Executive Education

While delivering patient care has always been a primary goal of healthcare organizations, financial outcomes have long been the metric by which success is measured. Increasingly, however, healthcare leaders are being held accountable for both medical and financial outcomes. As a result, it is crucial that healthcare executives and providers gain an understanding of the determinants of organizational effectiveness—strategy, finance, operations, and leadership.

This leadership development program provides an experience that is truly transformational. Immersed in dynamic learning that goes far beyond the traditional debate over healthcare costs, you will examine the critical processes required to develop and deliver a superior healthcare system in your organization.

What You Can Expect
This intensive three-week program, delivered over a nine-month period, incorporates real-world case studies, classroom exercises, and action learning. You will build new skills in strategy, finance, operations, and leadership, while acquiring new perspectives and models for innovation.

Your Course of Study
The program equips participants with knowledge, tools, and scenarios structured around three main concepts—organizational design, operational performance, innovation—and the application of these key themes to their organization.

Who Is Right for the Program
This program is designed for clinical and nonclinical executives in healthcare delivery organizations. HBS encourages multiple individuals from the same organization to attend.

About the HBS Healthcare Initiative
The HBS Healthcare Initiative (HCI) serves as a gateway for healthcare research, educational programs, and collaboration. Priority is placed on applying the best principles of management, entrepreneurship, and innovation to help reshape this complex industry. We engage with faculty, students, alumni, Executive Education participants, and many other parts of the University. Through this powerful alliance of key stakeholders, HBS aims to educate leaders who will make an immediate and lasting impact by developing business models that offer the hope of improved outcomes, reduced costs, and enhanced services. For more information about related activities at Harvard Business School, please visit the Healthcare Initiative website.

A limited number of program scholarships will be made available. Preference will be given to groups of three or more from a single organization. For more information, please contact the HBS Healthcare Initiative at healthcare_initiative@hbs.edu or 1-617-495-6126.

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