anchor.diff: -Course Name,Folder on Disk,Course URL,Field ,Name of the University/Institute,Introduction,
  -Modern Art & Ideas,modern-art-ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-art-ideas,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"This course is designed to help anyone interested in learning more about modern and contemporary art. Themes can provide an effective structure for engaging with art. In this course, you will explore four themes that educators at The Museum of Modern Art use frequently in their teaching: Places & Spaces, Art & Identity, Transforming Everyday Objects, and Art & Society. Through videos, slideshows, and a variety of resources, readings, and activities, you will explore the content and context of works of art in MoMA’s collection",
  -"Revolutionary Ideas:  An Introduction to Legal and Political Philosophy, Part 2",political-philosophy-2,https://coursera.org/learn/political-philosophy-2,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"What is the purpose of government? Why should we have a State? What kind of State should we have? Even within a political community, there may be sharp disagreements about the role and purpose of government. Some want an active, involved government, seeing legal and political institutions as the means to solve our most pressing problems, and to help bring about peace, equality, justice, happiness, and to protect individual liberty. Others want a more minimal government, motivated, perhaps, by some of the disastrous political experiments of the 20th Century, and the thought that political power is often just a step away from tyranny. In many cases, these disagreements arise out of deep philosophical disagreements.",
  -Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop,poetry-workshop,https://coursera.org/learn/poetry-workshop,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"This course is built on the notion that the most exciting writing begins after the first draft. It is specifically for folks who believe that writing poems just to express oneself is like using the Internet just for email. After all, poetry can change the way you and your readers think of the world and its inhabitants; it can break new ground for language; turn a blank sheet of paper into a teeming concert of voices and music.",
  -Teaching the Violin and Viola: Creating a Healthy Foundation,teach-violin-lessons,https://coursera.org/learn/teach-violin-lessons,Arts and Humanities,Northwestern University,"fundamental principles and early stages of teaching violin and viola through a series of engaging video lectures and lesson demonstrations, including: 1) Master classes with some of the world’s top string pedagogues, 2) Individual lesson demos of teaching violin/viola set up, left and right hand technique and pieces from the early violin/viola repertoire, 3) Group lesson demos of teaching music theory, ear training and fun activities that encourage good playing habits, and 4) A “field trip” to the violin shop, where we will outfit a new beginning student with a proper instrument and bow. You’ll also engage in a series of discussions and reflections with colleagues and peers across the globe. Upon completion of this course, we hope you’ll return to your studio with confidence, a new curriculum, and a renewed approach to sharing with your students the joyful experience of making beautiful music.",
  -A Brief History of Human Spaceflight,human-spaceflight,https://coursera.org/learn/human-spaceflight,Arts and Humanities,University of Houston System,"This course provides a view of the history of spaceflight, from early writings telling of human's fascination of space through the early Russian and American space stations. Developed as an interesting and entertaining slice of space history that is accessible to anyone with an interest in human spaceflight",
  -Introduction to Philosophy,philosophy,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"This course will introduce you to some of the main areas of research in contemporary philosophy. Each module a different philosopher will talk you through some of the most important questions and issues in their area of expertise. We’ll begin by trying to understand what philosophy is – what are its characteristic aims and methods, and how does it differ from other subjects? Then we’ll spend the rest of the course gaining an introductory overview of several different areas of philosophy.",
  -The World of the String Quartet,string-quartet,https://coursera.org/learn/string-quartet,Arts and Humanities,Curtis Institute of Music,"Arnold Steinhardt, first violin of the internationally acclaimed Guarneri String Quartet, invites music listeners to the world of the string quartet repertoire and ensemble. Journey with him and interpretive analysis instructor Mia Chung through the history and features of quartet music, colored by stories of legendary quartets and insights from the stage.",
  -The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry,the-holocaust,https://coursera.org/learn/the-holocaust,Arts and Humanities,"University of California, Santa Cruz","In this course, you will explore the Holocaust from the overlapping perspectives of literature and history—through memoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary footage, filmic representations, and novels. You will expand your knowledge of the literature of the Holocaust, Eastern and Western European Jewish communities, the origins and development of antisemitism, the establishment of labor and extermination camps, resistance movements, and the Holocaust as a problem for world history.",
  -Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art,art-activity,https://coursera.org/learn/art-activity,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"Art can be a powerful catalyst for building skills and understanding a range of subjects. Intended for primary and secondary teachers of all disciplines, Art & Activity builds upon the inquiry-based approaches of Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies for Your Classroom, while delving into activity-based strategies that will make your students empowered participants.",
  -"The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910",modern-world,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-world,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part One begins with the political and economic revolutions of the late 1700s and tracks the transformation of the world during the 1800s. Part One concludes as these bewildering changes seem to be running beyond the capacity of older institutions to handle them.,
  -"Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity",kierkegaard,https://coursera.org/learn/kierkegaard,Arts and Humanities,University of Copenhagen,"It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical problems that emerge with the breakdown of traditional values, customs and ways of life. The result is the absence of meaning, the lapse of religious faith, and feeling of alienation that is so widespread in modernity.",
  -Fundamentals of Rehearsing Music Ensembles,music-ensembles,https://coursera.org/learn/music-ensembles,Arts and Humanities,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"Learn and practice the basic principles of running an effective music ensemble rehearsal. Techniques and strategies are applicable to a variety of ensembles, including bands, orchestras, choirs, and chamber groups.",
  -Effective Altruism,altruism,https://coursera.org/learn/altruism,Arts and Humanities,Princeton University,Effective altruism is built on the simple but unsettling idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good one can. In this course you will examine this idea's philosophical underpinnings; meet remarkable people who have restructured their lives in accordance with it; and think about how effective altruism can be put into practice in your own life.,
  -Fundamentals of Graphic Design,fundamentals-of-graphic-design,https://coursera.org/learn/fundamentals-of-graphic-design,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures—the building blocks of graphic design—are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our lives, graphic design as a practice becomes more important in our culture.",
  -Introduction to Guitar,guitar,https://coursera.org/learn/guitar,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Grasp the essentials needed to begin playing acoustic or electric guitar. You'll learn an easy approach to get you playing quickly, through a combination of exploring the instrument, performance technique, and basic music theory. For students who have long thought about picking up the acoustic or electric guitar, this course will provide an easy-access foundation that will get you playing. When first learning guitar, it is important to have the material presented in stages, in an enjoyable way that allows you to grasp the basics of the instrument and music.",
  -"The Music of the Rolling Stones, 1962-1974",rolling-stones,https://coursera.org/learn/rolling-stones,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"This course will survey the music of the Rolling Stones, beginning with the roots and first formation of the band in the early 1960s, and following the group through the release of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll in late 1974.",
  -"History of Rock, Part Two",history-of-rock-2,https://coursera.org/learn/history-of-rock-2,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"This course, part 2 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. This course covers the music of Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Carole King, Bob Marley, the Sex Pistols, Donna Summer, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Metallica, Run-DMC, and Nirvana, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself. We will also explore how developments in the music business and in technology helped shape the ways in which styles developed.",
  -Big History: Connecting Knowledge,big-history,https://coursera.org/learn/big-history,Arts and Humanities,Macquarie University,"We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale. These problems do not neatly fall into disciplines. They are complicated, complex, and connected. Join us on this epic journey of 13.8 billion years starting at the Big Bang and travelling through time all the way to the future. Discover the connections in our world, the power of collective learning, how our universe and our world has evolved from incredible simplicity to ever-increasing complexity. Experience our modern scientific origin story through Big History and discover the important links between past, current, and future events. You will find two different types of lectures. ‘Zooming In’ lectures from multiple specialists enable you to understand key concepts through the lens of different disciplines, whilst David Christian's ‘Big History Framework’ lectures provide the connective overview for a journey through eight thresholds of Big History.",
  -The Ancient Greeks,ancient-greeks,https://coursera.org/learn/ancient-greeks,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personalities, we will consider broader issues such as political and cultural values and methods of historical interpretation.",
  -The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1),modern-postmodern-1,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-1,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"This course examines how the idea of ""the modern"" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?",
  -Music Business Foundations,music-business-foundations,https://coursera.org/learn/music-business-foundations,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"This course has been developed to provide students with the latest instruction on the best way for creators, consumers, and facilitators to navigate the resurgence of one of the world’s most exciting industries: the music business. Three things are clear about today’s music industry: The consumption of music is expanding at the greatest rate in history and from the most portals ever imagined, the cost of producing music is decreasing, and the number of artists creating and seeking to expose their work and develop careers through the Internet has increased dramatically.",
  -"Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction",historical-fiction,https://coursera.org/learn/historical-fiction,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"A unique and exciting introduction to the genre and craft of historical fiction, for curious students, aspiring authors--anyone with a passion for the past. Read classics of the genre, encounter bestselling writers of historical fiction, and discover your own historical archive while interacting with a global community of interested readers.",
  -Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas,beethoven-piano-sonatas,https://coursera.org/learn/beethoven-piano-sonatas,Arts and Humanities,Curtis Institute of Music,"Our relationship to Beethoven is a deep and paradoxical one. For many musicians, he represents a kind of holy grail: His music has an intensity, rigor, and profundity which keep us in its thrall, and it is perhaps unequalled in the interpretive, technical, and even spiritual challenges it poses to performers. At the same time, Beethoven’s music is casually familiar to millions of people who do not attend concerts or consider themselves musically inclined. Two hundred years after his death, he is everywhere in the culture, yet still represents its summit.",
  -Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World: Lesser Vehicle,buddhist-meditation,https://coursera.org/learn/buddhist-meditation,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World explores the immense variety of meditation practices past and present. We present their histories, their philosophical underpinnings, their transformations in the modern global world, and we give you a chance to reflect upon meditation practices through secular contemplations designed just for this course.",
  -Introduction to Ableton Live,ableton-live,https://coursera.org/learn/ableton-live,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"In the past, Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) were programs used only by audio engineers with a highly specific knowledge base, on machines inaccessible to most people. But over the past 10-15 years, DAWs and the act of recording music have evolved from being a luxury of the few to being available to the masses. Ableton Live is one such application. Used by an extremely broad range of music creators, Ableton Live not only facilitates the work of engineers, producers, and writers in professional, home, and mobile studio settings, but it is also a powerful platform for musicians on stage, in the DJ booth, and elsewhere.",
  -Age of Jefferson,ageofjefferson,https://coursera.org/learn/ageofjefferson,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"This course provides an overview of Thomas Jefferson's work and perspectives presented by the University of Virginia in partnership with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Together, UVA and Monticello are recognized internationally as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.",
  -Jazz Improvisation,jazz-improvisation,https://coursera.org/learn/jazz-improvisation,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Learn the basic concepts of improvisation from Gary Burton, one of the most renowned improvisers in the jazz world, including the mental, melodic, and harmonic processes that contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo. While many people are fans of jazz and understand that musicians are often “making up” the notes they are playing during a performance, most people—often including musicians, themselves, who are beginning to learn improvising—aren’t clear about what exact processes take place to enable this to happen. The purpose of this course is to introduce the basic concepts of modern improvisation and how to go about mastering the different musical and mental skills involved.",
  -The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part I,modern-middle-east-1,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-middle-east-1,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"This course will discuss the emergence of the modern Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire, at the end of the First World War to the present. It will discuss the Ottoman legacy in the region and the Western imperial impact on the creation of the Arab state system. The course will discuss the rise and retreat of Arab nationalism, the problems of internal cohesion of the Arab states, issues of religion and state, and the evolution of Islamist politics.",
  -The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2),modern-postmodern-2,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-2,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"This course examines how the idea of ""the modern"" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?",
  -"History of Rock, Part One",history-of-rock,https://coursera.org/learn/history-of-rock,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"This course, part 1 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the days before rock (pre-1955) to the end of the 1960s. This course covers the music of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself.",
  -"The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art",the-south,https://coursera.org/learn/the-south,Arts and Humanities,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, we discover the stories, music, and art of the American South.",
  -Survey of Music Technology,music-technology,https://coursera.org/learn/music-technology,Arts and Humanities,Georgia Institute of Technology,"How can we use computers to create expressive, compelling music? And how can we write computer software to help us create and organize sounds in new ways? This course provides a hands-on introduction to the field of music technology as both a creative musical practice and an interdisciplinary technical research pursuit. Students will be able to compose music in digital audio workstation software using both audio and symbolic representations; to write code to algorithmically generate music, analyze sound, and design sound; and to describe the essential theory and history behind these activities as well as their connection to cutting-edge computer music research.",
  -Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences - Unit 2: Belief Systems,soulbeliefs2,https://coursera.org/learn/soulbeliefs2,Arts and Humanities,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Throughout history, the vast majority of people around the globe have believed they have, however defined, a “soul.” While the question of whether the soul exists cannot be answered by science, what we can study are the causes and consequences of various beliefs about the soul and its prospects of surviving the death of the body. Why are soul and afterlife beliefs so common in human history? Are there adaptive advantages to assuming souls exist? Are there brain structures that have been shaped by environmental pressures that provide the foundation of body/mind dualism that is such a prominent feature of many religions?",
  -The Music of the Beatles,the-beatles,https://coursera.org/learn/the-beatles,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"The Music of the Beatles will track the musical development of the band, starting from the earliest days in Liverpool and Hamburg, moving through the excitement of Beatlemania, the rush of psychedelia, and the maturity of Abbey Road. While the focus will be on the music, we will also consider how recording techniques, the music business, the music of other artists, and the culture of the 1960s affected John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they created the Beatles repertory.",
  -"The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910",modern-world-2,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-world-2,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part Two begins early in the twentieth century, as older ways of doing things and habits of thought give way. What follows is an era of cataclysmic struggles over what ideas and institutions will take their place. The course concludes in the present day, as communities everywhere are transitioning into a new era of world history. Again we work hard to grasp what is happening and ask: Why? Again we are drawn to pivotal choices made at key moments by individuals and communities.",
  -The Kennedy Half Century,kennedy,https://coursera.org/learn/kennedy,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"This course will explore the Presidency, assassination, and lasting legacy of President John F. Kennedy. Students will learn how JFK’s life, administration, and tragic death have influenced the general public, the media, and each of the nine U.S. presidents who followed. Understanding the Kennedy legacy and being able to identify elements of his legacy within the context of modern politics helps understand many of the vexing problems that developed over the last half century as well as many of the challenges that confront us today.",
  -Getting Started with Essay Writing,getting-started-with-essay-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/getting-started-with-essay-writing,Arts and Humanities,"University of California, Irvine","This is the second course in the Academic English: Writing specialization. By introducing you to three types of academic essays, this course will especially help prepare you for work in college classes, but anyone who wants to improve his or her writing skills can benefit from this course.",
  -Designing Cities,designing-cities,https://coursera.org/learn/designing-cities,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Each module in Designing Cities will focus on a different aspect of city design including: How Today’s City Evolved; The Ideas That Shape Cities; Tools for Designing Cities; Making Cities Sustainable; Cities in the Information Age; Preserving Older Cities; Designing New Cities, Districts and Neighborhoods; The Challenges of Informal Cities and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods; and Visionary Cities. Materials will be presented by the instructors and guest faculty from PennDesign through a series of five or more lessons per module, each typically 10-12 minutes long.",
  -The History of Modern Israel - From an Idea to a State,history-israel-part-1,https://coursera.org/learn/history-israel-part-1,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"How did the State of Israel come to be? How is it that an idea, introduced in 19th century Europe, became a reality? And how does that reality prevail in the harsh complexities of the Middle East?",
  -Reason and Persuasion: Thinking Through Three Dialogues By Plato,plato-dialogues,https://coursera.org/learn/plato-dialogues,Arts and Humanities,National University of Singapore,"In this course we study the ancient, Socratic art of blowing up your beliefs as you go, to make sure they're built to last. We spend six weeks studying three Platonic dialogues - ""Euthyphro"", ""Meno"", ""Republic"" Book I - then two weeks pondering a pair of footnotes to Plato: contemporary moral theory and moral psychology.",
  -ProTools Basics,protoolsbasics,https://coursera.org/learn/protoolsbasics,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Producing music is an incredibly creative process, and knowing the tools of the trade is essential in order to transmit the musical ideas in your head into the DAW in a creative and uninhibited way. Whether you have used a computer to create music before, or you have been curious about production for years, this 4-week course will give you an introductory look into the world of Avid Pro Tools and Pro Tools First.",
  -Music and Social Action,music-and-social-action,https://coursera.org/learn/music-and-social-action,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"What is a musician’s response to the condition of the world? Do musicians have an obligation and an opportunity to serve the needs of the world with their musicianship? At a time of crisis for the classical music profession, with a changing commercial landscape, a shrinking audience base, and a contraction in the number of professional orchestras, how does a young musician construct a career today?",
  -Creative Writing: The Craft of Character,craft-of-character,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-character,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters. We will study the choices a writer makes to bring all characters to life on the page, and we will perform written exercises in order to develop a variety of writing and pre-writing techniques, in order to create a variety of characters. We will learn how to use our own life experiences, and the people we know (and how not to!).",
  -Write Like Mozart: An Introduction to Classical Music Composition,classical-composition,https://coursera.org/learn/classical-composition,Arts and Humanities,National University of Singapore,"This course introduces students to strategies for style writing of common practice European art music. The issues of harmonic progression, voice leading, and texture are addressed in addition to relevant compositional concepts like repetition, variation, and elaboration. The course aims to offer a creative space even within the restrictions of stylistic emulation.",
  -The Rooseveltian Century,roosevelt,https://coursera.org/learn/roosevelt,Arts and Humanities,Universiteit Leiden,"This course uses the lives, ideals and achievements of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt to create the idea of a Rooseveltian century. It is about doing research, analyzing primary sources, and connecting all this information with a coherent and logical interpretation. It is an invitation to think critically and historically, and it wants to give you a glimpse of what it means to be a historian at work.",
  -Introduction to Research for Essay Writing,writing-college-research,https://coursera.org/learn/writing-college-research,Arts and Humanities,"University of California, Irvine","Course 4: Introduction to Research for Essay Writing This is the last course in the Academic Writing specialization before the capstone project. By the end of this course, you will be able to complete all the steps in planning a research paper. After completing this course, you will be able to: - choose appropriate research topics for college classes - write detailed outlines for research papers - find source material for research papers - take and organize good notes for research - use appropriate academic tone and language",
  -"Cameras, Exposure, and Photography",exposure-photography,https://coursera.org/learn/exposure-photography,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course One of Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR! In these first 4 Modules you will gain the knowledge and the confidence that will help you make good choices as you consider qualities of the camera you own, and the qualities of the other types of digital cameras you might be considering. You will learn about the basic functions that most digital cameras have in common. You will also go beyond the ""technical"" matters and learn about how you can make exciting pictures by emphasizing the aspects of Frame and Vantage Point to interpret old subjects in new ways.",
  -The French Revolution,french-revolution,https://coursera.org/learn/french-revolution,Arts and Humanities,The University of Melbourne,"The French Revolution was one of the most important upheavals in world history. This course examines its origins, course and outcomes. This course is designed for you to work through successfully on your own. However you will not be alone on this journey. Use the resources included in the course and take part in the suggested learning activities to get the most out of your learning. To successfully complete this course, it is recommended that you devote at least six hours to every module over the six weeks of the course.",
  -Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description,craft-of-setting-and-description,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-setting-and-description,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to the techniques that masters of fiction use to ground a story in a concrete world. From the most realist settings to the most fantastical, writers will learn how to describe the physical world in sharp, sensory detail. We will also learn how to build credibility through research, and to use creative meditation exercises to deepen our own understanding of our story worlds, so that our readers can see all that we imagine.",
  -Arch of Titus: Rome and the Menorah,archoftitus,https://coursera.org/learn/archoftitus,Arts and Humanities,Yeshiva University,"The Arch of Titus: Rome and the Menorah explores one of the most significant Roman monuments to survive from antiquity, from the perspectives of Roman, Jewish and later Christian history and art. The Arch of Titus commemorates the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor Titus in 70 CE, an event of pivotal importance for the history of the Roman Empire, of Judaism, of Christianity and of modern nationalism.",
  -Introduction to Classical Music,introclassicalmusic,https://coursera.org/learn/introclassicalmusic,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Using a simple and enjoyable teaching style, this course introduces the novice listener to the wonders of classical music, from Bach fugues to Mozart symphonies to Puccini operas.",
  -Introduction to Typography,typography,https://coursera.org/learn/typography,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"Typography is the art of manipulating the visual form of language to enrich and control its meaning. It’s an essential area of skill and knowledge for graphic designers. Typography predates modern graphic design by around 500 years; it is rich in rules, conventions, and esoteric terminology—but it remains an exciting space for invention and expression.",
  -Understanding the Music Business: What is Music Worth?,musicbiz,https://coursera.org/learn/musicbiz,Arts and Humanities,Vanderbilt University,"This course will examine the music industry in the United States, with the unique perspective gained by Vanderbilt University’s location in Nashville, TN. Nashville is a major center of music in the United States, and the music created here has a global reach, particularly in the country, rock, pop, singer-songwriter, and Americana genres. However, students will learn that the basic principles of recording, marketing, copyright, licensing, and live performance are the same, regardless of musical style or genre.",
  -Copyright for Multimedia,copyright-for-multimedia,https://coursera.org/learn/copyright-for-multimedia,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Emory University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill","Copyright questions about different formats (data, images, music and video) can be especially difficult. Sometimes the law specifically distinguishes between these different formats, and in most cases there are media-specific considerations that impact a copyright analysis. In this course we will look at four different media, paying special attention to the unique issues for each one and the kinds of information that is important when making copyright decisions for each type of material. We will work through fair use issues for each multimedia format, look at format-specific exceptions in the law, and consider unique issues for seeking permission for film, music, images and data.",
  -Creating Synthesizer Sounds for Electronic Music (Project-Centered Course),music-synthesizer,https://coursera.org/learn/music-synthesizer,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"In this project-centered course*, you will create sounds and use them in your own musical compositions. Whether you're an aspiring producer, composer, or hobbyist, this course will help you gain skills in music production and confidence using software synthesizers. Along with your classmates, you will create a massive database of designed sounds, or patches, to use in your compositions. As part of the course, you will work with a free version of FXpansion Strobe 2.",
  -The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem,jerusalem,https://coursera.org/learn/jerusalem,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"The destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile were a great catastrophe in the history of the Jewish Nation. What really happened during that dark, fateful age, and how did new opportunities arise from the ashes?",
  -"The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World",holocaust-introduction-1,https://coursera.org/learn/holocaust-introduction-1,Arts and Humanities,"Tel Aviv University, Yad Vashem","The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence. As civilized human beings, we fail to understand how events of such horror could have taken place, and how an idea so inhumanly warped could have spread like wildfire through an entire continent, instigating the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews.",
  -The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution,holocaust-introduction-2,https://coursera.org/learn/holocaust-introduction-2,Arts and Humanities,"Tel Aviv University, Yad Vashem","The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence. As civilized human beings, we fail to understand how events of such horror could have taken place, and how an idea so inhumanly warped could have spread like wildfire through an entire continent, instigating the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews.",
  -How to Make a Comic Book (Project-Centered Course),make-comic-books,https://coursera.org/learn/make-comic-books,Arts and Humanities,High Tech High Graduate School of Education,"In this project-centered course*, you will create an original four page minicomic designed around a short story of your choosing. What you’ll need to get started: This project-centered course is designed for all-age learners (high school age and above, at least 13 years of age) who are interested in learning how to make a comic book, but have never completed one before.",
  -The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part II,modernmiddleeast2,https://coursera.org/learn/modernmiddleeast2,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"This course will discuss the developments in the Middle East from the early 20th century to the present. It will discuss the rise and retreat of Arab nationalism, the problems of internal cohesion of the Arab states, issues of religion and state, and the evolution of Islamist politics. It will also focus on the evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict and its impact on the region and will conclude with an in depth analysis of the “Arab Spring” by placing these contemporary revolutionary events in their historical context.",
  -Gathering and Developing the News,gathering-the-news,https://coursera.org/learn/gathering-the-news,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Journalists develop information through interviews and sources. The most successful journalists quickly master these important skill sets. The production of journalism relies on several elements: newsgathering, interviewing sources, researching and trying to find as much information as possible. The course will also teach you how to where to find information, interviewing skills and how to process information from various sources for publication.",
  -Scandinavian Film and Television,scanfilmtv,https://coursera.org/learn/scanfilmtv,Arts and Humanities,University of Copenhagen,"In many ways Scandinavian film and television is a global cultural brand, connected with and exporting some of the cultural and social values connected to a liberal and progressive welfare society. This course deals with the social, institutional and cultural background of film and television in Scandinavia and in a broader European and global context.",
  -World Design for Video Games,video-game-world,https://coursera.org/learn/video-game-world,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to any player who will experience it.",
  -Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors,aristotle,https://coursera.org/learn/aristotle,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines",
  -Seeing Through Photographs,photography,https://coursera.org/learn/photography,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"Although taking, sharing, and viewing photographs has become second nature for many of us, our regular engagement with images does not necessarily make us visually literate. This course aims to address the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing a diversity of ideas, approaches, and technologies that inform their making. In this course you will look closely at photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art and hear a variety of perspectives on what a photograph is and the ways that photography has been used throughout its nearly 180 year history: as a means of artistic expression, as a tool for science and exploration; as an instrument of documentation; to tell stories and record histories; and as a mode of communication and critique in our ever increasingly visual culture.",
  -Greek and Roman Mythology,mythology,https://coursera.org/learn/mythology,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Myths are traditional stories that have endured over a long time. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations.",
  -Script Writing: Write a Pilot Episode for a TV or Web Series (Project-Centered Course),script-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/script-writing,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"In this project-centered course*, you will design a series bible and write a complete pilot episode for your own unique television or web series, be it drama or comedy or something in between. You’ll learn to break down the creative process into components, and you’ll discover a structured process that allows you to produce a polished and pitch-ready script in just a few weeks. Completing this project will increase your confidence in your ideas and abilities, and you’ll feel prepared to pitch your first script and get started on your next.",
