Executive MBA Healthcare Innovation & Technology

The top-ranked EDHEC Executive MBA with Specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology track is an opportunity for personal and professional development as you lead the transformation of your healthcare career and make an impact in your organisation.

• Develop your business acumen, critical thinking, and decision-making skills through a rigorous, hands-on programme delivered by leading professors and experts from EDHEC Executive Education in this top-ranked programme.
• Gain new insights and perspectives on leadership and business through executive coaching, 2 global business trips, action learning, and collaboration with peers from within and outside of the healthcare ecosystem.
• Understand the impact of current and future innovation and technology on the wider healthcare environment.
• Learn how to manage performance and drive sustainable value creation in a programme delivered by leading scientific and healthcare technology experts.
• Apply your expertise and new cross-discipline business vision to deliver practical, real-life solutions to a healthcare challenge, or tackle an entrepreneurial project aimed at demonstrating your healthcare leadership capabilities.

The EMBA HIT programme is well-suited for high-potential healthcare leaders, medical experts, clinicians seeking a shift to an administrative function, newly appointed senior executives and department heads, as well as experienced talents looking to drive transformation in your organisation. It’s a unique opportunity to acquire the skills and knowledge of a traditional Executive MBA, while also advancing industry knowledge that can have an immediate impact.

The programme is intended to enable rising talent within your organisation to evolve into confident and inspirational leaders in healthcare.

The programme is part-time so participants will develop a holistic overview of the challenges and perspectives needed for effective healthcare leadership while working—with minimal disruption. During the programme, participants are required to complete a consulting project which can be directly related to a challenge or opportunity specific to your organisation.

Broaden your perspectives across the continents

The EMBA is designed to help you navigate the issues and challenges facing the global business landscape and the programme includes:

• 2 global business trips, plus
• a 2-day seminar in Brussels, Belgium focused on doing business in Europe.

The global business trips help you explore how economic and political models work in different markets, cultures, and environments. You acquire a better understanding of the mechanics of competition and identify key business success factors. The international business trips also help you view things from a different angle, develop strategic sensitivity and acquire new managerial reflexes in project and people management.

Global business trips are a compulsory part of the programme for both the EMBA and EMBA with specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology participants.

The Global Business Report

At the end of each business trip, while working in teams with fellow participants, you will produce a Global Business Report that focuses on an industry or company of your choice. The project aims to help you anticipate the trends emanating from new market economies and identify alternative management models.

Leverage your experience, demonstrate your strategic vision

The final part of your Executive MBA journey is the Consulting Project, which is your opportunity to act on what you have learned and experienced, applying it to a tangible, real-life proposal.

The Consulting Project is:

• Designed to demonstrate your strategic abilities to frame a problem or opportunity linked to your organisation, the healthcare industry, or relevant business issue that is important to you, your career, or your company
• An opportunity for you to demonstrate your value and leadership talent to your company or develop a business plan to launch your own entrepreneurial healthcare project
• The ultimate proof of your ability to defend a concept or idea, develop a realistic and actionable solution, and apply relevant strategic frameworks

Real-world relevance, bold and immediate impact.

The EDHEC MBA - Healthcare Innovation & Technology programme allows you to gain focused insight into key innovations and technological drivers impacting the healthcare sector and participants will work with, and be guided by, specialists from the healthcare ecosystem.

• Combines academic excellence with business-relevant theory, experience, and expertise
• Takes an experiential, hands-on approach that leverages business simulations, case studies, business reports, and a consulting project
• Blends the experience to be both personalised and collaborative by being part of a highly diverse, international, and professional cohort
• Offers flexible structure to help you maximise your time, investment, and experience

EDHEC

The EDHEC Executive MBA programme is delivered by international academic experts and business professionals who share expertise that encourages you to think, act and deliver at the highest level.  

