The Business School Alliance for Health Management supports premier business school health management programs in educating the next generation of health sector leaders and advancing research, and practice in the field.
While other academic disciplines address policy issues facing the health sector, business schools represent the vital link between the practical issues of managing healthcare institutions and developing their leaders. Formed in 2010, BAHM comprises a select group of 22 top business schools worldwide that seek to:
- Collaborate and leverage the collective impact of health management expertise
- Strengthen individual program offerings by sharing courses, cases, speakers, and more
- Showcase faculty expertise through BAHM events and marketing channels
- Grow professional networks through regular member meetings and events
- Support junior faculty through promotion and tenure letters and mentorship
- Shape health management scholarship and practice through Health Management, Policy & Innovation, BAHM’s open-source, no-fee journal
- Provide students opportunities to learn and network across the globe through:
- BAHM’s global case competition focused on business innovations
- Annual Career Forum with industry leaders across the global health sector
- Annual Comparative Health Systems Forum examining system difference
- Health Management, Policy & Innovation Essay Contest
The Alliance aims to help the public understand the capacity of our institutions to bring about solutions to many of the management and leadership issues arising in the health sector on a global basis.”
Kevin Schulman MD, MBA
Professor of Medicine
Clinical Excellence Research Center
Department of Medicine
Stanford University