Wiljeana Glover

Wiljeana Jackson Glover is the Kletjian Foundation Distinguished Professor in Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at Babson College. Prof. Glover’s research examines how improvement and innovation practices can achieve more effective outcomes in healthcare settings across the U.S., Mexico, Israel, South Africa, and Haiti.
As Founding Faculty Director of the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Babson, Prof. Glover led the team that was awarded Babson’s first NIH grant to provide and study the effectiveness of commercialization training programs for scientists and clinicians in addiction medicine. Prof. Glover also co-leads the Global Surgery Slingshot Program at Babson College, helping innovators in global surgery leverage entrepreneurial strategies to gain traction and scale their concepts.
Professor Glover completed her postdoctoral studies at the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, and B.A. in Mathematics at Albany State University (GA). Wiljeana is also Co-Founder and COO of Match Medical Practice Solutions, a healthcare revenue cycle management firm.