2013–2017: The Beginning
Ideas for the Schlesinger Fund for Global Healthcare Entrepreneurship action tank began as early as 2013, initiated by former Babson Trustee Carmella Kletjian and under the leadership of Cheryl Kiser and Former President Len Schlesinger. Plans were formalized in 2014 with a collaboration between Babson College and the Harvard Medical School Program for Global Surgery and Social Change. A series of cases were published by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.