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Harvard Business School Online programs help your employees master essential business concepts using the proven Harvard Business School case study method and our innovative, participant-centered learning platforms. Talk to us about how Harvard Business School Online can give your employees the skills and confidence needed to help drive your organization forward.
Harvard Business School Online also works with colleges and universities to provide content solutions and scholarships for enrolled students considering the Credential of Readiness (CORe) program.
Current Offerings
Credential of Readiness (CORe)
Perhaps your organization has recently hired new employees who have yet to learn the fundamentals of business, or you have promoted from within and need to arm new managers with the skills they need to be effective in their new roles. CORe will teach these valuable employees the language of business and enable them to better contribute to meaningful strategic discussions at your organization.
This rigorous online credential program consists of three courses, developed by leading faculty from Harvard Business School, to provide your employees with essential business education:
CORe is offered throughout the year in three models of length and intensity. For working professionals managing a full-time job, we recommend our standard or extended programs.
Your group of 10 or more will be enrolled in a global group of motivated learners who will share valuable insights and experiences along the way. We will provide your organization with bi-weekly progress reports so you can see how employees are performing and track their progress throughout the program.
Management Essentials
Management Essentials will elevate your employees' managerial skills through a distinctive, hands-on approach that focuses on four of the most critical processes for managers: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change management.
By the end of the course, your employees will be able to:
- Recognize the advantages of taking a “process perspective” toward managerial work
- Influence the context and environment in which decisions get made
- Implement strategies, plans, projects, and initiatives more effectively
- Lead learning initiatives so that your organization can improve and innovate
- Design, direct, and shape various organizational processes to your advantage
Management Essentials is designed to deliver a high-impact learning experience that fits into a busy schedule, requiring only 30 to 35 hours of work, spread over six weeks. Management Essentials is presented in short, highly engaging segments in a self-paced learning environment on our course platform.
Your group of employees will be enrolled in a global group of motivated learners who share valuable insights and experiences along the way. We will provide your organization with bi-weekly progress reports so you can see how employees are performing and track their progress throughout the program.
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Business Analytics
Business Analytics is not based on rote memorization of equations or facts, but focuses on honing your employees' understanding of key concepts, their managerial judgment, and their ability to apply course concepts to real business problems.
By the end of the course, your employees will be able to:
- Recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets concisely
- Analyze relationships between variables
- Develop and test hypotheses to inform managerial decisions
- Craft sound survey questions and draw conclusions from larger population samples
- Estimate the accuracy of statistics by calculating confidence intervals
- Perform single and multiple variable regression analysis using Excel and interpret the output
Business Analytics is designed to deliver a high-impact learning experience that fits into a busy schedule, requiring approximately 40 hours of work, spread over eight weeks. Business Analytics is presented in short, highly engaging segments in a self-paced learning environment on our course platform.
Your group of employees will be enrolled in a global group of motivated learners who share valuable insights and experiences along the way. We will provide your organization with bi-weekly progress reports so you can see how employees are performing and track their progress throughout the program.
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Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen
Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen will help your organization:
- Avoid disruption and create new growth
- Anticipate what will happen next in your industry and achieve sustainable, long-term performance
- Adopt a powerful, common language for framing problems and creating solutions
- Surface insights and scale learning across your organization
With Disruptive Strategy, you may choose to enroll a team of employees in a private cohort and define a strategic question that is unique to your organization. Alternatively, your group of 10 or more employees can enroll in a global group of motivated learners who share valuable experiences and insights along the way. Private cohorts will have access to a dashboard providing insight into the performance and progress of your team. We will provide your organization with bi-weekly progress reports on your employees participating in open enrollment cohorts so you can see how they are performing and track their progress throughout the program.
In both the private cohort and open enrollment versions of Disruptive Strategy, your employees will engage in online case studies, debates, reflections, team-based assignments, and group-wide discussions. They will not only learn Professor Clayton Christensen's innovative frameworks, but how to apply them to tackle the toughest challenges and capitalize on the best opportunities for your organization. Private cohorts also participate in team discussions applying Disruptive Strategy’s approach to innovation to your organization's own unique challenges.
Disruptive Strategy is designed to deliver a high-impact learning experience that fits into a busy schedule, requiring approximately 30 to 35 hours of work, spread over five-six or 10-12 weeks. Disruptive Strategy is presented in short, highly engaging segments in a self-paced learning environment on our course platform.
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Economics for Managers
Understanding concepts of economics—willingness to pay and price, fixed versus variable costs, economies of scale—is critical to business success. This course starts with the fundamentals of supply and demand, including where they come from and why they're central to an understanding of business. Your employees will learn how businesses think about pricing and production. This course also dives into the functioning of markets, the force of competition, and strategies for differentiation.
By the end of the course, your employees will be able to:
- Analyze the impact of market changes by constructing supply and demand curves
- Determine a revenue-maximizing pricing strategy using the concept of elasticity
- Evaluate techniques to learn about or increase demand
- Perform a relative cost analysis
- Examine the competitive landscape and market outcomes and forces
- Assess monopolies, price discrimination, and differentiation
Economics for Managers is designed to deliver a high-impact learning experience that fits into a busy schedule, requiring approximately 60 hours of work, spread over eight weeks. Economics for Managers is presented in short, highly engaging segments in a self-paced learning environment on our course platform.
Your group of employees will be enrolled in a global group of motivated learners who share valuable insights and experiences along the way. We will provide your organization with bi-weekly progress reports so you can see how employees are performing and track their progress throughout the program.
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Financial Accounting
This course will teach your employees the fundamentals of financial accounting. Starting with the basics of recording transactions as journal entries and posting them to T accounts, they will learn how to prepare a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement.
By the end of the course, your employees will be able to:
- Understand where the information in financial statements originates by recording transactions
- Construct balance sheets and income statements
- Use the statement of cash flows to evaluate the financial health of a business
- Analyze ratios and use the DuPont Framework to evaluate a business
- Prepare and evaluate financial forecasts used to make strategic decisions
- Learn how to value a venture, project, or investment opportunity and perform a sensitivity analysis
Financial Accounting is designed to deliver a high-impact learning experience that fits into a busy schedule, requiring approximately 60 hours of work, spread over eight weeks. Financial Accounting is presented in short, highly engaging segments in a self-paced learning environment on our course platform.
Your group of employees will be enrolled in a global group of motivated learners who share valuable insights and experiences along the way. We will provide your organization with bi-weekly progress reports so you can see how employees are performing and track their progress throughout the program.
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Leading with Finance
Leading with Finance will provide your employees with an intuitive understanding of finance in order to better communicate with key stakeholders and grow their careers. Upon successful completion of the program, participants will:
- Understand key financial levers that drive financial performance
- Discover how and why finance is concerned with cash flow versus profits
- Identify ways to create and measure value Examine how the capital markets work and how they affect your business
- Develop a deep financial intuition that will give you the tools and confidence to make better decisions in your career and life
Leading with Finance is designed to deliver a high-impact learning experience that fits into a busy schedule, requiring only 30 to 35 hours of work, spread over six weeks. Leading with Finance is presented in short, highly-engaging segments in a self-paced learning environment on our course platform.
Your group of employees will be enrolled in a global group of motivated learners who share valuable insights and experiences along the way. We will provide your organization with bi-weekly progress reports so you can see how employees are performing and track their progress throughout the program.
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Negotiation Mastery
Negotiation Mastery prepares your employees to close deals that might otherwise be dead-locked, maximize value creation in agreements they reach, and resolve differences before they escalate into costly conflicts. This program emphasizes an understanding of both analytical tools and interpersonal techniques for dealing effectively with different bargaining styles and tactics. Participants of this program will:
- Understand negotiation dynamics and how to prepare for uncertainty
- Learn to craft agile strategy and be quick on their feet
- Resolve small differences before they escalate
- Secure maximum value for their organization
- Reflect on personal tendencies and refine their approach to be more effective
Negotiation Mastery is designed to deliver a high-impact learning experience that fits into a busy schedule, requiring approximately 40 hours of work, spread over eight weeks. Each of the four main topics takes two weeks to complete with one week dedicated to progression through the course and the following week dedicated to completing a real-time negotiation with a peer. Negotiation Mastery is presented in short, highly engaging segments in a self-paced learning environment on our course platform.
Your group of employees will be enrolled in a global group of motivated learners who share valuable insights and experiences along the way. We will provide your organization with bi-weekly progress reports so you can see how employees are performing and track their progress throughout the program.
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Sustainable Business Strategy
Sustainable Business Strategy will teach your employees how businesses can thrive and grow while simultaneously playing a major role in solving big problems, such as climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Through interactive online case studies with leading companies, such as Walmart and Unilever, participants will learn why purpose-driven firms perform well, and how they can kickstart the wheel of change. They will examine different business models and gain an understanding of the broader landscape, including the role of government, investors, and customers. Participants of this program will gain the ability to:
- Understand/Analyze the business models that can drive change
- Influence management, leadership, and other key stakeholders as to the competitive advantages of being a purpose-driven firm
- Examine the broader political and social landscape in which you operate
- Understand why collective efforts are important and how business can be a catalyst for system level change
- Determine how individuals can become purpose-driven leaders in their organizations
Sustainable Business Strategy is designed to deliver a high-impact learning experience that fits into a busy schedule, requiring approximately 15 to 20 hours of work, spread over three weeks. Sustainable Business Strategy is presented in short, highly engaging segments in a self-paced learning environment on our our course platform.
Your group of employees will be enrolled in a global group of motivated learners who share valuable insights and experiences along the way. We will provide your organization with bi-weekly progress reports so you can see how employees are performing and track their progress throughout the program.
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We’d love to discuss how Harvard Business School Online can help grow your current and next generation of business leaders.
Ross Pearo
Director, Strategic Alliances
