Leading with Finance
Leading with Finance will provide you with a thorough understanding of financial principles that you can leverage to better communicate with key stakeholders and advance your career.
Apply NowWhat You'll Learn
- Understand the 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 capital markets work and how they affect your business
- Develop a financial intuition that will give you the confidence to make better decisions in your career and life
About the Professor
Mihir Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is an award-winning teacher and leading scholar of corporate finance and tax policy. He has published more than 25 case studies, a casebook, and has testified before the US Congress on policy issues.
Who Will Benefit
Early and Mid-Career Professionals
Gain the skills and confidence needed to understand the financial landscape of your business and industry to advance your career, especially if you’re in a non-finance role.
Finance Professionals
Elevate your knowledge to stay up to date on the financial landscape of your business and more effectively make and communicate financial decisions.
College Students and Recent Graduates
Prepare for your next career move by developing an intuition for finance that can serve you in any industry or role.
Program Structure
Leading with Finance consists of approximately 35 to 40 hours of material delivered over a six-week period. You can complete the coursework on your own time while meeting regular deadlines.
- Length: 6 Weeks
- Program Dates: 8/14/19 – 9/25/19
- Cost: $1,600
- Application Deadline: August 5
- Length: 6 Weeks
- Program Dates: 10/23/19 – 12/4/19
- Cost: $1,600
- Application Deadline: October 14
- Length: 6 Weeks
- Program Dates: 1/15/20 – 2/26/20
- Cost: $1,600
- Application Deadline: January 6
The HBS Online Advantage
- World-class faculty
- Edge-of-your-seat online learning
- Global peer collaboration and networking
- Real-world, case-based learning
Harvard Business School Online offers a unique and highly engaging way to learn vital business concepts. Immerse yourself in real challenges faced by experts from the worlds of corporate finance, private equity, and investment management, including Laurence Debroux, CFO of Heineken; Paul Clancy, CFO of Biogen; and Alberto Moel, an equity research analyst at Sanford Bernstein. Step into their shoes and wrestle with the same issues they faced, while engaging with fellow learners from around the world.
Hear from Our Learners
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Mihir Desai was able to bring a relatively dry and inscrutable page of numbers to life in a highly engaging and interactive way. He has a great teaching style: clear, sharp, entertaining, and challenging. Mihir was able to truly engage our leaders of all levels of financial experience on the key levers of performance and how this applies to their own businesses.
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Having a deep understanding of finance is crucial to effectively lead a business, and Mihir Desai’s engaging delivery of rich content through the case study method has given me the confidence to clearly message important financial updates and decisions to our key stakeholders.
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No matter the size, depth, or reach of any organization or your role in that organization, a foundational understanding of the finances that drive performance is essential. Mihir’s style is one that is inviting, energetic, and thought-enhancing. He really instills the fundamental belief that in our careers we are really only there to complete one task and that is ‘think.’ He makes you ‘think’ about what we are viewing, turn it over, and makes you ‘think’ about what falls apart and how to put it back together.
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Admissions
Our easy online application is free. All applicants must be 18 years of age and be proficient in English. Admissions are on a rolling basis with decisions sent within one to two weeks.
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