Executive MBA Healthcare Innovation & Technology
Manage the challenges and changes in the global healthcare economy
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Upcoming intake dates
October & March
Programme objectives
Gain the skills and vision you require to manage the changes and challenges in the global healthcare economy, by attending the EDHEC EMBA with a specialisation track in Healthcare, Innovation & Technology Management (HIT).
- Enhance your strategic, financial, and business kills and leadership competencies and gain insight and new viewpoints from within the healthcare ecosystem.
- Anticipate, recognise the complexity and appreciate the bigger picture of the healthcare ecosystem in order to drive innovation and sustainable value creation, for your organisation and your patients.
- Challenge your perspectives and develop new ways of thinking through an international network of fellow healthcare managers and experienced professionals from diverse industries and backgrounds.
Benefits
The EDHEC Healthcare Executive MBA with a specialisation track in Healthcare Innovation & Technology is a 16 to 19 month, part-time programme designed to equip you with the insight, knowledge, and personal resolve to optimally lead the transformation of your healthcare career and your organisation.
- Develop your business acumen, critical thinking, and decision-making skills through a rigorous, hands-on programme delivered by leading professors and experts from EDHEC Executive Education in this top ranked EDHEC EMBA.
- Gain new insight and perspectives on leadership and business through executive coaching, 2 global business trips, action learning, and collaboration with peers from within and outside of the healthcare ecosystem.
- Understand the impact of current and future innovation and technology evolution on the wider healthcare environment. Learn how to manage performance and drive sustainable value creation in a programme delivered by leading scientific and healthcare technology experts.
- Apply your expertise and new cross-discipline business vision to deliver a practical, real-life solution to a healthcare challenge or entrepreneurial project aimed at demonstrating your healthcare leadership capabilities.
The EMBA HIT is suited for high-potential healthcare managers and medical experts, newly appointed senior executives and department heads as well as experienced talents looking to drive transformation in your organisation. The programme will equip your experts with the leadership skills and the vision needed to drive healthcare innovation and leverage technology for the creation of sustainable value in your organisation.
- The EDHEC EMBA with a 6-month Healthcare Innovation and Technology (HIT) specialisation track, enables your healthcare specialists to evolve into confident and inspirational leaders.
- Leaders who will be able to lead and anticipate change from both a business and technological standpoint, recognise the complexity, and drive innovation and sustainable value.
- Thanks to the Healthcare Management MBA being part-time, participants will develop a holistic overview of the challenges and perspectives needed for effective healthcare leadership while working at your organisation.
- During the programme, participants are required to complete a consulting project which can be directly related to your company.
Benefits for you
The EDHEC Healthcare Executive MBA with a specialisation track in Healthcare Innovation & Technology is a 16 to 19 month, part-time programme designed to equip you with the insight, knowledge, and personal resolve to optimally lead the transformation of your healthcare career and your organisation.
- Develop your business acumen, critical thinking, and decision-making skills through a rigorous, hands-on programme delivered by leading professors and experts from EDHEC Executive Education in this top ranked EDHEC EMBA.
- Gain new insight and perspectives on leadership and business through executive coaching, 2 global business trips, action learning, and collaboration with peers from within and outside of the healthcare ecosystem.
- Understand the impact of current and future innovation and technology evolution on the wider healthcare environment. Learn how to manage performance and drive sustainable value creation in a programme delivered by leading scientific and healthcare technology experts.
- Apply your expertise and new cross-discipline business vision to deliver a practical, real-life solution to a healthcare challenge or entrepreneurial project aimed at demonstrating your healthcare leadership capabilities.
Benefits to your business
The EMBA HIT is suited for high-potential healthcare managers and medical experts, newly appointed senior executives and department heads as well as experienced talents looking to drive transformation in your organisation. The programme will equip your experts with the leadership skills and the vision needed to drive healthcare innovation and leverage technology for the creation of sustainable value in your organisation.
- The EDHEC EMBA with a 6-month Healthcare Innovation and Technology (HIT) specialisation track, enables your healthcare specialists to evolve into confident and inspirational leaders.
- Leaders who will be able to lead and anticipate change from both a business and technological standpoint, recognise the complexity, and drive innovation and sustainable value.
- Thanks to the Healthcare Management MBA being part-time, participants will develop a holistic overview of the challenges and perspectives needed for effective healthcare leadership while working at your organisation.
