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Built-in opportunities

No other MBA program brings all its students across all degree programs together over the course of three intense immersion weekends in San Francisco, Miami and Evanston to talk about the most important issues facing healthcare today.

Miami January 18 - 21, 2024
Evanston February 8 - 11, 2024
San Francisco February 29 - March 3, 2024

You'll learn and strategize next to healthcare professionals, faculty and alumni working in the field to get an up-close-and-personal look at how players, trends and movements shape the industry.

What Deep Dive weekends offer

Open to all MBA students

All MBA students – Full-Time, Evening & Weekend and Executive MBA – come together for three different weekends in three different cities for the Deep Dive. This blend of student experience and range of MBA programs will show you how to approach and solve problems in different ways.

Courses intended for dialogue among diverse students
Expect courses such as Managing Health Care Services in a Value Based Setting with with Oak Street Health Co-Founder, Griffin Myers, and Professor Garthwaite working with Adam Koppel of Bain Capital Life Sciences to learn about Value Creation and Capture in Biopharmaceuticals. The immersive combination of courses and events create a unique experience for students from every part of the healthcare value chain.
Next-level discussions
Interact with business leaders from throughout the healthcare ecosystem at a series of formal and informal discussions. Past speakers include leaders from Kaiser Permanente, ECOR1, Gilead, Vertex and One Medical.
Focus on innovation
The Deep Dive weekends in San Francisco, Chicago and Miami are home to innovative healthcare sectors and other related industries, and are particularly well-positioned to bring in local, leading experts from startups to large incumbent firms.

Next-level engagement

Previous Deep Dive attendees describe their experience.
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I think a format like this needs to be the capstone experience for the healthcare program at Kellogg.
Danjuma Quarless ’22
Evening & Weekend, strategy leadership manager at Abbvie, Inc.
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There was a lot from this deep dive format—everyone being there and immersed in the discussion, networking across MBA programs—that would be a lot harder in a traditional 10-week class.
Tarah Patz ’22
Full-Time MBA
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We had six additional LinkedIn requests from people that we would consider weapon-grade hires.
Christian Moreno ’22
Executive MBA, partner and senior vice president at Lockton Dunning Benefits

Contact us about Healthcare at Kellogg

GET IN TOUCH
Craig Garthwaite
Faculty Director, Healthcare at Kellogg
c-garthwaite@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.491.2509
Paul Campbell
Executive Director, Healthcare at Kellogg
paul.campbell@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.308.4586
Pete McNerney
Director, Healthcare Entrepreneurship Initiative, Healthcare at Kellogg
peter.mcnerney@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.491.3838
Karen Larkin Young
Senior Program Development Manager, Assistant Director
karen.larkin@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Mary Novak
Program Assistant
mary.novak@kellogg.northwestern.edu