Programmes - Healthcare Management Initiative

At INSEAD, the work of “advancing business as a force for good” starts in the classroom, where an innovative approach to teaching prepares students to transform business and society in novel ways. The Master Strategist Day (MSD) serves as a prime example. This unique full day event, held with a real-life not-for-profit organisation, is part of the core strategy class. Twice a year, over 500 MBA students across Fontainebleau and Singapore campuses are presented with a challenge and offered the opportunity to practice strategy. Mentored by senior strategy professionals, participants compete and support others to analyse the organisation and suggest strategic options to achieve its goals. A finalist team from each section presents its recommendations to a panel of judges comprised of faculty from different disciplines across the school and senior executives from the organisation.

The MSD event is appreciated by both students as well as the target organisation. In recent years, MSD has focused on various not-for-profits in health as well as organisations pursuing socially responsible initiatives, including Unjani Clinics NPC, Almouneer Diabetic Eye Care Clinics, and Banlieues Santé.

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Course Faculty

Ithai Stern

Associate Professor of Strategy
The Akzo Nobel Fellow of Strategic Management

Ilze Kivleniece 

Assistant Professor of Strategy

Chengyi Lin

Affiliate Professor of Strategy

Examples of Past programmes

1. Middle East Health Leadership Program

The Middle East Health Leadership Programme (MEHLP), extended the successes of the previously taught European Health Leadership Programme (EHLP) to the INSEAD Abu Dhabi Campus for the first time from February 2008. For those of you interested in EHLP, we recommend that you consider MEHLP or IHT as well as STICH programmes (listed below). The MEHLP provides leadership, decision making, process excellence, quality management, and health care service innovation concepts to a select group of health leaders. The programme currently has a large alumni network consisting of leaders working in and around the Middle East. For more information.

Participant profile: Participants will be high-potential individuals with at least 4 to 10 years’ management experience. Successful candidates will be senior managers in health care organisations (excluding commercial health care suppliers) who have already demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities, who personally wish to advance and who are considered by their organisation as capable of occupying positions of increased responsibility in the future. Past participants come from a range of nationalities and backgrounds, including chief medical officers, heads of nursing, department heads, health care insurance providers and government policy makers. At minimum, a bachelor’s degree is required.

2. Innovating Health for Tomorrow 

The Innovating Health for Tomorrow program (IHT), launched in 2012, is designed for senior level world leaders working in multi-stakeholder environments related to health care delivery and community wellness. The course, offered on France campus, aims to equip participants to be more innovative and to support those around them to be innovative with a goal of cultivating their passion for innovation and to help rethink how care and wellness are approached. For more information.

Participant profile: This programme is designed for a cross-section of professionals who can influence healthcare at a regional, national or local level. Most participants are expected to hold senior executive and/or entrepreneurial positions in organisations such as:

Public-sector providers of public, primary or acute care 
Public-private partnerships in healthcare
NGOs focusing on healthcare (or community development where health plays a major role)
Private healthcare providers
Government healthcare insurance agencies, assessment departments or policy units 
Academic clinicians
Professional medical or patient advocacy organisations

Participants not suitable for the programme include those who work for: pharmaceutical or medical device companies; consulting firms in the health sector; and private, for-profit health insurance companies.Participants will typically have 5 to 10 years of management experience or more. They should already have demonstrated leadership and innovation qualities. Their organisations should also consider them capable of holding positions of increased responsibility in the future. They must have strong command of the English language, which is the language of instruction for all pedagogical materials. Last but not least, participants must commit to participating in both modules, contributing constructively during modules, innovating between modules and sharing updates with other participants in a spirit of open-source innovation.

3. Strategic Innovation for Community Health

The Strategic Innovation for Community Health program (STICH), held in Abu Dhabi since 2011, is designed for senior health care professionals working in areas of chronic diseases and family medicine across the Middle East. STICH offers insights and thinking about innovation as a discipline, the innovation of health care, prevention services, the effective implementation and adaptation of strategy and new approaches to "systems thinking". For more information.

Participant profile: Strategic Innovation for Community Health (STICH) is designed for leaders in primary care, public health or chronic disease care. Successful candidates will have been trained as doctors, nurses, health educators or other health professionals but have subsequently become senior or high-potential managers in health care delivery organisations in the Middle East. Participants typically:

Are senior or high-potential managers in healthcare services
Have 3-8 years of management experience
Are recognised to be capable of occupying positions of increased responsibility, particularly with respect to innovation.