- During the programme, participants are required to complete a consulting project which can be directly related to your company.
3 Reasons to choose the EDHEC Executive MBA Healthcare
A balanced programme
combining academic excellence and action-learning with the expertise of EDHEC’s research chair "Management in Innovative Health".
Transform360: A unique leadership & personal development programme embedded in the EMBA HIT programme.
which will enable you to develop your ability to confidently lead the transformation required in the healthcare sector.
An enriching and collective experience that
gives you access to an international and diverse professional network from within and outside of the healthcare ecosystem.
The healthcare ecosystem is complex. This is due to its fundamental impact on our lives, the institutional diversity, and the key business challenges faced by the operation of small clinics to start-ups, through to global medical and pharma conglomerates. From digitalisation and new business models to changing healthcare needs, companies require well-rounded leaders who can master best practices in business and entrepreneurship, and anticipate, manage and lead innovation and change.
Véronique Carresse
Programme director of the Executive MBA, EDHEC
Digital healthcare aims to revolutionise patient care by integrating technology to enhance the human experience, involving patients in the design process, and focusing on user-friendly solutions. Its goal is to improve care quality, efficiency, and patient-centric approaches, significantly impacting care delivery and stakeholder strategies.
Loick Menvielle
Professor & Director of Management in Innovative Health Chair
Global insights, healthcare expertise and personal transformation
Embark on a life-changing experience of professional and personal transformation
To lead transformation in the healthcare sector and your career, you need to be confident in your ability to make critical decisions and think outside the box, as well as to have a leadership and communication style that is authentic, ethical, and responsible.
The EDHEC Executive MBA will enable you to build and enhance your vision of global business, understand the impact of technology and innovation on the healthcare ecosystem, and develop new perspectives. Above all, it will provide you with personalised support, a diverse and international network, and the tools and time to focus on your leadership and professional development.
In short, it is a unique, enriching, and invaluable journey tailored to help you imagine, define and achieve your objectives.
Consolidate and enhance your strategic and organisational management expertise
The first 10 months of your EMBA will focus on the strategic fundamentals that all leaders need in order to drive innovation and transformation. Participants from both the EMBA and the EMBA with specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology embark on developing a holistic vision of business and organisational management and leadership.
From strategy through to corporate finance and marketing management, the business fundamentals will enable you to see the bigger picture and enhance your decision-making processes together with professionals from within and outside of your industry.
- Strategic Analysis
- Strategic Management
- Business & Society
- Business Models for Sustainability
- Leadership & Management
- Organisational Behavior
- Human Resources
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Statement Analysis & Corporate Finance
- Managerial Accounting & Global Study Case
- Marketing Management
- Sustainable Marketing
- Strategy Simulation
- Operations Management & Supply Chain
- Legal International Business
- Business Ethics & Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Broaden your perspectives with a truly global programme
To help you gain a better understanding of the challenges raised by globalisation and how to deal with them, the Executive MBA programme at EDHEC includes:
- 2 global business trips plus
- a 2-day seminar in Brussels focused on doing business in Europe.
The global business trips help you explore how economic and political models work in different markets, cultures, and environments. You acquire a better understanding of the mechanics of competition and identify key business success factors. The international business trips also help you view things from a different angle, develop strategic sensitivity and acquire new managerial reflexes in project and people management.
Global business trips are a compulsory part of the programme for both the Executive MBA and EMBA with specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology participants.
The Global Business Report
At the end of each business trip, while working in teams with fellow participants, you will produce a Global Business Report.
The Global Business Report aims to help you:
- Anticipate the trends emanating from new market economies and identify alternative management models.
- Develop the ability to think strategically by adopting a cross-sector approach and analytical thinking. You will examine competitive trends in an environment with little information and enhance strategic sensitivity by making intuition an important factor in decision making.
Specialisation track Healthcare Innovation and Technology: Gain expert insight for driving innovation and transformation in healthcare
The Healthcare Innovation and Technology (HIT) specialisation track allows participants to gain focused insight into key innovations and technological drivers impacting the healthcare sector, whilst developing a holistic, global business vision and a new international network.
The module will focus on developing and analysing business strategies as well as applying them to real-life situations. At the end of the course, you will be able to identify key success factors for implementing a digital health solution and to leverage digital opportunities to add value for stakeholders in the healthcare sector.
