The Health Care Initiative at Harvard Business School (HBS) seeks to impact managerial practice and the pace of innovation by educating leaders and innovators who aspire to improve value across the healthcare industry. The Initiative’s priorities are to foster and promote faculty research; support the development of a portfolio of high-impact educational programs; and create an interconnected HBS healthcare community.
Six second-year MBA courses focus solely on healthcare including, Lab to Market, Innovating in Health Care, Transforming Health Care Delivery, and US Health Care Strategy. Ten percent of the HBS cases taught in the first year are healthcare-related, and about 120 HBS students accept positions in healthcare across all sectors. The MBA student-run conference is hosted by the HBS Health Care Club and is attended by approximately 700 alumni, practitioners, and faculty.
The HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator strives to develop open-access models for the entire cancer ecosystem to reduce unnecessary duplication, unhelpful competition, and extraordinary inefficiencies. Lastly, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship provides a select group of HBS alumni with the opportunity to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with significant market potential.
Degree Programs
- MBA Program
- PhD in Health Policy Management
- Executive Education Health Care Courses
- Joint Health Care Degree Programs