Participants typically hold titles such as Public Health Strategy Development Officer; Director of Nursing; Director of Primary Care; Senior Regional Officer of Public Health; Senior Specialist of Family Medicine; District Director or Director, Primary Care.

Overview of the three programmes - MEHLP, IHT and STICH - supported the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust.

Current Programmes

4. Healthcare Compliance Implementation Leadership Programmes

The Healthcare Compliance Implementation Leadership Programmes provide a comprehensive multi-modular curriculum with essential compliance education and training necessary for today’s healthcare compliance and legal professionals. In the absence of an academic path within universities, this programme is a unique platform for them to acquire and enhance their professional competence. INSEAD offers two complementary modules focused on the design, management and enhancement of effective compliance programmes. For more information.

5. Entrepreneurs in Clinical Academia 

Entrepreneurs in Clinical Academia (ECA) is an initiative from the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) offering medical academics in Europe the chance to discover more about the drug development process and how to get the most out of research. It is supported by Celgene and delivered by INSEAD. For more information.

We leverage our business expertise in health to design custom programmes aimed at specific needs of organisations such as:

• Pharmaceutical, medical device and other R&D firms
• Healthcare delivery firms across private and public sectors
• Government healthcare authorities

Recent examples of INSEAD partnerships include: 

Programme overview

The Middle East Health Leadership Programme was designed to provide Middle East leaders with an educational experience that would equip them with concepts, tools, techniques and strategies to play significant leadership roles in the rapidly changing and extremely challenging world of health care. It brought together a group of participants from many countries and a variety of professional experiences and organisational affiliations in pursuit of a common objective – to learn together in a demanding and rigorous setting about new approaches to managing and leading in the health sector.

Previous participant profiles

Participants were high-potential individuals with at least 4 to 10 years’ management experience. Successful candidates were senior managers in healthcare organisations (excluding commercial healthcare suppliers) who had already demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities, who personally wished to advance and who were considered by their organisation as capable of occupying positions of increased responsibility in the future.

They came from a range of nationalities and backgrounds, including chief medical officers, heads of nursing, department heads, healthcare insurance providers and government policy makers. At minimum, a bachelor’s degree was required.

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Programme overview

Innovating Health for Tomorrow was designed to equip participants to become more innovative – and to support those around them in becoming more innovative too. It seeked to develop not only an understanding of innovation but also a passion for creative thinking. Its two five-day modules drew on INSEAD’s long experience of teaching innovation to healthcare professionals, as well as the school’s diverse research on innovation. As well as encouraging participants to undertake a radical rethink of their services, the programme developed insights for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of existing health provision. It used experiential exercises to help participants access their own creative capacities and nurture collaborative skills.

Previous participant profiles

This programme was designed for a cross-section of professionals who could influence healthcare at a regional, national or local level. Most participants were expected to hold senior executive and/or entrepreneurial positions in organisations such as:

Public-sector providers of public, primary or acute care
Public-private partnerships in healthcare
NGOs focusing on healthcare (or community development where health plays a major role)
Private healthcare providers
Government healthcare insurance agencies, assessment departments or policy units
Academic clinicians
Professional medical or patient advocacy organisations

Participants not suitable for the programme included those who worked for: pharmaceutical or medical device companies; consulting firms in the health sector; and private, for-profit health insurance companies.

Participants typically had 5 to 10 years of management experience or more, had already demonstrated leadership and innovation qualities, and their organisations also considered them capable of holding positions of increased responsibility in the future. They were required strong command of the English language, which is language of instruction for all pedagogical materials.

Last but not least, participants were required to particpate in both modules, contributing constructively during modules, innovating between modules and sharing updates with other participants in a spirit of open-source innovation.

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Programme overview

Strategic Innovation for Community Health was a novel programme for senior healthcare managers working in the areas of primary care, chronic care pathways and community health. It was designed for people with medical, nursing, health education and public health backgrounds whose management responsibilities had increased significantly and who were faced with the challenge of developing new models of care for healthcare service design and delivery.

Previous participant profiles

Strategic Innovation for Community Health (STICH) was designed for leaders in primary care, public health or chronic disease care. Successful candidates were trained as doctors, nurses, health educators or other health professionals but subsequently became senior or high-potential managers in health care delivery organisations in the Middle East.

Participants were typically:

Senior or high-potential managers in healthcare services
Had 3-8 years of management experience
Recognised to be capable of occupying positions of increased responsibility, particularly with respect to innovation.

Participants typically held the titles such as Public Health Strategy Development Officer; Director of Nursing; Director of Primary Care; Senior Regional Officer of Public Health; Senior Specialist of Family Medicine; District Director or Director, Primary Care.

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