Broad social and cultural issues form a context for meaningful discussion of health planning and administration in the current decade and in future decades. This coure will be offered as an elective. It draws heavily on knowledge from other courses, particularly economics, organization theory, and marketing. Students prepare a competitive analysis and strategy formulation project for a health care institution as part of the course. This course includes the topic of governance and uses a major case analysis.
Students provide management reports and a formal oral presentation.
Students learn the fundamentals of marginal analysis as a basis for decision making regarding the use of society's scarce resources. Forty-two of these must be completed in the University of Colorado's Executive Program. The remaining six hours are elective courses. No thesis is required. All transfer courses must be approved by the Program's academic director.