Healthcare

Why do you want to work in the healthcare industry?

Few things impact us to such an extent as our health. A career in healthcare is an enormous opportunity to positively change the fundamental quality of people's lives, directly and indirectly. Direct change may be hands-on in preventing, managing, and curing disease. The indirect change is also important. Healthcare consumes 17% of GDP--much higher than peer countries--without necessarily the corresponding impact on outcomes. With more effective, cost-reducing innovations, the nation will have more options in allocating resources to other competitive sectors of the economy. Participating in conceiving and driving these innovations to the marketplace marries my professional and personal motivations.

How will your MBA impact healthcare delivery?

Healthcare is a complex industry, and health is a complex idea. The ability to understand, analyze, and ultimately make beneficial choices profoundly depends on the ability to induce the relevant questions, to seek the relevant information, and to make difficult choices that will stand up to scrutiny. My MBA education has better prepared me to evaluate and lead in these ambiguous, imperfect information situations. I am impacting healthcare by creating and building high-value businesses.

Why HBS?

A general management education is important to see, transfer, and stimulate creativity and innovations across industries because creative, impassioned people work in many industries. The MBA program is a chance to study the stories and meet these outstanding people. Recognizing that healthcare is its own ecosystem, the ability to touch and feel this ecosystem is also important, even beyond the campus boundaries. HBS is geographically located in one of the global hubs of life science innovation. I firmly believe business building is a contact-sport, and the opportunities for high-impact interactions at HBS are incredible.