This module aims to provide a conceptual overview of innovation and an understanding of the main phases of health innovation using a humancentered approach. You will explore the different phases of implementing a digital solution: from strategy to solution delivery. Learn how to engage stakeholders involved in developing innovative healthcare solutions, understand the barriers and drivers to success and how to build and strengthen multidisciplinary teams successfully.
Value-based health care is increasingly becoming a topic of interest. Its goal is to find out how managers involved in care delivery will add value for patients and people who make decisions in the digital age. Based on the increasing prevalence of aging populations and chronic diseases, as well as the structural need to address them, VBHC aims to target the outcomes that have the greatest impact on patients while also driving cost efficiency in healthcare, especially in the digital era.
Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) are playing an increasingly significant role in bringing innovation and patient care together in the healthcare sector. Understand how new technologies like artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning can positively impact the healthcare industry, making workflow operations easier and helping with the development of more accurate patient diagnoses.
Analyse the latest market trends for products, services and technologies in the medical device and diagnostics industry, and assess market needs in the context of changing global demographics. Understand what tomorrow's innovations will be made of and how these can be relevant for decisionmakers to provide real added value for the companies and structures mobilising these E-health solutions. Discover enablers and barriers to innovation (for example, the role of culture, regulations, costeffectiveness, and appropriate pricing) in various geographical markets and industry sectors.
Gain vital knowledge and expertise in financial matters, learn to evaluate various models of financing a digital solution and discuss the challenges and opportunities related to the use of data, data-gathering, and other aspects of healthcare information systems to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare delivery system stakeholders.
Your personalised Leadership & Professional Development Programme
Transform360 runs throughout your 16-month experience and will help you to develop your self-management, strategic, functional and relational abilities.
Both a highly personalised and collective journey, it is designed to help you question, challenge and explore every aspect of your personal, career and leadership development to allow you to harness your full potential in your career, in your business and as a leader.
4 key components which are inter-linked and designed to help you develop and strengthen your leadership skills, competencies and perspectives:
- Leadership & Personal Development: Your 360° coaching journey
- Essentials for Inspiring Leaders
- Leadership Workshops: Customise your learning
- Foundations for the Future: Career & professional development support
Leadership & Personal Development
The leadership & personal development module is designed to give you the space, time and support to reflect, refine and enhance your leadership capabilities. Based on a combination of 360 assessments, continuous feedback and follow-up and intensive individual coaching sessions
360° Assessment and group coaching
- Individual leadership coaching
- Individual career coaching
- Follow-up 360° assessment and group
- Mentorship programme
Essentials for Inspiring Leaders
- A series of modules covering 5 core leadership skillsets which blend individual, collective and interactive methods
- Designed to strengthen and enhance your core leadership skills and mind-set so that you will be prepared to lead with confidence, conviction and agility, even in the toughest situations
- Practical resilience
- Connecting & building relationships
- Practical skills for networking
- Confident communication
- Business presentations
- Feedback session 1
- Feedback session 2
- Building effective teams
- Teamwork review
- Leadership mindset
- Paradoxes in leadership
- Leadership coaching
- Awareness of fault lines & biases
- Acting inclusively
Leadership Workshop to Customise Your Journey
The EDHEC EMBA experience is focussed on helping you to build the necessary vision, skills and abilities you need to deliver a profound personal and professional transformation.
The Transform360 elective workshops enable you to tailor your leadership and professional learning journey to align with your strengths and needs so that you can develop into an authentic, agile and accomplished leader that you want to be
Workshop options can include:
- Becoming a strong negotiator
- Managing power and influence
- Managing change
- Boosting your leadership confidence
- Building resilience for stressful and demanding environments
- Collaborating, leading, and motivating remotely
Foundations for the Future
The Foundations for the Future component is designed to help build, strengthen and expand your professional network, develop your personal branding and provide inspiration & insights from senior leaders and experts into the latest business & leadership trends from inside & outside of your industry
It is designed to be tailored and flexible according to your professional situation & goals and includes:
- Professional Pitch workshops
- Open Minds Conference Series
- Senior Speakers Series
- Alumni network events
- Career & Professional coaching
Leverage your experience, demonstrate your strategic vision
The final part of your Executive MBA journey is the Consulting Project, which is your opportunity to act on what you have learned and experienced, applying it to a tangible, real-life proposal.
The Consulting Project is:
- Designed to demonstrate your strategic ability to frame a problem or opportunity linked to your organisation, the healthcare industry, or relevant business issue that is important to you, your career, or your company.
- An opportunity for you to demonstrate your value and leadership talent to your company or develop a business plan to launch your own entrepreneurial healthcare project.
- The ultimate proof of your ability to defend a concept or idea, develop a realistic and actionable solution, and apply relevant strategic frameworks. The aim of these is to add value, help support the sustainable growth of your organisation or demonstrate your capacity to lead innovation and transformation that the healthcare industry and your career need.
Programme
Consolidate and enhance your strategic and organisational management expertise
The first 10 months of your EMBA will focus on the strategic fundamentals that all leaders need in order to drive innovation and transformation. Participants from both the EMBA and the EMBA with specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology embark on developing a holistic vision of business and organisational management and leadership.
From strategy through to corporate finance and marketing management, the business fundamentals will enable you to see the bigger picture and enhance your decision-making processes together with professionals from within and outside of your industry.
- Strategic Analysis
- Strategic Management
- Business & Society
- Business Models for Sustainability
- Leadership & Management
- Organisational Behavior
- Human Resources
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Statement Analysis & Corporate Finance
- Managerial Accounting & Global Study Case
- Marketing Management
- Sustainable Marketing
- Strategy Simulation
- Operations Management & Supply Chain
- Legal International Business
- Business Ethics & Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Expand Your Horizon
Broaden your perspectives with a truly global programme
To help you gain a better understanding of the challenges raised by globalisation and how to deal with them, the Executive MBA programme at EDHEC includes:
- 2 global business trips plus
- a 2-day seminar in Brussels focused on doing business in Europe.
The global business trips help you explore how economic and political models work in different markets, cultures, and environments. You acquire a better understanding of the mechanics of competition and identify key business success factors. The international business trips also help you view things from a different angle, develop strategic sensitivity and acquire new managerial reflexes in project and people management.
Global business trips are a compulsory part of the programme for both the Executive MBA and EMBA with specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology participants.
The Global Business Report
At the end of each business trip, while working in teams with fellow participants, you will produce a Global Business Report.
The Global Business Report aims to help you:
- Anticipate the trends emanating from new market economies and identify alternative management models.
- Develop the ability to think strategically by adopting a cross-sector approach and analytical thinking. You will examine competitive trends in an environment with little information and enhance strategic sensitivity by making intuition an important factor in decision making.
Personalise Your Programme
Specialisation track Healthcare Innovation and Technology: Gain expert insight for driving innovation and transformation in healthcare
The Healthcare Innovation and Technology (HIT) specialisation track allows participants to gain focused insight into key innovations and technological drivers impacting the healthcare sector, whilst developing a holistic, global business vision and a new international network.
The module will focus on developing and analysing business strategies as well as applying them to real-life situations. At the end of the course, you will be able to identify key success factors for implementing a digital health solution and to leverage digital opportunities to add value for stakeholders in the healthcare sector.
This module aims to provide a conceptual overview of innovation and an understanding of the main phases of health innovation using a humancentered approach. You will explore the different phases of implementing a digital solution: from strategy to solution delivery. Learn how to engage stakeholders involved in developing innovative healthcare solutions, understand the barriers and drivers to success and how to build and strengthen multidisciplinary teams successfully.
Value-based health care is increasingly becoming a topic of interest. Its goal is to find out how managers involved in care delivery will add value for patients and people who make decisions in the digital age. Based on the increasing prevalence of aging populations and chronic diseases, as well as the structural need to address them, VBHC aims to target the outcomes that have the greatest impact on patients while also driving cost efficiency in healthcare, especially in the digital era.
Data science and artificial intelligence (AI) are playing an increasingly significant role in bringing innovation and patient care together in the healthcare sector. Understand how new technologies like artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning can positively impact the healthcare industry, making workflow operations easier and helping with the development of more accurate patient diagnoses.
Analyse the latest market trends for products, services and technologies in the medical device and diagnostics industry, and assess market needs in the context of changing global demographics. Understand what tomorrow's innovations will be made of and how these can be relevant for decisionmakers to provide real added value for the companies and structures mobilising these E-health solutions. Discover enablers and barriers to innovation (for example, the role of culture, regulations, costeffectiveness, and appropriate pricing) in various geographical markets and industry sectors.
Gain vital knowledge and expertise in financial matters, learn to evaluate various models of financing a digital solution and discuss the challenges and opportunities related to the use of data, data-gathering, and other aspects of healthcare information systems to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare delivery system stakeholders.
