Fall 2025 Health Policy and Management P8559 section 001

Comparative Strategic Management

COMP STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

Call Number 14461
Day, Time & Location View Class Schedule & Location in Vergil
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Paul W Thurman
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Students apply advanced strategic frameworks and concepts to real-world, complex, strategic problems involving multiple healthcare sectors, institutions, players and/or disciplines/functions. Specific objectives include: the ability to conceptualize and model a complex, multi-faceted, multi-player healthcare strategic challenge in simple language and in a coherent framework that supports analyses and resolution; a deepened understanding of the inherent complexity and interdependency of the major challenges--economic, political, strategic, and operational--facing the healthcare industry and specific sectors, institutions, and players within the industry; the ability to apply strategic analysis and other curricular concepts and tools and field work experience to complex healthcare industry/management problems; the ability to think critically about issues, perspectives, and potential strategic options, using sophisticated analytical and problem-solving tools and informed judgement to formulate recommendations for presentation to senior healthcare executives and policy-makers; : the ability to formulate a set of strategic options--addressing the multiple health industry players and interconnected challenges--for consideration;
the ability to critique a number of strategic options available to a health industry/healthcare executive team (or multiple, interconnected teams) and conclude which sets of options may be optimal given internal institutional competences and external political, policy, and economic realities
Department Health Policy & Management
Enrollment 40 students (50 max) as of 9:06PM Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Subject Health Policy and Management
Number P8559
Section 001
Division School of Public Health
Open To Public Health
Note Permissions: MHA YR2 only
Section key 20253HPMN8559P001