Work through the Harvard Online course on your own schedule within weekly deadlines, alongside professionals from around the world, with three months of Voca practice to apply what you learn.
Complete the course and Harvard Online issues your Certificate of Completion.
Curriculum developed and delivered by Leemore Dafny of Harvard Business School, with conversations with industry experts throughout.
Issued in your legal name as a Certified Electronic Credential you can add to your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Stack this course with others to earn a Certificate of Specialization in Health Care Leadership from Harvard Online.
Four topics aligning the principles of business strategy with the structures and constraints of health care organizations.
Syllabus topics are set by Harvard Online and may be revised between cohorts.
If you set direction inside a health care organization, or sell and advise into one, this course is designed for you.
No clinical qualification required. Taught in English; participants should be 18 or over.
Health care organizations face the same strategic questions as any business, inside tighter rules. This course shows how the classic tools apply.
Your coursework is designed and delivered by Harvard faculty, with industry experts bringing real cases into each topic.
Professor Dafny teaches health care strategy and co-directs the PhD Program in Business Economics. She also serves on the faculties of the Harvard Kennedy School and the Program in Health Policy.
Three Harvard Online modules on strategy, teamwork and digital health — with live sessions, app access and Voca practice.
One fee covering the full Harvard Online course, your Certificate of Completion, and three months of Voca practice access.
Four steps, usually completed within a week.
A twenty-minute conversation with an advisor to check the course fits your role and goals. No obligation.
We confirm the upcoming start dates that suit your schedule.
Confirm your place, then complete payment by international card or bank transfer.
We enroll you directly with Harvard Online. Your access details arrive by email before your start date.
No. There are no prerequisites and no clinical qualification is needed. The course aligns the principles of business strategy with the structures and constraints of health care organizations.
Four topics: value creation and value capture; industry analysis; competition; and the boundaries of the firm.
Hospital and provider leaders, pharmaceutical and device professionals, payer and insurance strategists, and consultants and investors.
The course runs five weeks at roughly four to six hours a week, completed on your own schedule within weekly deadlines.
USD 1,600 for the complete course, covering the full Harvard Online course, your Certificate of Completion and three months of Voca practice access.
Voca is SkillsPro360's AI-powered practice tool. You can rehearse a presentation, run a mock interview, or have your CV reviewed — privately, on demand, as many times as you like. Three months of access are included with this course, and your advisor will help you time it for when it is most useful.
Yes. It is one of the three modules of the Executive Program in Health Care Leadership. If you go on to complete the other two, this course counts toward your Certificate of Specialization. Speak to an advisor before enrolling so we can map the route with you.
Harvard Online. On successful completion you receive a Certificate of Completion issued directly by Harvard Online. SkillsPro360 is an authorized delivery partner — we are not Harvard University.
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