New Digital Strategy Course By Bharat N. Anand
Coming Summer 2025
Learn how to leverage digital innovation, create winning strategies, and lead transformative change within your organization.
Course Overview
In today’s fast-paced business world, digital technology has become a critical driver of strategy, transforming how companies compete and create value. Harvard Online's new Digital Strategy course, led by Harvard Business School Professor Bharat Anand, explores how to strategically harness digital innovation to solve complex challenges and seize new opportunities. Through real-world examples from industry leaders like Walmart’s Doug McMillon, Hotstar’s Uday Shankar, and Chipotle’s Brian Niccol, you’ll examine both the successes and setbacks of digital transformation.
The course covers key areas such as building adaptive organizational structures, fostering leadership mindsets centered on digital, and using strategic experimentation to innovate. You’ll also discover how to leverage network effects, create new value, and adapt traditional business models for a digital-first world. By the end, you’ll have the strategic thinking and practical skills needed to design and implement effective digital strategies tailored to your organization.
When you enroll, you’ll receive:
- One-year access to course content
- Live events with industry experts
- Regularly updated material from faculty and industry leaders to continue your learning journey beyond the course modules
This course is made for:
The Strategic Leader
Elevate your business strategy by integrating digital at every level.
The Digital Transformation Champion
Reimagine business processes and customer experience through digital innovation.
The Product Innovator
Develop new products and services by leveraging emerging technologies to meet market demands and create value.
Your Instructor
Bharat N. Anand is the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University, and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Professor Anand is an expert in digital strategy, media and entertainment strategy, corporate strategy, and organizational change. His work has examined competition in information goods markets, focusing on two central challenges that firms increasingly face: “getting noticed” amidst the increasing clutter of alternatives available to consumers, and “getting paid” for what they produce.
His recent book, The Content Trap: A Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change (Random House) examines digital transformation in content industries, with a view to distilling the learnings from a quarter century of change that might inform digital efforts elsewhere. The book has received acclaim for its perspective on strategy and digital transformation, and was named as one of Fast Company’s top ten business books of 2016, Bloomberg’s “Best Books of 2017”, and received the Axiom Best Business Book Award in “Business Theory” (Silver) in 2018.
Empower Your Team with Industry Leading Digital Strategy
The principles and concepts taught in this course are most effective when applied across teams, communities, and organizations.
Harvard Online offers discounted pricing options designed for teams and organizations of all types and sizes.