INTEGRATIVE THINKING AND YOUR CAREER IN...
Health Care or Pharmaceutical Management

Health care represents a huge and growing sector in all industrialized economies and is representative of the service and knowledge-oriented focus of the 21st century economy. In the competitive world of business education, Rotman has one key advantage that no other school can match: an innovative approach built on Integrative Thinking.

Our students receive a solid grounding in all the functional areas of business: Strategic Management, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour + Human Resources Management, etc. But they also learn how to think beyond them to consider the big picture, approaching each challenge with creativity, a willingness to consider multiple perspectives, and the ability to build new and better models. It’s a groundbreaking approach that can help you shape your organization — and the world— for the better.

Currently, more than 300 Rotman alumni work in Health Care and Pharmaceutical Management. Meet some recent graduates who are putting Integrative Thinking to work in this arena:

Jennifer Aiello (MBA), Associate Manager, Strategic Planning ColonCancerCheck Program, Cancer Care Ontario: "Health care is not only about science and the practice of medicine. It incorporates the management of people, technology, information, and is anchored in the effective understanding and application of policy and planning, management systems, public awareness, and strategy – to name a few. My Rotman MBA has provided me with the tools and Integrative Thinking models necessary to effectively apply my skills in all of these areas. In my current role I am working on strategic planning for new cancer screening and chronic disease management programs in Ontario. Every day, I appreciate how Rotman heightened my strategic capabilities in research, planning and applying business acumen to targeted opportunities."

Maxine Hynes (MBA), New Business Development Specialist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre:
“I am currently in the unique position of making entrepreneurial decisions for a traditionally risk-averse organization. I am one of very few business people amongst many clinicians, researchers, nurses, staff and administrators. To be successful, I need to see problems from the perspective of each of these stakeholders as well as patients, the government, the media and taxpayers. My functional-area courses at Rotman taught me how to think like a business person: but Integrative Thinking helps me to think like (and understand) everyone else.”

Health Care and Pharmaceutical firms recruiting at Rotman in the past few years include:

• Visit the website for our student-run Rotman Health Care and Biotechnology Association.
• Find out about our Major in Health Care Management.
• Read the MBA Employment & Salary Report, prepared annually by our Corporate Connections Centre.
• Read about our electives courses in Health Care Consulting; Health Care Topics in Transformation; Health Sector Strategy and Organization; Strategic Issues in Life Sciences Commercialization; and Health Policy and Health Care Markets .
• Read about the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Science to Business Program, which encourages individuals with PhDs in a health related discipline to pursue a health and biotechnology stream MBA.
• Review our Integrative Thinking courses, compulsory and elective.