The undisputed strength of Johns Hopkins University lies in its science and health-based research and teaching enterprise. The Global MBA is rooted in this tradition and draws its distinctive strengths from it. It begins with a world view.
Global focus. Real impact.
The second year allows you to concentrate in an area of special interest. Professional Specialization elective courses develop your strengths not just in the traditional functional areas of business, but in one or more health industry verticals in which Johns Hopkins has enormous, substantive strength.
These specializations provide an unsurpassed opportunity to deepen knowledge and expertise. Some of the elective courses are drawn from MBA offerings in the functional areas of business (accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, and management), while others are innovatively tailored to health.
Topics include cost management, managing health care professionals, leading health care organizations, funding innovations, consumer behavior and public health, global supply chains for pharmaceuticals, managing drug discovery processes, health informatics, and pricing health care services.
Our objective is to help you develop real expertise in your selected specialization.
During your second year, you also continue your work in the Discovery to Market Project, adapting your chosen products and services to the marketplace, learning to develop a business plan, and gaining implementation experience.
By the end of this two-semester initiative, you will understand the challenges associated with transforming scientific discoveries into commercial realities.
The weekly Thought and Discourse Seminars continue to provide an opportunity to reflect on the broader themes of business life—understanding human expression, regulation and governance, and organizational power and politics. Similarly, the Professional Development process continues.
As your skills and expertise grow, you refine your professional goals and prepare for your transition from the classroom to the workplace.
In the final semester, you have the opportunity to create two customized Immersion Colloquia. Depending on your interests, these segments may include a team-based consulting project, a research seminar on emerging trends in a specific area of focus, or further work on your Discovery to Market Project.
Alternatively, you may choose to work with a faculty member on a research project in a shared area of interest, or you may elect to take additional courses that complement a professional specialization.
