Health Care Strategy
Understand the forces shaping one of the world's most complex industries — and learn to build and lead winning strategy in health care.
Overview
Health care is one of the largest, most complex and fastest-changing industries in the world — and strategy within it works differently than almost anywhere else. Health Care Strategy, from Harvard Online, helps leaders make sense of these forces and build strategy that wins.
You'll explore how the health care system is structured, what drives competition and value, how innovation disrupts the industry, and how to craft and execute a strategy that delivers for patients and organisations alike.
What you'll learn
- How the health care industry is structured
- What drives competition and value in health care
- Value-based care and evolving business models
- How innovation and technology disrupt the industry
- How to manage stakeholders, regulation and change
- How to build and execute winning strategy
Course content
How the system fits together — providers, payers, pharma, regulators — and why it's so complex.
How competition works in health care and what it takes to build a sustainable advantage.
Value-based care, payment models and how organisations actually create and capture value.
How new technology and business models are disrupting health care — and creating opportunity.
Navigating the web of stakeholders and regulation that shapes every health care decision.
Pulling it together to craft and deliver a strategy that works in the real world.
Who it's for
This course is ideal for leaders and managers in health care organisations, clinicians moving into leadership, consultants, and anyone helping shape strategy in the health sector.
No prerequisites are required — just an interest in the business and strategy of health care.
Your certificate
On successful completion, you'll earn an official certificate from Harvard — a globally recognised credential you can add to your CV and LinkedIn to demonstrate your health care strategy expertise.
Lead in health care.
Enrol in Health Care Strategy, or talk to an advisor about the right Harvard course for your goals.