PUBPOL 5823

Disruptive Innovation in Health Care II

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

The goal of this course is to empower students with current, cutting-edge insights on the external threats and opportunities presented by technology and insurgent forces in healthcare, and how incumbents can successfully respond to these threats and opportunities in a COVID and post-COVID world. My hope is that you will be inspired to understand and embrace disruption, and to become an innovator, an influencer, and a force in creating a new and better healthcare world.

Prerequisites REF-FA25/Corequisites REF-FA25 PUBPOL 5813. Corequisites: None.

Enrollment Priority REF-FA25 Enrollment limited to: Sloan Executive Master of Health Administration (EMHA) students.

Last 4 terms offered (None)

Outcomes REF-FA25

• Anticipate the trajectory of insurgents and the response of incumbents to ignore, resist, adopt, co-opt, or compete.
• Evaluate strategic alternatives for incumbents to minimize the risk of disruption and take advantage of opportunities presented by insurgents.
• Translate your knowledge into action by proposing a strategic initiative to enable an incumbent to not just survive but to be strengthened and thrive in a changed, disrupted healthcare industry.

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