  -Roman Art and Archaeology,roman-art-archaeology,https://coursera.org/learn/roman-art-archaeology,Arts and Humanities,University of Arizona,"The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the culture of ancient Rome beginning about 1000 BCE and ending with the so-called ""Fall of Rome"". We will look at some of the key people who played a role in Rome, from the time of the kings through the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. We will also focus on the city of Rome itself, as well as Rome's expansion through Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond.",
  -Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot,craft-of-plot,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-plot,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to perhaps the most elemental and often the most challenging element of story: plot. We will learn what keeps it moving, how it manipulates our feelings, expectations, and desires. We will examine the choices storytellers make to snag our imaginations, drag them into a fictional world, and keep them there. We will learn how to outline and structure a plot, discuss narrative arc, pacing and reversals and reveal the inevitable surprise: connecting the beginning, middle and end.",
  -Confronting The Big Questions: Highlights of Modern Astronomy,astronomy,https://coursera.org/learn/astronomy,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,An introduction to modern astronomy's most important questions. The four sections of the course are Planets and Life in The Universe; The Life of Stars; Galaxies and Their Environments; The History of The Universe.,
  -Creative Writing: The Craft of Style,craft-of-style,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-style,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language. We will study the use of metaphor and imagery, and demonstrate how clarity, grace, and inventiveness in word choice are imperative to a story’s success. Writers will emerge with the revision skills essential to all writers of good stories and good prose.",
  -What is news? ,what-is-news,https://coursera.org/learn/what-is-news,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"This course will guide you through the basic elements of professional journalism and the news values and ethics of covering real-world issues and events. The overview and examples of the types of news coverage helps introduce the different types of journalism, such as social media, multimedia, print, visual and broadcast, and how professional journalists effectively use each format.",
  -Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors,plato,https://coursera.org/learn/plato,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines made bold proposals about the ultimate constituents of reality, while Heraclitus insisted that there is an underlying order to the changing world. Parmenides of Elea formulated a powerful objection to all these proposals, while later Greek theorists (such as Anaxagoras and the atomist Democritus) attempted to answer that objection.",
  -"American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice",edref,https://coursera.org/learn/edref,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Discover what shapes how we talk about schools today by exploring the history of U.S. education reform. Engage with the main actors, key decisions, and major turning points in this history. See how social forces drive reform. Learn about how the critical tensions embedded in U.S. education policy and practice apply to schools nationally, globally— and where you live.",
  -Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage,preserving-cultural-heritage,https://coursera.org/learn/preserving-cultural-heritage,Arts and Humanities,Sapienza University of Rome,"Archaeology is, among human sciences, the discipline with the strongest importance for the rediscovery, but also for the preservation and protection of cultural heritage, as Humankind’s universal patrimony. You will be introduced to the way we ourselves reflect on and are engaged with the study of human past: from the practical and material recovery of ancient traces in the field to the study and interpretation. On the other hand, the discovery of human past implies the correct conservation and presentation for both experts and general public: the study and protection of the past we share every day prevent from any possible destruction, misuse, abuse and thus cancellation of human memory.",
  -Camera Control,photocourse2,https://coursera.org/learn/photocourse2,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course Two of Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR! Now that you have a broad understanding of the various types of cameras, the importance of setting up Menus and Functions to gain control in your photography, and the difference between Auto and Program exposure modes, you are ready to move into even greater Camera Control!",
  -"The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future",bible-history,https://coursera.org/learn/bible-history,Arts and Humanities,Emory University,"With its walls razed to ground by Babylon’s armies, Jerusalem joined a long line of ancient vanquished cities—from Ur and Nineveh and Persepolis to Babylon itself. While some recovered from the destruction, others did not. But none responded to political catastrophe by fashioning the kind of elaborate and enduring monument to their own downfall that we find in the Bible. Most conquered populations viewed their subjugation as a source of shame. They consigned it to oblivion, opting instead to extol the golden ages of the past.",
  -The Blues: Understanding and Performing an American Art Form,the-blues,https://coursera.org/learn/the-blues,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"The blues is an American art form and the most important musical form in jazz. Although there are other formal paradigms of the blues, such as 8-bar or 16-bar, this course focuses on different incarnations of the 12-bar blues. There are considerable differences between Early Jazz blues, Swing blues, Bebop blues, Modal blues, and Post Bop blues. Each type has its unique harmonic syntax, melodic vocabulary and, associated with them, improvisational techniques.",
  -Music's Big Bang: The Genesis of Rock 'n' Roll,rock-and-roll-music,https://coursera.org/learn/rock-and-roll-music,Arts and Humanities,University of Florida,"Explores the factors — musical and cultural — that led to the birth of American rock 'n' roll music in the early 1950s. Covers in detail the genres, styles and people that converged to create this new music.",
  -The Beauty of Kunqu Opera,kunqu-opera,https://coursera.org/learn/kunqu-opera,Arts and Humanities,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,"This course will focus on the historical and cultural background, literary aesthetics, music, and performance of Kunqu, China’s classical opera. After viewing the lecture videos presented by scholars and renowned maestros in the field of Kunqu, students’ understanding and appreciation of Chinese performing arts, classical literature and traditional culture will be enhanced.",
  -Effectively delivering the news to your audience,become-a-journalist3,https://coursera.org/learn/become-a-journalist3,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Being a successful journalist is more than hunting down information. How journalists process the information, then put it together, are key steps for news reports. You will learn the process, planning, requirements of how journalists develop their news reports. There are many ways to report news reports, and you will learn different forms of how to perform reporting and writing to serve different audiences.",
  -The Place of Music in 21st Century Education,music-education-21st-century,https://coursera.org/learn/music-education-21st-century,Arts and Humanities,The University of Sydney,"What do children need from education now, and in the future? How is technology best used in teaching and learning? How can innovative approaches to education be reconciled with established, traditional ones? What does student-centred learning really mean? This five module course is not just for classroom or ensemble music educators. It’s suitable for anyone interested in creativity-infused education, in contemporary education issues, and in the integration and use of digital technology.",
  -Introduction to Image Making,image-making,https://coursera.org/learn/image-making,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"During this course, we’ll be making exploratory images to expand your visual vocabulary. We'll create pieces that are expressive, meditative, or 'design-y' to instigate, evoke, experiment, record, explain, or to try out a media. The first two weeks are experimental and exploratory; we won’t be concerned with meaning or communication (although, to be honest, every image does exist in a context, and therefore communicates—or can convey—meaning, connotation, associations, and expressiveness).",
  -Modern American Poetry,modern-american-poetry,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-american-poetry,Arts and Humanities,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Twelve experienced faculty members from across the United States present their analyses of ground-breaking modern American poets in richly illustrated video lectures. The course highlights both major poets—from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson through T.S. Eliot, H.D., Amy Lowell, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others—and influential movements. The course mixes historical overview with close readings of individual poets and poems. Most courses give only one instructor’s point of view.",
  -Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender,gender-art,https://coursera.org/learn/gender-art,Arts and Humanities,The University of Melbourne,"What do paintings tell us about sex? How is art gendered? In this course we will study some of the world’s most beloved pictures guided by expert curators and art historians who step outside of the square, bringing a gendered reading to the masterpieces contained in the magnificent collections that we have been lucky enough to bring to the Coursera platform.",
  -The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction,the-talmud,https://coursera.org/learn/the-talmud,Arts and Humanities,Northwestern University,The Talmud is one of the richest and most complicated works of literature the world has ever known. Since being composed around 1500 years ago it has inspired not only religious reverence but significant intellectual engagement. In this course learners will be introduced to the unique characteristics of this text and the challenges that inhere in studying it while studying a chapter of the Talmud. Students of the course can expect to develop an appreciation for how the Talmud works and why it continues to inspire religious and intellectual devotion.,
  -"Journalism, the future, and you!",become-a-journalist4,https://coursera.org/learn/become-a-journalist4,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"You will learn about the career paths that are available in journalism, and what opportunities the skill sets of a journalist can offer in other fields. You will explore areas such as being an international correspondent, self-publishing in journalism, as well as how to freelance in the field. You will be empowered to develop your own path in journalism, from being an active and informed consumer, to being a journalist.",
  -Principles of Photo Composition and Digital Image Post-Production,photocourse3,https://coursera.org/learn/photocourse3,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course THREE! In the first two Modules you will gain a more professional-level understanding of the Design Elements that artists have used throughout history to create successful compositions. Arranging the Elements in ways that lead viewers through their compositions is an essential craft for photographers no matter whether their subject matter is pure documentary or vividly exotic personal expression. In Modules 3 & 4 we survey the essential elements of post-photography image management, using Adobe(tm) LIGHTROOM(tm). Image adjustment software designed for Smartphone photographers rounds out the Course.",
  -English Composition I,english-composition,https://coursera.org/learn/english-composition,Arts and Humanities,Duke University,"You will gain a foundation for college-level writing valuable for nearly any field. Students will learn how to read carefully, write effective arguments, understand the writing process, engage with others' ideas, cite accurately, and craft powerful prose.",
  -Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics,songwriting-lyrics,https://coursera.org/learn/songwriting-lyrics,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"There’s a songwriter lurking somewhere inside you, peeking around corners, wondering if it’s safe to come out. Now it is. This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is a simple “yes” and you’ll be climbing that windy hill, marveling at the view. If you haven’t written any or many songs, this course will show you an efficient, effective process for tailoring songs to express your ideas and emotions. If you have, you’ll look at your process differently, taking control of aspects of the process you may have not noticed. The course will start by examining the tools available to you, all revolving around the essential concept of prosody. You’ll learn to use your tools to enhance your message—to work compositionally at the same time you’re developing your ideas.",
  -Developing Your Musicianship,develop-your-musicianship,https://coursera.org/learn/develop-your-musicianship,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"The course will teach you the major scale and minor pentatonic scale, and how they are constructed. You will learn what intervals are, how to sing them, and how to find them in music. The course explores tonal centers and how to find the key a song is in, in addition to common time signatures such as 4/4 and 3/4. You will learn how to build chords—major and minor triads, and major and dominant seventh chords—and how to build a common chord progression—the I IV V. You will also learn how to recognize the blues and AABA song forms, and write a basic chord sheet to express your song ideas.",
  -The Technology of Music Production,technology-of-music-production,https://coursera.org/learn/technology-of-music-production,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Learn about the music production process—including recording, editing, and mixing—and the tools available to you to create contemporary music on your computer. With the recent introduction of high-quality-low-cost software and hardware, the tools of music production",
  -The Art of Music Production,producing-music,https://coursera.org/learn/producing-music,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Explore the art of record production and how to make recordings that other people will love listening to. This course will teach you how to make emotionally moving recordings on almost any recording equipment, including your phone or laptop. The emphasis is on mastering tangible artistic concepts; the gear you use is up to you. You will learn to develop the most important tool in the recording studio: your ears. You will learn to enhance every aspect of your own productions, both sonically and musically, by employing deeper listening skills.",
  -Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction,emotions,https://coursera.org/learn/emotions,Arts and Humanities,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,"Philosophy is like sex: sure you can get some interesting results, but that's not why we do it. Going one step beyond…why do you FEEL pain or pleasure? Do plants have emotions? How is possible that some people do not understand other’s emotions? Emotions seem to be everywhere, giving meaning to all events of our lives. They are the backbone of social activities as well as they drive the cognitive processes of several living entities. Several animals, including humans, have emotions but…what about machines?...Do machine can have emotions? This course will help you to understand and to identify most important philosophical ideas and debates about emotions, as well as it will provide you a rich source of data about neurological, psychological or anthropological analysis of emotions.",
  -"Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative",onlinegames,https://coursera.org/learn/onlinegames,Arts and Humanities,Vanderbilt University,"Intended for both newcomers who are curious about video games and experienced gamers who want to reflect on their passion, this course will explore what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they become the basis of massively multiplayer online games. The Lord of the Rings trilogy—the novels, films, and video game—are our central example of how “remediation” transforms",
  -"Seeing the Light, Envisioning the Content, Sharing in Print & Online",photocourse4,https://coursera.org/learn/photocourse4,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course FOUR! In Modules 1-4 you will cover the final elements of the Specialization necessary to round out this introduction to the fundamentals of Photography, and prepare you for creating your own exciting project in the Capstone! You have come a long way since the beginning of this journey from Smartphone Basics to DSLR and Beyond.",
  -"Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1",algorithm-design-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/algorithm-design-analysis,Arts and Humanities,stanford,"Algorithms are the heart of computer science, and the subject has countless practical applications as well as intellectual depth. This specialization is an introduction to algorithms for learners with at least a little programming experience. The specialization is rigorous but emphasizes the big picture and conceptual understanding over low-level implementation and mathematical details. After completing this specialization, you will be well-positioned to ace your technical interviews and speak fluently about algorithms with other programmers and computer scientists.",
  -"Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2",algorithm-design-analysis-2,https://coursera.org/learn/algorithm-design-analysis-2,Arts and Humanities,stanford,"Algorithms are the heart of computer science, and the subject has countless practical applications as well as intellectual depth. This specialization is an introduction to algorithms for learners with at least a little programming experience. The specialization is rigorous but emphasizes the big picture and conceptual understanding over low-level implementation and mathematical details. After completing this specialization, you will be well-positioned to ace your technical interviews and speak fluently about algorithms with other programmers and computer scientists.",
  -History of Graphic Design,history-of-graphic-design,https://coursera.org/learn/history-of-graphic-design,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"This condensed survey course focuses on four key periods or themes from the history of design. Together we’ll trace the emergence of design as a recognized practice, why things look the way they do, and how designers approached specific design problems in their work. Each week, a short quiz will test your knowledge of concepts, and a short reflective assignment will give you the opportunity to analyze the questions designers ask themselves today.",
  -How to Change the World,changetheworld,https://coursera.org/learn/changetheworld,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"How can we use the things we share in common to address some of the most challenging problems facing the world? This course examines issues concerning poverty, the environment, technology, health care, gender, education and activism to helps us understand better how to initiate positive change.",
  -Magic in the Middle Ages,magicmiddleages,https://coursera.org/learn/magicmiddleages,Arts and Humanities,Universitat de Barcelona,"Magical thought has always attracted human imagination. In this course we will introduce you to the Middle Ages through a wide conception of magic. Students will have an approach to medieval culture, beliefs and practices from the perspective of History and History of Science. Popular magic, as well as learned magic (alchemy, geomancy and necromancy) will be addressed. Moreover, we will also deal with how eastern practices and texts influenced western culture.",
  -Theatre and Globalization,global-theatre,https://coursera.org/learn/global-theatre,Arts and Humanities,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"Learn how theatre and globalization have affected each other over the past century, and how to conduct your own research on global theatre histories.",
  -Fundamentals of Music Theory,edinburgh-music-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/edinburgh-music-theory,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"This course will introduce students to the theory of music, providing them with the skills needed to read and write Western music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, and listen informedly. It will cover material such as pitches and scales, intervals, clefs, rhythm, form, meter, phrases and cadences, and basic harmony.",
  -How Music Can Change Your Life,music-life,https://coursera.org/learn/music-life,Arts and Humanities,The University of Melbourne,"This course provides free video, audio and journal resources that explain six basic principles about how music can influence individual and community health and wellbeing. From biology and neuroscience, to psychotherapy and politics, the ways we engage with music can make all the difference. Music has always played an integral role in the lives of individuals and communities all around the globe. This course explores the ways that music can be used to achieve positive changes with a particular emphasis on the most vulnerable persons.",
  -The History of Modern Israel -  Part II: Challenges of Israel as a sovereign state,history-israel-sovereign-state,https://coursera.org/learn/history-israel-sovereign-state,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"This course deals with the Israeli politics, economy, society and culture, since its creation in 1948 till today. It analyzes the construction of the Israeli historical narrative as an identity-building narrative, intending to inculcate a collective memory to a diverse society. We will focus on key events and essential components that shaped the Israeli society from the fifties till the present. We will also discuss the changes that the Israeli society experiences in its almost seventy years of existence and how it affects its politics and culture.",
  -Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences,philosophy-cognitive-sciences,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy-cognitive-sciences,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"What is our role in the universe as human agents capable of knowledge? What makes us intelligent cognitive agents seemingly endowed with consciousness? This is the second part of the course 'Philosophy and the Sciences', dedicated to Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences. Scientific research across the cognitive sciences has raised pressing questions for philosophers. The goal of this course is to introduce you to some of the main areas and topics at the key juncture between philosophy and the cognitive sciences.",
  -Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Physical Sciences,philosophy-physical-sciences,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy-physical-sciences,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"This is the first part of the course 'Philosophy and the Sciences', dedicated to Philosophy of the Physical Sciences. Scientific research across the physical sciences has raised pressing questions for philosophers. The goal of this course is to introduce you to some of the main areas and topics at the key juncture between philosophy and the physical sciences. Each week we will introduce you to some of these important questions at the forefront of scientific research.",
  -"Musicianship: Chord Charts, Diatonic Chords, and Minor Keys",musicianship-chords,https://coursera.org/learn/musicianship-chords,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the second course in the series. If you have a basic knowledge of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I, this course will continue to help you understand key musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into the next level of harmony and ear training.",
  -Classics of Chinese Humanities: Guided Readings,classics-chinese-humanities,https://coursera.org/learn/classics-chinese-humanities,Arts and Humanities,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,"An introductory yet trenchant exploration of select Chinese classic texts that cover the domains of classical literature, history, philosophy, and fine arts.",
  -Modern & Contemporary American Poetry,modpo,https://coursera.org/learn/modpo,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly ""difficult."" We encounter and discuss the poems one at a time. It's much easier than it seems! Join us and try it! Even though we are currently in our offseason (""SloPo""), you are welcome to enroll now. You will have access to the entire ModPo site. Explore; meet some ModPo'ers who are conversing in the site year-round; read poems and watch videos.",
  -Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes,ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/ideas,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"This course is designed to help build critical skills that support theme-based teaching practices and build confidence in incorporating modern and contemporary art into interdisciplinary lesson plans. By addressing themes and questions that arise in relation to modern and contemporary art, the course will help you to think creatively about links to your curriculum and the ways that you can tap into students’ knowledge and life experience.",
  -"Transmedia Storytelling: Narrative worlds, emerging technologies, and global audiences",transmedia-storytelling,https://coursera.org/learn/transmedia-storytelling,Arts and Humanities,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),"Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in a cohesive story experience across multiple traditional and digital delivery platforms - for entertainment, advertising and marketing, or social change. Have you ever read a book, seen a movie, watched a television show, or played a game that centred around different aspects of a larger story or universe? You may be familiar with popular examples of such universes like Star Wars, Marvel, and The Walking Dead (to name a few).",
  -Journey of the Universe: The Unfolding of Life,journey-unfolding-life,https://coursera.org/learn/journey-unfolding-life,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Journey of the Universe weaves together the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences together with humanities such as history, philosophy, art, and religion. The course draws on the Emmy-award winning film, Journey of the Universe, and the book from Yale University Press.",
  -The Worldview of Thomas Berry:  The Flourishing of the Earth Community,thomas-berry,https://coursera.org/learn/thomas-berry,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a historian of world religions and an early voice awakening moral sensibilities to the environmental crisis. He is known for articulating a “new story” of the universe that explores the implications of the evolutionary sciences and cultural traditions for creating a flourishing future. This course investigates Berry’s life and thought in relation to the Journey of the Universe project. It draws on his books, articles, and recorded lectures to examine such ideas as: the New Story, the Great Work, and the emerging Ecozoic era.",
  -"Musicianship: Tensions, Harmonic Function, and Modal Interchange",musicianship-harmony,https://coursera.org/learn/musicianship-harmony,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the third course in the series. If you have a general understanding of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I and II, this course will continue to help you understand musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into an intermediate level of harmony and ear training.",
  -Making Architecture,making-architecture,https://coursera.org/learn/making-architecture,Arts and Humanities,"IE Business School, IE School of Architecture & Design","Making architecture offers a unique insight into the mind and work of an Architect, starting with the basics of the profession and culminating with the production of a scaled site model. The course should act as ideal preparation for those interested in undertaking an undergraduate degree in Architecture, although its flexible, intriguing and enjoyable content makes it accessible for all those looking to increase their knowledge in the field.",
  -ART of the MOOC: Activism and Social Movements,activism-social-movements,https://coursera.org/learn/activism-social-movements,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Creative Time","This course is for activists, artists, and thinkers who wish to better understand and participate in social change. We will focus on the prolific and exciting overlap between socially engaged art and cultural practices generated by recent social movements around the world. Rather than assess the political efficacy of activities like mourning, listening, organizing, dancing, or partying, the lectures examine such cultural activities next to, and within, contemporary art practice.",
  -透过摄影看世界,photography-1,https://coursera.org/learn/photography-1,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,对于我们中的许多人来说，虽然拍照、分享和浏览照片已经成了日常生活中的习惯，但我们与图像的频繁接触并未培养我们在视觉表达上的素养。 这个课程的目的在于通过介绍影响摄影作品的创意、手段与技术，讨论观看照片与真正理解照片之间距离的问题。 在这个课程里，你将近距离观看纽约现代艺术博物馆收藏的照片，聆听从不同角度对照片的解读，以及摄影在将近180年历史中被使用的方式：作为艺术表现的途径、作为科学和探索的工具、作为纪实文献的媒介、作为讲述故事和记录历史的手段，以及作为日益视觉化的文化中一种交流和批评的模式。,
  -Luther and the West,luther-and-the-west,https://coursera.org/learn/luther-and-the-west,Arts and Humanities,Northwestern University,"In this course we will discuss the history of some ideas that have been hugely influential in the modern west and that were taken out to the rest of the world. The discussion centers on an extraordinary and historically important figure, a sixteenth century German man named Martin Luther. Luther is recognized today as the originator of many of the most significant ideas that continue to affect and shape who we as modern people are and how we see the world and ourselves for better and for worse.",
  -Reasoning Across the Disciplines,critical-reasoning,https://coursera.org/learn/critical-reasoning,Arts and Humanities,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"This course will help you understand what critical thinking skills are and why they're so important. You will also learn how critical thinking skills vary across disciplines, as well as see them applied across several fields, including, chemistry, history, psychology, law, English, and American Studies. You will develop your own critical thinking skills by working through scenarios or problems posed by scholars across these fields, and you will better understand how your college courses will differ from your earlier education.",
  -The Making of the US President: A Short History in Five Elections,making-us-president,https://coursera.org/learn/making-us-president,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"As Donald Trump takes office as the forty-fifth president of the United States, this course explores presidential elections in historical perspective, via five case studies. It tells the story of key campaigns in US history, and by doing so it investigates how politics changed over time—and how understanding the past sheds light on the current campaign. From the arrival of ""dirty politics"" to the impact of the ""digital revolution,"" the course looks at the historical background to some of the key phenomena that shaped the controversy-laden campaign of 2016.",
  -ART of the MOOC: Arte Público y Pedagogía,arte-publico-pedagogia,https://coursera.org/learn/arte-publico-pedagogia,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Creative Time","Los alumnos de este curso aprenderán a hacer sus propias obras de arte social y público si así lo desean, o podrán simplemente estudiar la teoría e historia reciente del medio. Diseñado por el artista y profesor de Duke, Pedro Lasch, e impartido con el director artístico de Creative Time, Nato Thompson, este curso presenta el arte y la cultura pública en sus formas contemporáneas radicalmente re-inventadas. Las conferencias enlazan acontecimientos claves de las últimas décadas en este campo con temas más amplios como la política espacial, estructuras sociales cotidianas y la educación experimental.",
  -Ancient Egypt,ancientegypt,https://coursera.org/learn/ancientegypt,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Colossal pyramids, imposing temples, golden treasures, enigmatic hieroglyphs, powerful pharaohs, strange gods, and mysterious mummies are features of Ancient Egyptian culture that have fascinated people over the millennia. The Bible refers to its gods, rulers, and pyramids. Neighboring cultures in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean wrote about its god-like kings and its seemingly endless supply of gold. The Greeks and Romans describe aspects of Egypt's culture and history.",
  -"Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies",film-images,https://coursera.org/learn/film-images,Arts and Humanities,"University of London, Royal Holloway, University of London","This course is a short taster on the topic of the use of Images, Film, and their use in historical interpretation in the 20th century. It is primarily provided for those who have a general interest in history that draws on photojournalism as primary evidence, and films based on historical events. Once you have completed this course we hope you will be equipped to: Appreciate the significance of photographs as historical evidence in the twentieth century. Understand the limitations of the medium, and how we can attribute meaning to these individual records of 'one moment in time' while taking into account the circumstances in which any particular image was taken.",
  -Chinese Culture and Contemporary China ,china-culture-contemporary,https://coursera.org/learn/china-culture-contemporary,Arts and Humanities,Nanjing University,"This course of Chinese Culture and Contemporary China will explore the foundations of Chinese civilization and the dimensions of Chinese culture. It will pay particular attention to the relationship between Chinese culture and the present-day life of the Chinese people and to the different elements of the culture which are under the present social structures, belief systems, literature, arts, customs, etc. The course aims at providing students with a deeper knowledge of Chinese culture, thus enabling them to better understand China. The course will cover the following main areas of topics: (1) the foundations of Chinese civilization: its geography, language, and history; (2) the core concepts in Chinese philosophies and religions: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; (3), literature and arts, including Chinese calligraphy, painting, Tang poetry, and classical fiction; (4) society and life, including education, the role of women, Chinese food, and traditional holidays; (5) travel and landscapes, including well-known Chinese cities, mountains, ethnic regions and customs; (6) Chinese media, culture and sports, including TV and movies, fashion, Chinese gongfu and taiji.",
  -Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe,medieval-europe,https://coursera.org/learn/medieval-europe,Arts and Humanities,University of Colorado System,"Perhaps no other relic of the European Middle Ages captures our imagination more than illuminated medieval manuscripts, or those documents decorated with images and colored pigments. Serving as windows unto a lost world of kings, ladies, faith, war, and culture, they communicate complex visual and textual narratives of Europe’s collective cultural heritage and patrimony. In this fashion, illuminated manuscripts are dynamic messages from our communal past that are still relevant today in fields like graphic design and typography. In this seven-week course, students will explore the material creation, content, and historical context of illuminated medieval European manuscripts. Students will acquire an introductory knowledge of their distinguishing characteristics, their cataloguing and periodization (when they were created), the methods utilized to produce them, and their historical context and value.",
  -The Cycle: Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organizations,the-cycle,https://coursera.org/learn/the-cycle,Arts and Humanities,"University of Maryland, College Park","What makes a successful arts and cultural organization? Led by DeVos Institute Chairman Michael M. Kaiser and President Brett Egan, this course will introduce you to a management theory called the Cycle which supports thriving arts and cultural organizations. Learning from our work with managers from over 80 countries around the world, the DeVos Institute developed the Cycle as a simple, but powerful tool to assist managers in their effort to respond to an increasingly complex environment and propel their institutions to excellence. The Cycle explains how great art and strong marketing can create a family of supporters, who in turn help the organization produce the revenue required to support even more great art the next year. The Institute has seen the Cycle work in performing and presenting organizations, as well as museums, arts schools, and other nonprofit endeavors like service organizations, historical societies, public libraries, university programs, advocacy organizations, botanical gardens, and zoos.",
