Healthcare

What advice would you give prospective students interested in healthcare?

Healthcare is part of just about every class at HBS. The case method provides excellent opportunities to understand healthcare's challenges from multiple management angles, such as operations, organizational behavior, corporate accountability, and strategy.

What are your future plans and goals?

I am currently applying for medical residency. Next year, I will work as a physician in an academic medical center and also pursue projects in hospital management. I am interested in both caring for patients and managing healthcare systems. I'd like to one day be president of a large hospital or healthcare system. I think my MBA will help me achieve these goals.

How well do you feel HBS has prepared you for the healthcare industry?

The case method is a phenomenal way to find our own voice. Students here are forced to make thousands of management judgments each year. As in medicine, in which we are trained to make timely decisions to save lives, managers are required to make difficult choices that have deep societal consequences. At HBS, we become comfortable tackling complex managerial challenges with imperfect information. In healthcare, that's essential, because we need to make important choices without knowing what the landscape will be like in five or ten years.