Join HBS NEO for a conversation with Professor Daniel Isenberg on Scale Up Ecosystem™ For Driving Economic Growth. 

Daniel Isenberg has been a pioneer in understanding and impacting entrepreneurship ecosystems and has led the development of the Scale Up Ecosystem™ program for economic growth and broad-based prosperity. In the context of Scale Up Ecosystems, Dan has created the Scalerator® , the online Scale Up Resilience and Scale Up Ecosystems Master Programs.

Professor at Columbia Business School and Babson College, from 1981-1987 and then from 1987 to 2005 was an entrepreneur and VC in Israel before joining HBS from 2005-2009 where he pioneered education in international entrepreneurship.

He has made investments in over two dozen technology startups as well as two MIT VC funds and Fortissimo Capital and authored Worthless Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value (Harvard Business Review Press 2013) and over 30 digital and print articles on entrepreneurship in the Harvard Business Review. He has been featured in the Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, etc. Dan and colleagues have founded and directed Manizales-Mas, Scale Up Milwaukee, Scale Up Rio, Scale Up Atlantic Canada, Scale Up Guatemala, and ScaleratorNEO. Dan has conducted World Economic Forum events at Davos, Africa, Europe, Latin America and China, was an associate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Growth Lab (2016-2017), and has lectured at MIT. In 2012 Mikhail Gorbachev awarded Dan the Pio Manzu Award for “Innovations in Economic Development.”

Dan holds the Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Dan has four grown children and two grandchildren. Dan enjoys salsa dancing (On2), collecting wine, art and fishing; but is most excited about spending time with his kids and his grandchildren, helping his devil investments grow, and by being surprised by what entrepreneurs around the world can accomplish.

Join HBS NEO for a discussion on “Domestic Economic Forecast + Program for Economic Inclusion” with Emily Garr Pacetti and Guhan Venkatu.

About the presenters…

Emily Garr Pacetti is a vice president and community affairs officer in the Community Development Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. She oversees the department, including research, policy analysis, and community outreach in the Cleveland Fed’s Fourth Federal Reserve District. Ms. Pacetti joined the Bank in July 2017. Prior to her current position, Garr Pacetti was associate director at The Rockefeller Foundation, director of research and evaluation at the Cleveland–based Fund for Our Economic Future and was a Fulbright Fellow in Mexico City (2005–2007). Garr Pacetti holds a BA in political communications from Emerson College, an MS in urban studies from el Colegio de México, and an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Guhan Venkatu is Group Vice President of the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland leads the department’s regional analysis and outreach group. He joined the Bank in 1998 as a research analyst. In his tenure with the Bank, he has held positions of increasing responsibility including economist and vice president and senior regional officer of the Bank’s Pittsburgh Branch. His prior research has focused on inflation and inflation expectations, housing and household finance, and factors related to regional economic growth. His research and analysis have been a re-source for the public, and the Bank’s president and boards of directors.

Each year HBS NEO awards the HBS Club of Northeast Ohio Leadership Award. Please plan to join us as we present the 2020 HBS Club of NEO Leadership Award to Jack H. Schron.  Dan T. Moore will conduct an interview Jack.

Award Criteria: A organization leader who is or has been a CEO or chairman of a public, private, or nonprofit organization. Success as a leader in NE Ohio measured by the impact that the leader’s activities will have on the future of NE Ohio. Leadership in fulfilling the responsibilities of a successful organization to its employees, to the community and to society as measured by how these activities will impact the future of northeast Ohio.

About Jack Schron, 2020 Recipient of the Leadership Award

• Leadership in public service—member of the Cuyahoga County Council
• Leadership in education— founder of Tooling University

Join HBS NEO for a conversation with Tom Mihaljevic GMP 15, CEO, Cleveland Clinic 

Cleveland Clinic, a non-profit academic medical center, provides clinical and hospital care and is a leader in research, education and health information. Cleveland Clinic has pioneered many medical breakthroughs including coronary artery bypass surgery and the first face transplant in the United States.  U.S. News & World Report consistently names Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation’s best hospitals in its annual “America’s Best Hospitals” survey.

Tom Mihaljevic, MD, as CEO & President of Cleveland Clinic, is leading an $8 billion healthcare system that includes a main campus in Cleveland, 10 regional hospitals, 18 family health centers and facilities in Florida, Nevada, Toronto, Abu Dhabi and London. From 2010 to 2015, Dr. Mihaljevic was chief of staff and chairman of the Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute in Abu Dhabi. He joined Cleveland Clinic in 2004 as a surgeon in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Prior to joining  the Clinic Tom was director of the Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s, held a seven-year academic appointment to Harvard Medical School as a Clincal Fellow and was assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He earned his medical degree from University of Zagreb,  trained in cardiac surgery at the University of Zurich and  in 2013 completed the GMP Exec. Ed. Program at HBS. His career has focused on minimally invasive approaches to a variety of cardiac issues and in 2005 he received a patent for a novel system for minimally invasive cardiac surgery.

Please plan to join us for this unique opportunity!

Join HBS NEO for a conversation with Mark DeLuzio, CMA, CPIM – President and CEO – Lean Horizons Consulting, LLC: “FLATLINED: Why Lean Transformations Fail”

About the presenter: Mark DeLuzio is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lean Horizons Consulting, LLC  He is a former  Vice President of Danaher Business System (DBS) for Danaher Corporation , where he was the principal architect of DBS, deploying it on a global basis. Mark was selected by Danaher to be on the first study mission to Japan, studying under the original developers of the Toyota Production System. DBS has been credited by Wall Street as a key element to Danaher’s success.  Danaher has been recognized as the leading implementer of Lean globally and has been rated as the 3rd most profitable US stock over the last 30 years. Mark is also credited with developing the first Lean Accounting process in the United States for Danaher’s Jake Brake Division.  He is recognized as a pioneer in this area and is known as one of the “Fab 5” in the Lean Accounting community.

Mr. DeLuzio in 2007 was inducted as a Life Member of the Shingo Prize Academy (Lean Hall of Fame) for his lifetime contribution to “Excellence in Manufacturing.”

Having had two sons who fought in combat in the Middle East, Mark unfortunately became a Gold Star Father in 2010 when his son Steven (age 25) was killed in action fighting in Afghanistan.  Carrying on both of his sons’ contributions to our country, Mark was inspired to help Veterans (at no fee) wishing to start a business or needing career advice.  His organization is called B.R.A.V.E. (Business Reviews and Advisors to Veteran Entrepreneurs).  www.4thebrave.org

Through his B.R.A.V.E. organization, Mark has co-produced  “On the Hill”  which addresses the topic of Veteran suicide and Veteran PTSD.

Mr. DeLuzio is an alum of Central Connecticut State University, earned an MBA from the  University of Hartford,  is currently pursuing his Ph.D.  And has authored two books—”Turn Waste into Wealth” and  “Flatlined—Why Companies Fail at Lean and What to do About it.”