Executive Education

New Program

While delivering patient care has always been a primary goal of healthcare organizations, financial outcomes have long been the metric by which success has been 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. Over nine months, 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 which they can bring back to their organizations, organized around four main concepts: Design – Developing Effective Operational Models, Teams, and Delivery Strategies; Perform – Improving Day-to-Day Operations and Processes; Innovate – Fostering an Environment of Learning and Leadership; Apply – Testing Key Concepts in Your Organization.

Who Is Right for the Program
This new program is designed for clinical care and nonclinical executives in healthcare delivery organizations. HBS encourages 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 performance management and innovation to this complex industry. HCI engages with faculty, students, alumni, Executive Education participants, and many other parts of the University, including Harvard Medical School. Through this powerful alliance of key stakeholders, HBS aims to educate leaders who will make an immediate and lasting impact on the healthcare industry. 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 Cara Sterling of the HBS Healthcare Initiative at csterling@hbs.edu or 1-617-495-6126.

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