ESSEC Innovation & Health Chair

The pedagogical objective of the Chair is to train business leaders capable of:

understanding the purpose of health systems, their complexities and socio-economic constraints
forecasting and utilizing innovations in Health
developing an ability for systemic thinking among managers, so that they are equipped to analyze the environment, anticipate consequences and secure their actions (competence through transversality)

The Chair offers two options, consisting of 75 hours of classes each:

Health Systems and Health Marketing (taught in French)
Health Innovation (taught in English)

The Chair also develops research programs on the explanatory factors of health costs and the diffusion of health innovation, methods for evaluating health strategies, competition in health insurance, the use of big data methods for analyzing health insurance data, the behavior of health care stakeholders (patients, physicians, insurance companies, hospitals), drug prices, and the mental health of young people.

The Chair has become a place of academic excellence for all players in the health ecosystem.

“Healthcare is a powerful theme and has been a specialty of ESSEC Business School for over 40 years. Our expertise was developed over time, through close collaboration with our partner companies, that are pivotal elements of our teaching and research in health economics. Our programs aim to train professionals capable of anticipating and utilizing health innovations, understanding and developing the functioning of health systems, and managing a health organization transversally."

Karine Lamiraud

Professor, Innovation and Health Chair

A network of over 1,200 alumni working in France and abroad
Courses taught by health professionals
Internship and apprenticeship offers (over 80 offers per year)

The Chair includes more than 1,200 alumni who have careers in the health sector. It aims to provide drug and medical device companies, healthcare institutions, consulting firms, insurers and service companies working in the healthcare sector with employees who have mastered the specificities of the economy, management and strategy of this sector.

Throughout the year, the Chair relays a variety of internship and apprenticeship offers to students.

During the course, students from both sections work in groups on a topic proposed by one of the Chair’s partners. In addition, an Innovation and Health Hackathon is organized in March. In groups, students from the Chair team up with participants of the Executive MS Strategy and Management of Health Industries (SMIS).

Moreover, the students of the Health Systems option participate in the “Smart Pharma/ ESSEC/ LFB Prize” which takes place in June.