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Managing Global Innovation: Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Management

Program Description:

Leading global teams and developing new customer markets are essential to your company's competitive advantage. Managing Global Innovation: Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Management is a four course High Potential Management Development program emphasizing teambuilding and learning to thrive in the rapidly changing and technology driven pharmaceutical and biotechnology global environment. Each course is delivered over a 5-week period and a total of 30 hours of instruction time.

LeBow College's Graduate Certificate programs are delivered by Drexel University faculty who teach in our internationally recognized Master's degree programs.

Target Audience:
This program is designed for junior, middle and senior level pharmaceutical and biotechnology professionals who want to increase their management effectiveness and expertise. This program will enable them to complement their technical skills with an innovative business approach and prepare them for career growth opportunities within their chosen industry.

Prerequisites:
Undergraduate Degree

Cost:
$2,670 per module. Includes course fees, materials and for face-to-face classes parking and refreshments.

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Location:
Classroom sessions are held on Drexel's Philadelphia or Malvern Campus
Tuesday and Thursday evenings 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Requirements for Graduate Credit/Certificate Awards:
Complete the entire four-course series* and receive a Certificate of Professional Development. Upon completion of individual courses or the entire program, participants may earn graduate-level course credit which can be applied toward select Drexel University MBA or MS programs. A formal graduate application must be submitted. Continuing Education Units (CEU) credits and Continuing Professional Educational (CPE) credits may also be applicable. Successful completion of the four course program may earn the participant 144 CPE credits in the areas of Accounting, Business Management and Organization, Communications, Finance, and Specialized Knowledge and Applications.

*Business Basics Overview
(This course does not qualify for credits but will prepare the participant to address business concepts covered in the program.)
Delivery: Classroom, 8 hours
Students will learn to deal interactively in two critical areas: 1) planning and shaping the external outreach of a company through marketing, branding, competitive strategy, and innovation and 2) anticipating and responding to major threats, shifts, and forces in the marketplace - including crisis. Students will also analyze key corporate-wide, growth-driving, actions and tactics used today - such as planning, positioning, differentiation and branding, market selection, innovation, competition, crisis management, and the role of the media. The purpose of this short course is to introduce students to broad business topics and show how they relate to the functions of an entire organization.

MODULE 1
FIN 601 - Strategic Financial Management
Delivery: Classroom
Students will develop a strategy for financial decision making to enhance corporate value.  Using a behavioral approach to analysis and planning, students are exposed to key methods for gleaning maximum content from financial statements to determine how past strategies have fared, how current operations are performing and how to realistically forecast future returns.  Past and present financial information is used to assess current operating conditions and formulate an array of future scenarios.  Relying on case study material, this course focuses on the key elements of analysis: operating results, liquidity analysis and capital structure alternatives.

MODULE 2
BUSN 698 - Drug Development & Regulatory Approval
Delivery: Blended (classroom and online)
The course will cover the steps of the drug development process including the management principles for new product introduction, the economics supporting product development and the regulatory requirements for approval. Lectures will cover drug development fundamentals, clinical development plans, management decision-making with milestone identification, regulatory strategy development, the regulatory approval requirements in the U.S. and other major markets and planning for product launch and post-approval marketing stages.  Students will prepare Product Development Schemes for a compound currently identified to be at the preclinical stage. The Schemes, in addition to identification of the required route for approval, will include the identification of resources required for development within a virtual company scenario.

MODULE 3
MGMT 698 - Advanced Concepts in Managed Care
Delivery: Classroom
Students will examine the changing relationships among providers, insurers, regulators and patients in the U.S. health care system.  The course will also provide students with an understanding of managed care operations including risk, disease management and contracts within the context of changing economic and political forces.

MODULE 4
MGMT 698 - Global Operations Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Delivery: Classroom or Online
The goal of this course is to give a broad introduction to the field of Operations Management to help students understand how Operations Management impacts manufacturing and service activities particularly in the pharmaceutical industry. The course studies the input-output transformation process in organizations, including analysis of administrative functions and planning and control of such processes as setting work standards, scheduling tasks and personnel, managing materials and quality control.

LeBow College of Business, Division of Drexel University, is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Web site: www.nasba.org.

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Content can be modified to meet your schedule and specific needs. Customized learning solutions are offered online or face-to-face on Drexel's Philadelphia or Great Valley campuses or on-site at your location. For more information about tailoring any of these programs to your organization's strategic corporate training initiatives, call Carol Walton, Assistant Director at 215-895-1604 or email caw22@drexel.edu.