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Program Experience
Highlights and Key Outcomes
In Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change, you will:
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the changing health care landscape
- Examine relationships between patients, clinicians, hospitals, insurers, employers, and communities
- Explore the economic issues involved in producing, financing, and delivering efficient and equitable health care
- Learn how to build and lead a culture of experimentation and innovation
- Strengthen your negotiation and persuasion, agility, communication, strategic thinking, and decision-making skills
- Build your business acumen with the latest Wharton knowledge and insights in operations, strategy and finance, products and market design, entrepreneurship, and more
Experience and Impact
Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change uses a blend of interactive lectures, small-group work, and simulations to bring your learning to life and empower you with meaningful, real-world skills you can immediately put to use. Strategically beneficial to a wide array of health care professionals, Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change will immerse you into a dynamic learning experience alongside a new network of accomplished peers from across the health care ecosystem.
By combining industry insight, individual leadership development, and strategic business acumen, Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change will elevate your effectiveness within your organization, empowering you to lead the organizational change initiatives needed to improve care, access, equity, and patient and provider satisfaction.
You’ll learn the freedom of innovative thinking, the power of persuasive negotiation, and how to apply these disciplines within the health care environment for optimal growth. Each day, an opening faculty-led discussion and reflection session will allow you to address specific challenges and build a personalized toolkit to help you apply your learnings upon returning to work.
Session topics include:
- The Changing Landscape of Health Care
- Leading Dynamic Teams
- Operational Excellence in Health Care: Linking Operations, Finance, and Strategy
- Behavioral Economics: Improving Health and Health Care by Improving Decision Making
- Strategic Persuasion and Negotiation
- Decision Making for Health Care Leaders
- Power and Politics in Health Care Ecosystems
- Unraveling the Politics of Health Care Policy
- Transforming Care: Innovation Strategies for Health Care Leaders
- The Role of Psychological Safety in Improving Health Care
- Managing Health Care Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Accelerators in Health Care: The Innovation Game
- Health Care: Beyond Efficiency
- Horizontal and Vertical Integration Strategies in Health Care
Convince Your Supervisor
Here’s a justification letter you can edit and send to your supervisor to help you make the case for attending this Wharton program.
Due to our application review period, applications submitted after 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday for programs beginning the following Monday may not be processed in time to grant admission. Applicants will be contacted by a member of our Client Relations Team to discuss options for future programs and dates.
Who Should Attend
This program is specifically designed for existing, aspiring, and emerging leaders throughout the health care ecosystem, including:
- Doctors, nurses, and other clinicians in health care facilities
- Care-delivery system leaders seeking to improve the quality and efficiency of the services that they provide for patients, the work experience of affiliated staff, and response to industry changes (e.g., AI use and value-based payment)
- Health insurance leaders seeking to develop and execute better organizational strategy, lead the shift from volume to value, and form effective coalitions to improve the health of populations
- Biopharmaceutical executives and device manufacturers
- Technology and innovation company leaders who aim to meet the demand for superior products and services that enable health and health care
Fluency in English, written and spoken, is required for participation in Wharton Executive Education programs.
Plan Your Stay
This program is held at the Steinberg Conference Center located on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Meals and accommodations are included in the program fees. Learn more about planning your stay at Wharton’s Philadelphia campus.
Group Enrollment
To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.
Faculty
Academic Director
Alan B. Miller Professor of Health Care Management; Chairperson, Health Care Management Department, The Wharton School; Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Applied microeconomics, emergency medical services, health economics, industrial organization, nonprofit organizations, post-acute care, regulation
Lawton Burns, PhDSee Faculty Bio
James Joo-Kim Professor; Professor of Health Care Management; Professor of Management; The Wharton School
Research Interests: Health care management, hospital-physician relationships, integrated health care
David Grande, MD, MPASee Faculty Bio
Associate Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Bioethics, disadvantaged populations, Medicaid, CHIP, uninsured
Marissa King, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Alice Y. Hung President’s Distinguished Professor; Professor of Health Care Management; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Mary-Hunter McDonnell, JD, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Organizational theory (political sociology, institutional theory); nonmarket strategy; corporate governance; corporate misconduct and punishment
Ingrid Nembhard, PhD, MSSee Faculty Bio
Fishman Family President's Distinguished Professor; Professor of Management; Professor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Organizational behavior, organizational learning, teamwork and coordination, implementation, quality improvement
Samir Nurmohamed, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Adversity, motivation, behavioral ethics, resilience, storytelling, punishment, whistleblowing, cover-ups, socialization, onboarding, injustice, stereotypes, stigma
David Resnick, MSED, MPHSee Faculty Bio
Associate Director, People Enablement Innovations to Insights (I2O), Center for Healthcare Transformation and Innovation at Penn Medicine
Research Interests: Reducing health disparities, sharing design methods, and exploring how food and nature improve health
Board Partner, First Round Capital; Former Chief Innovation Officer, Penn Medicine
Research Interests: Chronic disease management, capturing value from data, workflow automation, maternal health, addiction, and behavior change
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Management Senior Fellow, Department of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Hummy Song, PhD, MPPSee Faculty Bio
Associate Professor of Health Care Management; Associate Professor, Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Acute care, critical care, hospitals, emergency care, global health, post-acute care
Christian Terwiesch, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Andrew M. Heller Professor; Department Chairperson and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions; Co-Director, Mack Institute of Innovation Management, The Wharton School; Professor of Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Analyzing operational performance, innovation management, R&D management
Kevin Volpp, MD, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Mark V. Pauly President’s Distinguished Professor at Perelman School of Medicine and Health Care Management at the Wharton School; Chief, Division of Health Policy; Director, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
Testimonials
Health Care Leadership and Management was inspiring. The content was thought-provoking, and the discussions were deep and engaging. The case studies helped with self-awareness and reflection: How do I show up as a leader in a team environment? How do I lead? What is the role of collective wisdom and how can I create an environment of experimentation?
Maria Gonzalez Area Experience Leader, Kaiser Permanente
I found the Wharton Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading Through Change program valuable on multiple fronts! Most importantly, it was a well-crafted cohort that was able to bring diverse experiences and share openly to enrich relationships and discussions. The faculty taught current and relevant content while encouraging a two-way dialogue so we could go deeper into concepts. As someone who got my MBA some time ago, it was a great refresher on key management and leadership concepts combined with healthcare-specific trends, challenges and opportunities. The days were packed but very well organized to ensure both learning and connection!
Roopa McNealis Healthcare Chief of Staff, HCM and Supply Chain, Oracle