MCiM Curriculum

Learn essential accounting concepts and operating characteristics of accounting systems in this introductory course. The course focus will be on both financial and managerial accounting with emphasis on the basics of financial statements, how to interpret these statements, and how to make good decisions based on them.

This course is taught by John Lord, lecturer from the School of Management Science and Engineering. 

In Biodesign for Digital Health, students will learn about digital health and the Biodesign need-driven innovation process from a team of experienced instructors and more than 50 industry experts. Over the course of 10 weeks, these speakers join the teaching team in a dynamic classroom environment that includes lectures, panel discussions, and breakout sessions. Student will learn how to apply Biodesign innovation principles to research and evaluate needs, ideate solutions, and objectively assess them against key criteria for satisfying the needs. 

This course is taught by Kate Rosenbluth. Dr. Rosenbluth is an alumni of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign fellowship program, she is a lecturer specifically for MCiM Biodesign course and primarily works in industry. 

Organizations need frameworks to plan for growth, respond to challenges and/or changes in the market, or tackle gaps in performance. This course explores how to assess business opportunities in dynamic, competitive environments to develop the insights that can lead to success. 

This course is co-taught by Tip Kim and Linda Hoff. Lecturers only for MCiM's business strategy course, both Tip and Linda primarily work in industry as leaders at Stanford Health Care.

How might we apply ideas from ethical theory to contemporary issues and debates in biotechnology? This course will provide critical encounters with some of the central topics in the field of bioethics, with an emphasis on new technologies. 

This course is taught by David Magnus, Thomas A. Raffin Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and by Courtesy of Bioengineering at Stanford University, where he is Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and an Associate Dean of Research.

Leading and managing in complex, high stakes settings, like health care, where lives and livelihoods are on the line, presents distinctive challenges and constraints. This course challenges you to apply seminal and contemporary theories in organizational behavior to evaluate managerial decisions and develop evidence-based strategies for leading and managing health care teams and organizations. 

This course is taught by Sara Singer, Professor of Medicine and of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dr. Singer also leads the Health Leadership, Organization & Innovation Labs.

Health information technology was intended to help reduce costs and improve the quality of health care services. To date, there is little evidence that this goal has been achieved. This course is designed to explore economic frameworks that can help us to understand how health IT can achieve its intended goals.

This course is taught by Kevin Schulman, Professor of Medicine, Associate Chair of Business Development and Strategy in the Department of Medicine, Director of Industry Partnerships and Education for the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Professor of Economics at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He is also the Director of Graduate Studies and Faculty Director of MCiM. 

This course introduces the principles, processes, and tools necessary to analyze markets, including customers, competitors, and companies, and to design optimal marketing programs via strategies for pricing, promotion, place, and product. This course will apply these frameworks to the specific context of health care markets and the complex arena of patient engagement.

This course is taught by Jonathan Levav, King Philanthropies Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Faculty Director of the Behavioral Lab. 

Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health is a Collaboratory workshop for students/fellows to design and develop innovative social ventures addressing key challenges in health and the environment, especially in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 2030). SE Lab combines design thinking exercises, short lectures & case studies, workshops, small group teamwork, presentations, guest speakers, and faculty, practitioner and peer feedback to support you and your team in generating and developing ideas and projects that will change the world!

This course is taught by Gordon Bloom, director of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab)- Human & Planetary Health and is a faculty fellow of the Center for Innovation in Global Health. He is a Lecturer in the School of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health/Dept. of Medicine, an affiliate at the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a mentor in the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program. 

How might we apply ideas from ethical theory to contemporary issues and debates in biotechnology? This course will provide critical encounters with some of the central topics in the field of bioethics, with an emphasis on new technologies. 

Key functions of finance in both large and small companies, and the core concepts and key analytic tools that provide their foundation. This course will include topics of making financing decisions, evaluating investments, and managing cashflow, profitability and risk. Designing performance metrics to effectively measure and align the activities of functional groups and individuals within the firm. Structuring relationships with key customers, partners and suppliers.

This course is taught by Blake Johnson, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering.

US health care spending is approximately 18% of GDP, growing rapidly, and driven in large part by prices and waste rather than quality and access. New approaches for improving health care delivery are urgently needed. This class focuses on the use of analytical tools to support efficient health care delivery. 

This course is taught by David Scheinker, Executive Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research at the Stanford Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. He is also the Founder and Director of SURF Stanford Medicine.

The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has created a new source of big data namely, the record of routine clinical practice as a by-product of care. This class will teach you how to use EHRs and other patient data to discover new clinical knowledge and improve healthcare. 

This course is taught by Nigam Shah, Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, and Associate CIO for Data Science at Stanford Healthcare. 

Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health is a Collaboratory workshop for students/fellows to design and develop innovative social ventures addressing key challenges in health and the environment, especially in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 2030). SE Lab combines design thinking exercises, short lectures & case studies, workshops, small group teamwork, presentations, guest speakers, and faculty, practitioner and peer feedback to support you and your team in generating and developing ideas and projects that will change the world!

This course is taught by Gordon Bloom, director of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab)- Human & Planetary Health and is a faculty fellow of the Center for Innovation in Global Health. He is a Lecturer in the School of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health/Dept. of Medicine, an affiliate at the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a mentor in the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program. 

How might we apply ideas from ethical theory to contemporary issues and debates in biotechnology? This course will provide critical encounters with some of the central topics in the field of bioethics, with an emphasis on new technologies. 

Methods for modeling biomedical systems and for building model-based software systems. Emphasis is on intelligent systems for decision support and Semantic Web applications. Student will learn about current trends in the development of advanced biomedical software systems and acquire hands-on experience with several systems and tools.

This course is taught by Mark Musen, Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University, where he is Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research.

The course will provide an in-depth examination of the quality & patient safety movement in the US healthcare system, the array of quality measurement techniques and issues, and perspectives of quality and safety improvement efforts under the current policy landscape.

This course is co-taught by Kristin Sainani and Regina Nuzzo. Kristin is an Associate Professor with Health Research and Policy.  Regina specially co-teaches this MCiM course, her primary role is a professor of statistics at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C.

Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health is a Collaboratory workshop for students/fellows to design and develop innovative social ventures addressing key challenges in health and the environment, especially in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 2030). SE Lab combines design thinking exercises, short lectures & case studies, workshops, small group teamwork, presentations, guest speakers, and faculty, practitioner and peer feedback to support you and your team in generating and developing ideas and projects that will change the world!

How might we apply ideas from ethical theory to contemporary issues and debates in biotechnology? This course will provide critical encounters with some of the central topics in the field of bioethics, with an emphasis on new technologies.