Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care
4–5 hours per week • Starting Nov 5, 2025
Individual Course
Course Length
5 weeks
4-6 hours per week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Business School
Certificate Price:
$ 1,600
Apply by Oct 20, 2025
Apply NowCertificate Price:
$ 1,600
Apply by Oct 20, 2025
Apply NowIn this course, Harvard Business School faculty teach learners to align business strategy with the challenges and structures of the health care industry in the United States.
What can business strategy teach us about health care innovation in the United States? Why is a strategic vision important to implement in health care organizations? How do health care providers and institutions create value — and, more importantly, how do they capture value?
When you think of health care organizations, do the terms sustainable advantage or strategic differentiation come to mind? In an industry with increasing competition and innovation, leaders of U.S. health care organizations, and those delivering care, need to understand how their success depends on these key principles. This includes understanding health care business strategy and market development, the forces that make it easy or difficult to capture value, and how you can successfully compete against rivals. You must go beyond creating value to develop the critical thinking and analytical skills to develop a health care business strategy which will allow you to evaluate the needs of your business, optimize business decisions, and develop new or innovative health care ventures.
Self-Guided
Harvard Online
Industries:
Apply Proven Business Principles to Health Care
Strengthen Strategic Decision-Making
Enhance Stakeholder Alignment and Market Positioning
Health Care Strategy features authentic business examples, interactive lessons, and conversations with industry experts. This course will help you align the principles of business strategy with the unique challenges and structures of health care organizations, enabling you to create and capture value for your organization, and lead your organization to sustainability. Learning requirements: There are no prerequisites to enroll in this course. To earn a Certificate of Completion from Harvard Online, participants must thoughtfully complete modules 1-4, including satisfactory completion of the associated quizzes, by stated deadlines.
Your Instructor
Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches courses in healthcare strategy and co-directs to PhD Program in Business Economics. Professor Dafny also serves on the faculties of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the interdisciplinary Program in Health Policy.
Industry Expert
Beth Zoneraich is the CEO of a health care fertility organization, however did not begin her career in the health care industry. Explore how business analysis aided her in entering the health care business.
Industry Expert
Kevin Tabb is the CEO of Beth Israel Lahey Health, a system of academic and teaching hospitals in Massachusetts. He will share his first hand experience on how business strategy is affecting the health care industry.
Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only.
Industry Expert
Dr. Jorge Plutzky is the Director of The Vascular Disease Prevention Program and on faculty at Harvard Medical School. As an expert on capturing value in competitive health care markets, he will describe his methods and strategies.
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