Healthcare/Pharma/Biotech Glossaries
- Texas Healthcare Trustee’s Health Care Terms and AbbreviationsPractical guide of more than 700 definitions and acronyms commonly used in the health care industry to familiarize board members and leaders to industry terminology.
AI in Healthcare
- CB Insights Research: Health Data & AnalyticsYou must first create your CB Insights account to access the research.
- CB Insights: The state of healthcare AI in 5 chartsYou must first create your CB Insights account to access the research.
- CB Insights: Which hospitals have the most AI innovation? Our AI Readiness Index shows Mayo Clinic is leading the packYou must first create your CB Insights account to access the research.
FemTech
- CB Insights: The femtech market ranking: Where women’s health technology is maturing, emerging, and plateauing
You must first create your CB Insights account to access the research. - Femtech Insider: InsightsThe go-to platform for all things femtech. Includes resources such as a database of femtech companies & investors, job board, research and more.
Vault Resources - Health & Biotech
- Vault Career Guide to Health Care ManagementRegister for an account with your Kellogg email address to access.
- Vault Career Guide to Pharmaceuticals and BiotechnologyRegister for an account with your Kellogg email address to access.
- Vault: Best Health Sciences InternshipsRegister for an account with your Kellogg email address to access.
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Getting Started in Healthcare Recruiting
Created by the CMC Career Coaching and Employer Relations teams, this guide offers insight into preparing for a career in Healthcare. It details unique characteristics of this industry, what you can expect during the recruitment/job search process, examples of recruiting partnerships, recruiting trends, and data for Kellogg grads who have recruited for this industry.
This webinar provides insights into the Healthcare landscape, trends, and key players. Watch to learn more about roles that MBAs commonly pursue within this industry and relevant professional backgrounds that align with industry needs. Learn when companies in this industry typically recruit and plan your job search accordingly, with actionable advice on how to maximize your chances for securing the right opportunities.
- Healthcare Club Recruiting Guide 2023-2024Provided by the Kellogg Healthcare Club to help you best position yourself to get your ideal internship in healthcare.
- MBA-Exchange: Healthcare Industry Report
Industry-specific insights and recent recruiting data, including top employers, hiring trends, jobs by job area, and jobs by location. You must create your MBA-Exchange account with your Kellogg email address to view.
Analyst Reports: Industries
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Industry Analyst Reports: Healthcare Sectors
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Provides analyst reports for hundreds of US industries.
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- Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) This link opens in a new window
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Business news and intelligence, and company, industry, financial, economic, and political information from emerging market countries in Latin America, Asia, and Europe, as well as the US. Includes corporate profiles, financial statements, industry and analyst reports, capital market quotes and indices, macroeconomic statistics and forecasts, legal and regulatory information, and opinion polls. Also contains MarketLine Company Reports for many companies.
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- BCC Research This link opens in a new window
BCC's market research reports explore major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology organizations.
- Statista This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
- Factiva This link opens in a new window
Business, financial, and general news from thousands of U.S. and foreign sources
Watch a brief to learn how to efficiently search for news
- S&P Capital IQ Pro - Global Market Intelligence This link opens in a new window
Deep sector and private company data, broad global company coverage, news, and supply chain intelligence. Covers over 1000 real estate companies across 45 countries and 100K+ properties and locations. Click the News tab for latest industry news coverage, including financial, real estate, PE, healthcare, energy, tech & retail.
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- Use your Capital IQ login to access. SSO is not available for this resource.
- Capital IQ is available ONLY to Kellogg students, faculty and staff with an active Kellogg email address.
- S&P Capital IQ Pro Use Agreement: S&P Capital IQ Pro is for academic and career research purposes only.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowDatabase for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Search here for peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on scientific, technical, and medical/health research, including open-access content. Contains abstracts and articles from the core journals in major scientific disciplines including engineering and chemical engineering. The journals are arranged under subject areas for topical navigation.
- World Bank Data Catalog: Health Nutrition And Population Statistics This link opens in a new windowProvides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international and national sources. Themes include global surgery, health financing, HIV/AIDS, immunization, infectious diseases, medical resources and usage, noncommunicable diseases, nutrition, population dynamics, reproductive health, universal health coverage, and water and sanitation.
For questions and assistance please reach out to data@worldbank.org
Industry Pathways and Trends
- CB Insights: Digital Health ResearchYou must first create your CB Insights account to access the research.
- CB Insights: State Of Digital Health Q1 2024 ReportYou must first create your CB Insights account to access the research.
- CB Insights: Healthcare & Life Sciences ResearchYou must first create your CB Insights account to access the research.
- CB Insights: Telehealth ResearchYou must first create your CB Insights account to access the research.
- CB Insights: The Big Tech in Pharma Report: How Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Alphabet are capitalizing on digital transformationYou must first create your CB Insights account to access the research.
- PitchBook Emerging Tech Research: Digital Health Report Q3 2024
You must first create your PitchBook account to access the report. - PitchBook 2025 Healthcare & Life Sciences OutlookYou must first create your PitchBook account to access the report.
- PitchBook Emerging Tech Research: Biopharma Report Q3 2024You must first create your PitchBook account to access the report.
- PitchBook Emerging Tech Research: Medtech Report Q3 2024You must first create your PitchBook account to access the report.
- PitchBook Emerging Tech Research: Pharmatech Report Q3 2024PE trends and industry overview. You must first create your PitchBook account to access the report.
- FT Special Report: Health
You must create a Financial Times account with your Kellogg email address to access this report.
- Kellogg Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives5-episode series untangling the often-competing incentives that motivate the major players in the American healthcare system, from hospital networks and doctors and patients to insurers and big pharma.
- Femtech Insider: InsightsThe go-to platform for all things femtech. Includes resources such as a database of femtech companies & investors, job board, research and more.
Professional Associations and Conferences in Healthcare, Biotech, & Pharma
Professional Associations
- healthtech hunches
Connecting students with digital health career professionals for career advice and development. Includes webinars and other resources. See here for Kellogg ‘11 alum Polly Israni, Healthcare Marketing @ Google Cloud.
- Kellogg Healthcare Alumni NetworkThe Kellogg Healthcare Alumni Network provides an innovative way for Kellogg alumni to interact with our healthcare faculty, thought leaders and each other. Members will have access to exclusive webinars, updates on healthcare stories of interest with faculty editorials, an updated database of Kellogg alumni in the healthcare field, and networking opportunities at in-person events and conferences.
Conferences