1967
First Health Care Case: Fischer Pharmaceutical, Co.
1971
Regina Herzlinger becomes the first woman tenured at Harvard Business School
1979
Marlene Krauss becomes the first woman to obtain an MD and an MBA from Harvard
1983
First health care elective at Harvard Business School, Innovating in Health Care
1998
HBS convenes consumer-driven health care conference
2005
The Health Care Initiative is founded under the leadership of Dean Kim Clark
2005
Richard Hamermesh is named the first faculty chair of the Initiative
2005
Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School launch the MD/MBA joint degree program
2007
HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) create joint degree programs: MBA/MPP and MBA/MPA-ID
2012
HBS and HMS convene the first Forum on Health Care Innovation
2013
The Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship was founded to offer HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs the opportunity to create new ventures around life science technologies
2014
HBS and HMS launch the Health Acceleration Challenge and awards $150,000 Cox prize to the winner
2017
The Health Care Initiative took the lead to establish the "Harvard Health Innovation Network" (HHIN) to promote health care innovation and entrepreneurship across the Harvard ecosystem
2018
HBS and Harvard School of Engineering Applied Sciences partner to offer the MS/MBA program
2020
Harvard launches the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences - A joint degree with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School through the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology