Corporate Certificate in Advanced Management

• 3 MBA courses selected selected to advance patient outcomes and drive healthcare innovation, customized with Lahey content 
• Hybrid learning format with each course delivered over 14 weeks, with a balance between in-person and virtual sessions
• Take advantage of partially covered tuition for full-time employees through your Lahey tuition reimbursement benefits* 
• Build business acumen and grow your network while earning a graduate credential; it rolls into the MBA program!
• Become a Babson alum, a network with over 46K in 128 countries

*Tuition is only covered if Lahey's Tuition Reimbursement Program requirements are met. 

Course Schedule

• Upon completion of this program, colleagues will earn a graduate credential (Certificate in Advanced Management), and will have completed 9 MBA elective credits. Colleagues will also become Babson alumni and join our worldwide alumni network of more than 46,000.
• For those interested in an MBA, credits will roll into the Babson-Lahey MBA Program with a 3.0 gpa or higher.
• 14-week semesters are scheduled with several breaks built into the program to ensure minimal interruptions to work and life;
• A cohorted structure helps facilitate learning while enhancing participants’ skills and Lahey network, all within a Lahey context. Courses allow participants to apply what they learn directly to their work, often through work-related projects.
• Lahey employees receive a 20% reduced tuition rate and can defer 2/3rds of their tuition payment until 5 weeks after the end of the semester for ease in payment and reimbursement.

The following courses have been selected for employees by senior leadership at Lahey to develop skills that can be applied directly to their work. Courses will also incorporate Lahey business cases and scenarios to make content applicable and relevant to work situations.

• Thinking and Acting AI, OIM7545:  In this graduate elective course, we will engage in the thoughtful analysis and exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and their role in business and healthcare value creation, and organizational transformation. The course introduces students to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, their value propositions in business, healthcare delivery, and medical practice, and their transformative potential for improving patient outcomes while ensuring responsible implementation. We will cover AI from machine learning to natural language processing to “deep learning,” and Large Language Models. We will address both the functions performed by these technologies and the business and health care issues that emerge from their adoption, including the evolving roles of physicians and healthcare professionals in AI-augmented care delivery, the ethical implications of AI in patient care and health equity, and the holistic redesign of the AI-enhanced healthcare organization.
  • (3 credits, MBA elective)
    
    
• Experiment to Scale, OIM7503: This course focuses on aligning a health system’s strategic goals with innovative, experimental practices to drive growth and change. The course introduces intermediate and advanced business process experimentation techniques from lean management, design thinking, value sensitive design, and innovation management. The curriculum explores these topics through case examples from healthcare, digital health, and biotechnology organizations. Participants will select an area of opportunity within their work area and apply skills related to refining a problem definition, stakeholder values and analysis, ideation, and testing and evaluating the resultant solution. The course concludes with examination of enterprise-wide experimentation and experimentation culture well as the opportunity for participants to share their experimentation work with their colleagues.  
  • (3 credits, MBA elective)
    
    
• Organizational Entrepreneurship, EPS7553: This course empowers healthcare professionals to discover, develop, and apply Entrepreneurial Thought & Action (ET&A)—a Babson trademarked methodology that balances creativity, experimentation, and action—within the unique context of healthcare organizations. While applicable across various settings, the course emphasizes fostering entrepreneurial mindsets and skills inside established healthcare organizations like Lahey. Participants will assess and enhance their entrepreneurial capabilities and learn how to leverage ET&A and related frameworks to drive innovation, improve patient outcomes, and create value.  The curriculum draws on research from leading healthcare companies, case studies, videos, experiential exercises, and industry insights to provide practical tools for achieving entrepreneurial impact in complex healthcare systems.
  • (3 credits, MBA elective)