Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular term. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• QST HM 801: Bench-to-Bedside: Translating Biomedical Innovation from the Laboratory to the Marketplace
  The subject of the course is the translation of medical technologies into new products and services for the healthcare system. The course begins with a rigorous study of university research commercialization including intellectual property, licensing and planning, creating, funding and building new entrepreneurial ventures. Concepts and tools are presented for assessing new technologies and their potential to be the basis for commercialization. Cross- disciplinary teams of students will be formed which will evaluate translational research projects currently being developed at Boston University and other local academic research institutions, to develop a go-to-market strategy. There will be a case studies and guest lecturers to discuss examples of both success and failure in technology commercialization.
• QST HM 817: Advances in Digital Health
  Graduate Prerequisites: QST HM710 or HM717 - Digital technologies are fundamentally transforming the health sector. Health information technology now permeate every segment of the health value chain, starting with the search for health information, to improving patient outcomes, to improving health. In this course students explore the evolving digital health landscape through a mix of case studies, practitioner talks, individual papers and team projects. Students will enhance their digital health requirements and systems selection toolbox. They will develop competence in current digital health technology standards, gain a deeper understanding of the strategic drivers of digital health through the eyes of the healthcare CIO and CMIO, the operational challenges from the perspective of the end user and the healthcare providers, and challenges of incorporating digital health technologies into existing workflows.
• QST HM 820: Strategy, Economics, and Policy in the Health Sector
  Graduate Prerequisites: (QSTBE 720 or QSTBE 721) - This course studies the strategic and economic issues facing insurers, providers, and life-sciences companies in the healthcare sector. The course will adapt tools from health economics, strategy, and finance to understand the problems faced by these firms. The course will also examine the problems faced by regulators, who must craft policies that shape the healthcare sector: which hospital mergers to allow; what procedures health insurers must cover; how public programs ought to reimburse life-sciences companies; how quality of care is measured and rewarded; and so on.
• QST HM 833: Health Sector Marketing
  Graduate Prerequisites: QSTMK723 or MK724 - This course provides an understanding of health sector marketing for health care services delivery (e.g., health systems, independent hospitals, hospices, pharmacies), for private business (e.g., life sciences, pharma, and biotech), and for insurance (e.g., commercial insurance and government). The course explores marketing insights and marketing strategies in the context of the evolving health sector. Topics addressed include the marketing of health care services by providers, insurance product marketing, marketing to physicians, new product development, particularly for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and consumer adoption of medical and service innovations. The course will build students' knowledge of the unique challenges of health sector marketing and will build facility with applying the principles of marketing to situations across this vast landscape.
• QST HM 840: Health Sector Consulting
  This is an applied consulting project course that aims to develop reflexive practitioners who can elicit client requirements, translate requirements into a problem statement and develop actionable solutions that meet client needs. The course uses a mix of case studies, individual memos and team project deliverables to systematically apply skills developed over the course of the MBA to solve real-world health sector problems. Students work on the consulting assignment in teams of up to four students based on having a shared interest in a prospective consulting project. These projects are curated in partnership with sponsor organizations to be executable within the framework of an academic semester. Projects in the past have ranged from improving the departmental revenue cycle within an academic medical center, developing an international pricing strategy for the introduction of a new product by a pharmaceutical company, to improving safety culture at a large hospital. These projects all have active involvement of the project sponsors who provide access to their organizations and provide ongoing feedback over the lifecycle of the consulting engagement.
• QST HM 848: Driving Health Sector Innovation
  This course examines an array of compelling opportunities for innovation, incremental and disruptive, across products and services, created within existing organizations or by starting new businesses. It bridges design and implementation, examining the unique and complex array of elements that make successful innovation in the health sector so difficult, and developing the skills and knowledge needed to effectively address those challenges. The course provides a conceptual framework, and then emphasizes hands-on engagement, concrete exercises, written cases, and in-class speakers who are engaged in real-world innovation initiatives. Students will have the opportunity to focus on areas of particular interest and relevance to current or future work. They will leave better equipped to drive or support the viable, value-creating innovation so desperately needed in the health sector.
• QST HM 895: Action Learning Directed Study in Health Sector Management
  ALDS: HLTH MGMT
• QST HM 898: Directed Study: Health Care Management
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and the department chair - Graduate-level directed study in Health Care Management. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST HM 899: Directed Study: Health Care Management
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and the department chair - Graduate-level directed study in Health Care Management. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST HM 998: Directed Study: Health Care Management
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and the department chair - PhD-level directed study in Health Care Management. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST HM 999: Directed Study: Health Care Management
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and the department chair - PhD-level directed study in Health Care Management. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST IM 345: Global Business Environment
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASEC 101, CASEC 102, and junior standing. - Required for Global Business concentrators. Deals with international economic theories and explores the intersection between theory and practice. Determinants of international trade and payments: international trade theory and policy and balance-of-payments accounting. Explores the implications of trade-promoting and trade-inhibiting institutions and practices: WTO, NAFTA, European Union, etc. Introduces cultural, political, and demographic issues for international managers.
