| Dates | Location | Tuition |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009 | $1,500 |
Tuition for this program is sponsored by a gift from Johnson & Johnson and does not include lodging and some meals.
As a nurse executive, you face unprecedented challenges. Mounting cost pressures, revenue challenges, increased responsibility amidst greater complexity, mergers, alliances, and restructuring continually reshape your world. To lead and succeed in this highly complex environment, you need strong strategic, financial, and managerial skills. You also need a deep understanding of the dynamics of organizations and creative approaches to problem solving.
Wharton's curriculum teaches nurse executives to think strategically and to hone their leadership abilities. This program enables senior nurse executives to bring their clinical voice more effectively to policy and planning tables, and to do so as full partners in decision-making processes. You will learn the latest management tools and perspectives — essential in helping you develop creative solutions to current competitive challenges.
You will learn specific approaches to financial planning, including institutional and departmental budgeting, and examine broader issues related to the economics of health care. In addition to the quantitative side, we focus on organizational systems and planning, strategic thinking, and managing complexity. Finally, you will learn and practice skills for managing people, building and maintaining alliances, and negotiating effectively.
While at Wharton
The Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives uses a multidimensional approach of lectures, group work, and a strategy simulation that offers new insights and provides participants opportunities to apply the learning. The faculty, a team of experts in diverse business disciplines, provides in-depth knowledge in core business areas. Participants are encouraged to apply the insights gained in the program to their own organizations.
Group Work
A key aim of the program is to address topics of immediate importance to you, as an executive leader. We achieve this aim by designing our program so that Fellows work throughout the three weeks in self-selected groups on projects they often develop themselves. Our faculty encourages group work as a means of creative problem solving and skill development.
Computer-Based Simulations
We use interactive computer simulations to replicate the competitive environment in which you and your organizations live. With a full compliment of didactic sessions surrounding these interactive exercises, the curriculum becomes a complete testing ground — a safe harbor in which to work with colleagues and faculty to expand and broaden your management tool kit.The simulations focus on strategy, systems thinking, negotiation, and financial management and often reveal unanticipated consequences — ripple effects — of complex decisions. They examine and test your assumptions about the potential effects of changes in utilization, payment, and competition and offer the opportunity to explore a variety of possible management strategies for dealing with change.
Executive Forum: Taking It Home
You, your organization, and your CEO or COO make a large commitment to this program. Johnson & Johnson makes a large commitment. Our faculty and staff make a large commitment. This commitment helps to ensure that the program has an impact on you and your organization.
To help secure this impact, we require that the CEO or COO of the company join us for a three-day Executive Forum. This distinctive, cornerstone component of the Johnson & Johnson|Wharton Fellows Program illustrates our deep commitment to developing your ability to ensure a clinical voice at the most senior levels of decision making (and the willingness of your organization to hear that voice).
The Executive Forum provides an uncommon opportunity for you and your CEO or COO to consider and model real-time opportunities to apply key health care management concepts in your organization.
Commit, With Us, to Lifelong Education
We are committed to your continued professional management development. Attending the program is just the beginning.
As a Johnson & Johnson|Wharton Fellow, you will join an exclusive global network of nearly 1,000 alumni. We help reinforce what you have learned in our classroom — and support your new opportunity to share ideas with this distinctive community of senior nurse executives — in a number of ways.
The Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Johnson & Johnson is the world's most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices and diagnostics markets. The more than 230 Johnson & Johnson operating companies employ approximately 115,700 men and women in 57 countries and sell products throughout the world. For more information, visit www.jnj.com.
Benchmarking for Impact
You will complete status checks on your development before and after the program. These status checks help us to gauge the success of the program and, more importantly, help keep you and your CEO or COO focused on your development as a senior leader. Status checks may include surveys, interviews, and/or participation in a focus group with your CEO or COO.
Alumni Networking Site
Disengaging from work to join other Fellows is extremely important, but today's hectic environment may not always make that possible. That is why we have created a special website for the alumni network, www.executivefellows.net, where Fellows can reach each other through an online directory and tap into the Wharton School’s resources at any time. Information, advice, and support from an outstanding class of peers are all within easy reach.
The program draws on the resources of the University of Pennsylvania, particularly the Wharton School and the School of Nursing. Among the program faculty are some of the nation’s leading researchers in health care management and consultants to major health care organizations around the world. As a result, each year the program reflects the latest approaches and techniques in management education as applied to current health care issues and challenges.