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Harvard on Digital
How can predictive analytics improve your business? What is your responsibility in protecting the privacy of your customers? Can big data be used to improve the lives of people in your community?
- Choose 3 eligible courses
- Complete your courses within 18 months
- Earn your certificate
Simply having a digital plan of action today is no longer enough. Organizations, entrepreneurs, and leaders aspiring to succeed in today’s business world drive toward true digital transformation. Create value in digital worlds, harness the power of data, and align your goals for maximum success.
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
Data Science for Business
4–5 hours per week • Starting Sep 24, 2025
Data Science Principles
4–5 hours per week • Starting Aug 27, 2025
Big Data for Social Good
4–5 hours per week • Starting Sep 3, 2025
Digital Health
3–4 hours per week • Starting Aug 20, 2025
Open Innovation
2–4 hours a week • Starting Aug 27, 2025
Learn from the best in the industry
Dustin Tingley
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy with a joint appointment in the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy and Harvard Government Department
Jim Waldo
Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard
Karim R. Lakhani
Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
Michael D. Smith
Raj Chetty, PhD
William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University and Director of Opportunity Insights
Stanley Y. Shaw, MD, PhD
Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor of Business Administration
As a data advocate and practitioner in the humanitarian and development sectors, it was incredibly insightful to see how cutting-edge statistical techniques are being used by world-class economists and researchers to inform more equitable policymaking.
This is a topic that people in any industry should have at least basic knowledge of in order to create more efficient and competitive businesses, tools, and resources.
I was highly impressed how uniquely and smartly this entire course was designed and structured. There were variety of real life application/industry based mandatory individual/group assignments/case studies which were not that easy. Your thought process and critical thinking gets deeply challenged.
The way this complicated topic was presented and the reflection it caused was impressive. I enjoyed the way I could dive into a whole new world of expertise in such an engaging way.
It's especially beneficial for learners to be able to tie back new or abstract concepts to ideas that we understand. This course helped me understand data in this context and what algorithms are actually trying to solve.
Data Science Principles applies to many aspects of our daily lives. The course helps guide people in everyday life through decision making and process thinking.
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.
I love the way the course is structured with real-world examples and the critical thinking sessions. It forces us to reflect upon what is happening around us. People who have an interest in cybersecurity, as well as those that would like to gain more general knowledge, would greatly benefit from this course.
The way the course is designed helped me to interact with my peers and learn from them, expending my perspective about the subjects being discussed. I also feel that I learned more about privacy and data protection in ways that I would never have thought about it if it wasn't for the real-world cases.
The course is especially relevant for anyone who is venturing into a career path centred around data privacy and technology. I also appreciate the interplay between privacy and technology because I got to see just how crucial it is to guard against the innovation of technology that is non-compliant with data privacy laws.
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