Overview
To succeed today, leaders in the healthcare sector need to exercise a solid understanding of strategy, operations, management, and other foundational business principles. Yale SOM’s core curriculum provides that grounding, while developing in students the rigor necessary to face the major trends and challenges facing healthcare. In addition, healthcare-focused electives offer students the chance to apply theory to solving practical, real-world problems. Students in the MBA for Executives program may elect to focus their study in healthcare; among other advanced courses on healthcare management, they take part in the Colloquia on Healthcare, a series of candid discussions with leaders in the industry.
Healthcare Courses
Foundational Courses
Negotiation • Operations Engine • Modeling Managerial Decisions • State and Society • Innovator • The Executive • Managing Groups & Teams
Elective Courses for Full-Time MBA Students
Healthcare Policy, Finance, and Economics • Healthcare Strategy • Simulating Models
Elective Courses for MBA for Executives Students with a Healthcare Focus
Healthcare Policy and Finance • Advanced Healthcare Economics • Healthcare Operations • Managing & Innovating in Healthcare Organizations • Global Health • Sustainable Innovation in Healthcare • Managing Social Enterprises
Healthcare Programs
Joint Degree with School of Public Health: MBA/MPH
Two-Year Intensive MBA-MPH: This innovative program, the first of its kind in the United States, enables qualified applicants to earn an MBA and an MPH in just 22 months through intensive study at the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Public Health. In the two-year intensive joint degree program, students spend the first summer taking core courses at the School of Public Health and the first year at Yale SOM, during which they take the integrated MBA curriculum and participate in the International Experience course during spring break. Between the first and second years, students pursue a summer internship in the healthcare industry. In the second year, they take elective courses at the School of Management and core and elective courses at the School of Public Health.
Three-Year MBA-MPH: In the three-year joint degree program, students spend one of the first two years at Yale SOM, during which they take the integrated MBA curriculum, and the other at the Yale School of Public Health. In the third year, they take electives at both schools.
Joint Degree with the School of Medicine: MBA/MD
The joint MD/MBA degree program develops physician managers capable of pursuing careers that balance clinical care with managing change in a tumultuous healthcare environment. Most joint-degree students spend the first three years at the Yale School of Medicine; the fourth year at Yale SOM, during which they take the integrated MBA curriculum; and the fifth year taking electives at both schools.
Yale MBA for Executives: Healthcare Focus
The Yale MBA for Executives features the same powerful combination of integrated curriculum, leadership development, raw cases, team projects, and deep expertise in global business as the full-time MBA program. What sets it apart, beside the flexible weekend format, is that we draw on expertise from across Yale and beyond to provide you with the opportunity to deepen your knowledge in one of three focus areas: asset management, healthcare, or sustainability.
Professor Fiona Scott Morton on creating efficient healthcare organizations.
Conferences & Events
A joint effort of Yale SOM and the Health Professional Schools at Yale University, the Healthcare Conference, founded in 2004, convenes healthcare professionals, scholars, leaders, and students for a dynamic conversation on current issues in the sector. The Healthcare Case Competition challenges interdisciplinary teams of students to solve some of the most challenging problems facing healthcare and biotechnology today.
Colloquium in Healthcare Leadership
The Colloquium in Healthcare Leadership brings prominent leaders from public, private, and nonprofit healthcare organizations to campus for candid discussions. You will deepen your understanding of the major trends in healthcare as well as the challenges of being a leader in this space.
Student Profile: Maharashi Trivedi '16
Through programs at Yale, I’ve worked with doctors from the medical school on drafting business proposals for products they’ve created, and applied my knowledge about operations to their goals of delivering care. Along the way, I’ve learned a lot about physician issues, patient concerns, and affordability in different markets.
Through programs at Yale, I’ve worked with doctors from the medical school on drafting business proposals for products they’ve created, and applied my knowledge about operations to their goals of delivering care. Along the way, I’ve learned a lot about physician issues, patient concerns, and affordability in different markets.Maharshi Trivedi ’16
MBA for Executives (Focus: Healthcare); Senior Manager, Global Operations & Quality, Medtronic
Melissa Davis '17
As a clinician, I realized that I had to become a leader within my field in order to enact real change. The leadership development courses at SOM have helped me understand what kind of leader I am. I’m able to bring people together who wouldn’t necessarily fit together naturally, and create good synergies. That’s an important skill for anyone who’s managing teams.
As a clinician, I realized that I had to become a leader within my field in order to enact real change. The leadership development courses at SOM have helped me understand what kind of leader I am. I’m able to bring people together who wouldn’t necessarily fit together naturally, and create good synergies. That’s an important skill for anyone who’s managing teams.Melissa Davis ’17
MBA for Executives (Focus: Healthcare); Assistant Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine
Class of 2018 Full-Time Employment by Industry1,2,3
Class of 2018 Full-Time Employment by Industry1,2,3
Yale Healthcare Conference
Featured Conference
The Yale Healthcare Conference is a joint effort between the Yale School of Management and the Health Professional Schools at Yale University. It brings together professionals, academics, and students to engage in an informative conversation concerning pressing issues in the healthcare industry.
Professional Schools & Programs
Yale University is home to three professional schools and 36 centers and institutes dedicated to the medical and health sciences.
Professional Schools
Yale School of Nursing
Yale Medical School
Yale School of Public Health
Centers & Institutes
Yale Centers
School of Medicine Research Programs
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Yale Insights: Healthcare
Is Obamacare in Trouble?
Fiona M. Scott Morton, Howard P. Forman
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, about 20 million people have gained health insurance coverage and the uninsured rate in the U.S. has plunged. But recently major insurance companies have pulled out of the healthcare exchanges, prompting concerns about the exchanges’ long-term sustainability.
Can Technology Help Transform Healthcare?
Christopher Ross '88
Healthcare expenses keep straining the budgets of families, companies, and governments, and information technology hasn’t yet delivered promised efficiencies and cost savings. Is the groundwork finally in place for a digital transformation of the industry? Christopher Ross ’88, chief information officer for Mayo Clinic, discusses industry trends.
Why Is Healthcare So Expensive?
Zack Cooper
A new study by Yale professor Zack Cooper lifts the lid on the Byzantine pricing system in U.S. healthcare by examining how much privately insured patients really pay for procedures. Cooper spoke with Yale Insights about why costs are so high and how he thinks policy responses can fix the broken healthcare market.