

INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme

INSEAD
INSEAD — Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires — was founded in 1957 in Fontainebleau, France, by Georges Doriot and a group of European business leaders who believed the continent needed a genuinely international school of management, not a replica of American models. It operates as an independent, private, non-profit institution with no university affiliation, which gives it an unusual degree of curricular agility. Today INSEAD has campuses in Fontainebleau, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi, plus a hub in San Francisco, and its academic philosophy remains rooted in cross-cultural management, diversity of thought, and the tension between local context and global strategy. The school's MBA program consistently ranks among the world's fastest to complete — one year — which reflects a broader institutional bias toward intensity and focus over convention. 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Abu Dhabi, the newest campus, provides access to the Gulf's increasingly significant business ecosystem and is particularly relevant to programs touching on family enterprise, sovereign wealth, or energy transition. Faculty and Research INSEAD's faculty numbers around 165 full-time professors drawn from more than 40 countries, and the school makes a point of requiring faculty to be capable of teaching across cultural contexts rather than from within a single national tradition. Research strengths that bear directly on executive education include organisational behaviour, negotiation and conflict resolution, entrepreneurship and family enterprise, strategy, and leadership — the latter anchored in part by the Coaching and Consulting Centre and the Global Leadership Centre, which has produced widely used psychodynamic approaches to leadership development. 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Duration
2 days
Format
online
Topic
Governance & Boards
Language
English
About This Program
Why INSEAD?
Your Profile
- With the exception of the Advanced Leadership Programme for Ethics & Compliance Professionals , all the other parts of the INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme are designed to benefit:
- Participants who are new to or have been recently assigned to the compliance function
- Experienced compliance professionals who desire to update, broaden and sharpen their knowledge and skills, and exchange experiences with colleagues from other companies, countries and regions of the world
- The Advanced Leadership Programme for Ethics & Compliance Professionals is designed to benefit:
- Healthcare compliance officers with at least five years healthcare compliance experience
- Experienced participants who have attended the Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme: Leading an Effective Ethics and Compliance Programme and the Managing and Enhancing the Effective Ethics and Compliance Programme and are asking: What can I do to increase my performance in my work? Where do I want to be in five years’ time?
- Classes for the are limited to a maximum of 35 participants.
- Participants generally come from a broad range of countries. For example, the most recent INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme drew participants from 20 countries in Europe, Asia, Middle East and the Americas.
- The diversity of participants creates a unique environment at INSEAD and enriches participants’ learning experience.
What You'll Learn
- The comprehensive multi-modular curriculum provides the essential compliance education and training necessary for today’s healthcare compliance and legal professionals. In the absence of an academic path within universities, this programme is a unique platform for them to acquire and enhance their professional competence. The specific objectives and contents of the INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme (HECP) are as follows:
- The Role of the Effective Ethics & Compliance Officer (HECP S: Effective E&C Officer)
- This programme explores the evolving role of the ethics and compliance officer in a context of ever increasing and more complex stakeholder demands on pharma and MedTech companies and changes in organisational culture and responsiveness to compliance requirements. Topics covered include:
- Building the business and ethical case for compliance, recognising how organisations can be successful at compliance and understanding the role of the compliance function in ensuring that success
- Who is responsible for ethics and compliance in the organisation? Where does accountability lie? What might reinforce understanding?
- How do communications and culture influence organisational understanding of the ownership of compliance? Includes attention to leadership in action and having difficult conversations.
- The role and attributes of the effective compliance officer as trusted advisor and how that role can evolve relative to organisational development and the external environment
- INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme (HECP): Leading an Effective Ethics and Compliance Programme
- This programme provides the essential knowledge necessary to identify, assess and prioritise the compliance risks faced by a business and to design a compliance programme that will mitigate these risks. Topics covered include:
- Importance and value of effective compliance
- The evolution of the compliance programme
- Codes of conduct, policies and procedures
- Business strategy and compliance management
- The role of training and communication in an effective health care compliance programme
- Risk analysis
- The challenge of compliance in complex organisations
- Managing and leading people
- Influencing people without authority
- Leading changes without authority
- Compliance organisation
- INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme (HECP): Managing and Enhancing the Effective Ethics and Compliance Programme
- This programme provides the tools for the day-to-day management and decisions compliance officers are confronted with, and methods for assessing and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the compliance programme. Topics covered include:
- Ethics and compliance: handling complex ethical dilemmas
- Assessing corruption risk in the health care industry
- DPAs and CIAs
- Fair market value
- Third party due diligence and compliance management
- Decision processes under risk
- Data analytics in healthcare compliance
- Cross borders
- Auditing and monitoring
- Effective negotiation
- The evolution of compliance and the role of culture
- INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme (HECP): Advanced Leadership Programme for Ethics & Compliance Professionals
- The programme has been created to help senior compliance executives operate in the ever-changing healthcare environment by developing their strategic thinking and their ability to influence throughout their organisations. Topics covered include:
- Challenges for pharma and MedTech and implications for compliance
- Ethics in organisations and the role of compliance
- Managing complexities in negotiations
- Leading effective organisational change as a team
- Networks and Influence for career success
- Ethical leadership
- Governance evolution in a changing risk context
- INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme (HECP): Specialised Topics: Culture and Compliance
- This programme explores the importance of organisational culture, its role in building ethical and compliant organisations, as well as the challenges faced when developing an ethics and compliance programme. Topics covered include:
- Developing a better understanding of culture that will help you determine whether and how you might be successful in your organisation
- Understanding organisational culture
- How organisational culture affects ethics and compliance in healthcare organisations
- Why develop a truly global ethics and compliance programme? What are the challenges and how to respond to these
- Values vs. rules-based approaches to ethics and compliance
- Ethics and cultural differences
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