Healthcare Innovation: Strategies for Success
Develop strategies to launch successful healthcare startups while mastering market analysis, business models, and value-based solutions for medical innovation.
Develop strategies to launch successful healthcare startups while mastering market analysis, business models, and value-based solutions for medical innovation.
Discover how to drive innovation in the rapidly evolving health care sector with Harvard's "Innovating in Health Care" course. This program equips you with the tools to develop successful global business ventures that address critical issues of cost, quality, and access in health care. You'll explore a comprehensive framework for evaluating and crafting business models that align with the six key factors shaping health care ventures: structure, financing, regulations, consumers, accountability, and technology. Through expert lectures, case studies, and insights from global health care innovators, you'll learn to analyze opportunities across various types of health care innovations, including consumer-focused, technology-driven, and integrative models. By the end of the course, you'll be prepared to create viable business plans for innovative health care ventures that can make a real impact in the $4 trillion health care market.
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What you'll learn
Understand how innovation can improve health care cost, quality, and access
Analyze the six critical factors shaping competitive strategies in health care ventures
Develop skills to create feasible business models for innovative health care ventures
Learn to distinguish successful health care innovations from likely failures
Apply the IHC framework to evaluate business models across different innovation types
Gain practical experience in crafting business plans for health care ventures
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Module Description
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of innovation in the health care sector, focusing on creating successful business ventures that address key challenges in cost, quality, and access. Students will learn about the six critical factors that shape health care ventures: structure, financing, regulations, consumers, accountability, and technology. The curriculum covers different types of health care innovations, including consumer-focused, technology-driven, and integrative models. Through case studies and real-world examples, participants will learn to evaluate health care business opportunities and develop effective business models. The course emphasizes practical application, with students having the option to work in teams to create actual business plans. By the end of the program, learners will have a thorough understanding of how to navigate the complex health care landscape and bring innovative solutions to market.
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Pioneering Healthcare Innovation Scholar and First Woman Tenured at Harvard Business School
Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has revolutionized healthcare management education and policy over five decades. Born in Tel Aviv to parents who fled Nazi Germany, she earned her bachelor's degree from MIT in 1965 and DBA from Harvard Business School, where she became the first woman to receive tenure and chair. Dubbed the "Godmother of Consumer-Driven Healthcare," she coined the term and accurately predicted major industry shifts, including the rise of ambulatory care centers and telehealth. Her groundbreaking books, including "Market-Driven Health Care" and "Who Killed Health Care?" have been bestsellers and shaped healthcare policy discussions. Beyond academia, she co-founded Belmont Medical Technologies with her husband, developing life-saving medical devices. Her innovations in healthcare education include creating HBS's first healthcare and nonprofit courses, launching the Global Educators Network for Health Innovation Education (GENiE), and developing new MBA and executive education programs. Despite facing significant criticism as a female pioneer in her field, her work has earned numerous accolades, including two James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Awards, and her LinkedIn posts regularly reach tens of thousands of viewers
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Pioneering Computer Scientist Revolutionizing Database Systems and Technology Education
Margo Ilene Seltzer, currently the Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems at the University of British Columbia, has fundamentally transformed computer science through her groundbreaking work in database systems and file storage. After earning her A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Radcliffe College in 1983 and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1992, she became Harvard's Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science, where she made history as one of the institution's most distinguished faculty members. As co-founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, she developed Berkeley DB, a revolutionary database system that earned the 2020 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award. Her research spans systems architecture, data provenance, and healthcare technology applications, with over 100 published papers. Her exceptional teaching has earned numerous accolades, including the Phi Beta Kappa teaching award, the Abrahmson Teaching Award, and the CRA-E Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. A member of the National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the ACM, Seltzer continues to influence both academia and industry through her roles at Oracle Corporation and her leadership in organizations like USENIX, where she served as president and received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.
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