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Accelerated MBA

Health Care Administration

This course provides students with a strong knowledge of the application of accounting information for financial reporting and managerial decision making.

Students will gain an understanding of organizational, competitive, and environmental issues confronting organizations and how firms identify, seize, and defend opportunities in today’s dynamic and rapidly changing global economy.

This course focuses on the identification and access of information sources and analyzing the information to make informed decisions and solve managerial problems. Topics include numerical and graphic description of data, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression analysis and predictive modeling, linear allocation models and allocating resources, forecasting, and decision analysis. The course utilizes spreadsheet, statistical, and simulation software.

Emphasizing the perspective of managers in the private sector, this course focuses on interactions of economic principles at work at the interfirm, intra-industry, and inter-industry levels (microeconomics), at the economy-wide level (macroeconomics), and at the global level (international economics).

This course is concerned with crafting marketing strategies and making marketing decisions. At the end of the course, students should be able to structure and solve rather complex marketing problems.

Fundamental concepts such as time value of money and risk-return relationships in finance are presented in detail. Financial decisions faced by modern business enterprises are analyzed in the framework of financial theories. These decisions include capital budgeting, long-term financing, dividend policy, short-term financial management, and performance evaluations.

This course examines areas of law and ethics that relate to the contemporary business environment. Areas of study include contracts, torts, white collar crime, product liability, anti-competitive practices, consumer protection, employment practices, business organizations, and the legal and ethical responsibilities.

Health care marketing is the promotion of an organization’s products or services to increase its value, making it an integral part of the management of all health care organizations. The health care system poses a variety of marketing challenges for managers due to the services and products it provides, and its unique competitive, regulatory, and ethical environment. This course employs leading-edge knowledge from services marketing to integrate key aspects of strategic marketing planning and implementation with the achievement of practice-based objectives for assuring patient satisfaction. Health services marketing topics include organizing for marketing; psychographic, demographic, and epidemiological analysis of the market; analysis of the product, price, place, and promotion; competitor analysis; market opportunity and demand for forecasting; market strategy; along with understanding the nature and antecedents for client satisfaction and the assessment and assurance of client satisfaction objectives.

A wide range of health care financial management topics are covered, including third-party reimbursement, financial analysis, regulation, legislation, competing public demands, and contemporary health care finance problems. The course is designed to provide a balance between conceptual and practical knowledge of health care finance in a variety of health care settings. Current topics in health care which affect heath care finance will also be covered.

This course focuses on the fundamental principles underlying strategic management of healthcare organizations, including how to devise and implement organizational processes that incorporate effective management techniques. This class will explore strategic properties of firms in the healthcare industry, and the manner in which these firms can achieve organizational objectives utilizing best practices in human resource management, performance / quality / operations management, and strategic planning / implementation / execution. For many businesses across various industries, strategic thinking is key to creating value for firms. Consequently, this course integrates concepts from both strategic management and organizational behavior to understand the actions, events, and phenomena in organizations occurring at the individual (employee), group (work-team), and organizational (firm) levels. You will learn about management and strategy from both a theoretical perspective (i.e., what are the explanations behind certain phenomenon?) and a practical perspective (i.e., how can this knowledge and understanding be applied to make employees more productive and the business more successful?). Course material will be presented and facilitated through readings, discussions, assignments, lectures, cases, videos, and online tutorials.