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No other MBA program brings all its students across all degree programs together over the course of three intense immersion weekends, two in Evanston and one in Boston, to talk about the most important issues facing healthcare today.

You'll learn and strategize next to healthcare professionals, faculty and alumni working in the field to get an up-close-and-personal look at how players, trends and movements shape the industry.

Immersive weekends will take place:

  • January 16-19, 2025
  • February 13-16, 2025
  • March 6-9, 2025

Optimism to Impact: A Deep Dive into Healthcare at Kellogg

Step into the complex world of healthcare. This eye-opening series follows students, faculty and industry experts over the course of a three-month academic experience delving into our nation’s most critical issues and game-changing solutions.  

What Deep Dive weekends offer

Open to all MBA students

All MBA students – Full-Time, Evening & Weekend and Executive MBA – come together for three different weekends in three different cities for the Deep Dive. This blend of student experience and range of MBA programs will show you how to approach and solve problems in different ways.

Courses intended for dialogue among diverse students

Expect courses such as Value Creation and Capture in an Evolving Healthcare Market, taught by Andrew Hayek, Co-Founder & CEO of Triple Aim Partners and former CEO of Optum Health. 

Next-level discussions
Interact with business leaders from throughout the healthcare ecosystem at a series of formal and informal discussions. Past speakers include leaders from Kaiser Permanente, ECOR1, Gilead, Vertex and One Medical.
Focus on innovation
The Deep Dive weekends in San Francisco, Chicago and Miami are home to innovative healthcare sectors and other related industries, and are particularly well-positioned to bring in local, leading experts from startups to large incumbent firms.

Deep dive into healthcare courses

Our innovative and intensive Deep Dive healthcare courses will show you firsthand how they fit into today's healthcare ecosystem. Covering many aspects of this massive sector, courses are taught by leading healthcare practitioners who provide meaning and depth into each subject. Sessions include both curricular and co-curricular programming as well as alumni and networking events.

 

Weekend #1: Evanston Sessions

Thursday January 16, 2025
Happy hour + Networking Panel
Friday January 17, 2025

Healthcare strategy

Networking Panels with Alumni

Saturday January 18, 2025

Healthcare strategy

Small Group Dinners with Alumni

Sunday January 19, 2025

Healthcare strategy

Networking Lunch + Group Work

Weekend #2: Boston Sessions

Thursday February 13, 2025
Healthcare Strategy

Happy Hour + Networking Panel
Friday February 14, 2025

Track 1: 
Growing + Sustaining Success in Biopharmaceutical Firms
Track 2:
Value Creation + Capture in an Evolving Healthcare Market

Healthcare Strategy

Track 1: 
Value Creation + Capture in Biotech
Track 2:
Using Analytics to Create + Capture Value in Healthcare

Networking Panels with Alumni


Saturday February 15, 2025

Track 1: 
Value Creation + Capture in Biotech
Track 2:
Using Analytics to Create + Capture Value in Healthcare

Lunch Panel

Track 1: 
Growing + Sustaining Success in Biopharmaceutical Firms
Track 2:
Value Creation + Capture in an Evolving Healthcare Market

Small Group Dinners with Alumni 

Sunday February 16, 2025
Track 1: 
Value Creation + Capture in Biotech
Track 2:
Using Analytics to Create + Capture Value in Healthcare

Weekend #3: Evanston Sessions

Thursday March 6, 2025
Happy Hour + Networking Panel
Friday March 7, 2025

Track 1: 
Value Creation + Capture in Biotech
Track 2:
Using Analytics to Create + Capture Value in Healthcare

Lunch Panel

Track 1: 
Growing + Sustaining Success in Biopharmaceutical Firms
Track 2:
Value Creation + Capture in an Evolving Healthcare Market

Networking Panels with Alumni

Saturday March 8, 2025

Track 1: 
Growing + Sustaining Success in Biopharmaceutical Firms
Track 2:
Value Creation + Capture in an Evolving Healthcare Market

Lunch Panel

Track 1: 
Value Creation + Capture in Biotech
Track 2:
Using Analytics to Create + Capture Value in Healthcare

Small Group Dinners with Alumni

Sunday March 9, 2025
Track 1: 
Growing + Sustaining Success in Biopharmaceutical Firms
Track 2:
Value Creation + Capture in an Evolving Healthcare Market

Next-level engagement

Previous Deep Dive attendees describe their experience.
Picture of Danjuma Quarless
The Healthcare Deep Dive has been both transformative and very holistic in nature. Being in an exploratory phase of my career, a ten minute conversation here can spark the next ten years of my life.
Aisha Hauser ’24 MBA, Evening & Weekend Program
Senior Manager of Corporate Communications & Relations at Genentech
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The guest speakers that have been arranged have just been unbelievable. We've heard from CEOs, people that are on the inside at investment companies and in the pharmaceuticals business. Hearing their perspective has really opened my eyes.
John B. Koss ’24 MBA, Executive MBA Program
Managing Director of E-Data Consulting Group at Mintz
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Many people think of healthcare as a very challenging industry, which it absolutely is. But, to be at Kellogg where people are working on their own different segments of the healthcare industry in exciting ways, it gets me energized every single day.
Kendall Jackson ’24 MBA, Full-Time Program
MD Candidate at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Contact us about Healthcare at Kellogg

GET IN TOUCH
Craig Garthwaite
Faculty Director, Healthcare at Kellogg
c-garthwaite@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.491.2509
Paul Campbell
Executive Director, Healthcare at Kellogg
paul.campbell@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.308.4586
Pete McNerney
Director, Healthcare Entrepreneurship Initiative, Healthcare at Kellogg
peter.mcnerney@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.491.3838
Karen Larkin Young
Senior Program Development Manager, Administrative Director
karen.larkin@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Mary Novak
Program Assistant
mary.novak@kellogg.northwestern.edu