Harvard Business School Publishing and Harvard Health Publications Announce ''Business Preparedness for Pandemic: A Leadership Summit'' to be held in Boston on May 14 – 17, 2007
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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)
Amid recent public health reports that a global pandemic is all but inevitable, contingency planning to limit the potentially devastating impact on business has become an urgent priority for corporations.
To identify and discuss best practices for pandemic preparedness, a group of the United States’ top public health experts and executives will meet May 14-16 at Harvard Medical School (www.preparedforpandemic.com (http://www.preparedforpandemic.com/)) in Boston, Massachusetts.
The conference, jointly organized by Harvard Business School Publishing (http://www.harvardbusinessonline.org/) and Harvard Health Publications (http://www.health.harvard.edu/), will convene faculty from Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School, and the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a collaborative program of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, along with executives from global organizations.
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The three-day discussion will explore the critical issues and present the latest findings that can inform organizations’ plans of action.
The conference agenda will include scenario-based "battle testing" of current plans and benchmarking against leading global companies, as well as:
Best practices for minimizing impact on operations, employees, and partners
Understanding what public sector agencies will - and won't - do in response
The most critical questions companies can ask their planning and response teamsSpeakers include
Dr. Richard Zane and Dr. Anthony Komaroff of Harvard Medical School;
Professors David Bell and Max Bazerman of Harvard Business School;
Dr. Leonard Marcus of the Harvard School of Public Health;
Sherry Cooper, Chief Economist for BMO/Burns-Nesbitt;
Dr. Carter Mecher, Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs;
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Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP),
as well as executives Eurasia Group, Sun Microsystems, UPS , Visa, the U.S Marine Corps, Weber-Shandwick, and others.
Editors from Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School Press, and Harvard Health Publications will moderate panel discussions during the event.
Business Preparedness for Pandemic is sponsored in part by Cisco, Deloitte, and Roche. The Society of Human Resource Management and the New England Healthcare Institute are also affiliated with the program.
About Harvard Business School Publishing
Headquartered in Boston, Harvard Business School Publishing is a wholly owned, not-for-profit subsidiary of Harvard University. HBSP publishes for the corporate learning, higher education, and individual manager markets. Its offerings include the Harvard Business Review, books from Harvard Business School Press, newsletters such as Harvard Management Update and the Balanced Scorecard Report, conferences, management development programs and services, and case studies from Harvard Business School and other leading academic institutions around the world.
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For more information, please visit our website at http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu (http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/).
Contacts
Harvard Health Publications
Ed Coburn, 617-432-4714
Ed_Coburn@hms.harvard.edu (Ed_Coburn@hms.harvard.edu)
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Harvard Business School Publishing
Cathy Olofson, 617-783-7616
colofson@hbsp.harvard.edu (colofson@hbsp.harvard.edu)
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Harvard Business School: ''Business Preparedness for Pandemic: A Leadership Summit''