Annual Malcolm MacEachern Symposium

Our 41th symposium was held at the Kellogg Global Hub in Evanston on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

For decades, the Healthcare program at Kellogg convenes an academic lecturer to discuss the most pressing issues in the healthcare industry. The 2025 MacEachern Symposium focus was Innovative Models for Healthcare and featured Robert Huckman, PhD, the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Unit Head for Technology and Operations Management. Professor Huckman was joined by Craig Garthwaite, Professor of Strategy, Director of Healthcare at Kellogg and Amanda Starc, Associate Professor of Strategy for a lakeside chat on healthcare models and results.

View the recording HERE. 

Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Unit Head for Technology and Operations Management. He currently teaches the required MBA course, Technology and Operations Management, and has previously taught several elective MBA courses, including Transforming Health Care Delivery and Operations Strategy. Professor Huckman is the Faculty Chair of HBS' executive education program entitled Managing Health Care Delivery.  He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Co-Chair of the management track of Harvard's doctoral program in health policy.

Professor Huckman's research focuses on the linkages between organizational characteristics and operating performance, with an emphasis on the health care industry. He is an associate editor of Management Science and has published articles in journals including the American Economic Review, Harvard Business Review, Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Management Science, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Professor Huckman also serves as a Trustee of the Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization and Brigham and Women's Hospital as well as an advisory board member for several private companies in the health care industry.

Professor Huckman received a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and an A.B. in Public Policy, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to his graduate studies, Professor Huckman was a Principal and Founding Equity Member of Stamos Associates, Inc., a strategy and operations consulting firm serving clients in the health care industry. In 1997, Stamos Associates was acquired by Perot Systems, Inc.