Curriculum The Wharton Management Core


All students are required to complete the Wharton Management Core. The Wharton School’s core curriculum is designed to increase crossfunctional integration, extend global experience, strengthen leadership training, and introduce new courses on key management issues. The core curriculum provides groundwork in basic management disciplines: economics, finance, financial and cost accounting, management science, managing people and organizational design, marketing, operations management, the governmental and legal environment of business, statistics, and strategy.


• Ethics and Responsibility • Financial Accounting • Managerial Accounting • Statistical Analysis for Management • Decision Models and Uncertainty • Managerial Economics • Marketing Management: Program Design • Marketing Management: Strategy • Operations Management: Quality and Productivity


• Operations Management: Supply Chain Management


• Management of People at Work • Macroeconomics and the Global Economic Environment


• Corporate Finance • Competitive Strategy • Global Strategic Management • Government and Legal Environment of Business


• Management Communication • Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership


Global Immersion Program The Wharton Global Immersion Program is an optional half-credit elective course that provides first-year students with an in-depth exposure to international business practices and first-hand insights into a foreign culture.


The Health Care Major Courses and Electives These courses promote an understanding of concepts, institutions, and issues involved in the organization, financing, and delivery of health services and products in the United States. Health care electives are selected consistent with individual career objectives and interests.


Required • Health Services System • Health Care Field Application Project


Electives • Comparative Health Care Systems • Financial Management of Health Care Organizations


• Managed Care, Market Structure, and Health Care Delivery


• Health Care Marketing • Health Economics and Policy • Legal Aspects of Health Care • Management and Economics of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry


• Medical Devices • Management of Health Care for the Elderly • E-Health: Business Models and Impact • Management of Health Care Services Businesses


• Health Care Entrepreneurship • Private Sector Role in Global Health • Health Care Services Delivery: A Managerial Economic Approach • Advanced Study Project


The Health Care Summer Internship The internship is a three-month management experience which provides the health care major an opportunity to work with a senior executive in an organization of particular interest to the student.


MBA Electives Opportunities are available for the health care major to pursue a second concentration in fields such as entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, or operations, or to pursue specialized knowledge in areas such as health care financing or within specialized segments of the health care industry including managed care organizations, hospitals, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, medical device companies, specialty services organizations, and long term care organizations. Graduate courses are available throughout the University.


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