Biopharmaceutical Leadership

Emmanuel’s Graduate Programs in Biopharmaceutical Leadership provide specialized coursework for scientists who want to become leaders in the workplace. Through a convenient, 7-week accelerated model either online or at our Boston campus, students learn from expert faculty who work at institutions such as Merck, Vertex, Novartis, Pfizer and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Spotlighted Graduate Biopharmaceutical Leadership Courses

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See below for a selection of our most popular courses for working professionals:

Project Management in the Biosciences

This course is designed to provide scientists who either are or anticipate being a member or leader of a project team in a biopharmaceutical research environment with a basic foundation in project management processes and tools. The course will begin with an overview of "product" development, highlighting the multiple disciplines involved over the life of a project and how project management principles can be applied to product development in the bioscience sector. Students will apply their knowledge of "Leading Effective Teams" and will learn to apply project management processes and tools to ensure timely delivery of the team's "product." Combining theory and practice, the team will develop a strategy and translate it into an integrated project plan, will execute and control the project, and conduct a proper project closure.

Creating and Implementing Strategy in the Biopharmaceutical Environment

In this course, students develop experience in linking applied science with the business aims in the biopharmaceutical industry. Students explore the upper-management mindsets that drive strategy, core missions, operating goals, short- and long-term objectives, and organizational structure and culture. The importance of the external environment on strategy is also discussed. Strategy is examined from the perspectives of both large, multinational biopharmaceutical firms and small, privately held companies. Throughout the course, current case studies are used to highlight the mix of scientific and management skills required for success in today's dynamic and highly competitive biopharmaceutical markets.

Research in a Global Environment

Working in today's biopharmaceutical industry means working in a diverse environment. Competitive, technological, and environmental changes have resulted in biopharmaceutical firms that are truly multinational organizations that recruit, and whose leaders must manage, talent from all corners of the globe, often virtually. This course has been designed to allow students to explore issues of individuality and diversity in several contexts, with the goal of providing them with practical insights and tools to navigate this changing environment. During this course students will examine research trends in the industry, including external partnering and outsourcing, and how different R&D models affect individuals, groups, and leaders in contemporary biopharmaceutical organizations. Issues of stereotype, bias, and resistance are examined from both personal and organizational viewpoints. Students learn about both best practice and industry specific approaches to managing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities for leadership in this environment.

The Biopharmaceutical Environment: Law, Government, and Society

Students will explore the nature of the biopharmaceutical industry today and the environment in which it operates. The legal processes by which inventions are protected will be discussed together with the use of licensing as a means to gain access to inventions for commercial development. The regulatory systems that impact product development will be investigated. Students will also explore, from different perspectives, some of the current biopharmaceutical industry issues confronting society.

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