With an MBA concentration in healthcare at Booth, you will gain the tools to excel in a wide range of in-demand careers, helping transform the healthcare system for the betterment of life and society.
Are you passionate about healthcare and the opportunities to make life and health better for society? Tailor your MBA experience at Booth by earning a healthcare concentration.
Through the application of rigorous frameworks for understanding and analyzing the complex market dynamics and managerial issues that drive the industry, our healthcare curriculum is designed to prepare students to lead and make a positive impact.
With a concentration in healthcare, you'll be equipped to excel in a wide range of high-demand healthcare career paths—from healthcare consulting and hospital administration to business development, insurance executive, private equity, corporate finance, and more. You will leave with powerful analytical frameworks that will empower you to become a better leader and decision maker.
To earn an MBA concentration in healthcare, you’ll choose four courses to match your interests, including at least one core course, one elective course, and up to one lab course (project must be healthcare-related). Here are just a few of the options.
This course applies theoretical and empirical tools of microeconomics to the study of health insurance and the healthcare sector. The course covers topics including the demand for healthcare, design and financing of health insurance, role of competition in the healthcare market, sources of technological change in the sector, and effects of government regulations.
This course explores the business of healthcare through the lens of the data that drive it. Students learn how to conduct analyses for value-based hospital reimbursement, outcomes measurement, and benchmarking, while working directly with patient-level claims datasets.
The life sciences include biotech, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and instruments, and healthcare IT. Covering both innovation and finance this course examines the various roles of leaders and investors in this industry. Students will learn to evaluate companies and deals from the perspectives of founders, VCs, the board, management, investment bankers, PE, and public/crossover investors.
Entrepreneurial Innovation in Healthcare and Life Sciences is designed to be an entry point for graduate school students in business, medicine and science who are interested in careers in life-science entrepreneurship. The course is designed to teach students to weave together the hard science that underlies the foundational technology of life science enterprises with commercial, financial, and operational tools required for business leadership.
This course uses case studies and topical events to emphasize specific health challenges facing populations in low resource settings (here in the US and globally) and the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that contribute to them.
This course applies data-driven analytics and insights to identify and create healthcare delivery efficiencies, while working in teams on real-world improvement projects with prominent healthcare institutions.
The New Venture Challenge course may be counted toward the healthcare concentration for students who work on healthcare-related ventures.
This course is designed to allow students who have advanced to the second round of the New Venture Challenge competition to develop their ideas into businesses. Student teams will work largely on their own to develop their businesses. Venture capitalists, private investors, and entrepreneurs will help critique and improve the ideas and businesses.
This course may be counted toward the healthcare concentration for students who participate in healthcare-related projects.
Through company-sponsored, real-world innovation projects, students gain an in-depth understanding of current practices in new-product development, especially in the early, up-front stages of product development. The Lab version of this course provides students with an in-depth understanding of state-of-the-art practices in new product/service innovation, with an emphasis on the early up-front stages of the innovation process using Design Thinking methods.
To see more healthcare focused MBA courses, visit our course catalog and search by concentration area for your program of interest.
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Students earning an MBA with healthcare concentration at Chicago Booth will work closely with faculty who are recognized for their significant contributions to scholarship on the business of healthcare.
David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics and Business and Public Policy Fellow
Matthew Notowidigdo
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics
Olufunmilayo I OlopadeThe research insights of our healthcare faculty appear regularly in publications, including Chicago Booth Review.
Learn more about how Booth’s Healthcare Initiative integrates business and medical points of view on the complex challenges facing the healthcare sector.
The Healthcare Initiative serves as a center of gravity for the diverse disciplines that engage in healthcare research at Booth and across the university.
Healthcare Initiative
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Cancer Immunotherapy, ExplainedDevelop your skills, meet new people, and build a dynamic global network. As an MBA student with a healthcare concentration at Booth, you’ll have many opportunities to get involved in student groups, competitions, and other activities.
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