  -Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Part 2,exploring-beethoven-piano-sonatas-2,https://coursera.org/learn/exploring-beethoven-piano-sonatas-2,Arts and Humanities,Curtis Institute of Music,"Welcome to Part 2 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 2. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience at all!). Remember that you are able to watch the lectures as many times as you like, at whatever pace is comfortable for you. As I’ve done with the first set of Beethoven lectures, I look forward to meeting with students—online and in person, in various cities. The dates and locations will be posted in the Announcements and Events section, as part of the course content. So please remember to check back there for details. In these four new lectures, we will explore the following sonatas: • Sonata Op. 2, No. 3 • Sonata Op. 13 (“Pathetique”) • Sonata Op. 53 (“Waldstein”) • Sonata Op. 90",
  -Heritage under Threat,heritage,https://coursera.org/learn/heritage,Arts and Humanities,Universiteit Leiden,"In this course you will learn to articulate your own concepts about (threatened) heritage and that of others. What is your heritage? Who defines heritage? Why is heritage under threat? How can we protect heritage? WW1, WW2, Cold war politics and contemporary conflicts as well as continuing political and socio-economic inequalities and colonial pasts are all factors playing a role in the global heritage discussions and approaches to (or lack of ) valorization and protection of heritage. Hence, issues behind destruction or threats to heritage are related to complex issues, often connected to complex landscapes of wars, the war-on-terror, fundamentalism, migration, global warming, financial crises, inequality and diverse interests of local communities. This course, sponsored by the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development and the Honours Academy of Leiden University, and the Netherlands Commission for UNESCO gave its support to one of the sections of the MOOC, will explore these issues. We wish to engage global communities and widen the perspective on threatened heritage. You can help us with this.",
  -The Art of Vocal Production,vocal-production,https://coursera.org/learn/vocal-production,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"This course addresses recorded vocal performances and the technologies used to highlight and support them in modern record production and mixes. Most of us know that vocals serve as the focal point of modern recordings but many do not know the tools used or when the tools are used best in modern record production. The course begins with simple vocal placement in a mix, where you will also learn the fundamentals of compression and equalization. You’ll further study delays and reverbs before moving to advanced concepts in audio editing, synthetic processing, automatic & graphic pitch correction, time compression, time expansion, flex and elastic audio.",
  -Music & Society,musicandsociety,https://coursera.org/learn/musicandsociety,Arts and Humanities,"Universiteit Leiden, University of the Arts The Hague","Music plays an important role in our daily lives and is woven into the fabric of society. We listen to music while alone or in company, in a dance club or at home, through simple headphones or via high-end speakers, as background or as foreground, after we get up or before we go to bed. Music accompanies us when we are traveling, doing sports, shopping, working or relaxing. This omnipresence of music raises several questions: how does music affect our lives? What is the relation between the society we live in and the role, function, and position of music within that society? How is music influenced by and does music influence social, political, economic, technological, and multiple other developments?",
  -Getting Started With Music Theory,music-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/music-theory,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"This course is a brief introduction to the elements of music theory for those with little or no music theory experience. We will explore pitch, rhythm, meter, notation, scales, keys, key signatures, meter signatures, triads, seventh chords, and basic harmony. If you listen to music or play music by ear, and you want to know more about how music is organized and notated, this course is for you. By the end of the course, you should know all major and minor keys, how to read and write in treble and bass clef using standard meters and rhythmic values, and how to notate and harmonize a simple melody. This course can serve as a stand-alone basic music theory course, or it can be a springboard to more advanced theory and composition courses.",
  -"Philosophy, Science and Religion: Science and Philosophy",philosophy-science-religion-1,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy-science-religion-1,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"Philosophy, Science and Religion mark three of the most fundamental modes of thinking about the world and our place in it. Are these modes incompatible? Put another way: is the intellectually responsible thing to do to ‘pick sides’ and identify with one of these approaches at the exclusion of others? Or, are they complementary or mutually supportive? As is typical of questions of such magnitude, the devil is in the details. For example, it is important to work out what is really distinctive about each of these ways of inquiring about the world. In order to gain some clarity here, we’ll be investigating what some of the current leading thinkers in philosophy, science and religion are actually doing.",
  -America Through Foreign Eyes,america-through-foreign-eyes,https://coursera.org/learn/america-through-foreign-eyes,Arts and Humanities,Rice University,"The United States has always been a source of fascination — both attraction and repulsion — for the people of France, Mexico, China, and African countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, and Sudan. ""America Through Foreign Eyes"" is a rich, interdisciplinary, international course that features Rice University faculty from a variety of disciplines and area studies. Focused on perceptions of America abroad, the course is a cross between World Cultures and American Studies. The course features four modules, each covering the perceptions and interactions of particular regions with America, Americans and Americanization.",
  -Transmedia Writing,transmedia-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/transmedia-writing,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Do you have a desire to write a novel, write a screenplay, design a video game? In this project-centered course you will develop your own, original, intellectual property (IP) into a transmedia project containing written versions of your IP on various platforms. You will begin your novel, adapt the first chapters of your novel into the opening scenes of a film or TV show and create a game design concept of your IP. This is a course is based in ""Active Learning"" so that most of the actual learning takes place within your own activities - that is, writing! You will learn by doing.",
  -A Journey through Western Christianity: from Persecuted Faith to Global Religion (200 - 1650),western-christianity-200-1650,https://coursera.org/learn/western-christianity-200-1650,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"This course follows the extraordinary development of Western Christianity from its early persecution under the Roman Empire in the third century to its global expansion with the Jesuits of the early modern world. We explore the dynamic and diverse character of a religion with an enormous cast characters. We will meet men and women who tell stories of faith as well as of violence, suppression, and division. Along the way, we encounter Perpetua and her martyrdom in Carthage; the struggles of Augustine the bishop in North Africa; the zeal of Celtic monks and missionaries; the viciousness of the Crusades; the visions of Brigit of Sweden; and the fracturing of Christianity by Martin Luther’s protest.",
  -Roman Architecture,roman-architecture,https://coursera.org/learn/roman-architecture,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Roman Architecture is a course for people who love to travel and want to discover the power of architecture to shape politics, society, and culture.",
  -Cultural Competence - Aboriginal Sydney,cultural-competence-aboriginal-sydney,https://coursera.org/learn/cultural-competence-aboriginal-sydney,Arts and Humanities,The University of Sydney,"This course explores some of the key themes and capabilities of cultural competence by exploring Aboriginal experiences and narratives of Sydney. Australia was ‘claimed’ for the British Crown in 1770, by Captain James Cook, but the invasion began in earnest when the First Fleet of British arrived in 1788 and established a penal colony in Sydney. As a consequence Sydney is a city rich in diverse pre-colonial, colonial and contemporary sites of significance to Aboriginal peoples. Too often though our perceptions about Aboriginal peoples consign them to an ancient past or perpetuates stereotypical imaginations that Aboriginal peoples live in remote communities (Hinkson, 2010).",
  -In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting,painting,https://coursera.org/learn/painting,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"Want to know how some of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists made abstract paintings? This course offers an in-depth, hands-on look at the materials, techniques, and thinking of seven New York School artists, including Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko. Through studio demonstrations and gallery walkthroughs, you’ll form a deeper understanding of what a studio practice means and how ideas develop from close looking, and you’ll gain a sensitivity to the physical qualities of paint. Readings and other resources will round out your understanding, providing broader cultural, intellectual, and historical context about the decades after World War II, when these artists were active.",
  -Indigenous Canada,indigenous-canada,https://coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada,Arts and Humanities,University of Alberta,"Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Topics for the 12 lessons include the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions.",
  +Course Name,Folder on Disk,Course URL,Field ,Name of the University/Institute,Introduction
  +Modern Art & Ideas,modern-art-ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-art-ideas,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"This course is designed to help anyone interested in learning more about modern and contemporary art. Themes can provide an effective structure for engaging with art. In this course, you will explore four themes that educators at The Museum of Modern Art use frequently in their teaching: Places & Spaces, Art & Identity, Transforming Everyday Objects, and Art & Society. Through videos, slideshows, and a variety of resources, readings, and activities, you will explore the content and context of works of art in MoMA’s collection"
  +"Revolutionary Ideas:  An Introduction to Legal and Political Philosophy, Part 2",political-philosophy-2,https://coursera.org/learn/political-philosophy-2,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"What is the purpose of government? Why should we have a State? What kind of State should we have? Even within a political community, there may be sharp disagreements about the role and purpose of government. Some want an active, involved government, seeing legal and political institutions as the means to solve our most pressing problems, and to help bring about peace, equality, justice, happiness, and to protect individual liberty. Others want a more minimal government, motivated, perhaps, by some of the disastrous political experiments of the 20th Century, and the thought that political power is often just a step away from tyranny. In many cases, these disagreements arise out of deep philosophical disagreements."
  +Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop,poetry-workshop,https://coursera.org/learn/poetry-workshop,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"This course is built on the notion that the most exciting writing begins after the first draft. It is specifically for folks who believe that writing poems just to express oneself is like using the Internet just for email. After all, poetry can change the way you and your readers think of the world and its inhabitants; it can break new ground for language; turn a blank sheet of paper into a teeming concert of voices and music."
  +Teaching the Violin and Viola: Creating a Healthy Foundation,teach-violin-lessons,https://coursera.org/learn/teach-violin-lessons,Arts and Humanities,Northwestern University,"fundamental principles and early stages of teaching violin and viola through a series of engaging video lectures and lesson demonstrations, including: 1) Master classes with some of the world’s top string pedagogues, 2) Individual lesson demos of teaching violin/viola set up, left and right hand technique and pieces from the early violin/viola repertoire, 3) Group lesson demos of teaching music theory, ear training and fun activities that encourage good playing habits, and 4) A “field trip” to the violin shop, where we will outfit a new beginning student with a proper instrument and bow. You’ll also engage in a series of discussions and reflections with colleagues and peers across the globe. Upon completion of this course, we hope you’ll return to your studio with confidence, a new curriculum, and a renewed approach to sharing with your students the joyful experience of making beautiful music."
  +A Brief History of Human Spaceflight,human-spaceflight,https://coursera.org/learn/human-spaceflight,Arts and Humanities,University of Houston System,"This course provides a view of the history of spaceflight, from early writings telling of human's fascination of space through the early Russian and American space stations. Developed as an interesting and entertaining slice of space history that is accessible to anyone with an interest in human spaceflight"
  +Introduction to Philosophy,philosophy,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"This course will introduce you to some of the main areas of research in contemporary philosophy. Each module a different philosopher will talk you through some of the most important questions and issues in their area of expertise. We’ll begin by trying to understand what philosophy is – what are its characteristic aims and methods, and how does it differ from other subjects? Then we’ll spend the rest of the course gaining an introductory overview of several different areas of philosophy."
  +The World of the String Quartet,string-quartet,https://coursera.org/learn/string-quartet,Arts and Humanities,Curtis Institute of Music,"Arnold Steinhardt, first violin of the internationally acclaimed Guarneri String Quartet, invites music listeners to the world of the string quartet repertoire and ensemble. Journey with him and interpretive analysis instructor Mia Chung through the history and features of quartet music, colored by stories of legendary quartets and insights from the stage."
  +The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry,the-holocaust,https://coursera.org/learn/the-holocaust,Arts and Humanities,"University of California, Santa Cruz","In this course, you will explore the Holocaust from the overlapping perspectives of literature and history—through memoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary footage, filmic representations, and novels. You will expand your knowledge of the literature of the Holocaust, Eastern and Western European Jewish communities, the origins and development of antisemitism, the establishment of labor and extermination camps, resistance movements, and the Holocaust as a problem for world history."
  +Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art,art-activity,https://coursera.org/learn/art-activity,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"Art can be a powerful catalyst for building skills and understanding a range of subjects. Intended for primary and secondary teachers of all disciplines, Art & Activity builds upon the inquiry-based approaches of Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies for Your Classroom, while delving into activity-based strategies that will make your students empowered participants."
  +"The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910",modern-world,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-world,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part One begins with the political and economic revolutions of the late 1700s and tracks the transformation of the world during the 1800s. Part One concludes as these bewildering changes seem to be running beyond the capacity of older institutions to handle them.
  +"Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity",kierkegaard,https://coursera.org/learn/kierkegaard,Arts and Humanities,University of Copenhagen,"It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical problems that emerge with the breakdown of traditional values, customs and ways of life. The result is the absence of meaning, the lapse of religious faith, and feeling of alienation that is so widespread in modernity."
  +Fundamentals of Rehearsing Music Ensembles,music-ensembles,https://coursera.org/learn/music-ensembles,Arts and Humanities,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"Learn and practice the basic principles of running an effective music ensemble rehearsal. Techniques and strategies are applicable to a variety of ensembles, including bands, orchestras, choirs, and chamber groups."
  +Effective Altruism,altruism,https://coursera.org/learn/altruism,Arts and Humanities,Princeton University,Effective altruism is built on the simple but unsettling idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good one can. In this course you will examine this idea's philosophical underpinnings; meet remarkable people who have restructured their lives in accordance with it; and think about how effective altruism can be put into practice in your own life.
  +Fundamentals of Graphic Design,fundamentals-of-graphic-design,https://coursera.org/learn/fundamentals-of-graphic-design,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures—the building blocks of graphic design—are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our lives, graphic design as a practice becomes more important in our culture."
  +Introduction to Guitar,guitar,https://coursera.org/learn/guitar,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Grasp the essentials needed to begin playing acoustic or electric guitar. You'll learn an easy approach to get you playing quickly, through a combination of exploring the instrument, performance technique, and basic music theory. For students who have long thought about picking up the acoustic or electric guitar, this course will provide an easy-access foundation that will get you playing. When first learning guitar, it is important to have the material presented in stages, in an enjoyable way that allows you to grasp the basics of the instrument and music."
  +"The Music of the Rolling Stones, 1962-1974",rolling-stones,https://coursera.org/learn/rolling-stones,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"This course will survey the music of the Rolling Stones, beginning with the roots and first formation of the band in the early 1960s, and following the group through the release of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll in late 1974."
  +"History of Rock, Part Two",history-of-rock-2,https://coursera.org/learn/history-of-rock-2,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"This course, part 2 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. This course covers the music of Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Carole King, Bob Marley, the Sex Pistols, Donna Summer, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Metallica, Run-DMC, and Nirvana, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself. We will also explore how developments in the music business and in technology helped shape the ways in which styles developed."
  +Big History: Connecting Knowledge,big-history,https://coursera.org/learn/big-history,Arts and Humanities,Macquarie University,"We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale. These problems do not neatly fall into disciplines. They are complicated, complex, and connected. Join us on this epic journey of 13.8 billion years starting at the Big Bang and travelling through time all the way to the future. Discover the connections in our world, the power of collective learning, how our universe and our world has evolved from incredible simplicity to ever-increasing complexity. Experience our modern scientific origin story through Big History and discover the important links between past, current, and future events. You will find two different types of lectures. ‘Zooming In’ lectures from multiple specialists enable you to understand key concepts through the lens of different disciplines, whilst David Christian's ‘Big History Framework’ lectures provide the connective overview for a journey through eight thresholds of Big History."
  +The Ancient Greeks,ancient-greeks,https://coursera.org/learn/ancient-greeks,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. Along with studying the most important events and personalities, we will consider broader issues such as political and cultural values and methods of historical interpretation."
  +The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1),modern-postmodern-1,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-1,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"This course examines how the idea of ""the modern"" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?"
  +Music Business Foundations,music-business-foundations,https://coursera.org/learn/music-business-foundations,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"This course has been developed to provide students with the latest instruction on the best way for creators, consumers, and facilitators to navigate the resurgence of one of the world’s most exciting industries: the music business. Three things are clear about today’s music industry: The consumption of music is expanding at the greatest rate in history and from the most portals ever imagined, the cost of producing music is decreasing, and the number of artists creating and seeking to expose their work and develop careers through the Internet has increased dramatically."
  +"Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction",historical-fiction,https://coursera.org/learn/historical-fiction,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"A unique and exciting introduction to the genre and craft of historical fiction, for curious students, aspiring authors--anyone with a passion for the past. Read classics of the genre, encounter bestselling writers of historical fiction, and discover your own historical archive while interacting with a global community of interested readers."
  +Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas,beethoven-piano-sonatas,https://coursera.org/learn/beethoven-piano-sonatas,Arts and Humanities,Curtis Institute of Music,"Our relationship to Beethoven is a deep and paradoxical one. For many musicians, he represents a kind of holy grail: His music has an intensity, rigor, and profundity which keep us in its thrall, and it is perhaps unequalled in the interpretive, technical, and even spiritual challenges it poses to performers. At the same time, Beethoven’s music is casually familiar to millions of people who do not attend concerts or consider themselves musically inclined. Two hundred years after his death, he is everywhere in the culture, yet still represents its summit."
  +Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World: Lesser Vehicle,buddhist-meditation,https://coursera.org/learn/buddhist-meditation,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World explores the immense variety of meditation practices past and present. We present their histories, their philosophical underpinnings, their transformations in the modern global world, and we give you a chance to reflect upon meditation practices through secular contemplations designed just for this course."
  +Introduction to Ableton Live,ableton-live,https://coursera.org/learn/ableton-live,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"In the past, Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) were programs used only by audio engineers with a highly specific knowledge base, on machines inaccessible to most people. But over the past 10-15 years, DAWs and the act of recording music have evolved from being a luxury of the few to being available to the masses. Ableton Live is one such application. Used by an extremely broad range of music creators, Ableton Live not only facilitates the work of engineers, producers, and writers in professional, home, and mobile studio settings, but it is also a powerful platform for musicians on stage, in the DJ booth, and elsewhere."
  +Age of Jefferson,ageofjefferson,https://coursera.org/learn/ageofjefferson,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"This course provides an overview of Thomas Jefferson's work and perspectives presented by the University of Virginia in partnership with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Together, UVA and Monticello are recognized internationally as a UNESCO World Heritage Site."
  +Jazz Improvisation,jazz-improvisation,https://coursera.org/learn/jazz-improvisation,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Learn the basic concepts of improvisation from Gary Burton, one of the most renowned improvisers in the jazz world, including the mental, melodic, and harmonic processes that contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo. While many people are fans of jazz and understand that musicians are often “making up” the notes they are playing during a performance, most people—often including musicians, themselves, who are beginning to learn improvising—aren’t clear about what exact processes take place to enable this to happen. The purpose of this course is to introduce the basic concepts of modern improvisation and how to go about mastering the different musical and mental skills involved."
  +The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part I,modern-middle-east-1,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-middle-east-1,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"This course will discuss the emergence of the modern Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire, at the end of the First World War to the present. It will discuss the Ottoman legacy in the region and the Western imperial impact on the creation of the Arab state system. The course will discuss the rise and retreat of Arab nationalism, the problems of internal cohesion of the Arab states, issues of religion and state, and the evolution of Islamist politics."
  +The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2),modern-postmodern-2,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-postmodern-2,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"This course examines how the idea of ""the modern"" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?"
  +"History of Rock, Part One",history-of-rock,https://coursera.org/learn/history-of-rock,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"This course, part 1 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the days before rock (pre-1955) to the end of the 1960s. This course covers the music of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself."
  +"The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art",the-south,https://coursera.org/learn/the-south,Arts and Humanities,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, we discover the stories, music, and art of the American South."
  +Survey of Music Technology,music-technology,https://coursera.org/learn/music-technology,Arts and Humanities,Georgia Institute of Technology,"How can we use computers to create expressive, compelling music? And how can we write computer software to help us create and organize sounds in new ways? This course provides a hands-on introduction to the field of music technology as both a creative musical practice and an interdisciplinary technical research pursuit. Students will be able to compose music in digital audio workstation software using both audio and symbolic representations; to write code to algorithmically generate music, analyze sound, and design sound; and to describe the essential theory and history behind these activities as well as their connection to cutting-edge computer music research."
  +Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences - Unit 2: Belief Systems,soulbeliefs2,https://coursera.org/learn/soulbeliefs2,Arts and Humanities,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Throughout history, the vast majority of people around the globe have believed they have, however defined, a “soul.” While the question of whether the soul exists cannot be answered by science, what we can study are the causes and consequences of various beliefs about the soul and its prospects of surviving the death of the body. Why are soul and afterlife beliefs so common in human history? Are there adaptive advantages to assuming souls exist? Are there brain structures that have been shaped by environmental pressures that provide the foundation of body/mind dualism that is such a prominent feature of many religions?"
  +The Music of the Beatles,the-beatles,https://coursera.org/learn/the-beatles,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"The Music of the Beatles will track the musical development of the band, starting from the earliest days in Liverpool and Hamburg, moving through the excitement of Beatlemania, the rush of psychedelia, and the maturity of Abbey Road. While the focus will be on the music, we will also consider how recording techniques, the music business, the music of other artists, and the culture of the 1960s affected John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they created the Beatles repertory."
  +"The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910",modern-world-2,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-world-2,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part Two begins early in the twentieth century, as older ways of doing things and habits of thought give way. What follows is an era of cataclysmic struggles over what ideas and institutions will take their place. The course concludes in the present day, as communities everywhere are transitioning into a new era of world history. Again we work hard to grasp what is happening and ask: Why? Again we are drawn to pivotal choices made at key moments by individuals and communities."
  +The Kennedy Half Century,kennedy,https://coursera.org/learn/kennedy,Arts and Humanities,University of Virginia,"This course will explore the Presidency, assassination, and lasting legacy of President John F. Kennedy. Students will learn how JFK’s life, administration, and tragic death have influenced the general public, the media, and each of the nine U.S. presidents who followed. Understanding the Kennedy legacy and being able to identify elements of his legacy within the context of modern politics helps understand many of the vexing problems that developed over the last half century as well as many of the challenges that confront us today."
  +Getting Started with Essay Writing,getting-started-with-essay-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/getting-started-with-essay-writing,Arts and Humanities,"University of California, Irvine","This is the second course in the Academic English: Writing specialization. By introducing you to three types of academic essays, this course will especially help prepare you for work in college classes, but anyone who wants to improve his or her writing skills can benefit from this course."
  +Designing Cities,designing-cities,https://coursera.org/learn/designing-cities,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Each module in Designing Cities will focus on a different aspect of city design including: How Today’s City Evolved; The Ideas That Shape Cities; Tools for Designing Cities; Making Cities Sustainable; Cities in the Information Age; Preserving Older Cities; Designing New Cities, Districts and Neighborhoods; The Challenges of Informal Cities and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods; and Visionary Cities. Materials will be presented by the instructors and guest faculty from PennDesign through a series of five or more lessons per module, each typically 10-12 minutes long."
  +The History of Modern Israel - From an Idea to a State,history-israel-part-1,https://coursera.org/learn/history-israel-part-1,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"How did the State of Israel come to be? How is it that an idea, introduced in 19th century Europe, became a reality? And how does that reality prevail in the harsh complexities of the Middle East?"
  +Reason and Persuasion: Thinking Through Three Dialogues By Plato,plato-dialogues,https://coursera.org/learn/plato-dialogues,Arts and Humanities,National University of Singapore,"In this course we study the ancient, Socratic art of blowing up your beliefs as you go, to make sure they're built to last. We spend six weeks studying three Platonic dialogues - ""Euthyphro"", ""Meno"", ""Republic"" Book I - then two weeks pondering a pair of footnotes to Plato: contemporary moral theory and moral psychology."
  +ProTools Basics,protoolsbasics,https://coursera.org/learn/protoolsbasics,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Producing music is an incredibly creative process, and knowing the tools of the trade is essential in order to transmit the musical ideas in your head into the DAW in a creative and uninhibited way. Whether you have used a computer to create music before, or you have been curious about production for years, this 4-week course will give you an introductory look into the world of Avid Pro Tools and Pro Tools First."
  +Music and Social Action,music-and-social-action,https://coursera.org/learn/music-and-social-action,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"What is a musician’s response to the condition of the world? Do musicians have an obligation and an opportunity to serve the needs of the world with their musicianship? At a time of crisis for the classical music profession, with a changing commercial landscape, a shrinking audience base, and a contraction in the number of professional orchestras, how does a young musician construct a career today?"
  +Creative Writing: The Craft of Character,craft-of-character,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-character,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters. We will study the choices a writer makes to bring all characters to life on the page, and we will perform written exercises in order to develop a variety of writing and pre-writing techniques, in order to create a variety of characters. We will learn how to use our own life experiences, and the people we know (and how not to!)."
  +Write Like Mozart: An Introduction to Classical Music Composition,classical-composition,https://coursera.org/learn/classical-composition,Arts and Humanities,National University of Singapore,"This course introduces students to strategies for style writing of common practice European art music. The issues of harmonic progression, voice leading, and texture are addressed in addition to relevant compositional concepts like repetition, variation, and elaboration. The course aims to offer a creative space even within the restrictions of stylistic emulation."
  +The Rooseveltian Century,roosevelt,https://coursera.org/learn/roosevelt,Arts and Humanities,Universiteit Leiden,"This course uses the lives, ideals and achievements of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt to create the idea of a Rooseveltian century. It is about doing research, analyzing primary sources, and connecting all this information with a coherent and logical interpretation. It is an invitation to think critically and historically, and it wants to give you a glimpse of what it means to be a historian at work."
  +Introduction to Research for Essay Writing,writing-college-research,https://coursera.org/learn/writing-college-research,Arts and Humanities,"University of California, Irvine","Course 4: Introduction to Research for Essay Writing This is the last course in the Academic Writing specialization before the capstone project. By the end of this course, you will be able to complete all the steps in planning a research paper. After completing this course, you will be able to: - choose appropriate research topics for college classes - write detailed outlines for research papers - find source material for research papers - take and organize good notes for research - use appropriate academic tone and language"
  +"Cameras, Exposure, and Photography",exposure-photography,https://coursera.org/learn/exposure-photography,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course One of Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR! In these first 4 Modules you will gain the knowledge and the confidence that will help you make good choices as you consider qualities of the camera you own, and the qualities of the other types of digital cameras you might be considering. You will learn about the basic functions that most digital cameras have in common. You will also go beyond the ""technical"" matters and learn about how you can make exciting pictures by emphasizing the aspects of Frame and Vantage Point to interpret old subjects in new ways."
