Designed for working professionals, the program is an intensive 18-month journey that immerses you in key healthcare clusters around the world. By learning from leading faculty and experienced sector leaders, you will gain the knowledge and skills you and your organization need to succeed. And while you explore current and future best practices globally, we’ll guide you through an in-depth assessment of your own capabilities, with the goal of helping you become a more impactful leader.
The program leverages the strengths of the Rotman School, as well as our close relationships with the University of Toronto and the global healthcare community. Located on the edge of Toronto's medical discovery district, Rotman is uniquely positioned to play a leading role in the management innovations taking place within and across pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, medical technology, medical informatics, telemedicine, insurance, patient engagement, long-term care, and health system design.
Who should consider our program?
Candidates are mid-to-senior level professionals from industry, providers and service delivery organizations, consulting firms, public agencies, science, and payers in the healthcare and life sciences sector around the world who seek to advance their leadership careers.
Key features
- Earn a top-tier MBA education especially tailored for healthcare and life sciences providers, payers, scientists, regulatory professionals, and suppliers
- Focus on global best practices in health systems, healthcare, and life sciences
- Advance your career with a program designed to meet the demanding schedule of students from across the globe
- Integrate on-site learning from innovative firms and organizations in multiple countries
- Drive strategic change within and across healthcare and life sciences organizations and systems
- Learn leading edge tools for making effective decisions with available data
- Design innovative solutions at Rotman's Creative Destruction Lab
The 18-month Global Executive MBA in Healthcare and the Life Sciences offers an innovative curriculum that combines core management skills and practical engagement with deep self-development insights and strategic know-how, all designed for the healthcare and life sciences sector.
The globally-oriented program emphasizes the best of health systems and business, leading strategic change, data-driven decision-making, and entrepreneurship and innovation. Faculty will draw on research, industry examples, case studies, and guests from Canada and around the world to enhance the learning experience. Each module of the program involves on-site experiences with firms and organizations that are leading healthcare and life sciences innovation in multiple countries.
Class sessions provide meaningful opportunities for leaders from across the healthcare and life sciences sector to learn about each other’s organizations, to develop networks, and to explore new ways to create the healthcare organizations and health systems of the future.
Centred on the Full Sector
The program is designed to link the traditional silos in which healthcare providers, payers, scientists, suppliers, agencies, and other stakeholders typically interact only at arm’s length. The program will bring together participants from across the full sector and teach why and how you can create patient value and system strength by integrating more effectively across boundaries, both within and across organizations, regions and countries.
Leadership Development
The program's learning methods ensure you can immediately apply the insights you gain in class into practice. To that end, we provide you with a personalized leadership development program.
Using 360 degree assessments of competencies and skills, you will be coached to create customized development plans, practice new skills, and apply key insights as you move through the curriculum. You will have access to career coaching staff and networking events as you chart your career path for the future.
HLS Leadership Network
Students will have the opportunity to access the HLS Leadership Network, an exclusive network of senior executives (called “advisors”) who have been carefully selected to reflect a variety of career and life experiences. The advisors will assist students with first-hand knowledge about specific industries, functions, business problems and most importantly, provide advice on their career options.
Creative Destruction Lab
Students have the opportunity to apply for admission to a course with Rotman's Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), one of the world’s premier venture scaling programs.
Program Topics and Courses
You’ll earn a top-tier MBA from one of the world’s leading business schools, with courses customized and designed for the healthcare and life sciences professional.
- Accounting for Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Behavioural Economics in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Business Economics for Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Data Analytics and Strategic Decision Making for Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Design Thinking in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Ethics and Law in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Financial Tools for Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Governance and Partnering in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Global Business in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Health Sector Strategy & Organization
- Integrating Models & Data in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Information Technology & Digital Health Innovations
- Service Operations in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Strategic Change & Implementation for Healthcare & Life Sciences Organizations
- Strategic Management in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Immersion in Innovative Health & Life Sciences Organizations & Systems in Toronto, the San Francisco Bay Area, & Singapore
The schedule has been designed for personal and professional flexibility. The content will be delivered using a blended delivery model that weaves together in-class and on-site learning, with online support . Approximately 75 percent of sessions will be conducted face-to-face -- in the classroom and in the field.
