Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on many established and start up corporate health care/medical technology boards. All of her health care books have been best sellers in their categories, recognized for their innovative research. Money dubbed her the "Godmother" of consumer-driven health care. Her work was key to introducing consumer-driven health plans and "focused health factories", such as centers for orthopedics, cardiology, or cancer care. She is regularly named as one of the smartest people in health care by industry journals.

She teaches an HBS MBA course on Innovating in Health Care and founded an HBS Executive Education program on Business Innovations in Global Health Care (BIG).

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