  +The French Revolution,french-revolution,https://coursera.org/learn/french-revolution,Arts and Humanities,The University of Melbourne,"The French Revolution was one of the most important upheavals in world history. This course examines its origins, course and outcomes. This course is designed for you to work through successfully on your own. However you will not be alone on this journey. Use the resources included in the course and take part in the suggested learning activities to get the most out of your learning. To successfully complete this course, it is recommended that you devote at least six hours to every module over the six weeks of the course."
  +Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description,craft-of-setting-and-description,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-setting-and-description,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to the techniques that masters of fiction use to ground a story in a concrete world. From the most realist settings to the most fantastical, writers will learn how to describe the physical world in sharp, sensory detail. We will also learn how to build credibility through research, and to use creative meditation exercises to deepen our own understanding of our story worlds, so that our readers can see all that we imagine."
  +Arch of Titus: Rome and the Menorah,archoftitus,https://coursera.org/learn/archoftitus,Arts and Humanities,Yeshiva University,"The Arch of Titus: Rome and the Menorah explores one of the most significant Roman monuments to survive from antiquity, from the perspectives of Roman, Jewish and later Christian history and art. The Arch of Titus commemorates the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor Titus in 70 CE, an event of pivotal importance for the history of the Roman Empire, of Judaism, of Christianity and of modern nationalism."
  +Introduction to Classical Music,introclassicalmusic,https://coursera.org/learn/introclassicalmusic,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Using a simple and enjoyable teaching style, this course introduces the novice listener to the wonders of classical music, from Bach fugues to Mozart symphonies to Puccini operas."
  +Introduction to Typography,typography,https://coursera.org/learn/typography,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"Typography is the art of manipulating the visual form of language to enrich and control its meaning. It’s an essential area of skill and knowledge for graphic designers. Typography predates modern graphic design by around 500 years; it is rich in rules, conventions, and esoteric terminology—but it remains an exciting space for invention and expression."
  +Understanding the Music Business: What is Music Worth?,musicbiz,https://coursera.org/learn/musicbiz,Arts and Humanities,Vanderbilt University,"This course will examine the music industry in the United States, with the unique perspective gained by Vanderbilt University’s location in Nashville, TN. Nashville is a major center of music in the United States, and the music created here has a global reach, particularly in the country, rock, pop, singer-songwriter, and Americana genres. However, students will learn that the basic principles of recording, marketing, copyright, licensing, and live performance are the same, regardless of musical style or genre."
  +Copyright for Multimedia,copyright-for-multimedia,https://coursera.org/learn/copyright-for-multimedia,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Emory University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill","Copyright questions about different formats (data, images, music and video) can be especially difficult. Sometimes the law specifically distinguishes between these different formats, and in most cases there are media-specific considerations that impact a copyright analysis. In this course we will look at four different media, paying special attention to the unique issues for each one and the kinds of information that is important when making copyright decisions for each type of material. We will work through fair use issues for each multimedia format, look at format-specific exceptions in the law, and consider unique issues for seeking permission for film, music, images and data."
  +Creating Synthesizer Sounds for Electronic Music (Project-Centered Course),music-synthesizer,https://coursera.org/learn/music-synthesizer,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"In this project-centered course*, you will create sounds and use them in your own musical compositions. Whether you're an aspiring producer, composer, or hobbyist, this course will help you gain skills in music production and confidence using software synthesizers. Along with your classmates, you will create a massive database of designed sounds, or patches, to use in your compositions. As part of the course, you will work with a free version of FXpansion Strobe 2."
  +The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem,jerusalem,https://coursera.org/learn/jerusalem,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"The destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile were a great catastrophe in the history of the Jewish Nation. What really happened during that dark, fateful age, and how did new opportunities arise from the ashes?"
  +"The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World",holocaust-introduction-1,https://coursera.org/learn/holocaust-introduction-1,Arts and Humanities,"Tel Aviv University, Yad Vashem","The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence. As civilized human beings, we fail to understand how events of such horror could have taken place, and how an idea so inhumanly warped could have spread like wildfire through an entire continent, instigating the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews."
  +The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution,holocaust-introduction-2,https://coursera.org/learn/holocaust-introduction-2,Arts and Humanities,"Tel Aviv University, Yad Vashem","The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence. As civilized human beings, we fail to understand how events of such horror could have taken place, and how an idea so inhumanly warped could have spread like wildfire through an entire continent, instigating the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews."
  +How to Make a Comic Book (Project-Centered Course),make-comic-books,https://coursera.org/learn/make-comic-books,Arts and Humanities,High Tech High Graduate School of Education,"In this project-centered course*, you will create an original four page minicomic designed around a short story of your choosing. What you’ll need to get started: This project-centered course is designed for all-age learners (high school age and above, at least 13 years of age) who are interested in learning how to make a comic book, but have never completed one before."
  +The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part II,modernmiddleeast2,https://coursera.org/learn/modernmiddleeast2,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"This course will discuss the developments in the Middle East from the early 20th century to the present. It will discuss the rise and retreat of Arab nationalism, the problems of internal cohesion of the Arab states, issues of religion and state, and the evolution of Islamist politics. It will also focus on the evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict and its impact on the region and will conclude with an in depth analysis of the “Arab Spring” by placing these contemporary revolutionary events in their historical context."
  +Gathering and Developing the News,gathering-the-news,https://coursera.org/learn/gathering-the-news,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Journalists develop information through interviews and sources. The most successful journalists quickly master these important skill sets. The production of journalism relies on several elements: newsgathering, interviewing sources, researching and trying to find as much information as possible. The course will also teach you how to where to find information, interviewing skills and how to process information from various sources for publication."
  +Scandinavian Film and Television,scanfilmtv,https://coursera.org/learn/scanfilmtv,Arts and Humanities,University of Copenhagen,"In many ways Scandinavian film and television is a global cultural brand, connected with and exporting some of the cultural and social values connected to a liberal and progressive welfare society. This course deals with the social, institutional and cultural background of film and television in Scandinavia and in a broader European and global context."
  +World Design for Video Games,video-game-world,https://coursera.org/learn/video-game-world,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to any player who will experience it."
  +Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors,aristotle,https://coursera.org/learn/aristotle,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines"
  +Seeing Through Photographs,photography,https://coursera.org/learn/photography,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"Although taking, sharing, and viewing photographs has become second nature for many of us, our regular engagement with images does not necessarily make us visually literate. This course aims to address the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing a diversity of ideas, approaches, and technologies that inform their making. In this course you will look closely at photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art and hear a variety of perspectives on what a photograph is and the ways that photography has been used throughout its nearly 180 year history: as a means of artistic expression, as a tool for science and exploration; as an instrument of documentation; to tell stories and record histories; and as a mode of communication and critique in our ever increasingly visual culture."
  +Greek and Roman Mythology,mythology,https://coursera.org/learn/mythology,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Myths are traditional stories that have endured over a long time. Some of them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales, and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations."
  +Script Writing: Write a Pilot Episode for a TV or Web Series (Project-Centered Course),script-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/script-writing,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"In this project-centered course*, you will design a series bible and write a complete pilot episode for your own unique television or web series, be it drama or comedy or something in between. You’ll learn to break down the creative process into components, and you’ll discover a structured process that allows you to produce a polished and pitch-ready script in just a few weeks. Completing this project will increase your confidence in your ideas and abilities, and you’ll feel prepared to pitch your first script and get started on your next."
  +Roman Art and Archaeology,roman-art-archaeology,https://coursera.org/learn/roman-art-archaeology,Arts and Humanities,University of Arizona,"The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the culture of ancient Rome beginning about 1000 BCE and ending with the so-called ""Fall of Rome"". We will look at some of the key people who played a role in Rome, from the time of the kings through the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. We will also focus on the city of Rome itself, as well as Rome's expansion through Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond."
  +Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot,craft-of-plot,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-plot,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to perhaps the most elemental and often the most challenging element of story: plot. We will learn what keeps it moving, how it manipulates our feelings, expectations, and desires. We will examine the choices storytellers make to snag our imaginations, drag them into a fictional world, and keep them there. We will learn how to outline and structure a plot, discuss narrative arc, pacing and reversals and reveal the inevitable surprise: connecting the beginning, middle and end."
  +Confronting The Big Questions: Highlights of Modern Astronomy,astronomy,https://coursera.org/learn/astronomy,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,An introduction to modern astronomy's most important questions. The four sections of the course are Planets and Life in The Universe; The Life of Stars; Galaxies and Their Environments; The History of The Universe.
  +Creative Writing: The Craft of Style,craft-of-style,https://coursera.org/learn/craft-of-style,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language. We will study the use of metaphor and imagery, and demonstrate how clarity, grace, and inventiveness in word choice are imperative to a story’s success. Writers will emerge with the revision skills essential to all writers of good stories and good prose."
  +What is news? ,what-is-news,https://coursera.org/learn/what-is-news,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"This course will guide you through the basic elements of professional journalism and the news values and ethics of covering real-world issues and events. The overview and examples of the types of news coverage helps introduce the different types of journalism, such as social media, multimedia, print, visual and broadcast, and how professional journalists effectively use each format."
  +Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors,plato,https://coursera.org/learn/plato,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines made bold proposals about the ultimate constituents of reality, while Heraclitus insisted that there is an underlying order to the changing world. Parmenides of Elea formulated a powerful objection to all these proposals, while later Greek theorists (such as Anaxagoras and the atomist Democritus) attempted to answer that objection."
  +"American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice",edref,https://coursera.org/learn/edref,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Discover what shapes how we talk about schools today by exploring the history of U.S. education reform. Engage with the main actors, key decisions, and major turning points in this history. See how social forces drive reform. Learn about how the critical tensions embedded in U.S. education policy and practice apply to schools nationally, globally— and where you live."
  +Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage,preserving-cultural-heritage,https://coursera.org/learn/preserving-cultural-heritage,Arts and Humanities,Sapienza University of Rome,"Archaeology is, among human sciences, the discipline with the strongest importance for the rediscovery, but also for the preservation and protection of cultural heritage, as Humankind’s universal patrimony. You will be introduced to the way we ourselves reflect on and are engaged with the study of human past: from the practical and material recovery of ancient traces in the field to the study and interpretation. On the other hand, the discovery of human past implies the correct conservation and presentation for both experts and general public: the study and protection of the past we share every day prevent from any possible destruction, misuse, abuse and thus cancellation of human memory."
  +Camera Control,photocourse2,https://coursera.org/learn/photocourse2,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course Two of Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR! Now that you have a broad understanding of the various types of cameras, the importance of setting up Menus and Functions to gain control in your photography, and the difference between Auto and Program exposure modes, you are ready to move into even greater Camera Control!"
  +"The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future",bible-history,https://coursera.org/learn/bible-history,Arts and Humanities,Emory University,"With its walls razed to ground by Babylon’s armies, Jerusalem joined a long line of ancient vanquished cities—from Ur and Nineveh and Persepolis to Babylon itself. While some recovered from the destruction, others did not. But none responded to political catastrophe by fashioning the kind of elaborate and enduring monument to their own downfall that we find in the Bible. Most conquered populations viewed their subjugation as a source of shame. They consigned it to oblivion, opting instead to extol the golden ages of the past."
  +The Blues: Understanding and Performing an American Art Form,the-blues,https://coursera.org/learn/the-blues,Arts and Humanities,University of Rochester,"The blues is an American art form and the most important musical form in jazz. Although there are other formal paradigms of the blues, such as 8-bar or 16-bar, this course focuses on different incarnations of the 12-bar blues. There are considerable differences between Early Jazz blues, Swing blues, Bebop blues, Modal blues, and Post Bop blues. Each type has its unique harmonic syntax, melodic vocabulary and, associated with them, improvisational techniques."
  +Music's Big Bang: The Genesis of Rock 'n' Roll,rock-and-roll-music,https://coursera.org/learn/rock-and-roll-music,Arts and Humanities,University of Florida,"Explores the factors — musical and cultural — that led to the birth of American rock 'n' roll music in the early 1950s. Covers in detail the genres, styles and people that converged to create this new music."
  +The Beauty of Kunqu Opera,kunqu-opera,https://coursera.org/learn/kunqu-opera,Arts and Humanities,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,"This course will focus on the historical and cultural background, literary aesthetics, music, and performance of Kunqu, China’s classical opera. After viewing the lecture videos presented by scholars and renowned maestros in the field of Kunqu, students’ understanding and appreciation of Chinese performing arts, classical literature and traditional culture will be enhanced."
  +Effectively delivering the news to your audience,become-a-journalist3,https://coursera.org/learn/become-a-journalist3,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Being a successful journalist is more than hunting down information. How journalists process the information, then put it together, are key steps for news reports. You will learn the process, planning, requirements of how journalists develop their news reports. There are many ways to report news reports, and you will learn different forms of how to perform reporting and writing to serve different audiences."
  +The Place of Music in 21st Century Education,music-education-21st-century,https://coursera.org/learn/music-education-21st-century,Arts and Humanities,The University of Sydney,"What do children need from education now, and in the future? How is technology best used in teaching and learning? How can innovative approaches to education be reconciled with established, traditional ones? What does student-centred learning really mean? This five module course is not just for classroom or ensemble music educators. It’s suitable for anyone interested in creativity-infused education, in contemporary education issues, and in the integration and use of digital technology."
  +Introduction to Image Making,image-making,https://coursera.org/learn/image-making,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"During this course, we’ll be making exploratory images to expand your visual vocabulary. We'll create pieces that are expressive, meditative, or 'design-y' to instigate, evoke, experiment, record, explain, or to try out a media. The first two weeks are experimental and exploratory; we won’t be concerned with meaning or communication (although, to be honest, every image does exist in a context, and therefore communicates—or can convey—meaning, connotation, associations, and expressiveness)."
  +Modern American Poetry,modern-american-poetry,https://coursera.org/learn/modern-american-poetry,Arts and Humanities,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Twelve experienced faculty members from across the United States present their analyses of ground-breaking modern American poets in richly illustrated video lectures. The course highlights both major poets—from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson through T.S. Eliot, H.D., Amy Lowell, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others—and influential movements. The course mixes historical overview with close readings of individual poets and poems. Most courses give only one instructor’s point of view."
  +Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender,gender-art,https://coursera.org/learn/gender-art,Arts and Humanities,The University of Melbourne,"What do paintings tell us about sex? How is art gendered? In this course we will study some of the world’s most beloved pictures guided by expert curators and art historians who step outside of the square, bringing a gendered reading to the masterpieces contained in the magnificent collections that we have been lucky enough to bring to the Coursera platform."
  +The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction,the-talmud,https://coursera.org/learn/the-talmud,Arts and Humanities,Northwestern University,The Talmud is one of the richest and most complicated works of literature the world has ever known. Since being composed around 1500 years ago it has inspired not only religious reverence but significant intellectual engagement. In this course learners will be introduced to the unique characteristics of this text and the challenges that inhere in studying it while studying a chapter of the Talmud. Students of the course can expect to develop an appreciation for how the Talmud works and why it continues to inspire religious and intellectual devotion.
  +"Journalism, the future, and you!",become-a-journalist4,https://coursera.org/learn/become-a-journalist4,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"You will learn about the career paths that are available in journalism, and what opportunities the skill sets of a journalist can offer in other fields. You will explore areas such as being an international correspondent, self-publishing in journalism, as well as how to freelance in the field. You will be empowered to develop your own path in journalism, from being an active and informed consumer, to being a journalist."
  +Principles of Photo Composition and Digital Image Post-Production,photocourse3,https://coursera.org/learn/photocourse3,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course THREE! In the first two Modules you will gain a more professional-level understanding of the Design Elements that artists have used throughout history to create successful compositions. Arranging the Elements in ways that lead viewers through their compositions is an essential craft for photographers no matter whether their subject matter is pure documentary or vividly exotic personal expression. In Modules 3 & 4 we survey the essential elements of post-photography image management, using Adobe(tm) LIGHTROOM(tm). Image adjustment software designed for Smartphone photographers rounds out the Course."
  +English Composition I,english-composition,https://coursera.org/learn/english-composition,Arts and Humanities,Duke University,"You will gain a foundation for college-level writing valuable for nearly any field. Students will learn how to read carefully, write effective arguments, understand the writing process, engage with others' ideas, cite accurately, and craft powerful prose."
  +Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics,songwriting-lyrics,https://coursera.org/learn/songwriting-lyrics,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"There’s a songwriter lurking somewhere inside you, peeking around corners, wondering if it’s safe to come out. Now it is. This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is a simple “yes” and you’ll be climbing that windy hill, marveling at the view. If you haven’t written any or many songs, this course will show you an efficient, effective process for tailoring songs to express your ideas and emotions. If you have, you’ll look at your process differently, taking control of aspects of the process you may have not noticed. The course will start by examining the tools available to you, all revolving around the essential concept of prosody. You’ll learn to use your tools to enhance your message—to work compositionally at the same time you’re developing your ideas."
  +Developing Your Musicianship,develop-your-musicianship,https://coursera.org/learn/develop-your-musicianship,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"The course will teach you the major scale and minor pentatonic scale, and how they are constructed. You will learn what intervals are, how to sing them, and how to find them in music. The course explores tonal centers and how to find the key a song is in, in addition to common time signatures such as 4/4 and 3/4. You will learn how to build chords—major and minor triads, and major and dominant seventh chords—and how to build a common chord progression—the I IV V. You will also learn how to recognize the blues and AABA song forms, and write a basic chord sheet to express your song ideas."
  +The Technology of Music Production,technology-of-music-production,https://coursera.org/learn/technology-of-music-production,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Learn about the music production process—including recording, editing, and mixing—and the tools available to you to create contemporary music on your computer. With the recent introduction of high-quality-low-cost software and hardware, the tools of music production"
  +The Art of Music Production,producing-music,https://coursera.org/learn/producing-music,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"Explore the art of record production and how to make recordings that other people will love listening to. This course will teach you how to make emotionally moving recordings on almost any recording equipment, including your phone or laptop. The emphasis is on mastering tangible artistic concepts; the gear you use is up to you. You will learn to develop the most important tool in the recording studio: your ears. You will learn to enhance every aspect of your own productions, both sonically and musically, by employing deeper listening skills."
  +Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction,emotions,https://coursera.org/learn/emotions,Arts and Humanities,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,"Philosophy is like sex: sure you can get some interesting results, but that's not why we do it. Going one step beyond…why do you FEEL pain or pleasure? Do plants have emotions? How is possible that some people do not understand other’s emotions? Emotions seem to be everywhere, giving meaning to all events of our lives. They are the backbone of social activities as well as they drive the cognitive processes of several living entities. Several animals, including humans, have emotions but…what about machines?...Do machine can have emotions? This course will help you to understand and to identify most important philosophical ideas and debates about emotions, as well as it will provide you a rich source of data about neurological, psychological or anthropological analysis of emotions."
  +"Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative",onlinegames,https://coursera.org/learn/onlinegames,Arts and Humanities,Vanderbilt University,"Intended for both newcomers who are curious about video games and experienced gamers who want to reflect on their passion, this course will explore what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they become the basis of massively multiplayer online games. The Lord of the Rings trilogy—the novels, films, and video game—are our central example of how “remediation” transforms"
  +"Seeing the Light, Envisioning the Content, Sharing in Print & Online",photocourse4,https://coursera.org/learn/photocourse4,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Welcome to Course FOUR! In Modules 1-4 you will cover the final elements of the Specialization necessary to round out this introduction to the fundamentals of Photography, and prepare you for creating your own exciting project in the Capstone! You have come a long way since the beginning of this journey from Smartphone Basics to DSLR and Beyond."
  +"Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1",algorithm-design-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/algorithm-design-analysis,Arts and Humanities,stanford,"Algorithms are the heart of computer science, and the subject has countless practical applications as well as intellectual depth. This specialization is an introduction to algorithms for learners with at least a little programming experience. The specialization is rigorous but emphasizes the big picture and conceptual understanding over low-level implementation and mathematical details. After completing this specialization, you will be well-positioned to ace your technical interviews and speak fluently about algorithms with other programmers and computer scientists."
  +"Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2",algorithm-design-analysis-2,https://coursera.org/learn/algorithm-design-analysis-2,Arts and Humanities,stanford,"Algorithms are the heart of computer science, and the subject has countless practical applications as well as intellectual depth. This specialization is an introduction to algorithms for learners with at least a little programming experience. The specialization is rigorous but emphasizes the big picture and conceptual understanding over low-level implementation and mathematical details. After completing this specialization, you will be well-positioned to ace your technical interviews and speak fluently about algorithms with other programmers and computer scientists."
  +History of Graphic Design,history-of-graphic-design,https://coursera.org/learn/history-of-graphic-design,Arts and Humanities,California Institute of the Arts,"This condensed survey course focuses on four key periods or themes from the history of design. Together we’ll trace the emergence of design as a recognized practice, why things look the way they do, and how designers approached specific design problems in their work. Each week, a short quiz will test your knowledge of concepts, and a short reflective assignment will give you the opportunity to analyze the questions designers ask themselves today."
  +How to Change the World,changetheworld,https://coursera.org/learn/changetheworld,Arts and Humanities,Wesleyan University,"How can we use the things we share in common to address some of the most challenging problems facing the world? This course examines issues concerning poverty, the environment, technology, health care, gender, education and activism to helps us understand better how to initiate positive change."
  +Magic in the Middle Ages,magicmiddleages,https://coursera.org/learn/magicmiddleages,Arts and Humanities,Universitat de Barcelona,"Magical thought has always attracted human imagination. In this course we will introduce you to the Middle Ages through a wide conception of magic. Students will have an approach to medieval culture, beliefs and practices from the perspective of History and History of Science. Popular magic, as well as learned magic (alchemy, geomancy and necromancy) will be addressed. Moreover, we will also deal with how eastern practices and texts influenced western culture."
  +Theatre and Globalization,global-theatre,https://coursera.org/learn/global-theatre,Arts and Humanities,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"Learn how theatre and globalization have affected each other over the past century, and how to conduct your own research on global theatre histories."
  +Fundamentals of Music Theory,edinburgh-music-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/edinburgh-music-theory,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"This course will introduce students to the theory of music, providing them with the skills needed to read and write Western music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, and listen informedly. It will cover material such as pitches and scales, intervals, clefs, rhythm, form, meter, phrases and cadences, and basic harmony."
  +How Music Can Change Your Life,music-life,https://coursera.org/learn/music-life,Arts and Humanities,The University of Melbourne,"This course provides free video, audio and journal resources that explain six basic principles about how music can influence individual and community health and wellbeing. From biology and neuroscience, to psychotherapy and politics, the ways we engage with music can make all the difference. Music has always played an integral role in the lives of individuals and communities all around the globe. This course explores the ways that music can be used to achieve positive changes with a particular emphasis on the most vulnerable persons."
  +The History of Modern Israel -  Part II: Challenges of Israel as a sovereign state,history-israel-sovereign-state,https://coursera.org/learn/history-israel-sovereign-state,Arts and Humanities,Tel Aviv University,"This course deals with the Israeli politics, economy, society and culture, since its creation in 1948 till today. It analyzes the construction of the Israeli historical narrative as an identity-building narrative, intending to inculcate a collective memory to a diverse society. We will focus on key events and essential components that shaped the Israeli society from the fifties till the present. We will also discuss the changes that the Israeli society experiences in its almost seventy years of existence and how it affects its politics and culture."
  +Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences,philosophy-cognitive-sciences,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy-cognitive-sciences,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"What is our role in the universe as human agents capable of knowledge? What makes us intelligent cognitive agents seemingly endowed with consciousness? This is the second part of the course 'Philosophy and the Sciences', dedicated to Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences. Scientific research across the cognitive sciences has raised pressing questions for philosophers. The goal of this course is to introduce you to some of the main areas and topics at the key juncture between philosophy and the cognitive sciences."
  +Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Physical Sciences,philosophy-physical-sciences,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy-physical-sciences,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"This is the first part of the course 'Philosophy and the Sciences', dedicated to Philosophy of the Physical Sciences. Scientific research across the physical sciences has raised pressing questions for philosophers. The goal of this course is to introduce you to some of the main areas and topics at the key juncture between philosophy and the physical sciences. Each week we will introduce you to some of these important questions at the forefront of scientific research."
  +"Musicianship: Chord Charts, Diatonic Chords, and Minor Keys",musicianship-chords,https://coursera.org/learn/musicianship-chords,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the second course in the series. If you have a basic knowledge of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I, this course will continue to help you understand key musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into the next level of harmony and ear training."
  +Classics of Chinese Humanities: Guided Readings,classics-chinese-humanities,https://coursera.org/learn/classics-chinese-humanities,Arts and Humanities,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,"An introductory yet trenchant exploration of select Chinese classic texts that cover the domains of classical literature, history, philosophy, and fine arts."
  +Modern & Contemporary American Poetry,modpo,https://coursera.org/learn/modpo,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly ""difficult."" We encounter and discuss the poems one at a time. It's much easier than it seems! Join us and try it! Even though we are currently in our offseason (""SloPo""), you are welcome to enroll now. You will have access to the entire ModPo site. Explore; meet some ModPo'ers who are conversing in the site year-round; read poems and watch videos."
  +Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes,ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/ideas,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"This course is designed to help build critical skills that support theme-based teaching practices and build confidence in incorporating modern and contemporary art into interdisciplinary lesson plans. By addressing themes and questions that arise in relation to modern and contemporary art, the course will help you to think creatively about links to your curriculum and the ways that you can tap into students’ knowledge and life experience."
  +"Transmedia Storytelling: Narrative worlds, emerging technologies, and global audiences",transmedia-storytelling,https://coursera.org/learn/transmedia-storytelling,Arts and Humanities,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),"Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in a cohesive story experience across multiple traditional and digital delivery platforms - for entertainment, advertising and marketing, or social change. Have you ever read a book, seen a movie, watched a television show, or played a game that centred around different aspects of a larger story or universe? You may be familiar with popular examples of such universes like Star Wars, Marvel, and The Walking Dead (to name a few)."
  +Journey of the Universe: The Unfolding of Life,journey-unfolding-life,https://coursera.org/learn/journey-unfolding-life,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Journey of the Universe weaves together the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences together with humanities such as history, philosophy, art, and religion. The course draws on the Emmy-award winning film, Journey of the Universe, and the book from Yale University Press."
