| Call Number | 14461 | 
|---|---|
| Day & Time Location | M 1:00pm-3:50pm LL204 Armand Hammer Health Sciences Center | 
| Points | 3 | 
| Grading Mode | Standard | 
| Approvals Required | None | 
| Instructor | Paul W Thurman | 
| Type | SEMINAR | 
| Method of Instruction | In-Person | 
| Course Description | Students apply advanced strategic frameworks and concepts to real-world, complex, strategic problems involving multiple healthcare sectors, institutions, players and/or disciplines/functions. Specific objectives include: the ability to conceptualize and model a complex, multi-faceted, multi-player healthcare strategic challenge in simple language and in a coherent framework that supports analyses and resolution; a deepened understanding of the inherent complexity and interdependency of the major challenges--economic, political, strategic, and operational--facing the healthcare industry and specific sectors, institutions, and players within the industry; the ability to apply strategic analysis and other curricular concepts and tools and field work experience to complex healthcare industry/management problems; the ability to think critically about issues, perspectives, and potential strategic options, using sophisticated analytical and problem-solving tools and informed judgement to formulate recommendations for presentation to senior healthcare executives and policy-makers; :  the ability to formulate a set of strategic options--addressing the multiple health industry players and interconnected challenges--for consideration; the ability to critique a number of strategic options available to a health industry/healthcare executive team (or multiple, interconnected teams) and conclude which sets of options may be optimal given internal institutional competences and external political, policy, and economic realities | 
| Web Site | Vergil | 
| Department | Health Policy & Management | 
| Enrollment | 40 students (50 max) as of 7:06PM Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 
| Subject | Health Policy and Management | 
| Number | P8559 | 
| Section | 001 | 
| Division | School of Public Health | 
| Open To | Public Health | 
| Note | Permissions: MHA YR2 only | 
| Section key | 20253HPMN8559P001 |