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Become a Specialist

In as little as six months, go further in your career and learning journey by earning a Certificate of Specialization from Harvard Online. Receive unparalleled access to a faculty and experts who will introduce cutting-edge solutions to current industry challenges using methods that can only be found at Harvard.

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Harvard on Digital

Approach new digital and data strategies with an eye toward people, mindsets, and systems. Harvard on Digital courses provide the frameworks and methodologies to turn data into insight, technologies into strategy, and opportunities into value and responsibility. These courses are curated to help you develop a data-first mindset, improve your digital strategic thinking, and learn how to navigate, manage, and lead in these environments. Build your confidence to provide practical data insights to improve analysis, communication, and decision-making at your organization.

6 Courses

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Data Privacy and Technology

4-5 hours per week • Starting Sep 17, 2025

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Data Science for Business

4–5 hours per week • Starting Sep 24, 2025

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Data Science Principles

4–5 hours per week • Starting Aug 27, 2025

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Big Data for Social Good

4–5 hours per week • Starting Sep 3, 2025

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Digital Health

3–4 hours per week • Starting Aug 20, 2025

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Open Innovation

2–4 hours a week • Starting Aug 27, 2025

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Health Care Leadership

Deepen perspectives and advance insights into the strategic issues facing health care organizations today.Health Care Leadership is designed for emerging leaders in provider, payer, and life sciences organizations. The series includes courses in business strategy, economics, and digital health, delivering key lessons in leadership and management for today’s health care landscape. Taken together, these courses allow you to develop a comprehensive approach to health care leadership and consider strategies for an ever evolving sector.

5 Courses

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Health Care Strategy

4-6 hours per week • Starting Oct 29, 2025

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Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care

4–5 hours per week • Starting Aug 13, 2025

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Innovations in Teamwork for Health Care

6–9 hours per week • Starting Oct 8, 2025

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Digital Health

3–4 hours per week • Starting Aug 20, 2025

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Health Care Economics

3-4 hours a week • Starting Oct 29, 2025

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Hear from our learners

The course was informative on both current and future data privacy and technological innovation trends—the need for data privacy without inhibiting innovation. The team and instructors prompt critical thinking while broadening the understanding of data privacy beyond the frontiers.

Joanita N.

Data Privacy and Technology

This course was worth my time and I thoroughly enjoyed communicating and learning with innovative thinkers from around the world. This was a great experience, and I am grateful my administration invested in me in this way to continue learning and growing so I could better do my job and help more humans.

Dr. Lindsey K.

Open Innovation

This course provides enough details, tips, and real-world examples to utilize open innovation as a strategy within any organization. It helped explain the different tools, platforms, tactics, and flexibilities to use depending on the business outcomes required.

Ed W.

Open Innovation

I would highly recommend it to anyone starting out in the health care industry as a business leader. I particularly enjoyed the case studies because it gave real world application examples of how business is done. I also learned about pioneers that I was able to discuss with my manager at work.