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Owen Podcast Series: Larry Van Horn, Health Affairs
This episode of the Owen Podcast Series welcomes professor Larry Van Horn, who runs the Healthcare MBA Program at Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Management. He shares his always colorful insights on the need for business schools to produce educated health professionals, what gives Owen a strategic advantage in the healthcare industry, and why we can expect things to get worse before they get better from a policy standpoint.
What Makes Owen Great? Our Health Care MBA.
When I looked at business schools, there were a ton of data points and factors in my Pros/Cons spreadsheet. Yes, I was destined to be an MBA.
One of the biggest factors to me was an intangible that made my undergraduate experience great. There’s not a lot of schools out there that truly excel at cross-functional collaboration, and my biased opinion is that Carnegie Mellon is the best there is. Randy Pausch’s claim to fame was taking the great experience and strength of computer science and electrical/computer engineering and applying it to the theater and performing arts. They have a great program in integrated product development, so business students, engineers, and designers are all sharing time at the table.
So, you think, Carnegie Mellon was naturally at the top of my list, right? Surprise: Owen beat them out. And not by being better at product development or entertainment technology. Owen and Vanderbilt are a great place to talk about health care programs.