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At the culmination of my HBS experience, I hope to be trilingual, understanding the nuances of business, science, and medicine so that I can help shape a more equitable and accessible health care system. [...]
What is the role of a physician in the 21st century? According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the number of medical students graduating from dual MD/MBA programs has grown significantly from 2003 to 2018. Why is this trend happening, and what does it mean for the medical profession? For patients? For society? [...]
Hej! Reporting from Copenhagen here. My first year of HBS is complete, and I moved here one month ago for my summer internship. I’m working in New Product Development at Radiometer – a medical device subsidiary of Danaher. I came to HBS from consulting and was hoping to do something completely new for my summer internship while pursuing my interest in healthcare. Ideally, I wanted to work on a team helping build a product, and do so in a new location. My internship has so far proven to be a great fit. I’m working with the Commercial, Research & Development (R&D), and Finance teams assessing the opportunity for a new medical diagnostic tool that targets a previously unaddressed customer segment. [...]
Each year, the Business Alliance for Health Management (BAHM) launches a case competition at which student teams from each member school compete against one another. In 2018, students were asked to prepare a case study on a specific health care organization and its strategy for responding to the uncertainty of health reform under President Trump. Each team prepared a paper, poster, and PowerPoint presentation, the last of which was delivered on the day of the competition which was hosted at University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business. [...]