Duke University, Durham, NC
Health Sector Management
The Duke MBA: Weekend Executive
The Duke MBA–Weekend Executive HSM concentration is ideal for working health care professionals who want to maintain their competitive edge in today’s business environment through a strong core MBA foundation that provides a comprehensive understanding of the health sector.
Program design
In the Weekend Executive program, classes meet on alternate weekends on the Durham, North Carolina campus. This format allows students to continue full-time work while earning the Duke MBA—and to immediately apply their new knowledge and skills on the job.
The HSM concentration is completed within the same twenty-month period as the Weekend Executive program and does not increase the time required to earn the Duke MBA degree.
Our curriculum allows students to expand their global management perspectives, think strategically, and strengthen their essential leadership skills alongside fellow business leaders. Our HSM students also interact with their peers in the Daytime and Global Executive programs as well as alumni returning to pursue the HSM certificate.
The Duke MBA–Weekend Executive Calendar
About our students
The Weekend Executive HSM program is open to a wide range of health care professionals, including physicians and other clinicians with management responsibilities, as well as managers and executives in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, information technology, and insurance industries.
Our applicants typically:
- Have a minimum of five years of professional work experience (the average is ten years)
- Are currently in a management position
- Have shown steady career progression and increasing levels of responsibility
My classmates were a major contributor to my learning in the HSM program. The opportunity to supplement the text book learning with real life knowledge enhanced my HSM and MBA experience. We were fortunate to have a very diverse class which included physicians, technology experts, pharmacists, researchers, and many other health care professionals. It was exciting to hear about a new venture start-up based on a compound discovered in a lab or to learn more about the drug approval process from someone working on a clinical trial, or to discuss the problems of health care access with those who live it on a daily basis. Those classroom interactions have helped to make me more effective in my current position and they provide a framework for thinking about future challenges.
Lynn Eschenbacher
PharmD, MBA‘07
The Duke MBA - Weekend Executive
Medication Safety Office
Dept. of Pharmacy
Duke University Hospital