alumni to network and view additional recorded materials like the MGB MESH Innovation Grand Rounds series.
By blending the rigor of MESH's renowned global bootcamps with the agility of hands-on teamwork, MESH Builders™ equips participants to anticipate the needs of future health systems and accelerate ideas from concept to clinical impact.
Renowned MESH Faculty from Mass General Brigham & Harvard Business School
See All
MESH Builders Agenda
09.00-09.05 AM
Opening Remarks
Welcome from the Founder & Executive Director
09.05-09.30 AM
Keynote | Builders of Health – How AI and Biomarkers can make healthcare better, cheaper and faster
Amitabh Chandra, PhD MBA
Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
A Harvard professor, teacher, TEDMED speaker, economist, and entrepreneur, Amitabh Chandra bridges the worlds of innovation, regulation, disparities, and health-policy with sweeping knowledge of state and Federal policy, bio-pharma innovation, and FDA regulation. Congress, investors, employers, private companies and journalists turn to him for a ‘tell it like it is’ approach to improving healthcare and separating actual opportunities from purely aspirational ones.
09.30-11.00 AM
Harvard Business School Case Study: Founder Negotiation
A lively real Harvard Business School case study on negotiating control as a startup founder, with attendees playing specific roles.
Katherine Coffman is the Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiations, Organizations & Markets unit. Before joining HBS, she was an assistant professor of economics at The Ohio State University and a visiting assistant professor of economics at Stanford University.
In her research, Professor Coffman uses experimental methods to study individual, team, and managerial decision making, with a focus on the role of gender stereotypes in shaping beliefs. Her work has been published in Management Science, the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Social Choice and Welfare. She is an associate editor of Management Science and the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics.
Professor Coffman holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a BA in mathematics and economics from Williams College.
11.00-12.30 PM
Lunch
Catch up with fellow attendees over lunch.
12.30-1.45 PM
Breakout Rotation 1
Each cohort rotates through their first breakout session:
Group 1. Build Your Own Startup |
Group 2. Wrangle Your Data for Machine Learning |
Group 3. Pitch Like a Pro |
Group 4. Real-World Intellectual Property Case Study |
Group 5. Rx for Innovation: Hands-On Design Thinking in Healthcare |
2.00-3.15 PM
Breakout Rotation 2
Each cohort rotates through their first breakout session:
|
3:30-4.45 PM
Breakout Rotation 3
Each cohort rotates through their first breakout session:
|
4.45-5.00 PM
Closing Remarks
5.00-7.00 PM
Networking Reception with Guests From ARPA-H, Mass General Brigham
Located in the atrium of the Rubenstein Treehouse
09.00-10.15 AM
Breakout Rotation 4
Each cohort rotates through their first breakout session:
|
10.30-11.45 AM
Breakout Rotation 5
Each cohort rotates through their first breakout session:
|
