HBS Buffalo Club Meeting

On Tuesday February 25, 2020, we will hold the annual Moderators dinner meeting at the Buffalo Club. All WNY HBS program graduates are welcome. In addition to meeting friends, we will discuss the current local programs, scholarships, the Managing Health Care Delivery project, and the Emerging Issues in Healthcare Project. If you need further information, please contact Bing Sherrill at rcsjog@aol.com or 885-7132.

Managing Healthcare Delivery Systems

In 2009, HBS began a new executive education program, the Management of Healthcare Delivery Systems. This program is a signature effort by the school, utilizing its best known professors. It involves three, week long sessions spread over six months. Each year over sixty clinicians and managers from major hospitals in countries around the world attend the Program.

Each year, we have arranged to send a team of people from Kaleida, Roswell, Catholic Health, and ECMC on full scholarship. Our purpose is to have a shared leadership development experience for the individuals and the organizations. Over the years, Buffalo has been the most heavily represented city in the program! In fact, Buffalo has been the only city to have a team from multiple hospitals. Buffalo/Niagara is the only metropolitan area to stress regional health care (multiple hospitals) rather than individual hospitals.

Through 2019, there have been 91 Buffalo attendees of the MHCD Program. 41 received scholarships from the HBS Buffalo/Dean Rech Fellowship.

Harvard – Flickinger Governance Project…February 22 – March 15, 2010

The Community Foundation and the Flickinger Family asked HBS Buffalo to create and implement an educational program to enhance the governance skills of nonprofit boards. There were seven non profits organizations participating. Each organization was represented by five board members and the Executive Director, a class of 42 in total.

This Program was both experimental and challenging for the moderators as well as the students. It stressed Board Governance rather than Management as in our regular Not for Profit Program. Secondly, we used questions rather than HBS cases. The moderators encouraged multiple answers to the questions so that the participants could understand the  range of alternative responses to each issue, such as the role of executive committees and board member contracts.

Gifts to WNY Non Profits

Each year the moderators in our Programs direct the Club gifts to local nonprofits. Since 2001, we have given $400,000 to 90 WNY Not For Profit organizations.

Scholarships to NFP Executive Programs at HBS

For several years, the Club has given full scholarships to local NFP Executive Directors and managers to attend one week NFP Programs at HBS. Through 2019, HBS Buffalo has given 69 scholarships. The only requirement is to attend our local program first, and be accepted by HBS into one of the programs.