- A Bachelor degree from an accredited college/university (or a degree equivalent to 180 Eurocredits).
- Demonstrated professional experience.
- A complete application including all supporting documents.
The program is based on two online interactive periods and three face-to-face periods, each lasting between one and two weeks, providing you with a deep understanding of business and management and a specialized view in biotechnology.
The three face-to-face periods are be held at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the program. Two face-to-face periods are hosted in IE Madrid urban campus and one in Boston, home to the largest concentration of biotech, pharma and related companies in the world.
The week in Boston allow participants to visit some of the most innovative and renowned biotech companies worldwide, such us the Genzyme Center Corporate Headquarters, Novartis, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, and Progenika. There, students attend conferences by some of the most important biotech experts worldwide at Harvard Business School. For more information about Boston period, please click here.
STRUCTURE:
- First Period
CORE COURSES:
Financial Accounting
Cost Accounting
Fundamentals of Finance
Competitive Strategy
World Awareness Seminars
Leadership Workshops
SPECIALIZED COURSES:
Biotech Industry Fundamentals
Legal Issues in Global Business
Marketing and Sales for the Biomedical Market
Operations and Quality in the Life Sciences
Economic Environment and the Economics of Healthcare
Industry Specialized Conferences
- Face-to-face in Boston
The main purpose of this period is to provide you with a 360º vision of the biotech industry while visiting the most relevant companies, interacting and networking with their top executives, and attending a series of conferences on the latest challenges and opportunities in the industry. You will meet many industry leaders while visiting some companies such as: Novartis, Genzyme, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, etc., and attending different lectures at Harvard Business School.
During this second face-to-face period students will finish some of the courses of the first period and will be the starting point for the development of some of the courses of the second period, meeting face-to-face in Boston some of the new professors. This period will also be the launchpad for the development of the Entrepreneurial Project that will become at the end of the master their Final Exam.
- Second Period
CORE COURSES:
Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources
Information Systems Management
World Awareness Seminars
Leadership Workshops
SPECIALIZED COURSES:
Intellectual Property in the Life Sciences Industry
Regulation of the Life Sciences Industry
CSR and Stakeholder Communications Management
Innovation and R&D Management in the Life Sciences
Finance and the Global Life Sciences Business
Strategy Implementation & Uncertainty Management
Global Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences
Business Development in the Life Sciences
Industry Specialized Conferences