• QST IM 430: Managing in a Global Environment
  Course description TBD
• QST IM 445: Multinational Management
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS EC101; CAS EC102; QST IM345 or QST FE427 or CAS EC392 or CAS IR292 or equivalent for non-Questrom students (may be taken concurrently) - This is heavily case-based course studying the business strategies of multi- national enterprises, particularly in high-growth and developing economies. Having worldwide operations not only gives companies access to new markets and diverse resources, it also opens up new sources of information and knowledge that stimulate innovation and operational strategies. Along with opportunities, we also look at the challenges to a more complex, diverse, and uncertain business than those faced by companies who focus primarily in their mature markets or even their own country. This course helps students to acquire skills and perspectives that will help them as they pursue careers with multi-national companies or other opportunities in the global business environment.
• QST IM 475: Global Management Experience
  The Global Management Experience is a four-credit course that involves analytical work throughout the spring semester, and culminates in spring break travel to Asia. Each year the countries, cities, and companies studied are changed. Coursework includes an exploration of the economic, governmental and social factors that affect the conduct of business, and ethics, in a variety of industries and contexts. The course features presentations and Q&A with different business executives, government leaders and entrepreneurs, providing an opportunity for first-hand observation around the application of management principles and strategies in the global arena. Please see our website for details: https://questromworld.bu.edu/udc/gme/ GME 2026 will travel to Beijing and Shanghai. The course is by application only (due November 3rd) and requires a course fee of $3,900 to cover the cost of travel and expenses. Effective Spring 2024 this course fulfills a single unit the following BU Hub area: Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
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  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
• QST IM 498: Directed Study: International Management
  Directed study in International Management. 2 or 4 cr. Application available on Undergraduate Program website.
• QST IM 843: Leading Global Teams Immersion
  GLBL TMS INDIA
• QST IM 851: The Management of Luxury Business
  Graduate Prerequisites: Students must have 16 credits of MBA course work completed at Questrom. - This Paris seminar is designed to be a deep-dive experiential learning experience focused on one of France's leading economic sectors: luxury goods and services. In this course, students will examine best business practices and challenges behind the global economic success of the French luxury goods industries. While in Paris, students will get a closer look into leading businesses serving high-end consumers across industries such as cosmetics, wine and spirits, high-end fashion, retail, hotels, real-estate, airplanes, and auctions as well as a historical perspective on how France became the leader in the luxury goods market. We will also learn about how global consumer trends such as sustainability, the resell market and economic downturn affects the luxury segment. Management issues in the luxury goods and services industries will be covered during firm visits, discussions with high-level executives and via an experiential consulting project. Students will meet with top executives and decision makers across business functions such as customer-relationship management, marketing, branding, operations, manufacturing, and financial planning. This class counts as an experiential learning course.
• QST IM 858: Global Field Seminar: Pursuing Sustainability in Developing Economies
  In this course, students will spend several lectures in the first half of the semester learning about key sustainability issues facing the global economy, how these issues differ in developing vs. developed economies, and the necessity for innovative initiatives to advance a more sustainable future world economy. The course is especially well-suited for Social Impact MBA students who aim to pursue professional paths either in sustainability or in developing economies, although it is open to any MBA student and should appeal to those who are interested in international business. After the in-class learning, students will leave for a destination country for an in-depth experience during the week of Spring Break, meeting with officials and touring major sustainability initiatives. The field study trip will focus on the social, commercial, and economic impact of key sustainability initiatives in the country by gaining the perspectives of businesses, organizations, projects, and communities benefiting from sustainability initiatives being pursued in the country. Students will also gain exposure to culture by visiting important cities and sites of historical significance. Augmenting the field study trip, students will be required to undertake two pieces of research: a team-based project and an individual project. Both projects will complement the field study trip by involving investigation of a topic associated with sustainability advancement in the country being studied.
• QST IM 860: Social Impact Field Seminar
  This course provides an action-based learning experience for students interested in understanding how for-profit and non-profit organizations develop innovative products and services that help mitigate grand challenges such as climate change, food security, global health, and poverty, and enable them to grow their business and sustain their competitive advantage over time. Students will work on a live 'social impact' consulting project for a client from the host country, and present their recommendation to the client while in the country. Furthermore, students will visit and interact with various players in the social impact sector (e.g., entrepreneurs, high-level executives, non-profit leaders) to learn about the opportunities and challenges they face. This course is ideal for students interested in social impact, sustainable energy, environmental sustainability, social entrepreneurship, socially responsible investing (SRI), and global health and healthcare.