Margin ratios—such as gross, operating, EBITDA, and net ratios—offer valuable insights into your company’s profitability. Learn practical steps for calculating them and applying the results to improve financial performance. [...]

Strategic Financial Analysis is an eight-week online course that teaches you how to evaluate a business’s performance, prospects, and value to make strategic investment decisions that generate financial success. [...]

Mike Gleichman likes to be busy. He did parallel bachelor’s degrees at two schools. When he later advanced to executive director of product management at a division of CVS, he juggled the new role and two young kids, filling gaps by taking HBS Online courses. Learn more about how HBS Online fit into his life and helped round out his skills. [...]

If you manage investment portfolios, you can invest in firms with high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings to positively impact the world while maximizing returns for your firm and clients. Here’s a primer on ESG criteria’s role in the investment space and seven strategies to consider for purpose-driven decision-making. [...]

Successful impact investing isn’t possible without impact measurement, or gauging specific investments’ effects. Here’s an overview of what impact investing is and the important role it plays in business sustainability, along with investment strategies you can use and methods for measuring their outcomes. [...]