Fully-Employed MBA Programs - Health Care Specialization Track
Overview
A health care specialization track is offered to Rice MBA for Executives and Rice MBA for Professionals as an enhancement to their degree. This health care track is aimed at health care professionals working full time who are seeking to advance themselves in the industry.
The health care courses are offered year round and supplement regular electives.
Course Requirements Students will take a total of 12 additional credits to fulfill the concentration/track requirements.
| MGMT 678 |
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U.S. Health Care Management |
| MGMT 755 |
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Health Care Operations Management |
| MGMT 756 |
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Management of Health Care Organizations |
| MGMT 679 |
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Cost and Quality in Health Care |
| MGMT 680 |
|
Customer Analytics for Satisfaction and Loyalty |
| MGMT 694 |
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Interpersonal Communication in Health Care |
| MGMT 690 |
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Health Care Strategy |
| MGMT 691 |
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Negotiation for Health Care |
| MGMT 633 |
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Life Science Entrepreneurship |
| MGMT 686 |
|
Marketing Research |
| MGMT 751 |
|
Health Care Finance |
| MGMT 750 |
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Health Care Informatics Systems and Management |
| MGMT 697 |
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Strategic Process Management in Health Care |
Faculty The health care concentration and tracks provide students with opportunities to learn from and collaborate with researchers and innovators at the cutting edge of health care and biotechnology. Representing a combination of distinguished academic researchers, health care practitioners and business leaders, Jones Graduate School faculty work closely with students to address this rapidly growing industry from strategic, economic, ethical and operational perspectives. Faculty include:
- Dr. Prashant Kale, Associate Professor of Strategic Management
- Dr. George Kanatas, Jesse H. Jones Professor of Management
- Dr. Marick Masters, Professor of Business, Wayne State University.
- Dr. Vikas Mittal, J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing and faculty director of Health Care Initiatives in Executive Education
- Beth O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Communications
- David Tobin, Lecturer in Communications
- Dr. Atul Vardhachary (PhD and MD), Adjunct Professor in Management
- Dr. Robert A. Westbrook, William Alexander Kirkland Professor of Management
- Dr. Stephen E. Whitney, Professor in the Practice of Health Care Management