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    Managing Health Care Delivery

    Managing Health Care Delivery
    • Dates: 31 OCT 2021–06 MAY 2022
    • Format: Blended Blended programs combine both in-person and virtual learning.
    • Location: HBS Campus, Virtual
    • Fee: $27,000
      • The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
      Modules:
      • 31 OCT–05 NOV 2021 — Module 1 (HBS Campus)
      • 06 NOV 2021–19 FEB 2022 — Module 2 (Virtual, Self-Paced)
      • 20 FEB–18 MAR 2022 — Module 3 (Virtual, Live Online)
      • 19 MAR–30 APR 2022 — Module 4 (Virtual, Self-Paced)
      • 01–06 MAY 2022 — Module 5 (HBS Campus)
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      • 31 OCT–05 NOV 2021 — Module 1 (HBS Campus)
      • 06 NOV 2021–19 FEB 2022 — Module 2 (Virtual, Self-Paced)
      • 20 FEB–18 MAR 2022 — Module 3 (Virtual, Live Online)
      • 19 MAR–30 APR 2022 — Module 4 (Virtual, Self-Paced)
      • 01–06 MAY 2022 — Module 5 (HBS Campus)
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    Robert S. Huckman

    Improve outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance services.

    Robert S. Huckman
    Faculty Chair
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    Robert S. Huckman

    Improve outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance services.

    Robert S. Huckman
    Faculty Chair
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    Need Help? Contact Us:
    Program Advising team
    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu

    Summary

    Today's health care organizations need leaders who can respond to the challenge of delivering greater value through a combination of higher quality, lower cost, and broader access. Spanning seven months and including a combination of in-person modules on the HBS campus, live online sessions, and self-paced lessons, this program will help you innovate and build the capabilities to provide quality and compassionate care in a cost-effective and integrated manner—even in the face of rising expectations, shifting health policies, and constrained resources.

    This program is offered in collaboration with the HBS Health Care Initiative.

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    Summary

    Today's health care organizations need leaders who can respond to the challenge of delivering greater value through a combination of higher quality, lower cost, and broader access. Spanning seven months and including a combination of in-person modules on the HBS campus, live online sessions, and self-paced lessons, this program will help you innovate and build the capabilities to provide quality and compassionate care in a cost-effective and integrated manner—even in the face of rising expectations, shifting health policies, and constrained resources.

    This program is offered in collaboration with the HBS Health Care Initiative.

    Key Benefits
    Emphasizing opportunities for innovation, this health care management program prepares you to improve medical and economic outcomes at a time when patient needs are becoming more complex, technology innovations are enabling and forcing delivery model reform, and payers are demanding cost control. These factors have become particularly salient during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has placed great strain on health care delivery, and has posed significant challenges for vulnerable populations. Yet these issues are not unique to the pandemic; they are systemic factors that have represented ongoing challenges for health care leaders. Throughout this course, you will develop approaches for dealing with these challenges by exploring breakthrough delivery models and practices; building capabilities in strategy, operations, finance, and leadership; and enhancing your ability to drive change, manage people, and improve patient care.

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    • Identify and address gaps in your health care delivery organization
    • Evaluate and create flexible strategies for ensuring more effective care
    • Respond to new market forces, payment models, and consumer expectations
    • Analyze and improve the financial health of your organization
    • Enhance coordination of services
    • Stimulate and improve innovation over time
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    • Build skills to design and lead a competitive health care delivery organization
    • Understand how effective leaders mentor, monitor, direct, and inspire
    • Foster innovation and effective teamwork
    • Learn tools and techniques for designing and managing successful organizations
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    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from across the globe who possess deep and varied experience in health care
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

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    Emphasizing opportunities for innovation, this health care management program prepares you to improve medical and economic outcomes at a time when patient needs are becoming more complex, technology innovations are enabling and forcing delivery model reform, and payers are demanding cost control. These factors have become particularly salient during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has placed great strain on health care delivery, and has posed significant challenges for vulnerable populations. Yet these issues are not unique to the pandemic; they are systemic factors that have represented ongoing challenges for health care leaders. Throughout this course, you will develop approaches for dealing with these challenges by exploring breakthrough delivery models and practices; building capabilities in strategy, operations, finance, and leadership; and enhancing your ability to drive change, manage people, and improve patient care.
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    Improve your organization's performance

