HBS Health Industry Conference

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Silver Sponsor/Association Sponsor

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Bronze Sponsors

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Innovation Sponsors

Gold Sponsor
Lifeclinic International manufactures, sells, and maintains, through a network of subsidiaries, dealers, and affiliates throughout the world, automatic blood pressure monitors that can be found in most pharmacy chains in the U.S., as well as thousands of work sites and medical clinics. With over 30,000 health information stations installed worldwide and 500,000,000 people using them every year, Lifeclinic is more than the world's largest manufacturer of self-testing health monitors ... we're advocates of people taking control of their lives, and we assist them in doing so by providing the tools and resources, including an award-winning health information Web site, that promote good health.
www.lifeclinic.com

Silver Sponsor/Association Sponsor
Tatum, LLC is the premier consulting and executive leadership Firm in the US, delivering flexible high-return business solutions across all industries through a network of 37 offices and nearly 1,000 professionals nationwide. By partnering with clients to quickly understand their business situation and integrating seamlessly into the company’s leadership team, Tatum provides an immediate solution to the client’s specific financial strategy and operations needs with the execution expertise unmatched by any other firm.
www.tatumllc.com

Silver Sponsor
Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), a global biotechnology leader with leading products and capabilities in oncology, neurology and immunology, is committed to transforming scientific discovery into advances in human healthcare. Core capabilities include drug discovery, research, development, biomanufacturing, and a global commercial infrastructure. Biogen Idec pursues the creativity of science with passion and discipline. For more than 25 years, it has grown through the discovery, development and commercialization of its own innovative products and through strategic alliances. The company maintains research centers of excellence in San Diego, CA, and Cambridge, MA, and has offices in Canada, Australia, Japan and throughout Europe, including international headquarters in Zug, Switzerland.
www.biogenidec.com

Bronze Sponsors
Abbott Vascular, a division of Abbott, is one of the world’s leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on transforming the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education. Headquartered in Northern California, Abbott Vascular offers a comprehensive portfolio of vessel closure, endovascular and coronary products, which are recognized internationally for their safety and effectiveness in treating patients with vascular disease. For more information, visit www.abbottvascular.com

BD, a leading global medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents, is dedicated to improving people’s health throughout the world. BD is focused on improving drug therapy, enhancing the quality and speed of diagnosing infectious diseases, and advancing research and discovery of new drugs and vaccines. The company’s capabilities are instrumental in combating many of the world’s most pressing diseases. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD employs approximately 27,000 people in approximately 50 countries throughout the world. The Company serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public.
www.bd.com

Servier is the leading independent French pharmaceutical company, established in 1954 by its founder, Jacques Servier, M.D., Pharm.D. The group is established in 140 countries and 82% of Servier products are prescribed out of France. Sales turnover in 2006 rose to 3.3 billion euros. Almost 25% of Servier's turnover is invested in Research and Development. The Servier Group counts 19 Internationals Centers of Therapeutic Research, and its principal therapeutic research orientations are cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, neuropsychiatric disorders, cancer, and osteoarticular diseases.
www.servier.com

The Healthcare Initiative at Harvard Business School is a multidisciplinary program dedicated to innovative thinking in the healthcare industry. Launched in 2005, the Initiative brings together the extensive research, thought leadership, and interest in the business and management of healthcare that exists at HBS. The core strengths of HBS–its general management and leadership-focused MBA program, its case method of teaching, and its global reach–coupled with the industry focus provided through the Healthcare Initiative result in superior educational and career opportunities for aspiring leaders in the healthcare industry.
www.hbs.edu/healthcare

Sponsor
Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company. Millennium is a pioneering biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. Our Company is committed to discovering and developing important new therapies that fundamentally improve the lives of people with cancer. As Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, we are concentrating our efforts on cancer with a large pipeline of promising new medicines, a focus on innovation and a bold new vision to become a top three global oncology company by 2020. Millennium celebrates an entrepreneurial culture of people, who work passionately and with a sense of urgency to achieve progress against this disease.
www.millennium.com

Innovation Sponsors
Allied Minds is the premiere seed organization for early-stage technology. We focus on converting academic discoveries into commercial reality by working exclusively with a network of U.S. universities and national labs. By filling the gap between government grants and traditional venture capitalists, Allied Minds focuses on funding innovations with significant transformative potential. Instead of managing funds, we foster early-stage companies through to success, generating value for all stakeholders. We have a nationwide footprint with offices in Boston, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, and a European presence in London, United Kingdom.
www.alliedminds.com

Wolf Greenfield is a full-service intellectual property law firm in Boston, Massachusetts. Our clients look to us for the acquisition, prosecution, and enforcement of patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights, for pursuing/defending IP litigation or seeking alternative dispute resolution, for opinions and strategic counseling on product clearance, trade dress protection, IP audits and due diligence, interferences, competitive analysis, licensing and other IP agreements. Our 80 attorneys and technology specialists have previous experience in high tech industries and/or advanced technical degrees. We provide expertise in virtually every technical area, including electronics, computer software and hardware, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemistry and chemical engineering, materials science, cleantech, and in the manufacturing and consumer products industries.
www.wolfgreenfield.com

MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures has been a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm for 25 years. The firm funds and mentors entrepreneurs, scientists and young companies involved in redefining business, technology and medicine. MDV invests around three major themes: Personalizing Medicine; Powering the Planet; and Driving the Digital World. The firm partners with entrepreneurs seeking to transform healthcare through the use of more meaningful and personalized information. Category-leading life science companies funded by MDV include: Adamas Pharmaceuticals; Artemis Health; CardioDx; CellPoint Diagnostics; Corventis; Navigenics; Pacific Biosciences; ParAllele (AFFX); RainDance Technologies; Tethys Bioscience; The DNA Repair Company; and Ventus Medical. MDV has $2 billion dollars under management.
www.mdv.com

Our Sponsors provide the generous support that allows us to bring you this high-caliber Conference. Click here to find out how your company can reach our influential audience and benefit from sponsoring the 2008 Conference. See the new Innovation Sponsorship for recognition at the new Post-Conference Event.

NEW! Register for the
Conference and Walk Away
With a Free Pedometer

Lifeclinic International, in conjunction with HBS Health, will present the “Walk, Track and Win to Better Heath Contest” during this year’s HBS Health Industry Alumni Conference.

Lifeclinic, the Conference Gold sponsor, will send each qualified conference registrant* a free pedometer for tracking his or her steps. Lifeclinic will award two prizes: one to whoever walks the most steps overall (before and during the Conference), and one to the person with the most steps during the Conference. Each winner will have a $2,000 scholarship donated to HBS in his or her name.

The contest will promote the exercise benefits of walking, as measured by pedometers, to participants’ overall health. Participants will learn how to record and track their progress (the number of steps someone takes), and then review the data electronically via the pedometer itself, a Lifeclinic Health Station or a personal computer, leading to better health self-awareness.

Lifeclinic will enroll registrants for the conference automatically into the contest. Contest entry closes with the Conference registration deadline, October 30.

To be eligible to win, participants must upload their pedometer data via a Lifeclinic LC500 Health Station at the Conference. Contest standings among participants will be displayed on an LCD “leader board” using Lifeclinic’s Synergy software “Wellness Contest Incentive Module.”

The names of both contest winners will be announced before the conclusion of the Conference.

*Due to shipping and scheduling limitations, Lifeclinic cannot guarantee that it will be able to provide all registrants with pedometers. The contest is open only to valid Conference registrants.