Robert Higgins

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Non Resident
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John F. Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
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Robert F. Higgins is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and a General Partner and Founder of Highland Capital Partners in Boston. He has more than 25 years of experience in venture capital, has been an investor in many successful healthcare service, medical device and biotechnology companies and has served as a director of many public and private companies.  He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and the Advisory Board of the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology.  He is a former director of the National Venture Capital Association and President of the New England Venture Capital Association. Prior to entering venture capital, he spent four years as the Executive Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation. He also was the Chief Executive of the Clark Foundation and the Burden Foundation. Bob is a former Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and an Assistant to the head of the international division of the U.S. Treasury.  He holds his MBA from Harvard