The Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK) pathway prepares students for the unique challenges and opportunities in the healthcare sector. Foundational HCAK offerings integrate fundamental managerial disciplines (e.g., economics, strategy) with deep exposure to the industries comprising the healthcare sector, while advanced courses apply these concepts to the specific problems facing managers in the life sciences and payer/provider sectors. As a capstone to the pathway, HCAK students may test and hone their skills through an experiential or field course.
Faculty sponsors: Craig Garthwaite (Strategy)
Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK)
Pathway
1 | Foundational
These courses expose students to a set of fundamental issues facing health enterprises in the healthcare sector (both life sciences and payer/provider segments). We recommend students take at least one of these courses. They are designed to have limited overlap and many students choose to take more than one.
2 | Depth
Life Sciences / Products Track
These courses prepare students for the strategic and managerial challenges unique to life sciences companies.
Critical Issues in the Pharmaceutical, Biotech, and Medical Device Industries
HCAK 453
Biomedical Marketing
HCAK 470
Pharmaceutical Strategy
HCAK 931-5
Intellectual Capital Management*
STRT 441
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Recommended that students complete the healthcare option for final project
Payer / Provider Track
These courses address foundational and topical issues in healthcare services.
Service Operations
OPNS 482
Health Care Quality
HCAK 922-5
Transformation of the US Healthcare Delivery System
HCAK 924-5
Strategy and Execution for a Successful Healthcare Delivery System
HCAK 935-5
Health Analytics
HCAK 940-5
3 | Experiential / Field
Medical Product Early Stage Commercialization
KIEI 611
Medical Technologies in Developing Countries
KPPI 973-5
Healthcare Strategy Lab
STRT 947
NUVention Medical Innovation I
HCAK 615
NUVention Medical Innovation II
HCAK 616
Complexities of Early Stage Health Care Investing and Entrepreneurship
HCAK 927
These courses offer an opportunity to apply and hone by "going deep" in a particular field project.
Last edited August 1, 2018. For any questions regarding this page, please email kellogg-registrar@kellogg.northwestern.edu