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Managing Health Care Delivery

Managing Health Care Delivery
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  • Dates: TBD
  • Format: Blended Combines both in-person and virtual learning.
  • Locations: HBS Campus, Virtual
  • Fee: TBD
    • The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
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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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How Will Amazon Approach U.S. Primary Care?
How Will Amazon Approach U.S. Primary Care?
Faculty Chair Robert Huckman and Bradley Staats discuss the tech giant and primary care.
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Program Advising team
Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
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The information below is based on the prior program session and does not reflect potential changes to faculty and course content for future program offerings. For a list of upcoming programs, visit our program finder.

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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Improve your organization's performanceImprove your organization's performance
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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
Become a more capable health care leaderBecome a more capable health care leader
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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
Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
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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.
Details

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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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
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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.

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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. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests 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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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. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests 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.