Leadership & Professional Development Programme
Your personalised Leadership & Professional Development Programme
Transform360 runs throughout your 16-month experience and will help you to develop your self-management, strategic, functional and relational abilities.
Both a highly personalised and collective journey, it is designed to help you question, challenge and explore every aspect of your personal, career and leadership development to allow you to harness your full potential in your career, in your business and as a leader.
4 key components which are inter-linked and designed to help you develop and strengthen your leadership skills, competencies and perspectives:
- Leadership & Personal Development: Your 360° coaching journey
- Essentials for Inspiring Leaders
- Leadership Workshops: Customise your learning
- Foundations for the Future: Career & professional development support
Leadership & Personal Development
The leadership & personal development module is designed to give you the space, time and support to reflect, refine and enhance your leadership capabilities. Based on a combination of 360 assessments, continuous feedback and follow-up and intensive individual coaching sessions
360° Assessment and group coaching
- Individual leadership coaching
- Individual career coaching
- Follow-up 360° assessment and group
- Mentorship programme
Essentials for Inspiring Leaders
- A series of modules covering 5 core leadership skillsets which blend individual, collective and interactive methods
- Designed to strengthen and enhance your core leadership skills and mind-set so that you will be prepared to lead with confidence, conviction and agility, even in the toughest situations
- Practical resilience
- Connecting & building relationships
- Practical skills for networking
- Confident communication
- Business presentations
- Feedback session 1
- Feedback session 2
- Building effective teams
- Teamwork review
- Leadership mindset
- Paradoxes in leadership
- Leadership coaching
- Awareness of fault lines & biases
- Acting inclusively
Leadership Workshop to Customise Your Journey
The EDHEC EMBA experience is focussed on helping you to build the necessary vision, skills and abilities you need to deliver a profound personal and professional transformation.
The Transform360 elective workshops enable you to tailor your leadership and professional learning journey to align with your strengths and needs so that you can develop into an authentic, agile and accomplished leader that you want to be
Workshop options can include:
- Becoming a strong negotiator
- Managing power and influence
- Managing change
- Boosting your leadership confidence
- Building resilience for stressful and demanding environments
- Collaborating, leading, and motivating remotely
Foundations for the Future
The Foundations for the Future component is designed to help build, strengthen and expand your professional network, develop your personal branding and provide inspiration & insights from senior leaders and experts into the latest business & leadership trends from inside & outside of your industry
It is designed to be tailored and flexible according to your professional situation & goals and includes:
- Professional Pitch workshops
- Open Minds Conference Series
- Senior Speakers Series
- Alumni network events
- Career & Professional coaching
The Consulting Project
Leverage your experience, demonstrate your strategic vision
The final part of your Executive MBA journey is the Consulting Project, which is your opportunity to act on what you have learned and experienced, applying it to a tangible, real-life proposal.
The Consulting Project is:
- Designed to demonstrate your strategic ability to frame a problem or opportunity linked to your organisation, the healthcare industry, or relevant business issue that is important to you, your career, or your company.
- An opportunity for you to demonstrate your value and leadership talent to your company or develop a business plan to launch your own entrepreneurial healthcare project.
- The ultimate proof of your ability to defend a concept or idea, develop a realistic and actionable solution, and apply relevant strategic frameworks. The aim of these is to add value, help support the sustainable growth of your organisation or demonstrate your capacity to lead innovation and transformation that the healthcare industry and your career need.
What I found most interesting during my EDHEC Executive MBA was the experience-sharing and collaborative work with the other participants. As a healthcare professional, this encounter with managers from other sectors, the business world included, enabled me to evolve towards a new culture at work
François Dolveck
Alumnus EMBA EDHEC, Head of the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit at Melun Hospital Centre, France
A balanced programme
The Executive MBA with specialisation in Healthcare Innovation and Technology (HIT), spans 16 or 19 months. You can opt for the course rhythm that best suits you by choosing between one of two programme formats. Both formats offer the same inspiring content, business relevance, and a rich, diverse cohort.
Weekend Format
Twice per month (Friday - Saturday)
Lille Campus
Length: 16 to 19 months
Intake: October
4 days per month
Once a month (Wednesday - Saturday)
Paris Campus
Lenght: 16 to 19 months
2 intakes: March or October
Approach / Faculty
Real-world relevance, immediate impact
The EDHEC MBA in Healthcare Innovation & Technology Management allows you to gain focused insight into key innovations and technological drivers impacting the healthcare sector, whilst developing a holistic, global business vision and a new international network. During the Healthcare Innovation & Technology specialisation period, participants will work with, and be guided by, specialists from the health ecosystem.