  +The Worldview of Thomas Berry:  The Flourishing of the Earth Community,thomas-berry,https://coursera.org/learn/thomas-berry,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a historian of world religions and an early voice awakening moral sensibilities to the environmental crisis. He is known for articulating a “new story” of the universe that explores the implications of the evolutionary sciences and cultural traditions for creating a flourishing future. This course investigates Berry’s life and thought in relation to the Journey of the Universe project. It draws on his books, articles, and recorded lectures to examine such ideas as: the New Story, the Great Work, and the emerging Ecozoic era."
  +"Musicianship: Tensions, Harmonic Function, and Modal Interchange",musicianship-harmony,https://coursera.org/learn/musicianship-harmony,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the third course in the series. If you have a general understanding of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I and II, this course will continue to help you understand musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into an intermediate level of harmony and ear training."
  +Making Architecture,making-architecture,https://coursera.org/learn/making-architecture,Arts and Humanities,"IE Business School, IE School of Architecture & Design","Making architecture offers a unique insight into the mind and work of an Architect, starting with the basics of the profession and culminating with the production of a scaled site model. The course should act as ideal preparation for those interested in undertaking an undergraduate degree in Architecture, although its flexible, intriguing and enjoyable content makes it accessible for all those looking to increase their knowledge in the field."
  +ART of the MOOC: Activism and Social Movements,activism-social-movements,https://coursera.org/learn/activism-social-movements,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Creative Time","This course is for activists, artists, and thinkers who wish to better understand and participate in social change. We will focus on the prolific and exciting overlap between socially engaged art and cultural practices generated by recent social movements around the world. Rather than assess the political efficacy of activities like mourning, listening, organizing, dancing, or partying, the lectures examine such cultural activities next to, and within, contemporary art practice."
  +透过摄影看世界,photography-1,https://coursera.org/learn/photography-1,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,对于我们中的许多人来说，虽然拍照、分享和浏览照片已经成了日常生活中的习惯，但我们与图像的频繁接触并未培养我们在视觉表达上的素养。 这个课程的目的在于通过介绍影响摄影作品的创意、手段与技术，讨论观看照片与真正理解照片之间距离的问题。 在这个课程里，你将近距离观看纽约现代艺术博物馆收藏的照片，聆听从不同角度对照片的解读，以及摄影在将近180年历史中被使用的方式：作为艺术表现的途径、作为科学和探索的工具、作为纪实文献的媒介、作为讲述故事和记录历史的手段，以及作为日益视觉化的文化中一种交流和批评的模式。
  +Luther and the West,luther-and-the-west,https://coursera.org/learn/luther-and-the-west,Arts and Humanities,Northwestern University,"In this course we will discuss the history of some ideas that have been hugely influential in the modern west and that were taken out to the rest of the world. The discussion centers on an extraordinary and historically important figure, a sixteenth century German man named Martin Luther. Luther is recognized today as the originator of many of the most significant ideas that continue to affect and shape who we as modern people are and how we see the world and ourselves for better and for worse."
  +Reasoning Across the Disciplines,critical-reasoning,https://coursera.org/learn/critical-reasoning,Arts and Humanities,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"This course will help you understand what critical thinking skills are and why they're so important. You will also learn how critical thinking skills vary across disciplines, as well as see them applied across several fields, including, chemistry, history, psychology, law, English, and American Studies. You will develop your own critical thinking skills by working through scenarios or problems posed by scholars across these fields, and you will better understand how your college courses will differ from your earlier education."
  +The Making of the US President: A Short History in Five Elections,making-us-president,https://coursera.org/learn/making-us-president,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"As Donald Trump takes office as the forty-fifth president of the United States, this course explores presidential elections in historical perspective, via five case studies. It tells the story of key campaigns in US history, and by doing so it investigates how politics changed over time—and how understanding the past sheds light on the current campaign. From the arrival of ""dirty politics"" to the impact of the ""digital revolution,"" the course looks at the historical background to some of the key phenomena that shaped the controversy-laden campaign of 2016."
  +ART of the MOOC: Arte Público y Pedagogía,arte-publico-pedagogia,https://coursera.org/learn/arte-publico-pedagogia,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Creative Time","Los alumnos de este curso aprenderán a hacer sus propias obras de arte social y público si así lo desean, o podrán simplemente estudiar la teoría e historia reciente del medio. Diseñado por el artista y profesor de Duke, Pedro Lasch, e impartido con el director artístico de Creative Time, Nato Thompson, este curso presenta el arte y la cultura pública en sus formas contemporáneas radicalmente re-inventadas. Las conferencias enlazan acontecimientos claves de las últimas décadas en este campo con temas más amplios como la política espacial, estructuras sociales cotidianas y la educación experimental."
  +Ancient Egypt,ancientegypt,https://coursera.org/learn/ancientegypt,Arts and Humanities,University of Pennsylvania,"Colossal pyramids, imposing temples, golden treasures, enigmatic hieroglyphs, powerful pharaohs, strange gods, and mysterious mummies are features of Ancient Egyptian culture that have fascinated people over the millennia. The Bible refers to its gods, rulers, and pyramids. Neighboring cultures in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean wrote about its god-like kings and its seemingly endless supply of gold. The Greeks and Romans describe aspects of Egypt's culture and history."
  +"Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies",film-images,https://coursera.org/learn/film-images,Arts and Humanities,"University of London, Royal Holloway, University of London","This course is a short taster on the topic of the use of Images, Film, and their use in historical interpretation in the 20th century. It is primarily provided for those who have a general interest in history that draws on photojournalism as primary evidence, and films based on historical events. Once you have completed this course we hope you will be equipped to: Appreciate the significance of photographs as historical evidence in the twentieth century. Understand the limitations of the medium, and how we can attribute meaning to these individual records of 'one moment in time' while taking into account the circumstances in which any particular image was taken."
  +Chinese Culture and Contemporary China ,china-culture-contemporary,https://coursera.org/learn/china-culture-contemporary,Arts and Humanities,Nanjing University,"This course of Chinese Culture and Contemporary China will explore the foundations of Chinese civilization and the dimensions of Chinese culture. It will pay particular attention to the relationship between Chinese culture and the present-day life of the Chinese people and to the different elements of the culture which are under the present social structures, belief systems, literature, arts, customs, etc. The course aims at providing students with a deeper knowledge of Chinese culture, thus enabling them to better understand China. The course will cover the following main areas of topics: (1) the foundations of Chinese civilization: its geography, language, and history; (2) the core concepts in Chinese philosophies and religions: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; (3), literature and arts, including Chinese calligraphy, painting, Tang poetry, and classical fiction; (4) society and life, including education, the role of women, Chinese food, and traditional holidays; (5) travel and landscapes, including well-known Chinese cities, mountains, ethnic regions and customs; (6) Chinese media, culture and sports, including TV and movies, fashion, Chinese gongfu and taiji."
  +Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe,medieval-europe,https://coursera.org/learn/medieval-europe,Arts and Humanities,University of Colorado System,"Perhaps no other relic of the European Middle Ages captures our imagination more than illuminated medieval manuscripts, or those documents decorated with images and colored pigments. Serving as windows unto a lost world of kings, ladies, faith, war, and culture, they communicate complex visual and textual narratives of Europe’s collective cultural heritage and patrimony. In this fashion, illuminated manuscripts are dynamic messages from our communal past that are still relevant today in fields like graphic design and typography. In this seven-week course, students will explore the material creation, content, and historical context of illuminated medieval European manuscripts. Students will acquire an introductory knowledge of their distinguishing characteristics, their cataloguing and periodization (when they were created), the methods utilized to produce them, and their historical context and value."
  +The Cycle: Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organizations,the-cycle,https://coursera.org/learn/the-cycle,Arts and Humanities,"University of Maryland, College Park","What makes a successful arts and cultural organization? Led by DeVos Institute Chairman Michael M. Kaiser and President Brett Egan, this course will introduce you to a management theory called the Cycle which supports thriving arts and cultural organizations. Learning from our work with managers from over 80 countries around the world, the DeVos Institute developed the Cycle as a simple, but powerful tool to assist managers in their effort to respond to an increasingly complex environment and propel their institutions to excellence. The Cycle explains how great art and strong marketing can create a family of supporters, who in turn help the organization produce the revenue required to support even more great art the next year. The Institute has seen the Cycle work in performing and presenting organizations, as well as museums, arts schools, and other nonprofit endeavors like service organizations, historical societies, public libraries, university programs, advocacy organizations, botanical gardens, and zoos."
  +Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Part 2,exploring-beethoven-piano-sonatas-2,https://coursera.org/learn/exploring-beethoven-piano-sonatas-2,Arts and Humanities,Curtis Institute of Music,"Welcome to Part 2 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 2. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience at all!). Remember that you are able to watch the lectures as many times as you like, at whatever pace is comfortable for you. As I’ve done with the first set of Beethoven lectures, I look forward to meeting with students—online and in person, in various cities. The dates and locations will be posted in the Announcements and Events section, as part of the course content. So please remember to check back there for details. In these four new lectures, we will explore the following sonatas: • Sonata Op. 2, No. 3 • Sonata Op. 13 (“Pathetique”) • Sonata Op. 53 (“Waldstein”) • Sonata Op. 90"
  +Heritage under Threat,heritage,https://coursera.org/learn/heritage,Arts and Humanities,Universiteit Leiden,"In this course you will learn to articulate your own concepts about (threatened) heritage and that of others. What is your heritage? Who defines heritage? Why is heritage under threat? How can we protect heritage? WW1, WW2, Cold war politics and contemporary conflicts as well as continuing political and socio-economic inequalities and colonial pasts are all factors playing a role in the global heritage discussions and approaches to (or lack of ) valorization and protection of heritage. Hence, issues behind destruction or threats to heritage are related to complex issues, often connected to complex landscapes of wars, the war-on-terror, fundamentalism, migration, global warming, financial crises, inequality and diverse interests of local communities. This course, sponsored by the LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development and the Honours Academy of Leiden University, and the Netherlands Commission for UNESCO gave its support to one of the sections of the MOOC, will explore these issues. We wish to engage global communities and widen the perspective on threatened heritage. You can help us with this."
  +The Art of Vocal Production,vocal-production,https://coursera.org/learn/vocal-production,Arts and Humanities,Berklee,"This course addresses recorded vocal performances and the technologies used to highlight and support them in modern record production and mixes. Most of us know that vocals serve as the focal point of modern recordings but many do not know the tools used or when the tools are used best in modern record production. The course begins with simple vocal placement in a mix, where you will also learn the fundamentals of compression and equalization. You’ll further study delays and reverbs before moving to advanced concepts in audio editing, synthetic processing, automatic & graphic pitch correction, time compression, time expansion, flex and elastic audio."
  +Music & Society,musicandsociety,https://coursera.org/learn/musicandsociety,Arts and Humanities,"Universiteit Leiden, University of the Arts The Hague","Music plays an important role in our daily lives and is woven into the fabric of society. We listen to music while alone or in company, in a dance club or at home, through simple headphones or via high-end speakers, as background or as foreground, after we get up or before we go to bed. Music accompanies us when we are traveling, doing sports, shopping, working or relaxing. This omnipresence of music raises several questions: how does music affect our lives? What is the relation between the society we live in and the role, function, and position of music within that society? How is music influenced by and does music influence social, political, economic, technological, and multiple other developments?"
  +Getting Started With Music Theory,music-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/music-theory,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"This course is a brief introduction to the elements of music theory for those with little or no music theory experience. We will explore pitch, rhythm, meter, notation, scales, keys, key signatures, meter signatures, triads, seventh chords, and basic harmony. If you listen to music or play music by ear, and you want to know more about how music is organized and notated, this course is for you. By the end of the course, you should know all major and minor keys, how to read and write in treble and bass clef using standard meters and rhythmic values, and how to notate and harmonize a simple melody. This course can serve as a stand-alone basic music theory course, or it can be a springboard to more advanced theory and composition courses."
  +"Philosophy, Science and Religion: Science and Philosophy",philosophy-science-religion-1,https://coursera.org/learn/philosophy-science-religion-1,Arts and Humanities,The University of Edinburgh,"Philosophy, Science and Religion mark three of the most fundamental modes of thinking about the world and our place in it. Are these modes incompatible? Put another way: is the intellectually responsible thing to do to ‘pick sides’ and identify with one of these approaches at the exclusion of others? Or, are they complementary or mutually supportive? As is typical of questions of such magnitude, the devil is in the details. For example, it is important to work out what is really distinctive about each of these ways of inquiring about the world. In order to gain some clarity here, we’ll be investigating what some of the current leading thinkers in philosophy, science and religion are actually doing."
  +America Through Foreign Eyes,america-through-foreign-eyes,https://coursera.org/learn/america-through-foreign-eyes,Arts and Humanities,Rice University,"The United States has always been a source of fascination — both attraction and repulsion — for the people of France, Mexico, China, and African countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, and Sudan. ""America Through Foreign Eyes"" is a rich, interdisciplinary, international course that features Rice University faculty from a variety of disciplines and area studies. Focused on perceptions of America abroad, the course is a cross between World Cultures and American Studies. The course features four modules, each covering the perceptions and interactions of particular regions with America, Americans and Americanization."
  +Transmedia Writing,transmedia-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/transmedia-writing,Arts and Humanities,Michigan State University,"Do you have a desire to write a novel, write a screenplay, design a video game? In this project-centered course you will develop your own, original, intellectual property (IP) into a transmedia project containing written versions of your IP on various platforms. You will begin your novel, adapt the first chapters of your novel into the opening scenes of a film or TV show and create a game design concept of your IP. This is a course is based in ""Active Learning"" so that most of the actual learning takes place within your own activities - that is, writing! You will learn by doing."
  +A Journey through Western Christianity: from Persecuted Faith to Global Religion (200 - 1650),western-christianity-200-1650,https://coursera.org/learn/western-christianity-200-1650,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"This course follows the extraordinary development of Western Christianity from its early persecution under the Roman Empire in the third century to its global expansion with the Jesuits of the early modern world. We explore the dynamic and diverse character of a religion with an enormous cast characters. We will meet men and women who tell stories of faith as well as of violence, suppression, and division. Along the way, we encounter Perpetua and her martyrdom in Carthage; the struggles of Augustine the bishop in North Africa; the zeal of Celtic monks and missionaries; the viciousness of the Crusades; the visions of Brigit of Sweden; and the fracturing of Christianity by Martin Luther’s protest."
  +Roman Architecture,roman-architecture,https://coursera.org/learn/roman-architecture,Arts and Humanities,Yale University,"Roman Architecture is a course for people who love to travel and want to discover the power of architecture to shape politics, society, and culture."
  +Cultural Competence - Aboriginal Sydney,cultural-competence-aboriginal-sydney,https://coursera.org/learn/cultural-competence-aboriginal-sydney,Arts and Humanities,The University of Sydney,"This course explores some of the key themes and capabilities of cultural competence by exploring Aboriginal experiences and narratives of Sydney. Australia was ‘claimed’ for the British Crown in 1770, by Captain James Cook, but the invasion began in earnest when the First Fleet of British arrived in 1788 and established a penal colony in Sydney. As a consequence Sydney is a city rich in diverse pre-colonial, colonial and contemporary sites of significance to Aboriginal peoples. Too often though our perceptions about Aboriginal peoples consign them to an ancient past or perpetuates stereotypical imaginations that Aboriginal peoples live in remote communities (Hinkson, 2010)."
  +In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting,painting,https://coursera.org/learn/painting,Arts and Humanities,The Museum of Modern Art,"Want to know how some of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists made abstract paintings? This course offers an in-depth, hands-on look at the materials, techniques, and thinking of seven New York School artists, including Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko. Through studio demonstrations and gallery walkthroughs, you’ll form a deeper understanding of what a studio practice means and how ideas develop from close looking, and you’ll gain a sensitivity to the physical qualities of paint. Readings and other resources will round out your understanding, providing broader cultural, intellectual, and historical context about the decades after World War II, when these artists were active."
  +Indigenous Canada,indigenous-canada,https://coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada,Arts and Humanities,University of Alberta,"Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Topics for the 12 lessons include the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions."
   ART of the MOOC: Public Art and Pedagogy,moocs,https://coursera.org/learn/moocs,Arts and Humanities,"Duke University, Creative Time","Students of this course may try their hand at their own public art interventions, or simply focus on learning from the theory of public practice and its recent history. Designed by artist and Duke professor, Pedro Lasch, and co-taught by Creative Time artistic director, Nato Thompson, this course presents public culture and art in their radically reinenvented contemporary forms. The lectures link major developments of recent decades to wider topics like spatial politics, everyday social structures, and experimental education. 
   
   Also included are guest presentations from key thinkers and practitioners, like: Tania Bruguera, Claire Doherty, Tom Finkelpearl, Hans Haacke, Shannon Jackson, Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe, and many more. As the ‘ART of the MOOC’ title implies, learners and participants are encouraged to treat the MOOC itself as a public art medium. This happens mostly through the course’s practical components, local project productions, global exchanges, and critical feedback.
   
   While no prior art making experience is required, projects also offer challenging options for advanced learners.
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   Religions and Society in China,religions-society-china,https://coursera.org/learn/religions-society-china,Arts and Humanities,Higher School of Economics,"This course provides an introduction to the study of the history, major teachings, and practices of the major Chinese religions and spiritual practices and is deigned to give conceptual tools to appreciate diverse religious practice in East. It covers the development of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and wide range of popular and local religions. From historical perspective we will also explore the development of key theological, religious and philosophical doctrines as well as associated practices. An effort will be made to spend time on each tradition according to its importance to Asia as a whole. 
   
   We will explore the role of religions in politics and social relations in East and South, South East Asia and China in particular, and will analyze the origins, central teachings, divisions and branches, rituals and practices, influences on culture, and responses to modern challenges for each tradition. 
   
  -The emphasis throughout the course is on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant upon the study of religion in general, and Asian religions in particular. We will explore new Asian religions as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies.",
  +The emphasis throughout the course is on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant upon the study of religion in general, and Asian religions in particular. We will explore new Asian religions as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies."
   Conflict Transformation,conflict-transformation,https://coursera.org/learn/conflict-transformation,Arts and Humanities,Emory University,"This course introduces you to the concept of conflict transformation and how it differs from conflict resolution, management, and prevention. We’ll see how conflict offers opportunities for constructive change, and we'll explore different tools and methods for engaging conflict constructively.
   
  -Regardless of your familiarity with the topic, you'll get insightful tips, portable handouts, lively demonstrations, and personalized assignments to bridge and enhance your own knowledge and history within the conflict narrative. In any area of your life, you'll benefit from the practical techniques and transferable information offered throughout this five-week journey.",
  -What’s Your Big Idea?,big-ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/big-ideas,Business,California Institute of the Arts,"Whether your interest lies in solving the world’s biggest problems, creating the next commercial success or addressing something closer to home, this course will give you a toolbox to vet your ideas and test them in the real world.",
  -Fundamentals of Management,fundamentals-of-management,https://coursera.org/learn/fundamentals-of-management,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Are you about to enter the workforce? Are you an emerging professional? Are you new to your role in the organization? All prospective new employees benefit from understanding management principles, roles and responsibilities, regardless of position. Now you can acquire an in-depth understanding of the basic concepts and theories of management while exploring the manager's operational role in all types of organizations. Gain insight into the manager's responsibility in planning, organizing, leading, staffing and controlling within the workplace. It’s never too soon to plan your professional path by learning how the best managers manage for success!",
  -Inspiring and Motivating Individuals,motivate-people-teams,https://coursera.org/learn/motivate-people-teams,Business,University of Michigan,"In this course, you will learn how to create a shared vision for your team and effectively communicate it to your teammates. You will also learn how to set effective goals and expectations in a way that best enables your team to attain the shared vision. Finally, you will understand the most important needs and drivers of performance across cultures, and will learn to align rewards with desired behaviors so that your teammates are motivated to attain the team’s objectives.",
  -Introduction to Public Relations,public-relations,https://coursera.org/learn/public-relations,Business,National University of Singapore,"In this course, you will learn what Public Relations is, what are some of the key growth areas in Public Relations, and the future of the practice. You will learn about the various theories of Public Relations and how to put these theories to use when carrying out Public Relations activities. The course will provide you a big picture of the Public Relations process, and the important roles of strategy and tactics in the process.",
  -Conflict Resolution Skills,conflict-resolution-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/conflict-resolution-skills,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Resolving conflict in a positive manner is a skill than can be developed and practiced. Being heard can be one of the most important goals of someone engaged in conflict. Knowing how to listen and deploy appropriate communication tactics is determinative of whether a conflict will have a positive or negative resolution. Examine listening skills, appropriate and strategic verbal and non-verbal communication skills, and how to assemble a conflict management plan likely to yield positive resolutions.",
  -Budgeting and Scheduling Projects,schedule-projects,https://coursera.org/learn/schedule-projects,Business,"University of California, Irvine",A good project schedule helps all team members’ work together to meet project objectives. A project budget with realistic cost constraints is also an essential bedrock of any project. In this course you’ll learn to plan and stick to time and cost constraints in order to ensure the success of your projects.,
  -What is Social?,what-is-social,https://coursera.org/learn/what-is-social,Business,Northwestern University,"This course has been designed to give you the tools, insights, knowledge, and skills to immediately impact your organization. In addition, we will help you network with thought leaders in social. After completing this course, you and your organization’s staff will be able to position, engage, and grow relationships with the consumers of highest value to you.",
  -Effective Problem-Solving and Decision-Making,problem-solving,https://coursera.org/learn/problem-solving,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Critical thinking enables us to avoid common obstacles, test our beliefs and assumptions, and correct distortions in our thought processes. Gain confidence in assessing problems accurately, evaluating alternative solutions, and anticipating likely risks. Learn how to use analysis, synthesis, and positive inquiry to address individual and organizational problems and develop the critical thinking skills needed in today’s turbulent times. Using case studies and situations encountered by class members, explore successful models and proven methods that are readily transferable on-the-job.",
  -Building Your Leadership Skills,leadership-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-skills,Business,HEC Paris,"When taking this course, you will raise your own self-awareness and gain self-confidence for a better leadership. You will discover a new approach to leadership based on trust and sense. The “Savoir-Relier” leadership, a new approach of leadership, taught to HEC MBA’s student and top executives, enables better team leadership and encourages relationships between people in spite of their differences of opinion.",
  -Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I,financial-engineering-1,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-engineering-1,Business,Columbia University,"The emphasis of FE & RM Part I will be on the use of simple stochastic models to price derivative securities in various asset classes including equities, fixed income, credit and mortgage-backed securities. We will also consider the role that some of these asset classes played during the financial crisis. A notable feature of this course will be an interview module with Emanuel Derman, the renowned ``quant'' and best-selling author of ""My Life as a Quant"".",
  -Communication in the 21st Century Workplace,communication-in-the-workplace,https://coursera.org/learn/communication-in-the-workplace,Business,"University of California, Irvine","The focus of this course is to heighten students’ awareness of workplace communication, and add new interpersonal skills, with the end result of becoming a more competent communicator overall. Target areas include: the process and functions of communication, behavioral patterns, perceptions as reality, verbal and nonverbal cues and behaviors, confidence, assertiveness, tact, anger management, criticism and constructive feedback, conflict resolution, team building, leadership, interviewing, and communicating more effectively with technology (email, Skype, texting, etc.).",
  -Managing Data Analysis,managing-data-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-data-analysis,Business,Johns Hopkins University,This is a focused course designed to rapidly get you up to speed on the process of data analysis and how it can be managed. Our goal was to make this as convenient as possible for you without sacrificing any essential content. We've left the technical information aside so that you can focus on managing your team and moving it forward.,
  -Managing Project Risks and Changes,project-risk-management,https://coursera.org/learn/project-risk-management,Business,"University of California, Irvine","This course will help you manage project risk effectively by identifying, analyzing, and communicating inevitable changes to project scope and objectives. You will understand and practice the elements needed to measure and report on project scope, schedule, and cost performance. You will be equipped with the tools to manage change in the least disruptive way possible for your team and other project stakeholders.",
  -Managing Your Money: MBA Insights for Undergraduates,managingmoney,https://coursera.org/learn/managingmoney,Business,"University of California, Irvine",This course will use as its foundation the principles of managerial economics and draw in a multidisciplinary way upon other disciplines in business education.The goal of the course is to introduce college students in a very practical and useful way to the concepts of time and money management along with career and life planning.,
  -Intercultural Communication and Conflict Resolution,intercultural-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/intercultural-communication,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Intercultural Communication and Conflict Resolution is a growing area of importance considering the pace and volume of global transactions. The ease of global communication using technology, the abundance of cheaper transportation costs, and the frequency of businesses using cross-border talent is fostering millions of interactions a day between people of different cultures.",
  -Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals: Marketing Analytics in Practice,digital-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-analytics,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,This course builds on the theory and foundations of marketing analytics and focuses on practical application by demystifying the use of data in marketing and helping you realize the power of visualizing data with artful use of numbers found in the digital space.,
  -Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action,entrepreneurial-thinking,https://coursera.org/learn/entrepreneurial-thinking,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Success in business can be greatly enhanced with an understanding of key entrepreneurial characteristics and competencies solutions. This interactive course provides potential entrepreneurs with the knowledge of succeeding in an entrepreneurial opportunity. Topics include: how creativity, opportunity and feasibility are best evaluated; business strategies for new businesses;",
  -Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals: Marketing Analytics in Theory,marketing-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-analytics,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.",
  -"Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part II",smart-growth-strategy-2,https://coursera.org/learn/smart-growth-strategy-2,Business,University of Virginia,"This course focuses on the common human resource (""people"") challenges faced by existing private businesses when they attempt to grow substantially. PART 1 OF THE GROW TO GREATNESS COURSE IS NOT A PREREQUISITE FOR TAKING THIS COURSE.",
  -Leadership in 21st Century Organizations,leadership-21st-century,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-21st-century,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"The course is based on a book, Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a 21st Century Leader, by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell, published by Harvard Business Review Press. Purchase of the book is optional. If you want more information about the book or wish to buy it, see https://hbr.org/product/harder-than-i-thought-adventures-of-a-twenty-first/an/10332-HBK-ENG or http://www.amazon.com/Harder-Than-Thought-Adventures-Twenty-First/dp/1422162591",
  -"Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part I",smart-growth-strategy-1,https://coursera.org/learn/smart-growth-strategy-1,Business,University of Virginia,This course focuses on the common growth challenges faced by existing private businesses when they attempt to grow substantially.,
  -Types of Conflict,types-of-conflict,https://coursera.org/learn/types-of-conflict,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Conflict is everywhere and it is impossible to avoid conflicting viewpoints. However, not all conflict is bad, nor is it inherently negative. How conflict is handled makes all the difference. It is through proper identification and understanding of conflict that allows for effective resolutions, some of which may yield positive outcomes. In this course, we will examine the different types of conflict, how to understand and embrace the positive aspects of conflict, and how to successfully navigate conflict to positive resolution.",
  -On Strategy : What Managers Can Learn from Philosophy - PART 1,management-philosophy,https://coursera.org/learn/management-philosophy,Business,CentraleSupélec,"In the expression “creative thinking”, the keyword is not creativity; the keyword is thinking. With the help of great philosophers, you will rediscover the art of thinking. To help leaders to be rigorous even without figures, great philosophers have lots of ideas. Managers are invited to rediscover the art of thinking. They should understand the role of mental models, realize the importance of cognitive bias, agree on clear definitions and efficient criteria etc.",
  -Foundations of Business Strategy,foundations-business-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/foundations-business-strategy,Business,University of Virginia,"Develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend firm positioning and value creation. In this course, we will explore the underlying theory and frameworks that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy and provide the tools you need to understand that strategy: SWOT, Competitor, Environmental, Five Forces, and Capabilities Analyses, as well as Strategy Maps. We'll apply these tools in case studies of industry leaders Google, Redhook, Piaggio and Apple.",
