Rock Health was a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization contributing accelerator services to prompt innovation at the crossroads of technology and health care. The organization was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met early in their very first year at the HBS Healthcare Club meeting and chose to undertake a year long field study that wed their shared interests in health care, technology and entrepreneurship.
Rock Health supported health-tech entrepreneurs with a startup grant of $20,000, office space and a wide variety of professional support services. Entrepreneurial teams that participated in the programs of Rock Health promoted services which range from data-driven technologies that helped handle anxiety to mobile applications that attempted to identification medical circumstances as varied as Alzheimer's disease and foot ulcers. The case is setup in the month of August 2011, as Rock Health planning for its fourth course at the home office and is wrapping up its third group of entrepreneurs in a Boston plan. The case should enable pupils argument the effectiveness of its own incubation service, value Rock Health's funding model, to identify emerging challenges and assess its long term utility.
PUBLICATION DATE: October 10, 2012 PRODUCT #: 813035-HCC-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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