Executive Master in Management delle Aziende Sanitarie e Socio-Assistenziali
Sfide. Scoperte. Soluzioni.
A changing healthcare system poses new challenges and requires new skills and professionalism. Today, governing healthcare and social services requires executive skills.
The Executive Master in Management of Health and Social Care Organizations (EMMAS) is for professionals like you who really want to innovate healthcare management. And to do so by keeping an open channel between study and career.
Words from the Director
Who is it for
The EMMAS participant, a new health manager profile
EMMAS is the ideal meeting place for managers, executives, professionals and consultants who are highly motivated and culturally oriented towards renewal of the health and social welfare system. People who have a deep understanding of the critical issues and challenges of health and public care governance and want to find new, effective and sustainable solutions over time.
EMMAS' last three editions: XXII - XXIII - XXIV
Why EMMAS
Highlights
Calendar and content
25th edition 2026-2027
The dynamics of the sector and the role of healthcare companies
- The economic-business approach
- Framework of the sector and its relationship to the environment
- Healthcare systems compared internationally
The stratgic dimension and organizational choices oh healthcare companies
- Elements of strategy
- Organizational structures
- Organizational models
Detect and measure activities and results in health and social welfare enterprises
- Elements of economic and financial accounting
- Fundamentals of planning and control
Innovating processes and valuing people in the health and social welfare sector
- Managing human resources: key levers
- Governing organizational climate in highly professional companies
- Elements of process management
Study tour in Europe to discover international best practies
From needs analysis to customer & patient engagement in healthcare. Field research (Field research and case competition)
- Marketing in healthcare: purposes, methodologies and tools
- User behaviors, perceptions, preferences, and expectations
- From need to service: levers of the retailing mix in the health and social welfare sector
Strategic planning and environmental discontinuity
- Building a strategic plan
- Designing, reconfiguring, and changing the organization
- Network management and social innovation
From measurement to management: cost management and performance management systems
- Cost and performance management in health and social welfare organizations
- Correlating cost readings to strategic decisions
- The implementation of budget systems
Initiation of field projects
- Cost and performance management in health and social welfare organizations
- Correlating cost readings to strategic decisions
- The implementation of budget systems
Building a business plan and managing digital transformation *
- From the business idea to its implementation
- Outlines and tools of business planning
*Module delivered at the SDA Bocconi Campus in Roma
Public-private partnership and procurement processes
- Public-private partnership operations for investment
- Operation of tenders and procurement
- Innovations in procurement processes
Configuring and presiding over health and social welfare processes
- The strategic role of operations management and links with other business departments
- Operations management: from theory to practice
- Process analysis from a risk management perspective
Leadership and teamwork in professional organizations
- Enhancing and guiding professional autonomies
- The centrality of interpersonal skills: discovering and developing them
- Managing teams and conflicts in "crisis" situations
- Business ethics & diversity
Elective courses (one course of your choice per partecipant)
- Health system sustainability and resilience
- Private consumption in healthcare and co-production
- Strategic trends and developments in the health and social sector
- Increasing patient centeredness
Presentation of field projects
Graduation ceremony EMMAS4EVER
A comprehensive learning experience
The teaching methodology
The EMMAS learning model is composite, dynamic, interactive, and consistent with the executive format and thus calibrated to the managers' agenda. It includes:
- Classroom lectures, analysis, case discussions and management games
- Targeted in-depth readings
- Workshops
- Distance learning sessions
- Coaching sessions aimed at building a path to leadership empowerment (YourSELF - Empowerment Leadership Focus)
- Group field projects (Learning Through Changing - Diagnosis of Business Systems)
- A company visit in Italy and a study tour abroad that will enable participants to get to the heart of national and international best practices.
Study Tour: discovering international best practices
In an industry that is constantly changing and permeated by scientific and management innovations, it becomes essential to engage with international colleagues, professionals and business realities. Despite local specificities, there are problems common to all advanced countries. But it is not only about identifying possible alternative answers to common problems, but also about recognizing and valuing similar answers or even critically evaluating some solutions.
The aim of the Study Tour is to open up to new frontiers while at the same time "discovering" the strengths of one's own organizations: fundamental requirements that a manager must possess in order to build a solid vision of future healthcare. The choice of destination is therefore made from within a narrow portfolio of European best practices, and the agenda includes a mix of lectures, testimonials and facility tours.YourSELF - Empowerment Leadership Focus
YourSELF is a leadership skills development program aimed at supporting master degree participants in a learning process about specific individual needs. Leadership skills include not only innate aptitudes, but also personal and professional skills, which can be developed through becoming aware of one's strengths and weaknesses.
Faculty
Maturing management knowledge is not an act, but a path. EMMAS builds it by methodically mixing content that is always renewed through research activity, relationships among a wide range of subjects and experiences. Only in this way can interpretive keys be constructed to manage "in" complexity.
EMMAS takes on the challenges faced by participants and the industry, guiding them through an engaging, transformative, and generative journey. The program’s ambition is not only to expand and deepen the so-called managerial 'toolbox,' but also to provide 'new lenses' through which to navigate the d...
Admissions
We are looking for participants with a solid professional background and strong motivation and cultural orientation toward health and social welfare system renewal. Admission involves a rigorous selection process that highlights personal motivation and aptitude and ensures the creation of a challenging and dynamic EMMAS class each year.
Requirements
- Master's or single-cycle degree in any discipline or equivalent degree recognized by SDA Bocconi
- Application for admission
- At least 5 years' experience in the health and social welfare sector or in service companies, private companies working in the field.
- SDA Test
- Interview
Some individual characteristics are also taken into consideration:
- High motivation
- High potential for professional development
- Tendency towards change and innovation
- Good interpersonal skills
- Leadership aptitude
Fees and scholarships
Our EMMAS is a substantial personal and financial commitment, but the return in professional growth and advancement is real.
The tuition fee for participation in EMMAS 2025-2026 is € 25,000 (excluding VAT). The fee is to be paid in five installments.
Each year, SDA Bocconi School of Management makes multiple merit-based scholarships and tuition waivers available for outstanding candidates.
The School also participates in notices proposed by public administrations for scholarships/tuition waivers for EMMAS program applicants.
The routes to your professional future
Professional development of EMMAS graduates typically takes place in public and private entities such as:
- Health companies
- Social welfare companies
- Biomedical and pharmaceutical companies
- Consulting companies
- Regulatory agencies where they take on management roles.
Contact us
Your personalized orientation
Our Guidance & Recruitment team is available to arrange a one-to-one orientation meeting, either on campus or online, or to meet you when we visit your region. These sessions are designed to help you discover SDA Bocconi and its programs, and to provide truly tailored guidance based on your goals and aspirations.
