Ed Coburn is known as a high-performing executive who is able to effectively and profitably manage a business and create and maintain high levels of engagement across a diverse staff.
 

Mr. Coburn is Publishing Director at Harvard Health Publications, the consumer health publishing division of the Harvard Medical School with gross revenues exceeding $20 million.  He oversees a group of 28 internal staff members and manages business relationships with external partnres including McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, StayWell Consumer Health Publishing, Newseek, United Media, and others.  In addition he has developed collaborations with Harvard Business Publishing, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education Press, and the HMS Division of Continuing Medical Education.

Mr. Coburn serves on the union-management joint council, co-chairs the Executive Dean’s Communications Strategy Committee, and has been a member of the Engagement Survey Action Team responsible for developing and implementing plans in response to employee engagement surveys.  Mr. Coburn has been recognized individually with an HMS Leadership Award and as the leader of two HMS Team Award-winning efforts.  Mr. Coburn was asked to speak on retaining great employees as part of a university professional development week.   He has also participated in numerous training programs while at Harvard and has lead training programs and book group discussions for managers and staff at HMS.

Prior to moving to Harvard, Mr. Coburn was Managing Director of Circadian Information, which he co-founded in May 1995. Mr. Coburn had full P&L responsibility and managed all strategic and operational issues of the company; marketing, product development, editorial, website/online services, customer service, and production, overseeing 5 staff members.

Mr. Coburn received his MBA, with honors, from the Babson College Graduate School of Management.  U.S. News and World Report has repeatedly cited Babson’s program as offering the nation’s best entrepreneurial studies program.

Mr. Coburn has distinguished himself in the publishing industry through his activity in the Specialized Information Publishers Assocation (SIPA), serving on its board and speaking at and chairing industry conferences on numerous topics.

Mr. Coburn began his career in the Newsletter Center of Cahners Publishing Company.  In 1985, part of the Cahners Newsletter Center, including Mr. Coburn, spun off to begin Cutter Information Corp., a business-to-business publisher. As a member of the Executive Committee, Mr. Coburn was involved in most operational aspects of the company.   Mr. Coburn served as Group Publisher for the Software Technologies and Oil Spill Information Services groups, generating $2.5 million in revenues and overseeing a staff of 7.