  -New Models of Business in Society,businessinsociety,https://coursera.org/learn/businessinsociety,Business,University of Virginia,"In this course we will be discussing the emergence of a new story about business. This new story locates business within a societal framework. Almost every business creates or destroys value for customers, suppliers, employees, communities and society, in addition to shareholders and other financiers. A number of new models of business can be built on this idea such as corporate responsibility, philanthropy, shared value and sustainability. Profits and stakeholder value go together, and this course explains how.",
  -Marketing in a Digital World,marketing-digital,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-digital,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course examines how digital tools, such as the Internet, smartphones, and 3D printing, are revolutionizing the world of marketing by shifting the balance of power from firms to consumers. Marketing in a Digital World is one of the most popular courses on Coursera with over 150,000 Learners and is rated by Class Central as one of the Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (https://www.class-central.com/report/top-moocs/). This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price.",
  -Competitive Strategy,competitivestrategy,https://coursera.org/learn/competitivestrategy,Business,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"In this six-module course, you will learn how businesses and organizations behave in situations in which strategic decisions are interdependent, i.e. where my actions affect my competitors' profits and vice versa. Using the basic tools of game theory, we will analyse how businesses choose strategies to attain competitive advantage.",
  -Strategic Management,strategic-management,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-management,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"The world of business strategy is in transition. What used to work doesn't anymore -- not necessarily. This course prepares you to think strategically in an age when companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have become more valuable (in market cap terms) than companies like Exxon. Today, business value and competitive advantage arise more often from consumer perceptions of what is ""cool"" than from physical assets or economies of scale.",
  -Digital Marketing Channels: The Landscape,marketing-channels,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-channels,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Learn the role of digital channels in an integrated marketing campaign and why you need a digital strategy. Interact with the content and hear from industry experts invited to join the course. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.",
  -The Art of Negotiation,art-of-negotiation,https://coursera.org/learn/art-of-negotiation,Business,"University of California, Irvine","The art of negotiation comes into play daily in the life of employees at all levels and in every position. Participants explore how current approaches to negotiation strategy and tactics are used, what negotiation entails, types of negotiation relationships that exist from hard bargain to win-win, to fully partnered relationships and personal ones. The course explores the personal and behavioral characteristics of an effective negotiator.",
  -The fundamentals of hotel distribution,hotel-distribution,https://coursera.org/learn/hotel-distribution,Business,ESSEC Business School,"In today’s hotel sector an increasingly complex network of traditional and web based channels have to be managed to insure hotel success. Key questions include: how should you distribute over the web? What should you include on your brand.com website so people book through it? How can you maximise the potential of online travel agents (OTAs)? With the distribution environment both highly complex and constantly evolving, this course will give you comprehensive foundation of current industry practices to help jumpstart your career in this fascinating domain.",
  -Giving 2.0: The MOOC,philanthropist,https://coursera.org/learn/philanthropist,Business,Stanford University,"A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything — time, money, experience, skills, and networks — in any amount, to create a better world. This course will empower you to practice philanthropy more effectively and make your giving more meaningful to both you and those you strive to help.",
  -Project Management: The Basics for Success,project-management-basics,https://coursera.org/learn/project-management-basics,Business,"University of California, Irvine","This course combines the essential elements of Project Management and Team Leadership into one course. Through class engagement and reflection, you will acquire further understanding of the responsibilities of leadership and become better prepared to apply this knowledge to the project environment.",
  -"Two Speed IT: How Companies Can Surf the Digital Wave, a BCG Perspective",2-speed-it,https://coursera.org/learn/2-speed-it,Business,CentraleSupélec,"Transform or disappear, the Darwinism of IT: In order to adapt to a digital world, a two-speed IT is needed. Despite the importance of IT in today’s digital world, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) often struggle to get their voices heard by executive committees.",
  -Management of Fashion and Luxury Companies,mafash,https://coursera.org/learn/mafash,Business,Università Bocconi,"Learn how fashion and luxury companies work and understand their brands, products, retail, and communication strategies. Travel through business models, international development, and product categories with industry influent experts.",
  -Private Equity and Venture Capital,private-equity,https://coursera.org/learn/private-equity,Business,Università Bocconi,"The course deals with the analysis of the private equity and venture capital business. Over the course, students will be provided with a deep understanding of the mechanism underpinning the creation and/or development of a firm and the financial support it can get from the financial system through venture capital investment.",
  -Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills,negotiation-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/negotiation-skills,Business,University of Michigan,"We all negotiate on a daily basis. On a personal level, we negotiate with friends, family, landlords, car sellers and employers, among others. Negotiation is also the key to business success. No business can survive without profitable contracts. Within a company, negotiation skills can lead to your career advancement.",
  -Initiating and Planning Projects,project-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/project-planning,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Successful projects require careful upfront planning. In this course, you’ll learn the key roles and responsibilities of the project manager and project team. You’ll also learn to answer some key questions upfront to help you meet project objectives: What will this project accomplish? Why is this project important? Who benefits from this project? How will we plan for successful outcomes?",
  -High-Impact Business Writing,business-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/business-writing,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Effective writing is a powerful tool in the business environment. Learn how to articulate your thoughts in a clear and concise manner that will allow your ideas to be better understood by your readers. Improve your business writing skill by learning to select and use appropriate formats for your audience, use the correct medium and adjust your writing style accordingly, as well as identify your objective and communicate it clearly. You'll also learn to spot, correct and avoid the most common writing pitfalls, and gain valuable experience analyzing, writing and revising a wide spectrum of business documents. From a simple interoffice memo to a twenty-page business proposal, learn how to put good business writing to work for you.",
  -Finance for Non-Financial Professionals,finance-for-non-finance-managers,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-for-non-finance-managers,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have gained general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis; planning, forecasting, and budgeting; cash flow, and strategic financing. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities.",
  -"Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity",work-smarter-not-harder,https://coursera.org/learn/work-smarter-not-harder,Business,"University of California, Irvine","You will be able to gain and apply your knowledge and understanding of personal and professional awareness, organization and commitment, and use the tools, methods and techniques that you have learned in goal setting, prioritization, scheduling, and delegation to overcome time management challenges and enhance productivity.",
  -Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies,entrepreneurship-development,https://coursera.org/learn/entrepreneurship-development,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"The path for entrepreneurs to grow their companies outside of well-developed entrepreneurial ecosystems like Silicon Valley is challenging. Most markets around the world do not look like Silicon Valley, and they never will. But there are other models to support new businesses. In transitioning markets (where entrepreneurs do not have much access to private sector financing), government officials, donors, and business leaders are experimenting with creative approaches to support the growth of entrepreneurs. Northeast Ohio, whose largest city is Cleveland, is one such community.",
  -Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic Playbook for Becoming a Principled and Persuasive Negotiator,negotiation,https://coursera.org/learn/negotiation,Business,Yale University,"This course will help you be a better negotiator. Unlike many negotiation courses, we develop a framework for analyzing and shaping negotiations. This framework will allow you to make principled arguments that persuade others. It will allow you to see beneath the surface of apparent conflicts to uncover the underlying interests. You will leave the course better able to predict, interpret, and shape the behavior of those you face in competitive situations.",
  -Digital Marketing Channels: Planning,marketing-plan,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-plan,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Learn the role of digital channels in an integrated marketing campaign and why you need a digital strategy. Interact with the content and hear from industry experts invited to join the course. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price.",
  -Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part II,financial-engineering-2,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-engineering-2,Business,Columbia University,"Financial Engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving finance and economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering and computational methods. The emphasis of FE & RM Part II will be on the use of simple stochastic models to (i) solve portfolio optimization problems (ii) price derivative securities in various asset classes including equities and credit and (iii) consider some advanced applications of financial engineering including algorithmic trading and the pricing of real options. We will also consider the role that financial engineering played during the financial crisis",
  -Foundations of strategic business analytics,strategic-business-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-business-analytics,Business,ESSEC Business School,"This course is designed for students, business analysts, and data scientists who want to apply statistical knowledge and techniques to business contexts. For example, it may be suited to experienced statisticians, analysts, engineers who want to move more into a business role.",
  -Food & Beverage Management,food-beverage-management,https://coursera.org/learn/food-beverage-management,Business,Università Bocconi,"Food and beverage products are so deeply rooted in the culture of most countries that making and selling them is not only a matter of making and selling good and tasty products, but products that nurture people's body, soul, and heart. Given this, it's not difficult to see that the task quickly becomes complex.",
  -Financial Markets,financial-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-markets,Business,Yale University,"Professor Robert Shiller, 2013 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, explores the topic of Financial Markets in this eight module course. Coming in May 2017, a new Financial Markets course will be available on Coursera. Our final cohort in the existing course will be March 20th! We are so eager to share updated lectures, Chalk Talks, student Q+A sessions, and more in our new course! Please stay tuned for updates!",
  -Public Relations Research,prresearch,https://coursera.org/learn/prresearch,Business,National University of Singapore,"Perhaps you are familiar with research. You might have learned about research or maybe you conduct research in your life. How is that different from research in Public Relations practice? In this course, you will learn the foundations of research in PR. PR research is applied research. Practical application of research allows you to improve the organization’s performance. Research can be used in many ways in Public Relations practice.",
  -Strategy Formulation,strategy-formulation,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-formulation,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"The purpose of this course is to present, analyze and discuss the different facets of business strategy formulation. Emphasizing that strategy can be seen as a unified theme that provides coherence and direction to the actions and decisions of a firm, we will cover a variety of business strategy topics concerned with firm positioning in the context of different markets, industries and locations.",
  -Leadership Communication for Maximum Impact: Storytelling,leadership-storytelling,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-storytelling,Business,Northwestern University,"Storytelling is an essential part of leadership. Effective leaders communicate to inspire talent to excel; to partner with investors and communities; to engage with customers and clients and to grow their impact in the world as part of a global community. Cultivating an authentic, trustworthy and compelling narrative is vital to a leader’s success. This course helps leaders find their own story through personal branding; develop storytelling success with all constituencies; initiate an effective voice for crisis; interact well through social and third party media; and communicate a vision for innovation.",
  -"High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation",leadership-collaboration,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-collaboration,Business,Northwestern University,"Are leaders born or made? Learn the essential skills to develop and expand your leadership repertoire, design teams for collaboration, and craft win-win negotiation strategies. High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation focuses on leadership, teamwork, and negotiation. Students will engage in self-assessments to analyze their leadership style, develop team charters to optimize their groups, and develop a game plan for effective negotiation.",
  -Foundations of marketing analytics,foundations-marketing-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/foundations-marketing-analytics,Business,ESSEC Business School,"This course is designed for students, business analysts, and data scientists who want to apply statistical knowledge and techniques to business contexts. For example, it may be suited to experienced statisticians, analysts, engineers who want to move more into a business role, in particular in marketing.",
  -Giving Sense to Your Leadership Experience,leading-sense,https://coursera.org/learn/leading-sense,Business,HEC Paris,"In this course, second course of the ""Inspirational Leadership"" Specialization, you will discover the characteristics of charismatic leadership. You’ll personally learn how to embody these traits through the “Savoir-Relier” (art of connecting and leading with sense) methodology, which covers 3Gs: being Genuine, Generous, and Generative. You will then choose which style of leadership best fits you, why and when so you can adapt to more complex and difficult situations with resilience.",
  -Advanced Business Strategy,advanced-business-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-business-strategy,Business,University of Virginia,"Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, you'll learn the tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics), industries ( corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy), and institutions (non-market strategy). We'll introduce the tools you need to complete a comprehensive evaluation and understand the strategy dynamics of an industry: Competitive Lifecycle, Internationalization and Stakeholder Analyses, and Diversification Matrices.",
  -Design Thinking for Innovation,design-thinking-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/design-thinking-innovation,Business,University of Virginia,"Today innovation is everyone's business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. And that is why we all need design thinking. At every level in every kind of organization, design thinking provides the tools you need to become an innovative thinker and uncover creative opportunities that are there – you're just not seeing them yet.",
  -"Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector, Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Leadership and Governance",nonprofit-gov-1,https://coursera.org/learn/nonprofit-gov-1,Business,The State University of New York,"This course introduces you to the nonprofit sector, nonprofit organizations, and the concepts of leadership and governance. While this course has been developed with North American culture in mind, we do appreciate that in other parts of the world the nature of the nonprofit sector, nonprofit organizations, nonprofit leadership and governance may not be the same. Nevertheless, it is our hope that much of the course content will still be of value to those in other parts of the world.",
  -Managing Talent,managing-talent,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-talent,Business,University of Michigan,"In this course, you will learn best practices for selecting, recruiting, and onboarding talent. You will also learn about the key approaches to measuring performance and evaluating your employees. In addition, you will learn how to develop and coach your talent so that they can realize their full potential at work. Altogether, you will gain a thorough understanding of the complete cycle of managing talent and creating a robust talent pipeline for your team and organization.",
  -Operations Analytics,wharton-operations-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-operations-analytics,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course is designed to impact the way you think about transforming data into better decisions. Recent extraordinary improvements in data-collecting technologies have changed the way firms make informed and effective business decisions. The course on operations analytics, taught by three of Wharton’s leading experts, focuses on how the data can be used to profitably match supply with demand in",
  -Operations Management,operations-management,https://coursera.org/learn/operations-management,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn about the role of operations and how they are connected to other business functions in manufacturing- and service-focused organizations. You will learn and practice the use of decision-making frameworks and techniques applicable at all levels, from management-level strategic decisions such as connecting process to the needs of various customer segments, to front-line tactical decisions such as choosing between ordering larger quantities vs. ordering more frequently.",
  -The fundamentals of revenue management,fundamentalsofrevenuemanagement,https://coursera.org/learn/fundamentalsofrevenuemanagement,Business,ESSEC Business School,"With a fixed capacity, a highly disposable product and high fixed costs, hotels are a natural candidate for the application of revenue management. Originally developed by the airlines in the 1970s, these analytics-based techniques help predict consumer behavior at the hotel’s market level so that the hotel can sell each room each night at the optimum price.",
  -Introduction to Marketing,wharton-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-marketing,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Taught by three of Wharton's top faculty in the marketing department, consistently ranked as the #1 marketing department in the world, this course covers three core topics in customer loyalty: branding, customer centricity, and practical, go-to-market strategies.",
  -Introduction to Operations Management,wharton-operations,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-operations,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Learn to analyze and improve business processes in services or in manufacturing by learning how to increase productivity and deliver higher quality standards. Key concepts include process analysis, bottlenecks, flows rates, and inventory levels, and more. After successfully completing this course, you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization.",
  -Introduction to Financial Accounting,wharton-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-accounting,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to read the three most common financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Then you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization.",
  -International Leadership and Organizational Behavior,ilob,https://coursera.org/learn/ilob,Business,Università Bocconi,"Leaders in business and non-profit organizations increasingly work across national borders and in multi-cultural environments. You may work regularly with customers or suppliers abroad, or be part of a globally dispersed cross-functional team, or an expatriate manager on an international assignment. You may be a member of a global online community, or a development aid worker collaborating with an international network of partner organizations.",
  -Marketing Analytics,market-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/market-analytics,Business,University of Virginia,Organizations large and small are inundated with data about consumer choices. But that wealth of information does not always translate into better decisions. Knowing how to interpret data is the challenge -- and marketers in particular are increasingly expected to use analytics to inform and justify their decisions.,
  -Introduction to Corporate Finance,wharton-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-finance,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period.",
  -The Language and Tools of Financial Analysis,financialanalysis,https://coursera.org/learn/financialanalysis,Business,The University of Melbourne,"In this course, participants will learn the foundations of accounting principles and financial analysis, develop an understanding of the links between these, and the measurement of value creation at the firm level. This is the first course in a four-course Specialization on the Essentials of Corporate Financial Analysis and Decision-Making, created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon).",
  -The Role of Global Capital Markets,capital-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/capital-markets,Business,University of Rochester,"In this course, participants will learn about how different markets around the world can interact to create value for, and effectively manage the risk of, corporations and their stakeholders. This is part of a Specialization in corporate finance created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon).",
  -The Power of Markets I: The Basics of Supply and Demand and Consumer Behavior ,market-power,https://coursera.org/learn/market-power,Business,University of Rochester,"This opening module of the Power of Markets course covers the basic assumptions about market participants made by economists, the concept of opportunity cost, and the key determinants of supply and demand. We will then learn how to use the supply-demand framework to explain and predict market outcomes and to show how government policies affect those market outcomes. We will look at how quantity demanded and supplied respond to their key determinants in quantitative (elasticity) as well as qualitative terms.",
  -The Power of Markets III: Input Markets and Promoting Efficiency,market-efficiency,https://coursera.org/learn/market-efficiency,Business,University of Rochester,"In order to maximize profits, firms must ensure that any given output level is produced at least cost and then select the price-output combination that results in total revenue exceeding total cost by the greatest amount possible. With this in mind, this second module of the Power of Markets course addresses how firms can most effectively convert inputs into final output and then covers determining the best price-output combination for a firm and how this varies depending on whether the firm is operating in a perfectly competitive or imperfectly competitive market setting.",
  -The Power of Markets II: Market Structure and Firm Behavior,market-structure,https://coursera.org/learn/market-structure,Business,University of Rochester,"In order to maximize profits, firms must ensure that any given output level is produced at least cost and then select the price-output combination that results in total revenue exceeding total cost by the greatest amount possible. With this in mind, this second module of the Power of Markets course addresses how firms can most effectively convert inputs into final output and then covers determining the best price-output combination for a firm and how this varies depending on whether the firm is operating in a perfectly competitive or imperfectly competitive market setting.",
  -Alternative Approaches to Valuation and Investment,valuation,https://coursera.org/learn/valuation,Business,The University of Melbourne,"In this course, participants will develop an understanding of the intuitive foundations of asset and investment valuation, and how alternative valuation techniques may be used in practice. This is part of a Specialization in corporate finance created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon).",
  -Accounting Analytics,accounting-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/accounting-analytics,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Accounting Analytics explores how financial statement data and non-financial metrics can be linked to financial performance. In this course, taught by Wharton’s acclaimed accounting professors, you’ll learn how data is used to assess what drives financial performance and to forecast future financial scenarios. While many accounting and financial organizations deliver data, accounting analytics deploys that data to deliver insight, and this course will explore the many areas in which accounting data provides insight into other business areas including consumer behavior predictions, corporate strategy, risk management, optimization, and more.",
  -Firm Level Economics: Markets and Allocations,firm-level-economics-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/firm-level-economics-markets,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this class, we will derive equilibrium outcomes across a variety of market structures. We will begin by understanding equilibrium under a market structure called Perfect Competition, a benchmark construction. Economists have tools to measure the efficiency of market outcomes. We next consider the polar extreme of a competitive market: a monopoly market. We will determine the monopoly equilibrium price and quantity and efficiency properties. Much economic activity takes place in markets with just a handful of very large producers.",
  -Business of Games and Entrepreneurship,gamedev-business,https://coursera.org/learn/gamedev-business,Business,Michigan State University,"As well as a form of art and entertainment, games are about business. Whether you want to work at a game studio, start your own business or make games as a hobby, recognizing the dynamic landscape of the videogame industry is critical to finding your place. This course will introduce you to game production, project management, teamwork skills, and how to position your game ideas and yourself in the broader marketplace. By the end of the course, you will be able to develop an impactful portfolio of game work to get noticed and/or develop an effective business plan to bring your game to market.",
  -Leadership through Marketing,leadership-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-marketing,Business,Northwestern University,"The success of every organization depends on attracting and retaining customers. Although the marketing concepts for doing so are well established, digital technology has empowered customers, while producing massive amounts of data, revolutionizing the processes through which organizations attract and retain customers. In this course, students will learn how to identify new opportunities to create value for empowered consumers, develop strategies that yield an advantage over rivals, and develop the data science skills to lead more effectively, allocate resources, and to confront this very challenging environment with confidence.",
  -Intro to International Marketing,intro-international-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/intro-international-marketing,Business,Yonsei University,"This course brings together two key subjects, International Marketing and Cross Industry Innovation. It will provide the basic foundations of international marketing and then explain how companies can grow by going abroad or sourcing ideas/expanding into other countries or industries. This is summarized as CCCI: Cross-Country and Cross-Industry Innovation, a term and analytical platform used throughout not only this course but others in the specialization. As an introductory course, we keep the concepts short and simple in order to ease learners into the wonderful world of international marketing.",
  -Entrepreneurship 2: Launching your Start-Up,wharton-launching-startup,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-launching-startup,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Once you have a prototype and a clearer vision of the opportunity, you’ll need to create a small organization to discover how to create a repeatable and scalable business model. Designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the critical components of a creating a start-up, Entrepreneurship 2: Launching the Start-up, provides practical, real-world knowledge about the lean approach, the minimum viable product, when to pivot, when to quit your day job, the art of the pitch, building and managing a team, allocating equity, and building your external team, advisory board members, professional services, and entrepreneurial strategy.",
  -Brand and Product Management,brand-management,https://coursera.org/learn/brand-management,Business,IE Business School,"Identify the critical information needed to develop a product and brand strategy that generates both quick-wins and long-term value. By completing this course, you will be in position to create an activity plan to bring your brand strategy to life - both externally towards consumers and internally to employees. You will be able to define the right metrics for determining success in the implementation of your product and brand strategy, considering any adjustments that may need to be made under a test and learn methodology.",
  -Leading Innovation in Arts and Culture,arts-culture-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/arts-culture-innovation,Business,"Vanderbilt University, National Arts Strategies","Developed by David Owens at Vanderbilt University and customized for the cultural sector with National Arts Strategies, this course is designed to help arts and culture leaders create an environment where new ideas are constantly created, shared, evaluated and the best ones are successfully put to work. One of the toughest challenges for any leader is getting traction for new ideas. Winning support can be a struggle.",
  -"Recruiting, Hiring, and Onboarding Employees",recruiting-hiring-onboarding-employees,https://coursera.org/learn/recruiting-hiring-onboarding-employees,Business,University of Minnesota,"Finding and hiring the right people is often cited as the number one concern of businesses today. It seems we are all competing for the best and brightest workers. As you will see in our time together in the second course, a critical component of the People Manager Value Proposition is to hire talented people who enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals. This course is an introduction into the topic of recruitment, selection and onboarding",
  -Innovating in a Digital World,innovating-digital-world,https://coursera.org/learn/innovating-digital-world,Business,Institut Mines-Télécom,"Facebook, AirBnB, Tesla, Amazon, Uber. In just a few years, companies like these have changed the face of the global economy. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of start-ups are disrupting old business models, taking on centennial industrial groups – and winning. It’s clear that the rules of business have changed forever. This MOOC provides a knowledge toolkit for the ongoing digital revolution. You’ll discover 15 concepts that are essential for understanding the new mechanisms of digital business and innovation.",
  -Viral Marketing and How to Craft Contagious Content,wharton-contagious-viral-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-contagious-viral-marketing,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Ever wondered why some things become popular, and other don't? Why some products becomes hits while others flop? Why some ideas take off while others languish? What are the key ideas behind viral marketing? This course explains how things catch on and helps you apply these ideas to be more effective at marketing your ideas, brands, or products. You'll learn how to make ideas stick, how to increase your influence, how to generate more word of mouth, and how to use the power of social networks to spread information and influence. Drawing on principles from his best-selling book, ""Contagious: Why Things Catch On,"" Professor Jonah Berger illustrates successful strategies for you to use buzz to create virality so that your campaigns become more shareable on social media and elsewhere.",
  -Creating and Developing a Tech Startup,tech-startup,https://coursera.org/learn/tech-startup,Business,"École Polytechnique, HEC Paris","This course will allow you to identify and evaluate opportunities for creating a tech business, and to better understand its principal issues on ahuman, technical, commercial, environmental and financial level. As such, you will obtain solid foundations either for building your own tech business, or for joining one.",
  -Managing as a Coach,managing-as-a-coach,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-as-a-coach,Business,"University of California, Davis","Do you (or do you want to) manage employees? Have you ever wondered how to get better performance out of those you manage? Are you unsure if you are communicating effectively with your employees? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this course – and its associated specialization – is for you! Leadership and management responsibilities have changed dramatically, particularly in the last decade.",
  - Business Model Canvas: A Tool for Entrepreneurs and Innovators (Project-Centered Course),business-model-canvas,https://coursera.org/learn/business-model-canvas,Business,University System of Georgia,"In this project-centered course*, you will use the Business Model Canvas innovation tool to approach either a personal or corporate challenge or opportunity. You’ll learn to identify and communicate the nine key elements of a business model: Customer Segments, Value Proposition, Channels, Customer Relationships, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, Revenue Streams, and Cost Structure.",
  -Applications of Everyday Leadership,everyday-leadership-application,https://coursera.org/learn/everyday-leadership-application,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course covers the following topics: negotiation, feedback and coaching, conflict management, and leading change. The objectives are to learn how to use leadership skills to work more effectively with others, how to use leadership skills to organize others to work more effectively together, and to apply the foundations of effective leadership skills to everyday situations faced by leaders.",
  -Public Relations Campaigns,prcampaign,https://coursera.org/learn/prcampaign,Business,National University of Singapore,"In this course, you will learn the structure of a PR campaign and the steps involved in putting it together. You will learn about the nuts and bolts of setting up objectives, developing strategy and creating tactics. In doing so, the course will take you through a brief tour of various campaign theories. You will also learn about the key lessons that have been derived from critical analyses and synthesis of the research on campaigns. Finally, you will pick up the key elements of campaign evaluation.",
  -The Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Boards and the Governance Process,nonprofit-gov-3,https://coursera.org/learn/nonprofit-gov-3,Business,The State University of New York,"The third course in this Specialization introduces you to the factors that influence how effective boards of directors will be in carrying out their roles and responsibilities and hence the impact they have in shaping the success of the organization they govern. While this course has been developed with North American culture in mind, we do appreciate that, in other parts of the world, the nature of the factors that influence the effectiveness of nonprofit boards of directors may vary. Nevertheless,it is our hope that much of the course content will still be of value to those in other parts of the world.",