    • Identify and address gaps in your health care delivery organization
    • Evaluate and create flexible strategies for ensuring more effective care
    • Respond to new market forces, payment models, and consumer expectations
    • Analyze and improve the financial health of your organization
    • Enhance coordination of services
    • Stimulate and improve innovation over time

    Become a more capable health care leader

    • Build skills to design and lead a competitive health care delivery organization
    • Understand how effective leaders mentor, monitor, direct, and inspire
    • Foster innovation and effective teamwork
    • Learn tools and techniques for designing and managing successful organizations

    Expand your personal and professional network

    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from across the globe who possess deep and varied experience in health care
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

    Who Should Attend

    • Clinical and nonclinical leaders with more than 10 years of experience in large established health care delivery organizations
    • Physician chiefs and subspecialty chiefs, nurse executives, and leaders from physician network organizations
    • Administrative executives and those in functions such as innovation, strategy, information technology, finance, and human capital

    Because this health care management program focuses on developing strategies that address organizational challenges, it is ideal for teams. Attendance by multiple representatives from your organization not only will foster teamwork but also will amplify impact.

    A limited number of needs-based partial scholarships are available to be applied towards program tuition. After being accepted to the program, and prior to the program start, participants may send a brief statement of need for review by the financial aid committee. For more information, please contact Melissa Walawender at mwalawender@hbs.edu or 1.617.495.6266.

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 10 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

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    Good Management Can Save Your LifeGood Management Can Save Your Life
    Prof. Raffaella Sadun researches how clinicians and administrators can better manage care delivery.
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    Researching Non-traditional Health Care CompaniesResearching Non-traditional Health Care Companies
    Prof. Huckman explores innovation in the health care sector.
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    Who Should Attend

    • Clinical and nonclinical leaders with more than 10 years of experience in large established health care delivery organizations
    • Physician chiefs and subspecialty chiefs, nurse executives, and leaders from physician network organizations
    • Administrative executives and those in functions such as innovation, strategy, information technology, finance, and human capital

    Because this health care management program focuses on developing strategies that address organizational challenges, it is ideal for teams. Attendance by multiple representatives from your organization not only will foster teamwork but also will amplify impact.

    A limited number of needs-based partial scholarships are available to be applied towards program tuition. After being accepted to the program, and prior to the program start, participants may send a brief statement of need for review by the financial aid committee. For more information, please contact Melissa Walawender at mwalawender@hbs.edu or 1.617.495.6266.

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 10 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

    Dive Deeper into the Experience
    Play video
    Play video
    Good Management Can Save Your LifeGood Management Can Save Your Life
    Prof. Raffaella Sadun researches how clinicians and administrators can better manage care delivery.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    Inside the ClassroomInside the Classroom
    See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    Researching Non-traditional Health Care CompaniesResearching Non-traditional Health Care Companies
    Prof. Huckman explores innovation in the health care sector.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video

    Blended Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in a blended Executive Education program at Harvard Business School, you get the best of both worlds—a powerful learning experience that combines highly immersive in-person modules on the HBS campus with highly interactive virtual modules. The blended format provides opportunities to apply new skills and frameworks in your organization during the program.

    Both case-based formats are led by HBS faculty, who share their latest research and engage you in a dynamic exchange of ideas with a global community of peers. Each module is carefully designed to maximize the impact, enable immediate application, and accelerate leadership growth.

    Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols

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    Blended Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in a blended Executive Education program at Harvard Business School, you get the best of both worlds—a powerful learning experience that combines highly immersive in-person modules on the HBS campus with highly interactive virtual modules. The blended format provides opportunities to apply new skills and frameworks in your organization during the program.

    Both case-based formats are led by HBS faculty, who share their latest research and engage you in a dynamic exchange of ideas with a global community of peers. Each module is carefully designed to maximize the impact, enable immediate application, and accelerate leadership growth.

    Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols

    Admissions Criteria and Process

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.
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    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

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    Admissions Criteria and Process Dropdown down

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.

    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.
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    Program content, dates, schedule, fees, technology platforms, and faculty are subject to change. In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.