One day I sat at a table next to 12 CEOs of large hospitals and asked them to put into paper the strengths and weaknesses of sending their managers to a traditional MBA.
The answers were absolutely against our project that started in 2016 and has since trained over 1500 executives in the health field.
Let’s look at the strengths of doing a traditional MBA:
Networking - always great to meet other people from other places and exchange ideas about moments and benchmark
Knowledge of classes - Classes always yield a lot of interesting content and create repertoire for the executive to act in time for some challenge.
They didn’t pass me anything else.
Let’s go to the negative points:
Health Cases - Classes are usually built with cases for all sectors, and obviously the health sector appears a thousandth of a time within the wide arsenal of cases from other sectors.
Little knowledge about health issues - complex health issues are virtually forgotten in a traditional MBA, causing some frustration to healthcare executives.