- Combining academic excellence with business-relevant experience and healthcare expertise: The programme is designed to deliver concrete application of theory and strategy. It is led by renowned professors, business leaders and experts in healthcare innovation and technology.
- An experiential, hands-on approach: During the EMBA HIT, you will evolve and demonstrate your new skills through action-based learning including business simulations, case studies, business reports, and a consulting project.
- A personalised and collaborative journey: Whilst we offer a highly personalised programme with electives and individual coaching and support, the EMBA HIT at EDHEC is also a collaborative experience. You will develop new perspectives, insights, and viewpoints by being part of a highly diverse, international, and professional cohort.
- An enriching, inspiring, environment: designed to help you maximise your time and experience.
EDHEC
The EDHEC Executive MBA programme is delivered by international academic experts and seasoned business professionals who share expertise that encourages you to think, act and deliver at the highest level. They will help you develop a global business outlook and consolidate your management and entrepreneurship skills.
Management in Innovative Health Chair
The "Management in Innovative Health" chair is structured around three major axes: research, teaching and dissemination of acquired knowledge. Its central objective is to advance knowledge and practices in terms of the impact of digital technology on healthcare provision, the emergence of e-health and the use of connected health devices. The Chair’s professors and experts from the healthcare industry will help you get ready to accelerate innovation in the field of e-health and tackle the challenges of the global healthcare industry. Born out of a partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb, the chair capitalizes on the synergies between EDHEC's professors and researchers and Bristol Myers Squibb's ecosystem of experts and patient communities.
Approach
Real-world relevance, immediate impact
The EDHEC MBA in Healthcare Innovation & Technology Management allows you to gain focused insight into key innovations and technological drivers impacting the healthcare sector, whilst developing a holistic, global business vision and a new international network. During the Healthcare Innovation & Technology specialisation period, participants will work with, and be guided by, specialists from the health ecosystem.
- Combining academic excellence with business-relevant experience and healthcare expertise: The programme is designed to deliver concrete application of theory and strategy. It is led by renowned professors, business leaders and experts in healthcare innovation and technology.
- An experiential, hands-on approach: During the EMBA HIT, you will evolve and demonstrate your new skills through action-based learning including business simulations, case studies, business reports, and a consulting project.
- A personalised and collaborative journey: Whilst we offer a highly personalised programme with electives and individual coaching and support, the EMBA HIT at EDHEC is also a collaborative experience. You will develop new perspectives, insights, and viewpoints by being part of a highly diverse, international, and professional cohort.
- An enriching, inspiring, environment: designed to help you maximise your time and experience.
Faculty
EDHEC
The EDHEC Executive MBA programme is delivered by international academic experts and seasoned business professionals who share expertise that encourages you to think, act and deliver at the highest level. They will help you develop a global business outlook and consolidate your management and entrepreneurship skills.
Management in Innovative Health Chair
The "Management in Innovative Health" chair is structured around three major axes: research, teaching and dissemination of acquired knowledge. Its central objective is to advance knowledge and practices in terms of the impact of digital technology on healthcare provision, the emergence of e-health and the use of connected health devices. The Chair’s professors and experts from the healthcare industry will help you get ready to accelerate innovation in the field of e-health and tackle the challenges of the global healthcare industry. Born out of a partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb, the chair capitalizes on the synergies between EDHEC's professors and researchers and Bristol Myers Squibb's ecosystem of experts and patient communities.
Gain new perspectives as part of an international, diverse, and experienced network
Whether you are working in pharmaceutical, biotech, or MedTech companies or would like to return to the healthcare industry, if you are committed to building your healthcare leadership capabilities, giving your career a new dimension, and wanting to manage and lead the challenges faced by your sector, the EMBA HIT at EDHEC is the programme of choice for you.
The part-time Executive MBA specialising in Healthcare Innovation & Technology is ideal for:
- Experienced managers (such as medical practice or hospital managers…)
- Healthcare specialists (such as lab engineers, scientific experts…)
- Entrepreneurs
- Medical and clinical consultants and experts
There is no typical profile or standard blueprint for a participant. This is because we fastidiously build each cohort based on individual merit, experience, and potential, combined with our aim to ensure a diverse and inclusive team that will evolve within a stimulating, challenging, and real-world environment.