  -Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change!,women-in-leadership,https://coursera.org/learn/women-in-leadership,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"This course aims to inspire and empower women and men across the world to engage in purposeful career development and take on leadership for important causes---to lead change with more conviction and confidence---and improve our workplaces and communities for all. By offering more complex understandings of issues related to professional women and work, the course will help you increase self-knowledge about your own values and vision, as well as enhance your capabilities as a leader, manager, and team contributor. We will examine the opportunities, challenges, trade-offs, and organizational dynamics experienced by women in work organizations, as well as reflect on and practice effective individual behaviors",
  -Influencing People,influencing-people,https://coursera.org/learn/influencing-people,Business,University of Michigan,"This course will improve your ability to influence people in situations where you cannot use formal authority. You will learn about effective ways to build, develop, and sustain a power base in your organization. You will also learn influence tactics that enable you to be more persuasive and influential in working with your superiors, peers, and even subordinates. In addition, you will learn how to build and maintain high-quality relationships to further maximize your informal power and ability to influence others. Importantly, you will distinguish between influence and manipulation and learn how to protect yourself from the unwanted influence of others.",
  -Principles of Valuation: Time Value of Money,time-value-money,https://coursera.org/learn/time-value-money,Business,University of Michigan,"We will introduce the time value of money (TVM) framework in a carefully structured way, using relatively simple applications at first and quickly moving to more advance ones. We will then spend some time on developing an understanding of alternative decision criteria (NPV, IRR, Profitability, etc.) that are commonly used in the real world. We will wrap up the course with an exposure to the determination of cash flows using accounting principles. The main focus in this building block will be on individual/personal decisions because of two reasons: (a) we learn when we see value to us as individuals and (b) the beauty of finance is that the building blocks of finance are applicable to any decision, personal or corporate. The course will last six weeks with time included for assimilation and two final exams.",
  -Introduction to Spreadsheets and Models,wharton-introduction-spreadsheets-models,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-introduction-spreadsheets-models,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"The simple spreadsheet is one of the most powerful data analysis tools that exists, and it’s available to almost anyone. Major corporations and small businesses alike use spreadsheet models to determine where key measures of their success are now, and where they are likely to be in the future. But in order to get the most out of a spreadsheet, you have know how to use it. This course is designed to give you an introduction to basic spreadsheet tools and formulas so that you can begin harness the power of spreadsheets to map the data you have now and to predict the data you may have in the future.",
  -Leading Organizations,leading-organizations,https://coursera.org/learn/leading-organizations,Business,HEC Paris,"This course is the last course of the a Specialization on Leadership called “Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense”, so you may want to take the courses “Building Your Leadership Skills” and “Giving Sense to your Leadership Experience” prior of taking this course. In this course you’ll get the opportunity to apply the skills learned in the first two courses of the “Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense” as an individual to a group setting.",
  -More Introduction to Financial Accounting,wharton-financial-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-financial-accounting,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course provides a brief introduction to game theory. Our main goal is to understand the basic ideas behind the key concepts in game theory, such as equilibrium, rationality, and cooperation. The course uses very little mathematics, and it is ideal for those who are looking for a conceptual introduction to game theory.",
  -Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence,emotional-intelligence-leadership,https://coursera.org/learn/emotional-intelligence-leadership,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels.",
  -Entrepreneurship 1: Developing the Opportunity,wharton-entrepreneurship-opportunity,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-entrepreneurship-opportunity,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"How does a good idea become a viable business opportunity? What is entrepreneurship and who fits the profile of an entrepreneur? This introductory course is designed to introduce you to the foundational concepts of entrepreneurship, including the definition of entrepreneurship, the profile of the entrepreneur, the difference between entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial management, and the role of venture creation in society. You’ll explore where technology entrepreneurship and impact entrepreneurship align and where they diverge, and you’ll learn proven techniques for identifying the opportunity, assessing the opportunity, hypothesis testing and creating a prototype.",
  -Content Strategy for Professionals: Ensuring Your Content's Impact,effective-content-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/effective-content-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"In the fourth course of the Content Strategy Specialization - Ensuring Your Content's Impact - you will look at visual communication and the ways you can be more effective with your font choices, photography, and video. You'll also dive deeper into social communities to help you understand how these communities form and what you can do to build your role within them. The last module is pivotal for Content Strategists. It will help you to understand how best to measure your content to maximize its effectiveness relative to the time you commit to it.",
  -Business Growth Strategy,business-growth-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/business-growth-strategy,Business,University of Virginia,"Get the tools you need to analyze, evaluate and recommend specific actions organizations can take to grow their value and avoid common growth pitfalls. Learn to determine how best to build value, whether by scaling existing markets, entering established markets or creating new markets through innovation and acquisitions. Apply these concepts in case studies of industry leaders JetBlue, Starbucks, Intel Corporate Venturing and Tata Motors.",
  -The Business of Social,business-of-social,https://coursera.org/learn/business-of-social,Business,Northwestern University,"In a 2014 study of CEOs and CMOs, IBM found 63% wanted social strategies which generate business metrics while only 20% of businesses worldwide actually have them. This means strategies which not only grow your company’s social footprint but link to your sales and marketing systems. With this critical linkage, your social and mobile strategies will provide you with the ability to engage consumers at a 1-to-1 level and measure your social investments in terms of costs, revenues, profits and ROI. In this fifth MOOC of the Social Marketing Specialization - ""The Business of Social"" - you will learn how to transform your organization's social marketing from an untracked investment to an integral part of your company’s marketing strategy.",
  -"Content, Advertising & Social IMC",social-imc,https://coursera.org/learn/social-imc,Business,Northwestern University,"Want your content to go viral? Who doesn't! It takes a thoughtful, integrated approach to make content that stands out in our increasingly oversaturated world. In this fourth course of the Social Marketing Specialization - ""Content, Advertising & Social IMC"" - you will learn how marketers are successfully navigating today's media landscape. You will learn why developing engaging content for your audience is an essential component in effective social marketing. A panel of experts will unlock the paid/owned/earned media riddle and replace it with an integrated who/what/where approach that utilizes platform-specific messaging to grow your market share.",
  -People Analytics,wharton-people-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-people-analytics,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"People analytics is a data-driven approach to managing people at work. For the first time in history, business leaders can make decisions about their people based on deep analysis of data rather than the traditional methods of personal relationships, decision making based on experience, and risk avoidance. In this brand new course, three of Wharton’s top professors, all pioneers in the field of people analytics, will explore the state-of-the-art techniques used to recruit and retain great people, and demonstrate how these techniques are used at cutting-edge companies. They’ll explain how data and sophisticated analysis is brought to bear on people-related issues, such as recruiting, performance evaluation, leadership, hiring and promotion, job design, compensation, and collaboration.",
  -Cracking the Creativity Code: Discovering Ideas,startup-entrepreneurship-discovering-ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-entrepreneurship-discovering-ideas,Business,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,"Skill at discovering new ideas, and delivering them, may be one of the most important practical job skills, in today’s and tomorrow’s job market. Creativity is an acquired skill, one that improves with practice. This course aims to empower individuals who believe they have lost their innate creativity, because they, their employers or teachers prefer the three R's:",
  -Content Strategy for Professionals: Expanding Your Content’s Reach,increase-reach,https://coursera.org/learn/increase-reach,Business,Northwestern University,"In this, the third Content Strategy course, participants will learn actionable ways to grow internal and external audiences. They will deepen their understanding about those target individuals and will use a host of known and emerging tools and social networks to meaningfully reach them. As its name makes clear, this course will expand your content's impact and reach. You will begin by learning how to utilize content trends to jump-start your organization's influence. You'll also look at how to engage with multi-channel digital communities across all social media.",
  -Principles of Valuation: Risk and Return,risk-and-return,https://coursera.org/learn/risk-and-return,Business,University of Michigan,"This second course in the specialization will last six weeks and will focus on the second main building block of financial analysis and valuation: risk. The notion of risk and statistics are intimately related and we will spend a fair amount of time on the development of some statistical concepts and tools, namely distribution theory and regression analysis. This time will be well spent because these concepts and tools are also commonly used in many applications in the real world.",
  -Content Strategy for Professionals: Engaging Audiences,engagement-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/engagement-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"In this course, professionals at all levels of an organization will learn the best ways to engage an audience they want and need by smartly implementing their important, strategic stories and information and by using proven tools and techniques to enhance an audience’s experiences and interest.",
  -Demand management: Breaking down today’s commercial silos,demandmanagement,https://coursera.org/learn/demandmanagement,Business,ESSEC Business School,"The biggest challenge facing the hospitality industry over the next 5 years is the lack of integration between the key commercial disciplines of sales, revenue, distribution and finance and the negative impact this will continue to have on delivering asset value and maximum profitability.",
  -New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs,startup-funding,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-funding,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park",This course is for aspiring or active entrepreneurs who wants to understand how to secure funding for their company. This course will demystify key financing concepts to give entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs a guide to secure funding.,
  -Healthcare Marketplace,healthcare-marketplace,https://coursera.org/learn/healthcare-marketplace,Business,University of Minnesota,"In this course in the Healthcare Marketplace specialization you will identify, define, and describe potential business and public policy solutions to the challenges facing society’s growing demand for health services. Students will master a body of knowledge on the health care sectors major components through reading and reflection.",
  -Preparing to Manage Human Resources,managing-human-resources,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-human-resources,Business,University of Minnesota,"One way or another, all employees are managed. But approaches to managing employees varying from employee-to-employee, job-to-job, manager-to-manager, organization-to-organization, and country-to-country. This course provides a foundation for developing your own approach to skillfully managing employees by illustrating alternative human resource management (HRM) strategies, introducing the importance of the legal context, and thinking about what motivates employees.",
  -International Marketing Entry and Execution,international-marketing-entry-execution,https://coursera.org/learn/international-marketing-entry-execution,Business,Yonsei University,"This will be part 2 of a two-series foundation courses for the Specialization: International Marketing & Cross Industry Growth. This course will dive in more deeply into consumer science investigation, B2C marketing, International Marketing Entry, Targeting, Positioning, International Product, International Promotion, International Place and International Price. The last set of classes will discuss seven new ways to innovate in International Marketing that all start with the letter ""S"" and hence will be called the 7S International Marketing Innovation.",
  -Managing the Company of the Future,company-future-management,https://coursera.org/learn/company-future-management,Business,"University of London, London Business School",The aim of the course is to provide you with a comprehensive framework for understanding both the traditional principles of management inside companies today as well as the alternative principles that are becoming increasingly important. It provides both theoretical and practical perspectives on the nature of management in today’s organisations.,
  -Interview Research and Preparation,interview-preparation,https://coursera.org/learn/interview-preparation,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","This course, the first in the ""Interviewing and Resume Writing in English"" specialization, guides you to discover the interests, talents and competencies that you can use to find and do work that leverages your strengths, passions and who you are as a person, so you can start doing work that matters to you and to the world. Whether you already have a career and are looking to move forward, whether you’re looking to change careers, whether you’re starting out in the world of work, whether you’re coming back into the world of work after some time away – this course will help you see your path more clearly and will teach you how to communicate your value to an employer in a way that he or she can immediately recognize.",
  -Introduction to European Business Law,europeanbusinesslaw,https://coursera.org/learn/europeanbusinesslaw,Business,Lund University,"The European Union is one of the world’s largest and most important economies. This five week course is the first in a series of three that will provide students with an insight into European Business Law. The series ranges from considering the basic structures and principles of the European Union to focusing on various specialized areas of law. Each course will give the students an understanding of the laws and policies that regulate the internal market of European Union, as well as relevant case law and useful inputs from leading practitioners in the field.",
  -Foundations of Everyday Leadership,everyday-leadership-foundation,https://coursera.org/learn/everyday-leadership-foundation,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn about the “head and heart” of everyday leadership, individual decision making, group decision making, and managing motivation. The objectives are to understand why and how leadership skills are so critical to organizational success, and learn the foundations of effective leadership skills.",
  -Corporate Finance Essentials,corporate-finance-essentials,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-essentials,Business,IESE Business School,"Corporate Finance Essentials will enable you to understand key financial issues related to companies, investors, and the interaction between them in the capital markets. By the end of this course you should be able to understand most of what you read in the financial press and use the essential financial vocabulary of companies and finance professionals.",
  -Leadership through Design Innovation,leadership-designinnovation,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-designinnovation,Business,Northwestern University,University of Geneva,
  -Corporate Financial Decision-Making for Value Creation,value-creation,https://coursera.org/learn/value-creation,Business,The University of Melbourne,"In this course, participants will learn about the key financial decisions modern corporations face, as well as the alternative methods that can be employed to optimize the value of the firm’s assets. This is part of a Specialization in corporate finance created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon).",
  -Writing Professional Email and Memos (Project-Centered Course),professional-emails,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-emails,Business,University System of Georgia,"Want your workplace writing to make a positive impression? At the end of this course, you will be a more confident writer, able to create higher quality professional documents more quickly. This course is at the introductory or beginner level and focuses on mastering the basics of email etiquette and communication. While this course will help learners become faster and more efficient writers by virtue of practice with common writing purposes, it does not cover marketing emails or job application materials.",
  -Critical Perspectives on Management,critical-management,https://coursera.org/learn/critical-management,Business,IE Business School,"This course is designed for students of all backgrounds who have an interest in how firms are governed, the forces that have helped define modern management practice, and the outcomes of that practice not only for the firm itself, but also for the societies in which they operate. For students who are thinking of a career in management, it may also prove useful as a basic introduction to some of the conceptual vocabulary and ideas behind modern theories of management.",
  -Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship,innovative-ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/innovative-ideas,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","This course assists aspiring and active entrepreneurs in developing great ideas into great companies. With strong economies presenting rich opportunities for new venture creation, and challenging economic times presenting the necessity for many to make their own job, the need to develop the skills to develop and act on innovative business opportunities is increasingly vital.",
  -Design and Make Infographics (Project-Centered Course),infographic-design,https://coursera.org/learn/infographic-design,Business,Michigan State University,"In this project-centered course*, you will create a content-rich infographic on a topic of your choice using Adobe Illustrator (which you can download for a free, 30-day trial). You might choose to create a visual representation of data from the world of sports, entertainment, politics, or science, to explain a business trend or environmental issue, or even to present a theme or development from your personal life. Your finished infographic will engage your target audience and convey information clearly through effective use of design elements such as typography, color, and structure.",
  -Process Improvement,process-improvement,https://coursera.org/learn/process-improvement,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will focus on process improvement. You will learn how to set organizational priorities for continuous process improvement, how to execute process improvement projects, and how to sustain the initiative for continuous improvements.",
  -Keeping up with Change: Issues for the Finance Professional,change-for-the-finance-professional,https://coursera.org/learn/change-for-the-finance-professional,Business,University of London,"This MOOC identifies and explores a number of challenges to the finance professional arising from the ever changing business environment. Increasingly, financial decisions must take account of strategic consequences.",
  -Valuation: Alternative Methods,valuation-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/valuation-methods,Business,University of Michigan,"This course is a rigorous introduction to alternative methods of valuation and will enable the learner to conduct analysis of most projects and companies. This course will also serve useful to anyone interested in, or required to, critically evaluating project and company analyses conducted by experts.",
  -Introduction to Search Engine Optimization,search-engine-optimization,https://coursera.org/learn/search-engine-optimization,Business,"University of California, Davis","Ever wonder how major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo rank your website within their searches? Or how content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users? Welcome to the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This course is the first within the SEO Specialization and it is intended to give you a taste of SEO.",
  -Entrepreneurial Strategic Management,entstrategicmgmt,https://coursera.org/learn/entstrategicmgmt,Business,University of New Mexico,This course utilizes an inquiry based approach to understanding sources of competitive advantages in companies and other organizations.,
  -Developing An Entrepreneurial Mindset: First Step Towards Success ,entrepreneurial-mindset,https://coursera.org/learn/entrepreneurial-mindset,Business,Michigan State University,"This course is the first in a series on starting a business. Though new venture creation is the focus of the specialization, this course is important for everyone. It provides learners with insights to reframe their thinking in order to maximize their chances for success. Whether success is defined by the performance of their own venture, or by their performance within someone else’s venture. The course is as much, if not more about fulfilling one's potential as it is about one starting a business.",
  -"Technology Commercialization, Part 1: Setting up your Idea Filtering System",technology-commercialization,https://coursera.org/learn/technology-commercialization,Business,University of Rochester,New ideas based on high-technology research have a high failure rate because they hit the ground running with lopsided priorities and misalignments. Students complete this course with an Innovation Creed (“Why are you doing this?”) and a customized Idea Filter (“Are you working on the right priorities?”)—2 simple tools that steer concept-stage commercialization to success.,
  -Management of Urban Infrastructures – part 1,m-infra-1,https://coursera.org/learn/m-infra-1,Business,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Sustainability, Resilience and Efficiency are fundamental considerations for city managers in managing urban infrastructures. Today, more than 3.9 billion people, making up more than 54% of the global population, live in cities. Urbanization is expected to continue in the coming years, raising the urban population to 6.0 billion by 2045. This dramatic increase in urban populations will inevitably",
  -Leading Teams,leading-teams,https://coursera.org/learn/leading-teams,Business,University of Michigan,"In this course, you will learn how to build your team, improve teamwork and collaboration, and sustain team performance through continuous learning and improvement. Specifically, you will learn best practices for composing a team and aligning individual and team goals. You will also learn how to establish roles, build structures, and manage decision making so that your team excels. This course will also help you manage critical team processes such as conflict resolution and building trust that have a profound impact on your team’s performance.",
  -Leadership through Social Influence,leadership-socialinfluence,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-socialinfluence,Business,Northwestern University,"This course will provide learners with a systematic general framework for analyzing persuasive influence situations. Learners will be able to identify different challenges faced by persuaders and to fashion appropriate strategies for addressing those challenges. The broad goal is to provide learners with not only an extensive persuasion tool kit, but also with an understanding of how different tools are useful in different situations.",
  -Strategy Implementation,strategy-implementation,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-implementation,Business,Copenhagen Business School,Even a thoroughly developed business strategy may fail if you don't pay enough attention to its implementation. This rings particularly true with strategies based on innovation or implemented in complex or fast-changing environments.,
  -Valuing Projects and Companies,company-valuation,https://coursera.org/learn/company-valuation,Business,University of Michigan,"This course is a theoretically sound and practical exposure to valuation. As the final course of the Specialization, it will be useful to anyone in understanding, conducting or critically evaluating project and company analyses conducted by experts.",
  -Engagement & Nurture Marketing Strategies,nurture-market-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/nurture-market-strategies,Business,Northwestern University,"In this third course in the Social Marketing Specialization - ""The Engagement & Nurture Marketing Strategies"" - you will learn two of the most effective social strategies used by organizations today. You'll see real-world best practice examples and learn what metrics they use to gauge success. You will also learn the importance of infographics and the impact a well-designed landing page can have on your bottom line.",
  -Healthcare Delivery Providers,healthcare-delivery-providers,https://coursera.org/learn/healthcare-delivery-providers,Business,University of Minnesota,"This second course in the Healthcare Marketplace Specialization will help you understand the various providers of healthcare across the U.S. delivery continuum. We will explore the unique value proposition of the various providers- from hospitals and clinics to physicians to community based providers. We will dissect this important value chain using various lenses such as- site of care delivery, people who provide the care and payers who pay for care. You will also learn about the challenges facing these providers and the innovations they are creating in order to help transform this important industry",
  -Firm Level Economics: Consumer and Producer Behavior,firm-level-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/firm-level-economics,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"All goods and services are subject to scarcity at some level. Scarcity means that society must develop some allocation mechanism – rules to determine who gets what. Over recorded history, these allocation rules were usually command based – the king or the emperor would decide. In contemporary times, most countries have turned to market based allocation systems. In markets, prices act as rationing devices, encouraging or discouraging production and encouraging or discouraging consumption in such a way as to find an equilibrium allocation of resources.",
  -Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling,wharton-quantitative-modeling,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-quantitative-modeling,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"How can you put data to work for you? Specifically, how can numbers in a spreadsheet tell us about present and past business activities, and how can we use them to forecast the future? The answer is in building quantitative models, and this course is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of this critical, foundational, business skill. Through a series of short lectures, demonstrations, and assignments, you’ll learn the key ideas and process of quantitative modeling so that you can begin to create your own models for your own business or enterprise.",
  -The Roles and Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards of Directors within the Governance Process,nonprofit-gov-2,https://coursera.org/learn/nonprofit-gov-2,Business,The State University of New York,"This course provides a more in-depth look at the roles and responsibilities of boards of directors in the governance of nonprofit organizations. While the course has been developed with North American culture in mind, we do appreciate that in other parts of the world, the nature of the roles and responsibilities of boards of directors may not be the same. Nevertheless,it is our hope that much of the course content will still be of value to those in other parts of the world.",
  -Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination,forensic-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/forensic-accounting,Business,West Virginia University,"Everyday across the world, thousands of businesses are victimized by fraud. Who commits these bad acts? Why? And, how? In this course we are going to help you answer the questions: who commits fraud, why and how. We’ll also help you develop skills for catching them.",
  -Understanding Financial Markets,understanding-financial-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/understanding-financial-markets,Business,University of Geneva,"In this course, you will learn what the main financial markets and their characteristics are as well as how they are linked to the economy. Our very diversified team of experts will start by teaching you how the price of stocks and bonds are computed and why they move while you will become increasingly aware of the notion of risk and why it matters when measuring an investment's performance.",
  -Content Strategy for Professionals: Managing Content,content-management-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/content-management-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"In the second course of the Content Strategy Specialization - ""Managing Content"" - you will dive deeper into Content Strategy by learning some great options for managing your important content once it's been created. You will look at media platforms and how best to tell an organization’s “content story” across those platforms using a human-centered design. Then, you'll take a close look at ways to best utilize social and mobile media, as well as some of the issues around insourcing/outsourcing content.",
  -International Business II,globalbusiness2,https://coursera.org/learn/globalbusiness2,Business,University of New Mexico,"This course, Introduction to the Global Business Environment II, focuses on managing organizations in the international economy. Building on Introduction to the Global Business Environment I, this second course focuses on organizational level and management issues in international settings. The course prepares students with practical as well as research-based knowledge and skills necessary to successfully operating an organizational across borders.",
  -Pricing Strategy,pricing-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/pricing-strategy,Business,IE Business School,"Pricing is one of the most important but least understood marketing decisions. Learn and practice concepts, techniques, and get to grips with the latest thinking on assessing and formulating pricing strategies. Analyze how firms attempt to capture value, as well as profits, in the revenues they earn. After this course, you will be able to contribute to the process of formulating pricing strategies for your own products and services, or those of your firm.",
  -Innovation for Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Marketplace,innovative-entrepreneur,https://coursera.org/learn/innovative-entrepreneur,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","Develop insights on navigating the innovation process from idea generation to commercialization. Build knowledge on how to create strategies to bring innovations to market. Develop an innovation portfolio and business model canvas for your venture. We establish a framework for examining the innovation process, and quickly transition into exploring how to successfully bring innovations to market.",
  -Setting Expectations & Assessing Performance Issues,coaching-expectations-performance,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-expectations-performance,Business,"University of California, Davis","If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. One of the most important roles of a manager is to ensure everyone knows the destination. The most effective managers set expectations and assess their employees’ performance against those expectations, and take a coaching approach to helping them get to the destination. That’s exactly what you’ll learn to do in this course!",
  -From Idea to Startup,startup-entrepreneurship-from-idea-to-startup,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-entrepreneurship-from-idea-to-startup,Business,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,"This course provides practical proven tools for transforming an idea into a product or service that creates value for others. As students acquire these tools, they learn how to tell bad ideas from good, how to build a winning strategy, how to shape a unique value proposition, prepare a business plan, compare their innovation to existing solutions, build flexibility into their plan and determine when best to quit.",
  -Strategic Planning and Execution,strategic-planning-execution,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-planning-execution,Business,University of Virginia,"Avoid the pitfalls of strategy planning and execution with the tools and skills from this course. You'll learn the pillars of strategy execution--analysis, formulation, and implementation--and how to use the 4A model to effectively approach strategy execution. Finally, a panel of leaders from entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and industry, share their expertise gleaned from years of successful strategy planning and execution.",
  -Entender el diseño,entender-diseno,https://coursera.org/learn/entender-diseno,Business,Arizona State University,"¿Qué es el diseño? ¿Qué hacen los diseñadores para practicar su arte y que crean? ¿Qué importancia tiene el diseño de las corporaciones en la sociedad y la cultura? ¿Quiénes son algunos de los diseñadores más importantes de nuestra época y que han hecho? ¿Cómo uno puede convertirse en diseñador? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que exploraremos en este cuso introductorio de diseño. Con frecuencia se ha descrito el diseño como solución de problemas, el proceso de convertir las ideas en realidad o los medios, mediante los cuales podemos hacer que el mundo sea un lugar mejor.",
  -Supply Chain Management: A Learning Perspective ,supply-chain-management,https://coursera.org/learn/supply-chain-management,Business,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,"As a human being, we all consume products and/or services all the time. This morning you got up and ate your breakfast, e.g., eggs, milk, bread, fresh fruits, and the like. After the breakfast, you drove your car to work or school. At your office, you used your computer, perhaps equipped with 27” LCD monitor. During your break, you drank a cup of coffee and played with your iPhone. So on and so forth. You probably take it for granted that you can enjoy all of these products. But if you take a closer look at how each of these products can be made and eventually delivered to you, you will realize that each one of these is no short of miracle.",
  -Search Engine Optimization Fundamentals,seo-fundamentals,https://coursera.org/learn/seo-fundamentals,Business,"University of California, Davis","Gain an understanding of search engine algorithms and how they affect organic search results and websites. Building on this knowledge, you’ll learn the key elements for creating an effective SEO strategy, including how to select keywords and perform keyword research; consumer psychology and search behavior; and how to conduct on-page SEO analysis to identify opportunities to improve a website’s search optimization.",
