$3M gift to endow Healthcare Deep Dive Program
The Kellogg School of Management is proud to announce a transformative $3 million gift from Kent Hawryluk ’07 MBA, a trailblazing leader in the biopharmaceutical industry. This generous gift lays the cornerstone for a broader endowment that will sustain and expand the Healthcare Deep Dive Program, a one-of-a-kind learning experience that immerses MBA students in the heart of global healthcare innovation.
The Deep Dive is a series of intensive weekend courses that bring together students from all Kellogg degree platforms — Full-Time, Evening and Weekend and Executive MBA — alongside faculty, alumni and leading healthcare executives.
Each weekend takes place in a global city and offers co-curricular opportunities for learning and networking. Past Deep Dive weekends have been held in Miami, San Francisco and Evanston. This year, the program will include Boston and will expand internationally for the first time, with a new course in Shanghai that covers the Chinese healthcare industry.
“I am honored to contribute the cornerstone gift towards establishing permanent funding for the Healthcare Deep Dive Program ” said Hawryluk. “This program not only prepares the next generation of healthcare leaders, but also builds lasting relationships across the global Kellogg community. I hope this donation will inspire other gifts that will fully sustain this innovative program for the long term.”
Inside the Healthcare Deep Dive
Now in its fourth year, the Deep Dive is the only course of its kind within the MBA landscape. Course topics cover the full breadth of this large and complex industry, from strategy and biotech to value-based care, medical devices and technology, biopharma and more.
Because the classroom experience includes students from across Kellogg’s full- and part-time MBA programs, as well as industry-leading guest speakers, course days are full of rich conversations and discovery. To date, more than 500 students have participated in the program.
The Deep Dive also serves as the foundational experience for the school’s newly developed Certificates for the Business of Healthcare in both the Executive MBA and traditional MBA programs.
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Supporting Healthcare at Kellogg
Hawryluk is the president and CEO of MBX Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new therapies to treat individuals with endocrine and metabolic disorders. He is a graduate of the Kellogg Executive MBA Program.
He previously donated $3 million in 2020 to Kellogg to establish the Hawryluk Biopharmaceutical Scholars Program. That program provides scholarships, mentorship and industry access to students with a demonstrated interest in the biopharma field, and has supported 27 students to date.
"We are extremely grateful for Kent’s support, both financial and advisory, as we build out the Program on Healthcare at Kellogg,” said Craig Garthwaite, the Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services Management and Director of Healthcare at Kellogg.
In addition to Hawryluk’s gift to a permanent endowment that will support the Deep Dive Program, Kellogg has received other generous donations for the program totaling $1.4 million. The funding will support the cost of holding this program and ensure it continues as a signature offering until the endowment is fully funded.
“Kent’s generosity will enable Kellogg to better prepare our students to tackle the complex challenges of the healthcare industry,” Garthwaite continued. “His support is instrumental in driving our mission forward, and we are excited about the positive impact this will have on our program and the broader healthcare community. We hope that others will be inspired to match this generosity in order to fully fund this program in perpetuity"
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