Overview
The health sector is undergoing transformational growth and change, offering compelling opportunities and challenges for emerging managers and leaders. We prepare students for leadership roles throughout the health industry, including bio-technology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, health information technology, health systems management, consulting, and public policy.
The program curriculum is designed to combine a strong education in the core functions of health sector management with the flexibility to obtain an enhanced understanding and skill set with the student’s particular areas of interest.
This curriculum provides a developed approach to:
- Build on the functional skills of the core MBA curriculum
- Provide targeted understanding of the nature of the health sector and the application of those basic skills to the sector
- Provide even greater flexibility to address specialized interests within the sector, whether health service delivery, life science products, consulting, or any other focused area
MBA+MSDi students are eligible to enroll in the Health Sector Management Program, and may complete the required internship following the MSDi summer intensives.
Curriculum Grids
HSM Full-Time MBA
The curriculum grid listed below will help you understand degree requirements and plan your courses. The Full Time HSM MBA Checksheet is another useful tool to help map out your degree requirements.
HSM PEMBA (Entering Class of 2016 and later)
The curriculum grid listed below will help you understand degree requirements and plan your courses. The PEMBA HSM Checksheet is another useful tool to help map out your degree requirements.
HSM PEMBA (Entering Class of 2015 and prior)
Required Courses (2)
Two courses are required:
- HM703 Health Sector Issues and Opportunities (fall semester only)
– AND – - HM710 Health Service Delivery: Strategies, Solutions and Execution (fall semester only)
– OR – - HM717 Drugs, Devices, and Diagnostics: New Challenges, Strategies, and Execution (fall semester only)
Elective Courses (2)
These electives can create an intensive and targeted education within any subset of the health sector. Two courses selected from the following list are required:
- HM710 Health Services Delivery: Strategies, Solutions and Execution*
- HM717 Drugs, Devices, and Diagnostics: New Challenges, Strategies, and Execution*
- HM801 Bench-to-Bedside-Translating Biomedical Innovation from the Laboratory to the Marketplace
- HM817 Health Information Technology
- HM820 Strategy, Economics, and Policy in the Health Sector
- HM833 Health Sector Marketing
- HM840 Health Sector Consulting
- HM848 Driving Health Sector Innovation
- OM840 Managing and Improving Quality: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
- OM865 Idea Lab**
- SI814 Intellectual Property Strategies
- SI852 Starting New Ventures** (business plan developed must relate to the health sector)
- ENG BE696 Advanced Deployment of Biomedical Innovations
* Course will count as a HSM elective if not taken as an HSM core course.
** For students starting in fall of 2019, these courses will no longer count towards HSM.
The following courses are no longer offered. If previously taken, these courses will count toward HSM program requirements.
- HM856
- OB802
HSM Internship
For full-time students, the program requires a 400 hour Health Sector Internship that students typically complete during the summer between the first and second years of the program.
Students must confirm their internship with the Graduate Academic & Career Development Center. For more information on this process please contact Brad Czarnowski at 617.353.4875 or bczar@bu.edu. See the following links for HSM Internship Form (Part I) and HSM Internship Form (Part II).
Additional HSM Internship Documents: Internship Report Presentation Template 2018 and The Site Evaluation Form
Program Contact
Ned Rimer
Faculty Director, HSM Program
nedrimer@bu.edu
617.353.3146
Brad Czarnowski
HSM Program Advisor
Graduate Academic & Career Development Center
bczar@bu.edu
617.353.4875

Graduate Academic & Career Development Center
Rafik B. Hariri Building
595 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 115
Boston, MA 02215
OFFICE HOURS
Fall & SpringM-Th 8:00am-6:00pm, F 8:00am-5:00pm
Summer
M-Th 8:30am-5:00pm, F 8:30am-2:00pm
Except holidays and intersession