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Developed by leading Harvard faculty and brought to life with insights from award-winning celebrities including Cynthia Erivo, Amy Poehler, Michael B. Jordan and more, these courses emphasize skills development and practical strategies to tackle the real challenges you face.
7 Courses
Building a Winning Mindset: Flexibility and Resiliency at Work
2.5 hours • Starting Nov 12, 2025
Purpose, Perspective, and Persuasion
2.5 hours • Starting Nov 12, 2025
How to Bring the Real You to Work: Authenticity, Connection, and Identity
2.5 Weeks • Starting Nov 12, 2025
Tech Ethics: Critical Thinking in the Age of Apps, Algorithms, and AI
2.5 hours • Starting Nov 12, 2025
Effective Writing for Greater Impact
2.5 hours • Starting Nov 12, 2025
Disagreeing Productively and Collaborating Well
2.5 hours • Starting Nov 12, 2025
Cultivating Power for Positive Impact
2.5 hours • Starting Nov 12, 2025
Harvard on Digital
Approach new digital and data strategies with an eye toward people, mindsets, and systems.
Harvard on Digital courses provide the frameworks and methodologies to turn data into insight, technologies into strategy, and opportunities into value and responsibility. These courses are curated to help you develop a data-first mindset, improve your digital strategic thinking, and learn how to navigate, manage, and lead in these environments. Build your confidence to provide practical data insights to improve analysis, communication, and decision-making at your organization.
6 Courses
Data Privacy and Technology
4-5 hours per week • Starting Jan 21, 2026
Data Science for Business
4–5 hours per week • Starting Jan 14, 2026
Data Science Principles
4–5 hours per week • Starting Nov 19, 2025
Big Data for Social Good
4–5 hours per week • Starting Jan 14, 2026
Digital Health
3–4 hours per week • Starting Nov 19, 2025
Open Innovation
2–4 hours a week • Starting Nov 12, 2025
Health Care Leadership
Deepen perspectives and advance insights into the strategic issues facing health care organizations today.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.
5 Courses
Health Care Strategy
4-6 hours per week • Starting Jan 21, 2026
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 Jan 28, 2026
Digital Health
3–4 hours per week • Starting Nov 19, 2025
Health Care Economics
3-4 hours a week • Starting Feb 18, 2026
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