Here is a glimpse of what our 2023 cohort looks like:
Executive MBA HIT
Would you like to find out if EDHEC’s Executive MBA with healthcare specialisation is right for you?
Admission & Fees
We consider every application carefully and assess a wide range of factors including professional experience, aspirations, goals, potential, and cultural fit.
We do however require the following:
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- 5 years of professional experience in the healthcare industry or related field.
- Proficiency in English.
- Initial Interview with our EMBA Recruitment Manager to discuss your experience, goals and to assess if the EMBA HIT is the right fit for you.
- Discussion with EMBA HIT participants and alumni.
- Submit your application.
- A face-to-face interview with the Programme Directors from EDHEC.
- Response from the admissions committee.
We recommend that you begin the application process as soon as possible to allow you time to prepare your application, schedule the relevant interviews with alumni and the Programme Director (see Admissions Procedure), and also arrange any financial aid or support.
It is important to note that we look to limit the size of each intake to ensure that we offer an effectively-sized cohort and personalised experience, while also balancing the diversity and professional background of the group. Carefully tending to these factors ensures an enhanced learning experience for all cohort participants. For this reason, we strongly recommend that you start the application process at least 6 months before your preferred intake date.
However, we will always do our best to assist last-minute applications as we understand that sometimes circumstances change and opportunities arise. Our dedicated Admissions team is on-hand to support you through the process.
Degree
The Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree is a Master's Degree approved by the French State “DIPLOME EN ADMINISTRATION DES AFFAIRES INTERNATIONALES", RNCP35787. It is a level Bac+5 Grade Master.
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Total tuition fee
€51,000 excluding VAT.
This fee includes all tuition fees and accommodation costs for the 2 business trips but does not include the flight.
Tuition fees are provided for information only and are subject to change.
Scholarships & funding
Discover our scholarships up to -30%.
One of the greatest benefits of the EDHEC Executive MBA programme is the diversity of the cohort. Creating a new professional network that you can both learn and be supported and inspired by, makes the experience enriching and rewarding. This is why we have 4 generous scholarship options that help ensure gender equality, cultural diversity, and fairness.
To support and promote equality and gender diversity in our class and the boardroom.
30% reduction off programme fees (excluding VAT).
*Scholarships are not accumulated.
To support and promote cultural diversity in our class, this scholarship is open to dual nationals and internationals currently working and residing in France.
20% reduction off programme fees (excluding VAT).
*Scholarships are not accumulated.
For applicants who live and work outside of France, this scholarship is designed to encourage and support participants who are looking to gain and share a truly global vision from one of the leading Business Schools in France and Europe.
30% reduction off programme fees (excluding VAT).
*Scholarships are not accumulated.
For applicants who are personally financing the EMBA programme.
15% reduction off programme fees (excluding VAT)
*Scholarships are not accumulated.
Compte personnel de formation
If you are employed by a French company, then you may be eligible for financial support through the Compte Personnel de Formation (CPF) (CPF code: 245001). It is a credit system financed by employer contributions.
Admission
We consider every application carefully and assess a wide range of factors including professional experience, aspirations, goals, potential, and cultural fit.
We do however require the following:
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- 5 years of professional experience in the healthcare industry or related field.
- Proficiency in English.
- Initial Interview with our EMBA Recruitment Manager to discuss your experience, goals and to assess if the EMBA HIT is the right fit for you.
- Discussion with EMBA HIT participants and alumni.
- Submit your application.
- A face-to-face interview with the Programme Directors from EDHEC.
- Response from the admissions committee.
We recommend that you begin the application process as soon as possible to allow you time to prepare your application, schedule the relevant interviews with alumni and the Programme Director (see Admissions Procedure), and also arrange any financial aid or support.
It is important to note that we look to limit the size of each intake to ensure that we offer an effectively-sized cohort and personalised experience, while also balancing the diversity and professional background of the group. Carefully tending to these factors ensures an enhanced learning experience for all cohort participants. For this reason, we strongly recommend that you start the application process at least 6 months before your preferred intake date.
However, we will always do our best to assist last-minute applications as we understand that sometimes circumstances change and opportunities arise. Our dedicated Admissions team is on-hand to support you through the process.
