Rate My Professor Brian Golden

Professor Brian Golden is the Sandra Rotman Chaired Professor in Health Sector Strategy and Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He serves as Academic Director of the Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences and the Rotman-SDA Bocconi Global Executive MBA. Professor Golden holds a PhD and MS from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS from Oberlin College. He previously served as Vice-Dean of MBA Programs at Rotman and is the founding Academic Director of the Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy. He has held faculty positions at institutions including INSEAD, the Richard Ivey School of Business, the Stockholm School of Economics, SDA Bocconi Business School, the University of Texas, and Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Professor Golden’s research focuses on strategic change and implementation, health system integration and sustainability, hospital boards, organizational strategy, and leadership. His work has appeared in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Health Affairs, and Harvard Business Review. From 2005 to 2010 he served as Board Chair of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, and he is currently Board Chair of Rise Asset Development. He has advised organizations including the office of Ontario’s Premier, Ontario’s Ministry of Health, Britain’s National Health Service, the University Health Network, and various Canadian and U.S. hospitals. In 2004 he received Canada’s Ted Freedman Innovation in Healthcare Education Award, and one of his articles in Healthcare Quarterly is the journal’s most downloaded article of the past twelve years. He is one of two faculty leading the Canadian Medical Association’s Physician Management Institute’s Leading Change and Innovation program.