Learning Outcome
How to implement a Culture of Health in your business to gain a competitive advantage
Individual Course
Improving Your Business Through a Culture of Health
Course Length
9 weeks
1-3 hours a week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Business School
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Enroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 219
Enroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 219
Renowned Harvard faculty give business leaders the strategies and tools they need to improve the well-being of their employees and transform their businesses.
While the United States is one of the world’s wealthiest nations, it is far from the healthiest. Our nation’s burden of disease affects businesses every day, from sick employees and families reducing productivity and increasing costs, to product recalls and failures, to environmental scandals such as toxic chemical emissions harming communities and reputations.
Named Runner Up for Best Online Program of 2018 by ProEd, this HarvardX course is presented by leading faculty from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Business School and will provide businesses with strategies, tactics, and tools to gain a competitive advantage by implementing a Culture of Health to address these issues and stay ahead. Embracing a Culture of Health can improve your employees’ well-being as well as the health of your consumers, your communities, and the environment. A Culture of Health can help you to reduce costs, increase revenues and profits, and enhance your company’s reputation.
For example, employees who work in a healthy and safe environment spend less time away from work for health reasons, decreasing interruptions, while increasing output and employee retention. When employees and customers spend less on health care, they have more disposable income to spend on non–health care needs, boosting the economy, and benefiting your business.
Strengthening your business using the Culture of Health approach will enhance the greater good by promoting well-being—benefitting society, your business and employees, your customers and communities, and you.
The course will be delivered via edX and connect learners around the world.
Self-Guided
EDX
Learning Outcome
How to reduce costs, increase revenues, and enhance your business’s reputation using a Culture of Health
Learning Outcome
Real-world examples of Culture of Health implementation that could apply to your business
- Learn from Harvard faculty
- Do it on your own time
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Faculty
Your Instructor
Elizabeth Frates
Assistant Clinical Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School
Your Instructor
Cass Sunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
Your Instructor
Gina McCarthy
Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Your Instructor
Raffaella Sadun
Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Your Instructor
Kasisomayajula Viswanath
Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Your Instructor
Robert Huckman
Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Your Instructor
Glorian Sorensen
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Your Instructor
Jose Alvarez
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Your Instructor
John McDonough
John McDonough is a professor of public health practice and director of the Center for Executive and Continuing Professional Education at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
In 2010, he was the Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Hunter College in New York City. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as a Senior Advisor on National Health Reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions where he worked on the writing and passage of the Affordable Care Act. Between 2003 and 2008, he served as Executive Director of Health Care For All, Massachusetts; leading consumer health advocacy organization where he played a central role in the passage of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform Law.
Your Instructor
Howard Koh
Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Member of Faculty, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Ways to take this course
Audit or Pursue a Verified Certificate
A Verified Certificate costs $219 and provides unlimited access to full course materials, activities, tests, and forums. At the end of the course, learners who earn a passing grade can receive a certificate.
Alternatively, learners can Audit the course for free and have access to select course material, activities, tests, and forums. Please note that this track does not offer a certificate for learners who earn a passing grade.
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