Tuition fees & funding
Degree
The Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree is a Master's Degree approved by the French State “DIPLOME EN ADMINISTRATION DES AFFAIRES INTERNATIONALES", RNCP35787. It is a level Bac+5 Grade Master.
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Total tuition fee
€51,000 excluding VAT.
This fee includes all tuition fees and accommodation costs for the 2 business trips but does not include the flight.
Tuition fees are provided for information only and are subject to change.
Scholarships & funding
Discover our scholarships up to -30%.
One of the greatest benefits of the EDHEC Executive MBA programme is the diversity of the cohort. Creating a new professional network that you can both learn and be supported and inspired by, makes the experience enriching and rewarding. This is why we have 4 generous scholarship options that help ensure gender equality, cultural diversity, and fairness.
To support and promote equality and gender diversity in our class and the boardroom.
30% reduction off programme fees (excluding VAT).
*Scholarships are not accumulated.
To support and promote cultural diversity in our class, this scholarship is open to dual nationals and internationals currently working and residing in France.
20% reduction off programme fees (excluding VAT).
*Scholarships are not accumulated.
For applicants who live and work outside of France, this scholarship is designed to encourage and support participants who are looking to gain and share a truly global vision from one of the leading Business Schools in France and Europe.
30% reduction off programme fees (excluding VAT).
*Scholarships are not accumulated.
For applicants who are personally financing the EMBA programme.
15% reduction off programme fees (excluding VAT)
*Scholarships are not accumulated.
Compte personnel de formation
If you are employed by a French company, then you may be eligible for financial support through the Compte Personnel de Formation (CPF) (CPF code: 245001). It is a credit system financed by employer contributions.
FAQ
Yes, doctors can do an MBA in healthcare, otherwise known as a Healthcare MBA, or an Executive MBA with a track in Healthcare Innovation & Technology. This Executive MBA programme will be especially beneficial for medical professionals who strive to become managers, leaders, or executives in health clinics and hospitals, or who have entrepreneurial ambitions in the industry.
From healthcare expert to confident, entrepreneurial leader a doctor will gain the leadership skills and vision they need to manage the challenges and changes in the global healthcare economy. The EDHEC EMBA HIT programme combines excellence in entrepreneurial business leadership with healthcare innovation. This option is designed to equip healthcare managers & professionals with a global business vision to lead with confidence in the fast-changing health ecosystem.
Yes. Doing an MBA in hospital management, Healthcare MBA or an Executive MBA with a track in Healthcare Innovation & Technology, after a BBA, will serve to propel your executive leadership career within the industry.
Yes. Doing a Master in Healthcare Administration, a Healthcare MBA or an Executive MBA Healthcare Innovation & Technology, can kickstart your executive leadership career within the industry. From lab engineers to scientific experts through to medical practice or hospital managers, whether you manage your own clinic, work for a pharmaceutical, biotech, or MedTech company, or would like to move back into the healthcare industry, if you are committed to building your healthcare leadership capabilities, or wanting to manage and lead the challenges this is your chance to give your career a new dimension.
Doing a Healthcare MBA or Executive MBA with a track in Healthcare Innovation & Technology, although not obligatory, is invaluable for professionals who seek to enter hospital management and healthcare administration. The health sector makes an important contribution to the economy and has a major impact on our lives. It is also an ecosystem disrupted by ongoing demographic and health trends, digital development, new business models, and technological innovations. In this context, hospitals, clinics, biotech, and MedTech firms alongside health professionals and industry start-ups are seeking innovative managers and leaders with hybrid profiles who understand the complexity of the global ecosystem and possess an all-around vision of the market, from both business and technological standpoints.
An accredited Healthcare MBA, or an Executive MBA with a 6-month track in Healthcare Innovation & Technology is a Master’s-level degree in healthcare administration that is invaluable for professionals who seek to enter management or executive roles within the healthcare ecosystem. It focuses on key innovations and technological drivers impacting the healthcare sector, all while developing a holistic, global business vision and a new international network.
The completion of an MBA in Healthcare Management serves to propel your executive leadership career within the healthcare ecosystem and provides focused insight into key innovations and technological drivers impacting the healthcare sector, all while developing a holistic, global business vision and a new international network. This makes an Executive MBA with a track in Healthcare Innovation & Technology indispensable for anyone aiming to lead and revolutionise processes within the sector whether in a hospital, clinic, biotech, or MedTech firm or start-ups.
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