Turning Personal Loss into Life-Saving Innovation
With the help of Babson, Dr. Jeanie Chung (left) and her son, Alec Leddon, are taking action to help prevent other families from experiencing the tragedy of the opioid crisis.
Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship (KMH Center) is where innovation meets entrepreneurship to achieve health, economic, and social value for all, with a focus on health equity and justice.
The KMH Center aims to provide cutting-edge experiential learning, research, and advanced education and mentoring to entrepreneurial leaders in the health sector globally, including more than 1,400 Babson alumni in the health sector.
Your Healthcare Career
Careers in healthcare and life sciences uniquely intersect mission-driven roles, business education, and a growing industry that profoundly impacts everyone. While 65% of positions are in scientific research, 35% focus on essential functions such as management, strategy, and finance, creating diverse opportunities for professionals across various backgrounds.
Explore your next career move and find your place in an industry that:
- Affects every individual globally
- Provides fulfilling work that enhances or saves lives
- Is consistently evolving, offering substantial growth potential
- Remains indispensable, ensuring long-term stability
- Encourages innovation and meaningful contributions
The healthcare industry needs entrepreneurial leaders who are ready to create economic and social value. Where will you lead?
Babson Thought & Action
Inside the Blank School’s Seven Centers and Institutes
The Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership launched in 2019 as a groundbreaking expansion of Babson College’s authority in entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial leadership. Now, five years later, the Blank School’s impact and influence continues to grow.
Health Innovation Takes Center Stage at Babson’s First Health Pitch
The first Health Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition was a testament to the hard work and collaboration between our students, staff, alums, extended community, and faculty. It was also a significant example of student-led collaboration.
Reflections from a Healthcare Entrepreneur in Rwanda
Alcade Fabrice Uwonkunda was inspired in part by a health hackathon he attended that was put on jointly by Babson’s Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the University of Global Health Equity.
2024: A Year of Collaboration and Innovation at the Blank School
Each new year brings new opportunities and new hopes. For [the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship] at Babson College, 2024 promises to be full of new opportunities for collaboration and innovation.
Babson Wins First NIH Grant
The grant, the first from NIH to Babson, is expected to provide up to $1.5 million over five years, while the curriculum created is meant to increase the chance of new startups created to address substance abuse disorders.
First Health Hackathon in Rwanda Highlights Babson-UGHE Collaboration
At the July event on the campus of UGHE in northern Rwanda, 40 students from three Rwandan schools and several countries identified problems in healthcare delivery and ideated and refined potential solutions during a roughly 48-hour period.
New Faculty Award Funds Study of Healthcare Inequity in the United States
An interdisciplinary team of Babson professors is researching the growing disparity in access to good health care in the United States, funded by a new faculty scholarship from The Arthur M. Blank School for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Values and the Vaccine: Lessons on Leadership from the Pfizer CEO
Babson and Pfizer share a similar set of values and a commitment to making positive, breakthrough changes, Dr. Albert Bourla, the chairman and CEO of Pfizer says. And, his [2021] Commencement address further strengthened the relationship between the two entrepreneurial organizations.
An Entrepreneurial Prescription: New Healthcare Partnership Launches
The Healey Center’s involvement with the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is the latest connection between Babson and Rwanda. In the past, Babson had operated an entrepreneurial center in the country and sent teams of students to Rwanda to teach entrepreneurship.
Babson to Establish a New Center Focused on Global Healthcare Entrepreneurship
To address these fundamental issues of access and infrastructure that plague medical care around the world, Babson is establishing the new Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
