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Health Care Leadership
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- Choose 3 eligible courses
- Complete your courses within 18 months
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Why is health care so expensive in America? How can digital technologies improve outcomes? What is the impact of racial disparities on patients and providers?
Health care is a complex, multidisciplinary endeavor, requiring leaders to direct and motivate diverse teams representing varying educational and cultural backgrounds as well as different business functions. Health Care Leadership is designed for emerging leaders in provider, payer, and life sciences organizations. The series includes courses in business strategy, economics, and digital health, delivering key lessons in leadership and management for today’s health care landscape. Taken together, these courses allow you to develop a comprehensive approach to health care leadership and consider strategies for an ever evolving sector. Health Care Leadership courses are developed with health care professionals in mind. Harvard University faculty guides you through topics with a specific focus on the current state of the US health care system and how you can apply innovative strategies to make improvements within your organization.
5 Courses
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Health Care Strategy
4-6 hours per week • Starting Oct 29, 2025
Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care
4–5 hours per week • Starting Nov 5, 2025
Innovations in Teamwork for Health Care
6–9 hours per week • Starting Oct 8, 2025
Digital Health
3–4 hours per week • Starting Nov 19, 2025
Health Care Economics
3-4 hours a week • Starting Oct 29, 2025
Learn from the best in the industry
Amy C. Edmondson
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School
Aswita Tan-McGrory
Director of the Disparities Solutions Center and the Director of Equity in Care Implementation at Massachusetts General Hospital
Joseph Betancourt
Leemore Dafny
Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
Michaela Kerrissey
Michael Chernew, PhD
Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Stanley Y. Shaw, MD, PhD
This is an amazing course. The professor did a fantastic job dissecting the complexities of healthcare into chewable chunks.
I love that the format lets me learn asynchronously when I have time in my busy schedule. ... The courses foster this peer engagement much more effectively than I have found in other online courses that I have taken.
This is a very well designed course to understand the nuances of the US healthcare system economics. The videos and the guest talks were very helpful to understand the real world examples... Overall a very good course.
This program offered invaluable insights into healthcare financing, delivery models, and value-based care, enhancing my ability to navigate economic complexities and drive innovation in the healthcare industry.
I would highly recommend it to anyone starting out in the health care industry as a business leader. I particularly enjoyed the case studies because it gave real world application examples of how business is done. I also learned about pioneers that I was able to discuss with my manager at work.
I enjoyed the style of presentation for this online course... The questions asked for discussions and peer-engagement platform helped the course look like a live lecture, while participants benefit from the comfort of their personalized schedules.
It is super valuable to see health care from another perspective other than clinically, and to realize that clinical and financial goals can align with the right people working together.
I thought this was an amazing course with extremely relevant content. Coming from the clinical support and product development side of medical device startup companies, this course really opened my eyes to some of the decisions that the c-suite individuals would make on the business side.
This course was extremely significant in my learning about healthcare business industry standards, expectations, and ways to implement to healthcare strategy into a consulting role, which is what I am moving into. This course sets a phenomenal foundation in to my professional pivot into this role.
I already had some theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics covered in the course. However, the way the content is given... and the participation stimulated by the methodology, expanded my knowledge and my vision on the subject. Real cases are good for understanding and learning the topics. A real feast.
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