Business professionals face competing priorities and a never-ending array of dilemmas and decisions. Harvard Business School Online has created a variety of courses to assist leaders with their biggest challenges. Two new offerings are designed specifically for entrepreneurs and managers who want to make the best decisions for their organizations.
Launching Tech Ventures is an online course that helps early-stage startups prepare for management challenges across all aspects of their business model. Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability provides valuable tools to sharpen managers’ judgment and decision-making skills and help them act and lead with integrity and good conscience.
“We’re happy to add these two outstanding courses to our portfolio,” says Simeen Mohsen, HBS Online’s senior managing director. “In both courses, participants will learn from not only esteemed faculty who are experts in their fields but also from business leaders who confronted challenges. The engaging content, combined with input from fellow learners around the world, will allow participants to absorb the lessons quickly and immediately apply them in their own roles.”
Launching Tech Ventures
View VideoLaunching Tech Ventures is designed for founders, startup employees, and investors to learn what’s needed to build a viable, valuable business that can profitably scale. The course, developed by Jeffrey Bussgang, HBS Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and co-founder and general partner of Flybridge Capital, will teach founders how to conduct experiments to determine product-market fit, raise venture capital, and navigate the startup ecosystem’s biases.
Through the course, you’ll:
- Master frameworks and tools to execute a high-quality, profitable business model
- Conduct experiments to determine your venture’s value proposition, go-to-market strategy, and profit formula
- Understand and learn how to navigate the startup ecosystem to improve your chances of raising capital
- Get an insider view into the venture capital process
- Develop an awareness of the systemic biases and ethical considerations in the startup ecosystem
Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability
Business leaders often face “gray areas,” where there’s no clear right or wrong answer. What’s best for an organization’s bottom line might cause legal complications or raise ethical concerns.
The online course Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability, developed by Nien-hê Hsieh, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, offers valuable tools to sharpen your judgment and decision-making skills and lead with integrity and good conscience.
The course was designed to help current and aspiring managers make tough leadership decisions while balancing economic, legal, and ethical considerations. You’ll learn how to exercise judgment and take action while dealing with real pressures, people, resources, and constraints.
Through the course, you’ll:
- Develop a framework for understanding the responsibilities leaders have to their investors, customers, employees, and society
- Determine and deliver on your economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities
- Formulate a plan to address conflicts and communicate the “why” behind your decisions
- Establish a toolkit for making tough leadership decisions now and in the future
The certificate courses start in May 2023 (Launching Tech Ventures) and June 2023 (Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability) and feature HBS Online’s unique and highly engaging learning experience centered around solving real-world business problems. You’ll learn firsthand from world-class business leaders about the challenges they faced. Through interactive exercises and discussion and debate with classmates worldwide, you’ll learn vital concepts and develop intuition to solve your business problems.
For more information, including course dates and cost, visit our Launching Tech Ventures and Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability pages.