18 Months | 6 Terms
Term 1
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Toronto |
1.5 week residency
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Fall 2018
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October 14-24, 2018 |
| Term 2 |
San Francisco Bay Area
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1 week residency
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Winter 2019*
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January 12-19, 2019 |
| Term 3 |
Toronto
|
1 week residency
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Spring 2019*
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April 7-13, 2019
(plus optional day April 14th) |
| Term 4 |
Singapore |
1 week residency
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Summer 2019* |
July 7-12, 2019 |
Term 5
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Toronto
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1 week residency
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Fall 2020*
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November 10-15, 2019 |
| Term 6 |
Toronto |
1 week residency |
Winter 2020* |
February 26-March 5, 2020 |
*Locations and dates subject to change
Learn from the world’s leading business thinkers. Ranked third in the world for business research by the Financial Times in 2017, the Rotman faculty will engage and challenge you with insights gained from both academia and practice. Your instructors are distinguished by their ground-breaking scholarship, authority in the business world, and practical knowledge of the healthcare and life sciences sector.
Academic Directors
Brian R. Golden, Vice-Dean, MBA Programs | Sandra Rotman Chair in Health Sector Strategy at The University of Toronto & The University Health Network | Executive Director, Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy | Professor of Strategic Management
Will Mitchell, Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and Commercialization | Professor of Strategic Management
The two academic directors have extensive backgrounds in the health and life sciences sector and have taught in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Professor Brian Golden is the only business school professor to be inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and was the inaugural recipient of the Canadian Medical Association’s Award for Innovation in Physician Education. Brian is cross-appointed in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
Professor Will Mitchell has extensive experience with health and life sciences research, teaching, and business in multiple countries. He has an appointment at Duke University, including engagements with the Duke Medical School and Business School. Will is a board member of Neuland Laboratories, Inc., a pharmaceutical company based in Hyderabad, India.
A Selection of Our World Class Faculty
Marlys Christianson, Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour & HR Management
Her research interests include the coordination of complex and interdependent work, sense-making in high-risk environments, and resilient organizing, particularly as it relates to error detection and correction.
Alexander Dyck, Manulife Financial Chair in Financial Services | Professor of Finance and Economic Analysis and Policy
Professor Alexander Dyck is the academic director of hte Director's Education Program, a board member of the Rotman international Centre for Pension Management, and a fellow of theMichael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship.
Jennifer Gibson, Director, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics | Sun life Financial Chair in Bioethics
Jennifer Gibson leads the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto and has advised on government advisory committees on health system integration and other topics.
Avi Goldfarb, Ellison Professor of Marketing
Professor Avi Goldfarb has published over 50 articles in economics, artificial intelligence, marketing, statistics, and law.
Kristina McElheran, Assistant Professor of Strategy, University of Toronto | Digital Fellow, Initiative on the Digital Economy at MIT
Her research focuses on the use of IT and data on organizational design and strategy, and she has worked for two start-up technology companies in Silicon Valley.
Dilip Soman, Corus Chair in Communication Strategy | Professor of Marketing | Member of the Behavioural Economics in Action Research Cluster
Professor Dilip Soman is an expert in behavioural economics and has consulted with Microsoft, FedEx, P&G, life Insurance company of India, Corus Entertainment, and the Hong Kong Government. He is the author of
The Last Mile: Creating Social and Economic Value from Behavioural Insights.
Studies & Research
We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower mortality rates. [...] We argue that supplying joint MBA-healthcare courses may be a channel through which universities increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance.
In the News
There’s no doubt that business schools have been attempting to meet a need for physicians and scientists seeking to combine their technical backgrounds with a deeper understanding of the business side of healthcare. But Rotman feels there’s more to be done — and a gap to be filled.
Designing for Hospital Physician Alignment by Brian Golden OHA Magazine
All leaders, whether in health care or other sectors, know that their number one job is to align the interests of their employees and staff with those of the organization. That is, to make them partners. Therefore the most effective and sustainable hospitals and health systems have brought physicians into the tent and have aligned physicians' personal and professional interests with those of the hospitals.
Videos
"It takes a really brave leader to challenge the status quo, to challenge the inertia of the status quo, the safety of the status quo, to drive real innovation in the healthcare system."
