HBS Course Catalog

Field Course: Innovating in Health Care

Course Number 6340

Professor Regina Herzlinger
Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits
Paper/project
Enrollment: limited to 24 students

Qualifies for Management Science Track Credit

Prerequisite

One member of the team, at a minimum, must be enrolled in the Spring Term 2108 - Innovating in Health Care.

Career Focus

Students interested in careers in financing, leading, or creating innovative health care services, health insurance, health IT, digital health , consumer-based innovations, or medical technology.

Educational Objectives

Additional field -based experience in innovating new health care ventures on topics chosen by the students or from those made available by the faculty. Students will gain exposure to the key players in their chosen research topic with the help of Prof. Herzlinger’s network and that of their classmates.

Course Content and Organization

Students will meet on selected dates:

January 30 - Professor Herzlinger discusses research strategies and the course overview. Students present preliminary ideas .

February 6 – Students discuss their research ideas and plans with their classmates

Students will develop a work plan after the second session that contains a detailed, time phased description of how they will develop a feasible business plan. In subsequent individual team meetings with Prof . Herzlinger ,students will discuss their progress on this work plan. These meetings will occur on a biweekly basis with an agenda sent to Prof Herzlinger four business days prior to the meeting .

March 3- Students present their progress in class

April 3 and April 10 - Students present their results to their classmates. Students email their presentations to Professor Herzlinger and their fellow classmates four business days before their presentation. Classmates will send written feedback to each other.




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