Management in Innovative Health Chair

The "Management in Innovative Health" chair is structured around three major axes: research, teaching, and dissemination of acquired knowledge. Its central objective is to advance knowledge and practices in terms of the impact of digital technology on healthcare provision, the emergence of e-health, and the use of connected health devices. The chair’s professors and experts from the healthcare industry will help you get ready to accelerate innovation in the field of e-health and tackle the challenges of the global healthcare industry. Born out of a partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb, the chair capitalizes on the synergies between EDHEC's professors and researchers, and Bristol Myers Squibb's ecosystem of experts and patient communities.

Total tuition fee:  €52,000* excluding VAT.

These are full tuition fees for the entire length of your Executive MBA.

Scholarships and Funding

Discover our scholarships up to -30%.

One of the greatest benefits of the EDHEC Executive MBA programme is the diversity of the cohort. This is why we have several generous scholarship options that help ensure gender equality, cultural diversity, and fairness.

If you are eligible for a scholarship, you will automatically be awarded the most beneficial scholarship for you as the scholarships are not accumulated.

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^{*This fee includes all tuition fees and accommodation expenses for the two business trips, but it does not include flights.}

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Degree

The Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree is a Master's Degree approved by the French State “Diplôme pour cadres dirigeants et entrepreneurs", RNCP39121. It is a level Bac+5 Grade Master.

Yes, doctors, nurses, and any clinician is welcome to pursue an MBA or Executive MBA. The EDHEC Executive MBA with specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology (HIT) is especially beneficial for medical professionals who strive to become managers, leaders, or executives in health clinics and hospitals, or who have entrepreneurial ambitions in the industry.

The EDHEC EMBA HIT programme combines excellence in entrepreneurial business leadership with healthcare innovation. This option is designed to equip industry managers & professionals with a global business vision to lead with confidence in the fast-changing healthcare ecosystem. 

Yes. Doing an MBA in hospital management, Healthcare MBA or an Executive MBA with a track in Healthcare Innovation & Technology, after a BBA, will serve to propel your executive leadership career within the industry.

In short, yes. The Executive MBA HIT experience is a unique and personalised journey designed for experienced healthcare industry professionals, decision-makers, and entrepreneurs seeking personal and professional transformation. The programme will empower you to work on yourself and help your career ambitions materialise while gaining new perspectives and insights and building and consolidating a solid understanding of the key business-management aspects and strategic decision-making processes relevant on a local and global level.

EDHEC is a member of the select category of business schools worldwide (fewer than 1%) to be triple-accredited by AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA.

Doing a Healthcare MBA or Executive MBA with a track in Healthcare Innovation & Technology, although not obligatory, is invaluable for professionals who seek to enter hospital management and healthcare administration. The health sector makes an important contribution to the economy and has a major impact on our lives. It is also an ecosystem disrupted by ongoing demographic and health trends, digital development, new business models, and technological innovations. In this context, hospitals, clinics, biotech, and MedTech firms alongside health professionals and industry start-ups are seeking innovative managers and leaders with hybrid profiles who understand the complexity of the global ecosystem and possess an all-around vision of the market, from both business and technological standpoints. 

Expertise and Academic Excellence

his unique programme combines academic excellence and action-learning that is focused on the trends, challenges, and innovations specific to the industry—and welcomes lectures and workshops from professionals contributing to the transformation of healthcare.

Lead360 and CareerSMART® programmes

Embedded into the programme, Lead360 and CareerSMART® programmes enable participants to develop and refine leadership skills that are in high demand in a growing sector—one that requires a high degree of confident compassion to navigate complex topics impacting human lives.

An Enriching and Collective Experience

When you join the programme, you have immediate access to an international and diverse professional network from within and outside of the healthcare ecosystem—including more than 55,000 EDHEC alumni around the world.

Completing the EDHEC Executive MBA with specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology (HIT) programme, although not obligatory, is invaluable for professionals who seek a career in the healthcare ecosystem. Healthcare, as a sector, makes an important contribution to the economy and has a major impact on our lives. It is also an ecosystem disrupted by ongoing demographic and health trends, digital development, new business models, and technological innovations. In this context, hospitals, clinics, biotech, and MedTech firms alongside health professionals and industry start-ups are seeking innovative managers and leaders with hybrid profiles who understand the complexity of the global ecosystem and possess an all-around vision of the market, from both business and technological standpoints.