Health Care Initiative

Health Care Initiative

 

Supporting a dynamic community

 

MBA Experience

MBA students focus on health care through industry-related courses, extracurricular activities, and recruiting opportunities.

Faculty & Research

Faculty collaborate to generate new knowledge and concepts in health care management and innovation, and to disseminate these works.

Alumni

Opportunities to participate in health care activities at the school, and through the ongoing development of the alumni health care network

Executive Education

Programs that disseminate knowledge and influence practice across all industries within the health care sector.
The Health Care Initiative impacts managerial practice and the pace of innovation by educating leaders and innovators who aspire to improve value across the health care industry. The Initiative fosters and promotes faculty research, supports the development of a portfolio of high-impact educational programs, and creates an interconnected HBS health care community.

History 

Explore the history of health care teaching and research at the School dating back to the first health care case in 1967.
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Physicians volunteered to have students shadow them to learn more about the front lines of care delivery
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Pairs were matched as part of the Student-Alumni Mentor Program in 2018
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First-year students complete summer internships in health care
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Leadership 

Our dedicated team of staff and faculty works to deliver engaging courses, programming, and content for students, alumni, executives, and recruiters.

Advisory Board

This active group of senior health care professionals from across the globe provides insight on the health care curriculum, offers opinions on research direction, supports student placement efforts, and assists in promoting the Health Care Initiative.

The HBS Difference

At HBS, students become tomorrow’s health care leaders. They study innovative health care organizations, put leadership into action through field-based activities, and participate in over 200 health care events across Harvard.

With thousands of health care alumni around the world, HBS graduates are making a difference in health care. From Brooke Pratt to Dan Brown & Mike T. Surgibox to Gabby Choi - HBS alumni fund, start, and run health care organizations that create innovative change.

More on Academics
“With each new class comes a variety of opportunities around the case, which adds to the richness of the teaching and learning experience.”
Robert S. Huckman
Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair
“With each new class comes a variety of opportunities around the case, which adds to the richness of the teaching and learning experience.”
Robert S. Huckman
Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair
Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone.