Health Care MBA Online Courses
The program comprises 46.5 credit hours, including 31.5 credit hours of core courses and 3 credit hours of technology electives. The remaining 12 credit hours are reserved for health care-focused elective courses.
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Core Courses
6205
Business Essentials for Dynamic Markets
1.5 Credits
Introduction to the foundations of business. Business models and design, dynamic capabilities, and strategy. Identify opportunities, lead individuals, groups, virtual teams, and organizations effectively.
6240
Competition in the Global Economy
3 Credits
Analysis of political risk using insights from practice and political science. Introduces international macroeconomics, geopolitics, frameworks for analyzing firm-level investment, and trade decisions. Overview of the global business environment.
6211
Financial Accounting
3 Credits
Basic concepts and methods used in financial reporting for understanding their content, context, and related processes. Income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Detailed accounting procedures, calculations, and choices.
6250
Technology for Business in DC
1.5 Credits
Real-world applications and management of technology such as business-IT alignment, digital transformation, strategic IT, cloud outsourcing, digital platform strategy and big data analytics. Students work on projects from DC metro area organization.
6213
Accounting for Internal Decision Making*
1.5 Credits
Effective use of internal generation, communication and interpretation of information for both operational and strategic decision-making purposes. Restricted to students in the MBA program.
6263
Organizations and Human Capital
3 Credits
Formal and informal organizational dynamics related to leading and managing human capital. Motivation and compensation, managing diversity, power and employee relations, organizational culture and change, leadership and decision making, and staffing and performance management. Restricted to MBA students.
6224
Decision Making & Data Analysis
3 Credits
Elements of decision making that enable managers to characterize their strengths, assess the competition, and forecast the future. Deterministic and probabilistic decision models. Analytical approaches involving uncertainty, multiple objectives, and multiple stakeholders. Probability concepts are used to develop and apply statistical models, with both exploratory and inferential statistical techniques used, including sampling, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
6274
Marketing
3 Credits
Marketing as an organizational function creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers, while managing customer relationships in ways that benefit both the organization and its stakeholders. Formulation and implementation of the elements of marketing strategy through the application of concepts of marketing, analytic perspectives, and decision tools.
6223
Operations Management*
1.5 Credits
Concepts and techniques related to manufacturing and service operations. Process mapping, capacity analysis, production control, quality management, and supply chains. Integration of operations with a firm’s overall business strategy as a powerful competitive weapon.
6289
Business Ethics and Public Policy
3 Credits
Political, legal, social, economic, and ethical forces acting upon business. Interaction of the market system and public policy process in the development of law and regulation.
6235
Finance*
3 Credits
Financial management examined through financial analyses, fund sources, investing, capital planning/budgeting, dividend policy, and working capital management. Money and capital markets, primary and secondary markets, and cash and futures markets.
6288
Strategic Management*
3 Credits
An integrative approach to strategic management; general manager’s perspective, strategy formulation, implementation of strategy and policy, and evaluation and control of strategy in various types of organizations.
6242
Microeconomics for the World Economy
1.5 Credits
The economics of supply and demand in product markets. Theory of the firm (production and cost structure) and its competitive environment (perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition)
* Indicates a pre-requisite course which must be completed prior to taking this course.
Analytics and Technology Selectives:
Students will complete three one-credit hour technology related courses.
Health Care-Focused Electives:
Health care-focused electives will be chosen from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). Students may petition to have up to 12 credits of GW graduate-level health care-focused courses outside of SMHS applied to their MBA health care-focused elective requirements. This maximum includes approved transfer credit (up to 6 credits) and graduate-level courses completed at GW but outside the GWSB and SMHS. Availability of electives may vary by term.
Elective examples:
- Medicines Development
- The Clinical Research Industry
- Health Information, Quality and Outcomes
- HCQ Analysis
- Patient Safety Systems
- Issues and Trends in Health Systems
- Epidemiology
- Introduction to Global Regulatory Affairs
- Regulatory Strategy in the Development of Drugs and Biologics
Credit Hours 12.0
It is expected that students will complete their core course requirements prior to starting the elective portion of their program.
Certification Options:
In addition, students may choose to complete one of seven certificates offered by the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. All courses required for the certificates may be applied toward the Health Care MBA health care-focused and/or general elective requirements.
- Graduate Certificate in Clinical Research Administration
- Graduate Certificate in Clinical Research Practice
- Graduate Certificate in Clinical & Translational Research
- Graduate Certificate in Health Care Quality
- Graduate Certificate in Health Sciences
- Graduate Certificate in Integrative Medicine
- Graduate Certificate in Regulatory Affairs