"One of the greatest opportunities in programs like this is the opportunity to get information-- intelligence, ways of thinking-- that are way beyond our borders."
"People are moving around, but they're finding positions and they're excited about those positions. It's a very dynamic industry. "
Entrance Awards
The Rotman School is invested in attracting strong candidates. You will be automatically considered for entrance awards as soon as you apply for Rotman's Global Executive MBA for Healthcare & the Life Sciences. These awards are based on the overall strength of your application.
Some of the things we look for during this assessment are leadership qualities demonstrated through professional and academic experiences. Candidates who are selected to receive an entrance award will be notified when they receive an offer of admission.
Early enrolment incentives apply for all application deadlines:
- November 30th, 2017
- March 1st, 2018
- June 6th, 2018
The earlier you apply the better your chances of receiving a tuition discount. You will be automatically considered for tuition discounts, awards, and fellowships when you apply.
Admissions Criteria
Candidates are mid-to-senior level professionals from industry, providers and service delivery organizations, consulting firms, public agencies, science, and payers in the healthcare and life sciences sector around the world who seek to advance their leadership careers.
Minimum Admissions Requirements
- 8+ years of full-time work experience
- 3+ years in a mid-to-senior leadership, management, or administrative role (or equivalent)
- Relevant base knowledge of healthcare and life sciences organizations
- Evidence of academic achievement
- Demonstrated teamwork skills and people, project or budget management experience
- English language proficiency: TOEFL or IELTS score required for non-English language degrees
- Currently employed as a leader in the healthcare and life sciences sector preferred
Successful completion of the GMAT/GRE or the Rotman Executive Diagnostic Test (EDT) is required as part of the application process. Please contact us to discuss whether the EDT options applies for you.
Application Process
Our personalized approach aims to streamline your application process, and ensure that the Rotman Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences is the right fit for your career and personal goals. All complete applications are presented to the Admissions Committee on a weekly basis. A member of our admissions team will get back to you as soon as a decision on your application is made. Apply early as space is limited.
1. Submit your resume to gemba-hls@rotman.utoronto.ca
2. We will contact you to discuss your experience, career goals and next steps
3. In-person or Skype meeting with a member of the admission team
4. Online application
5. Successful completion of the Rotman Executive Diagnostic Test (EDT), or GMAT/GRE equivalent if required
Program Fee
CAD $113,775.
The program fee includes:
- Tuition
- All program materials
- Class-day meals
- Accommodation for Toronto residential modules.
Students are responsible for travel and accommodation expenses for international modules (San Francisco and Singapore). Please note that all fees are set annually and are subject to change.
Connect with Us
Contact us anytime at 416 946 3638 or GEMBA-HLS@rotman.utoronto.ca to find out more. Or, create your profile to receive regular program updates.
Classes begin Fall 2018
The University of Toronto Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences program uses a rigorous set of admission criteria, based on a combination of academic abilities, interpersonal skills, and employment credentials. We look for high achievers who can already demonstrate significant professional success and potential for advancement. Typically, students are experienced managers who have lived and worked in at least two countries.
Admission Criteria
- 8+ years of full-time work experience
- 3+ years in a mid-to-senior leadership, management, or administrative role (or equivalent)
- Relevant base knowledge of healthcare and life sciences organizations
- Evidence of academic achievement
- Demonstrated teamwork skills and people, project or budget management experience
- English language proficiency: TOEFL or IELTS score required for non-English language degrees
- Currently employed as a leader in the healthcare and life sciences sector preferred
Successful completion of the GMAT/GRE or the Rotman Executive Diagnostic Test (EDT) is required as part of the application process. Please contact us to discuss whether the EDT options applies for you.
Note: To qualify for the program, you’re advised to arrange your work schedules and personal and professional responsibilities to allow you to complete the necessary class-work and self-study. You may also consider asking your employer’s consent for the time you will spend away from work. Some students also request financial support from their employers in exchange for increased corporate performance. Please contact gemba-hls@rotman.utoronto.ca for further guidance.
Application Process
Please send us your resume to gemba-hls@rotman.utoronto.ca. We will review your qualifications and credentials and contact you within two business days to advise you on your suitability for the program and to discuss next steps.
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