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Harvard University

Improving Your Business Through a Culture of Health

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Overview

While the United States is one of the world’s wealthiest nations, it is far from the healthiest. Our nation’s burden of disease affects businesses every day, from sick employees and families reducing productivity and increasing costs, to product recalls and failures, to environmental scandals such as toxic chemical emissions harming communities and reputations.

Named Runner Up for Best Online Program of 2018 by ProEd, this HarvardX course is presented by leading faculty from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Business School and will provide businesses with strategies, tactics, and tools to gain a competitive advantage by implementing a Culture of Health to address these issues and stay ahead. Embracing a Culture of Health can improve your employees’ well-being as well as the health of your consumers, your communities, and the environment. A Culture of Health can help you to reduce costs, increase revenues and profits, and enhance your company’s reputation.

For example, employees who work in a healthy and safe environment spend less time away from work for health reasons, decreasing interruptions, while increasing output and employee retention. When employees and customers spend less on health care, they have more disposable income to spend on non–health care needs, boosting the economy, and benefiting your business.

Strengthening your business using the Culture of Health approach will enhance the greater good by promoting well-being—benefitting society, your business and employees, your customers and communities, and you.

Taught by

Howard Koh, Amy Edmondson, John McDonough, Jose Alvarez, Glorian Sorensen, Robert Huckman, Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Raffaella Sadun, Gina McCarthy, Cass Sunstein, Elizabeth Frates, Eileen McNeely, George Serafeim, Sara Singer, Rakesh Khurana, John Quelch and Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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4.7 rating, based on 9 Class Central reviews

4.7 rating at edX based on 11 ratings

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  • Knowing and improve in business is very awesome I like it very much it essential to learn the basics first. Opening a business takes a large amount of grit and dedication, and it also requires a business owner who knows the ins and outs of being an entrepreneur. You really need business knowledge to succeed.

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    Sarefah Kawana
    Lean Management System is the demonstrated and accepted concept to improve continually the quality of health care services in the health system.The four principles of this system are the management of performance, asset, resourceand risk in the organization. These concept emphasizes the product and service
    that fulfill the community needs with waste elimination through process and continuous quality improvement.
  • Lucianne Campelo Pinhi
    I'm brasilian, 41 age, nutritionist and working whith coletive popupation. Have intristing of the course Improving YouTube Business Through a Culture oficial Health. Tanks so much.
  • Anonymous
    Hi everyone completed a decent course that is improving buisiness with culture of health with a passing Mark's 75% in audit mode and earn a verified certificate duly sign by instructor and rely upon it give my best afford at my workplace to employee and surrounding.
    Thankyou

    Dr Mukund lal
  • Anonymous
    Great course Havard University , as a faculty I feel the syllabus framed is excellent .After taking this course I shall continue with other courses.
  • Anonymous
    Hi everyone completed a decent course that is improving buisiness with culture of health with a passing Mark's 75% in audit mode and earn a verified certificate duly sign by instructor and rely upon it give my best afford at my workplace.
    Thankyou all.
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    Wilai Phungphol
    This course can health smes to understand how the business succeed with good Heath as well. However the family business. Owners have to manage business only, they believe that health is later.
  • Anonymous
    Lean Management System is the demonstrated and accepted concept to improve continually the quality of health care services in the health system.The four principles of this system are the management of performance, asset, resourceand risk in the organization. These concept emphasizes the product and service.
  • Anonymous
    It is an extremely good effort taken in the present senario like COVID 19 pandemic​ situation.Hope I will enjoy the course.

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