Health Management

International Business Development  

International Business Development (IBD) explores the issues of doing business in an international context, including a three-week project, typically in a developing economy. Recent clients include the Seva Foundation, Population Services International, and Novartis.

Social Sector Solutions

In Social Sector Solutions, student teams work with McKinsey coaches to develop skills and knowledge in problem solving, management consulting, and nonprofit organizations.  Recent clients include the Ellen Meadows Prosthetic Hand Foundation, the SF Council on Child Abuse Prevention, and the UCSF/UCB Joint Medical Program.

See the full list of Berkeley MBA experiential learning opportunities.  

Kim MacPherson is executive director of Health Management & Innovation at Berkeley Haas, director of the MBA/MPH joint degree program, and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology. She teaches Unlocking Digital Health Innovation, Commercializing Biotech & Pharma, and Healthcare in the 21st Century.

The Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT) promotes the development of a health care system that combines innovation and entrepreneurship with economic efficiency and social fairness. Its efforts focus on biopharmaceuticals, implantable medical devices, insurance benefit design, and payment methods.

The Berkeley-UCSF Startup Marketplace provides Berkeley Haas MBA students the opportunity to work with early-stage science startups developed by UCSF scientists and faculty members.

The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) is a nonprofit research and technology commercialization institute comprising UC Berkeley, UCSF, and UC Santa Cruz.

The Haas Healthcare Association brings together students focused on the intersection of business and health care. This interdisciplinary student-run organization sponsors a speaker series that examines trends in biotech, pharma, and global health, a digital health hackathon, and the annual Business of Healthcare Conference.

For more than a decade, the Haas Healthcare Conference has welcomed corporate leaders, students, life sciences gurus, digital health entrepreneurs, and public health champions to explore market and industry trends.

Over the course of a seven-month fellowship, the Berkeley Board Fellows build governance and leadership skills. Students have served on the boards of Lifelong Medical Care, Hyde Street Community Services, Huckleberry Youth Programs, and Cancer CAREpoint.

Part-time MBA students who work in health care, biotech, pharmaceuticals, or life sciences sectors can leverage an alumni and peer network that includes leaders at top companies such as Genentech, Gilead Sciences, Kaiser Permanente, and McKinsey.  The experts in our Career Management Group can help you position yourself as a leader for your next career move.

The list of alumni who maintain close relationships with Berkeley Haas and our students includes:

• Joe Jimenez, former CEO of Novartis
• Sarah Krevans, CEO of Sutter Health
• Jennifer Cook, CEO of Grail
• Jennifer Liebermann, Director of Kaiser Permanente’s Garfield Innovation Center
• Amy Belt Raimundo, Managing Director of KP Ventures