  -Power Onboarding,poweronboarding,https://coursera.org/learn/poweronboarding,Business,Northwestern University,"Power Onboarding provides practical, easy-to-use tools to guide an individual who is transitioning to a new job. Students will prepare an actionable personal onboarding plan that will set them up for success in their new role. Research has shown that an actively followed power onboarding plan will allow an individual to reach proficiency in a new position up to 30% faster than the typical transitioning manager. In this course, students will develop their own onboarding plan, allowing them to contribute sooner and be eligible for promotion earlier.",
  -The Search for Great Ideas: Harnessing creativity to empower innovation. ,start-your-own-business-2-ideation,https://coursera.org/learn/start-your-own-business-2-ideation,Business,Michigan State University,Where do great business ideas come from? We all have compelling business concepts that we've been thinking about for years. In this course we will explore how to use observational tools and other techniques for idea generation and we will talk about how to evaluate the good ideas from the bad. The goal is to settle on a business idea that you are not only passionate about but also has real market application.,
  -Innovation Management,erasmus-innovationmanagement,https://coursera.org/learn/erasmus-innovationmanagement,Business,Erasmus University Rotterdam,"What is innovation management? How do firms bring in new business models and get new products and services to the market? Go on a nine-week journey through innovation management concepts, theories of idea generation, selection, strategy formulation and implementation in this MOOC in Innovation Management. In it, you will also learn the tools for implementing innovation projects yourself.",
  -"Conversations That Inspire: Coaching Learning, Leadership and Change",leadership-coaching,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-coaching,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"Coaching can inspire and motivate people to learn, change, and be effective leaders, among other roles in life. Although most attempts are “coaching for compliance” (coaching someone to your wishes or expectations), decades of behavioral and neuroscience research show us that “coaching with compassion” (coaching someone to their dreams and desires) is more effective.",
  -3D Printing Revolution,3d-printing-revolution,https://coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-revolution,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course will demonstrate how 3D printers work, show what people make with them, and examine the 3D printing ecosystem. It will also explore the future of 3D printing and discuss how this technology will revolutionize our world. The course materials include informative video lectures, on-location interviews with a variety of 3D printing experts, and engaging hands-on exercises.",
  -Country Level Economics: Macroeconomic Variables and Markets,country-level-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/country-level-economics,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course discusses how macroeconomic variables affect individuals’ personal, professional, and public activities and lays the foundation for the analysis of the mechanisms that drive macroeconomic variables. It start in its first module by introducing the key macroeconomic variables and explaining how they are defined and measured in order to enable the students to interpret macroeconomic data properly.",
  -Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organizational Structure,designing-organization,https://coursera.org/learn/designing-organization,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will understand how firms are organized, what factors must be taken into account in making critical design decisions, and what role managers play in making these choices. In order to answer these questions, we will first develop a conceptual process model that links business models, external and internal contingencies, and organizational design. Second, we will focus on the fundamental principles of organization design and what alternative design choices are available for managers. Finally, we will apply these concepts and ideas to organizational situations to develop the critical insights and decision making skills to build effective organizations.",
  -Introducción a la Gestión de Operaciones,wharton-gestion-operaciones,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-gestion-operaciones,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Aprende a analizar y a mejorar los procesos empresariales en servicios o en la industria. Aprende cómo incrementar la productividad y a ofrecer niveles de calidad mayores. Después de que finalices con éxito este curso, podrás aplicar estas habilidades en un reto empresarial del mundo real como parte de la Programa Especializado de Fundamentos Empresariales de Wharton.",
  -Meeting Investors' Goals,meeting-investors-goals,https://coursera.org/learn/meeting-investors-goals,Business,University of Geneva,"In this course, you will dive into the concepts of rationality and irrationality and understand how they impact our investment decisions and what the consequences can be at the market level. You will first explore the different biases that we, as humans, are subjected to when facing investment decisions and how they may impact the outcomes of these decisions.",
  -Scaling Operations: Linking Strategy and Execution,operations-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/operations-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"Over the past several decades, operations strategy has played an increasingly important role in business’ success. In this course, we will equip you with concepts and tools to build operations in a way that not only supports your competitive strategy, but also allows you to create new opportunities in the market place.",
  -International B2B (Business to Business) Marketing,international-b2b-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/international-b2b-marketing,Business,Yonsei University,"This course offers a unique perspective into the differentiating aspects of business to business (B2B) marketing that can be contrasted to traditional business to consumer (B2C) marketing that is the subject of most other marketing curricula. Moreover, as one of the courses in the Specialization: International Marketing & Cross Industry Growth, here too there is an emphasis on how companies can expand by cross-country and cross-industry innovation.",
  -Subsistence Marketplaces,subsistence-marketplaces,https://coursera.org/learn/subsistence-marketplaces,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"The foundation for this course lies with unique synergies between pioneering research, teaching, and social initiatives through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative. Unique to this approach is a bottom-up understanding of the intersection of poverty and the marketplace. The goals of this course are to help you develop an understanding of marketplace activity in the radically different context of subsistence where much of humanity resides and survives, and for you to design solutions that can be implemented by individuals, businesses, and social enterprises through economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable products for subsistence marketplaces.",
  -Investment Management in an Evolving and Volatile World by HEC Paris and AXA Investment Management ,investment-management,https://coursera.org/learn/investment-management,Business,HEC Paris,"Have you ever wanted to invest in financial markets, but were always afraid that you didn’t have the proper tools or knowledge to make informed decisions? Have you ever wondered how investment management companies operate and what fund managers do? AXA Investment Managers, in partnership with HEC Paris, will introduce you to the most important ideas and concepts in investment management, to help you better understand your financial future.",
  -Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Innovations,pharma-medical-device-innovations,https://coursera.org/learn/pharma-medical-device-innovations,Business,University of Minnesota,This course in the Healthcare Marketplace specialization gives the learner an in-depth view of the intellectual property creation that is vital to creating breakthrough technologies. Included is an understanding of the strategy deployed for pricing drugs and new technologies as well as the market sizing exercise to identify where future research and development investments should be made.,
  -How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC,startupfinancewithoutvc,https://coursera.org/learn/startupfinancewithoutvc,Business,"University of London, London Business School","This course will introduce, and help you put to use in your startup, the five models through which your customers can – and will, if you ask them! – fund your business. These five time-tested models have been put to use by entrepreneurial superstars like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and more. Sadly, though, the five models are rarely talked about and not widely understood. Until now! The five models will be brought to life by the real-world stories of an inspiring collection of incredibly creative entrepreneurs from around the world – including successes and failures – through a series of captivating no-holds-barred interviews with founders and others, and investors, too.",
  -Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position,financial-statements,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-statements,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial statements with an emphasis on the balance sheet. However, to understand accounting driven financial statements, it is important to recognize that accounting is less about counting and more about measuring. “What is it that is being measured?” Well, as the course unfolds, you will learn about the three measurement questions and how the balance sheet helps to answer the first two of these questions. By touring a real company and interviewing real business people, the course describes the basic content of financial statements in a simple yet relevant context. The goal of the course is to leave a lasting impression about what balance sheet consists of and what it reveals.",
  -Portfolio and Risk Management,portfolio-management,https://coursera.org/learn/portfolio-management,Business,Indian School of Business,"This course teaches you the concepts of risk and expected return. This course presents an overview of the basic concepts and techniques used to construct financial portfolios. You will learn about the investment process and get a very good understanding of economic, industry, and company analyses. We will also look at understanding and interpreting major portfolio management and risk concepts.",
  -Channel Management and Retailing ,channel-management,https://coursera.org/learn/channel-management,Business,IE Business School,"Understand how channel management and retailing can improve performance in your business. Nowadays, a distribution strategy is part of the DNA of many companies and a correct channel management is key for the success of your product. Distribution plans need to be prepared for the long run, combining the following main areas: company profile, portfolio structure and price positioning, go-to-market policy, trade and retail marketing, e-commerce and global retail management.",
  -Entrepreneurship 3: Growth Strategies,wharton-entrepreneurship-growth-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-entrepreneurship-growth-strategies,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Start-ups are designed to grow quickly, but successful start-ups grow smart. This course is designed to provide you with an understanding of the essential elements of successful scaling, including an overview of demand generation, customer acquisition, adoption, diffusion and forecasting demand. You’ll also learn how to market effectively using best practices of digital marketing, social media,",
  -Leading Positive Change through Appreciative Inquiry,appreciative-inquiry,https://coursera.org/learn/appreciative-inquiry,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative and constructive inquiry process that searches for everything that gives life to organizations, communities, and larger human systems when they are most alive, effective, creative and healthy in their interconnected ecology of relationships. To appreciate, quite simply, means to value and to recognize that which has value—it is a way of knowing and valuing the best in life.",
  -Modeling Risk and Realities,wharton-risk-models,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-risk-models,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Useful quantitative models help you to make informed decisions both in situations in which the factors affecting your decision are clear, as well as in situations in which some important factors are not clear at all. In this course, you can learn how to create quantitative models to reflect complex realities, and how to include in your model elements of risk and uncertainty. You’ll also learn the methods for creating predictive models for identifying optimal choices; and how those choices change in response to changes in the model’s assumptions.",
  -Accounting: Making Sound Decisions,accounting-iese,https://coursera.org/learn/accounting-iese,Business,IESE Business School,"Financial Accounting is often called the language of business; it is the language that managers use to communicate the firm's financial and economic information to external parties such as shareholders and creditors. Nobody working in business can afford financial illiteracy. Whether you run your own business, work as a manager or are just starting your career, you want to understand financial information and be able to interact with accountants, controllers, and financial managers. You want to talk business!",
  -(Re)-invent your business model with the Odyssey 3.14 approach,newbusinessmodel,https://coursera.org/learn/newbusinessmodel,Business,HEC Paris,"This course gives you access to Odyssey 3.14 - an original approach developed to help you invent or reinvent a business model. This highly innovative approach has been developed by Laurence Lehmann-Ortega and Hélène Musikas and has been shown to be very effective. It is taught to top executives, entrepreneurs, and HEC students. You will learn about the concept and tools that combine innovation and strategy. Starting with the 3 pillars that make up the core business model, this approach recommends 14 directions to consider in order to invent or reinvent the business model.",
  -"Country Level Economics: Policies, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Performance",country-level-economics-policies,https://coursera.org/learn/country-level-economics-policies,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course examines macroeconomic performance in the short run and the long run based on the economy’s institutional and policy environment. The first module develops a model of macroeconomy in the short run when the price level has its own momentum and does not respond much to supply and demand forces. The model enables one to see how GDP, interest rate, and exchange rate are determined in the short run and how they respond to macroeconomic shocks and policies.",
  -Managing Employee Performance,managing-employee-performance,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-employee-performance,Business,University of Minnesota,"Once you have hired good employees, the next step that successful people managers take is to develop the full potential of their employees. Performance management is a process that helps managers achieve the goal of getting the best from their employees. In this third course in the Human Resources for People Managers specialization, we will discuss the skills and key processes you will need to develop your employees to attain department and organizational goals. These skills will include setting clear expectations, providing positive and corrective feedback, and delivering an effective performance appraisal.",
  -Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution,managing-organization,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-organization,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,In this course you will build a practical framework to understand the critical linkages between organization design and the creation of economic value through execution. We will focus on four critical linkages: 1. How organizational growth and life cycle require design changes to improve execution 2. How managerial decision making can be improved through better organization design 3. How the design of human resource practices shape the culture of the organization 4. How innovation and change can be facilitated through organization design,
  -Foundations of Professional Identity,professional-identity,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-identity,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Many find themselves frustrated in their careers by lack of preparation for dealing with predictable dilemmas that regularly arise in the world of work. Two in five professionals fired in their jobs after college are terminated for lying, or misuse of technology. Easy to avoid! Or is it? What if you find you have to compromise your values to keep your job? What if they ask you to lie or cheat, even though you know if you are found out you will be fired? What if you find out the company is breaking the law?",
  -Optimizing a Website for Search,optimizing-web-search,https://coursera.org/learn/optimizing-web-search,Business,"University of California, Davis","Learn the ins and outs of optimizing a website, from conducting an initial audit to presenting your findings and recommendations. Hands-on activities include learning how to select and apply appropriate keywords throughout a website, incorporating keyword research in a content marketing strategy, and optimizing a site for local search. You will also learn strategies for setting goals and",
  -Medical Technology and Evaluation,healthcare-medical-technology,https://coursera.org/learn/healthcare-medical-technology,Business,University of Minnesota,"Innovations in medical technologies are one of the leading areas of economic growth in the world. Whether new technologies take the form of pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology, information technology of some combination of these innovations, the opportunities for both private enterprise and social welfare are substantial. However, these innovations are not without cost, and require",
  -Managing Employee Compensation,managing-employee-compensation,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-employee-compensation,Business,University of Minnesota,"This course covers how to pay employees. We begin by asking: ""What kind of a person do I need to attract, retain, and motivate for my business to succeed?"" From here, we'll explain how to translate that pay strategy into the pay mix: the salary structure, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and benefits that are aligned to your business objectives.",
  -Finance for Everyone: Decisions,finance-decisions,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-decisions,Business,McMaster University,"Finance for Everyone: Decisions will introduce you to the workings of the free markets and the foundations of finance. You will learn how free markets and their “creative destruction” provide the architecture for the global economy and how those same markets move money in ways that create and destroy wealth. Your financial toolkit will include timeless concepts like compounding, discounting, annuities, effective interest rates, and more. You will also learn how to simplify important financial calculations and apply that knowledge to real-life decisions that can influence everything from how you pay for your car to where you live.",
  -Introduction to Financial Markets,financial-markets-intro,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-intro,Business,Indian School of Business,"Learn the general concepts of financial markets and economy. You will see the difference between primary and secondary markets and learn about markets for different products. You will also look at various economic Indicators and their influence on the markets. After completing this course, you will have a much stronger background of financial markets and ready to go to the next stage in the Specialization. This course is designed to help students with very little or no finance background to learn the basics of investments.",
  -Understanding Financial Statements: Company Performance,income-statement,https://coursera.org/learn/income-statement,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial statements with an emphasis on the income statement. Building on the foundation formed in the first course, you will learn about the third of our three measurement questions and how the income statement helps to answer this final measurement question. Returning to the real business people introduced in the first course, this second course describes the basic content of income statement in a simple yet relevant context.",
  -Finance: Building a Robust Business,robustbusiness-iese,https://coursera.org/learn/robustbusiness-iese,Business,IESE Business School,"When it comes to numbers, there is always more than meets the eye. In operational finance, you will learn how to read the “story” that the balance sheet and income statement tells about the company’s operations. The insights you gain from this “financial story” will then become a tool for short-term decision-making at the top management level relating to current assets, current liabilities and the management of working capital.",
  -Coaching Practices,coaching-practices,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-practices,Business,"University of California, Davis","In order for coaching to be most effective, it’s important that there is strong culture of coaching and accountability which you will learn how to incorporate into your one-on-one meetings in this course. We’ll discuss strategies in coaching great employees who are highly motivated, consistent performers, and poor performers. We’ll explore specific tools, such as a coaching agenda, you can employ immediately in your coaching conversations. You will learn how to use the ""Coaching Algebra"" technique in typical performance scenarios managers encounter.",
  -Writing Winning Resumes and Cover Letters,winning-resumes,https://coursera.org/learn/winning-resumes,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park",How can you bring your resume to the top of the pile? How can you present yourself to prospective employers using the language they already speak inside their organization? This course will give you answers to those questions. You will learn how to convert a boring resume into a dynamic asset statement that conveys your talents in the language that an employer understands.,
  -European Business Law: Doing Business in Europe,european-business-law,https://coursera.org/learn/european-business-law,Business,Lund University,"This six-week course titled Doing Business in Europe is the second in a series of three exploring some of the main business aspects of European Union law. Besides providing learners with a sound knowledge base of European laws and regulations relevant to establishing and managing a company within the European Union, the course also explores business considerations within a broader perspective by including inputs from leading law practitioners in the field. More specifically, the course discusses strategic and financial considerations within Company law, as well as Labour law issues such as restructuring enterprises, working conditions and handling crises situations. The course also examines other legal areas such as Tax law, Environmental law and Private International law, and how they tie in to doing business in Europe.",
  -Integrated Marketing Communications,integrated-marketing-communications,https://coursera.org/learn/integrated-marketing-communications,Business,IE Business School,Through this course you will understand the most important issues when planning and evaluating marketing communications strategies and executions. You'll be able to combine the appropriate theories and models with practical information to make better marketing communications decisions. After completing this course you'll be able to use integrated marketing communications (IMC) in the process of creating valuable brands and winning your consumers.,
  -International Business I,international-business,https://coursera.org/learn/international-business,Business,University of New Mexico,"We live in a world of intensifying global relationships, one in which international business has become the key determinant of economic development and prosperity. This course, Global Business Environment, Part I, introduces students to a fundamental understanding of the socioeconomic political, cultural, and linguistic environment in which international businesses operate. This course utilizes an inquiry-based approach to understanding country level relationships in the Global Business Environment. It surveys the global business environment by asking and answering key questions about society, the global economy, cultures, institutions and languages.",
  -International Hospitality & Healthcare Services Marketing,international-hospitality-healthcare-services-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/international-hospitality-healthcare-services-marketing,Business,Yonsei University,"As the fastest-growing sectors of the current global economy, both hospitality and healthcare services sector offer tremendous growth opportunities for incumbents and entrepreneurial opportunities for new entrants. To flourish on these opportunities, one must first understand each industry's unique characteristics. This course is designed to help those who are interested in career advancement opportunities in these industries or who want to be inspired by these industries to better equip themselves with enlightened and creative management capabilities.",
  -The Manager's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Managing People at Work,people-management,https://coursera.org/learn/people-management,Business,"University of London, Birkbeck, University of London","The aim of this course is to give you a practical guide to managing people at work. It does not matter whether you are a first time manager in a shop or a middle manager in an office environment; the same skills apply to every work place. In the course you will engage with some HR theories and then see how they translate into every day working life. At the end of the course we hope you will be better equipped to choose a suitable employee, to motivate and appraise your team, to manage conflict in the work place and to lead and make decision on a day to day basis.",
  -Today’s Music Industry,music-industry,https://coursera.org/learn/music-industry,Business,West Virginia University,"This course provides an engaging and methodical insight into the past and present cultural and commercial music industry developments, directions, and trends. It will equip the students with the knowledge and skills necessary to appreciate, understand and more productively participate in today’s music industry field.",
  -Decision-Making and Scenarios,wharton-decision-making-scenarios,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-decision-making-scenarios,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course is designed to show you how use quantitative models to transform data into better business decisions. You’ll learn both how to use models to facilitate decision-making and also how to structure decision-making for optimum results. Two of Wharton’s most acclaimed professors will show you the step-by-step processes of modeling common business and financial scenarios, so you can significantly improve your ability to structure complex problems and derive useful insights about alternatives. Once you’ve created models of existing realities, possible risks, and alternative scenarios, you can determine the best solution for your business or enterprise, using the decision-making tools and techniques you’ve learned in this course.",
  -Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability,wharton-entrepreneurship-financing-profitabilty,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-entrepreneurship-financing-profitabilty,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Start-ups can benefit from a wide variety of financing options on the path to profitability, but how do you know which one to choose? This course explores different financing models, including bootstrapping, organic growth, debt and risk capital, and also provides a clear overview of equity financing including the key types of investors: angels, venture capital, and crowdfunding. You’ll learn about terms, and term sheets, exit modes and what exit strategy might be best for you. By the end of this course, you’ll have an understanding of what success looks like and how it can be financed.",
  -3D Printing Applications,3d-printing-applications,https://coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-applications,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course will help you understand how 3D printing is being applied across a number of domains, including design, manufacturing, and retailing. It will also demonstrate the special capabilities of 3D printing such as customization, self-assembly, and the ability to print complex objects. In addition to business applications, this course will also examine how individuals, including those in developing countries, are using this technology to create solutions to the problems they face. This course will also provide an overview of design thinking and how you can use this framework to develop ideas that can be turned into objects.",
  -"Anticipating Your Next Battle, in Business and Beyond",anticipate,https://coursera.org/learn/anticipate,Business,HEC Paris,"In this MOOC, you will learn how to better anticipate the future, and reinvent yourself and your activity accordingly. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to account for the broader context and the possible convergence of long-term trends, and thus be able to develop a long-term, consistent strategy and vision, beyond mere day-to-day tactics. Thanks to this approach and mindset, you will become more agile and more resilient in a highly complex and uncertain landscape.",
  -Portfolio and Risk Management,portfolio-risk-management,https://coursera.org/learn/portfolio-risk-management,Business,University of Geneva,"In this course, you will gain an understanding of the theory underlying optimal portfolio construction, the different ways portfolios are actually built in practice and how to measure and manage the risk of such portfolios. You will start by studying how imperfect correlation between assets leads to diversified and optimal portfolios as well as the consequences in terms of asset pricing. Then, you will learn how to shape an investor's profile and build an adequate portfolio by combining strategic and tactical asset allocations. Finally, you will have a more in-depth look at risk: its different facets and the appropriate tools and techniques to measure it, manage it and hedge it.",
  -Market Research and Consumer Behavior,market-research,https://coursera.org/learn/market-research,Business,IE Business School,"Your marketing quest begins here! The first course in this specialization lays the neccessary groundwork for an overall successful marketing strategy. It is separated into two sections: Market Research and Consumer Behavior. Gain the tools and techniques to translate a decision problem into a research question in the Market Research module. Learn how to design a research plan, analyze the data gathered and accurately interpret and communicate survey reports, translating the results into practical recommendations.",
  -Planning,start-your-own-business-3-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/start-your-own-business-3-planning,Business,Michigan State University,"According to Steven Blank a business startup, or any new venture startup is essentially a proto-type. Thus the startup process essentially becomes a learning process to refine that business proto-type into a scalable, replicable finished 'product'. At the end of this course learners will be able to: -complete a business model summarizing assumptions about what value they will offer to whom, and how they will make money.",
  -Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making,business-data,https://coursera.org/learn/business-data,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an analytical framework to help you evaluate key problems in a structured fashion and will equip you with tools to better manage the uncertainties that pervade and complicate business processes. Specifically, you will be introduced to statistics and how to summarize data and learn concepts of frequency, normal distribution, statistical studies, sampling, and confidence intervals.",
  -Innovating Solutions for Aging Populations,health-care-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/health-care-innovation,Business,"University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School","This course will introduce you to health care innovation within the theme of ‘healthy living and active aging’, covering both the medical and the commercial aspects of innovations. Following two cases on diabetes and rehabilitation, this interdisciplinary course will present the key theories, tools, and concepts within health care innovation, and teach you to analyse and develop solutions to some of the great health care challenges of our time. This master-level online course is created by leading experts from Denmark and the Netherlands and is directed at students and practitioners from different fields, including public health and business economics.",
  -Business Strategy,strategy-business,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-business,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School",
  -"The Three Pillar Model for Business Decisions: Strategy, Law & Ethics",strategy-law-ethics,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-law-ethics,Business,University of Michigan,"Prominent business school researchers have identified a powerful model for making business decisions that is based on economics, law and ethics. The Three Pillar model in this course expands this model by adding strategy in place of economics. With this change, the model becomes a practical framework that you can use to make all types of decisions—business, leadership and personal. This course uses business decision making to show you how to use the model. In essence, to achieve business and career success, you must manage risk (the Law Pillar) and create value (the Strategy Pillar) in a responsible manner (the Ethics Pillar).",
  -Finance for Everyone: Markets,finance-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-markets,Business,McMaster University,"Markets begins with one of the most common and important elements of the financial system – interest rates. You will learn why interest rates have always been a key barometer in determining the value of everything. You will explore the changing influence of interest rates; the impact of interest rates on consumption, investment and economic growth; and the bizarre realities of negative interest rates. Markets explains how interest rates change the value of all financial instruments, highlighting the role of the bond and stock markets that have toppled empires. We take a closer look at the equity pricing models and equity markets that reverberate across the globe, and explore everything from the first stock ever issued – by the Dutch East India Company – to the little-understood but powerful derivative securities market.",
  -How to Validate your Startup Idea,startup-idea,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-idea,Business,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),"Starting a new business begins with an idea that needs to evolve through experimentation, iteration and interactions with people. This course is for existing and potential entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance and support to make their ‘great idea’ a reality. In addition to reviewing the basic principles of entrepreneurship, this course guides you through the process of actively validating your idea in the market. We encourage you to identify and communicate good opportunities and to create and capture value from these opportunities.",
  -Advanced Content and Social Tactics to Optimize SEO,seo-tactics,https://coursera.org/learn/seo-tactics,Business,"University of California, Davis","Discover the content marketing and social media ecosystems and how these interconnected channels drive search results to a website. Leverage content marketing and social media as part of your SEO strategy, and how to use influence marketing to establish a website’s authority.",
  -International Entertainment and Sports Marketing,international-entertainment-sports-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/international-entertainment-sports-marketing,Business,Yonsei University,"This course will provide learners with a fundamental understanding of the characteristics and marketing strategies related to two key global industries, sports and entertainment. The growth in both industries have been fueled by their ability to innovate via CCCI, i.e. cross-country and cross-industry expansion. There will be a graded quiz that will consists of 10 questions during the first two weeks (together worth 50% of the grade) and a final quiz that contains 20 questions (worth 50% of the grade) in the third week.",
  -Investor Characteristics and Behavioral Aspects of Investment,behavioral-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/behavioral-finance,Business,Indian School of Business,"Through this course, you will learn how individuals and firms make financial decisions, and how those decisions might deviate from those predicted by traditional financial or economic theory. We will explore the nature of these biases and their origins, using insights from psychology, neurosciences and experimental economics on how the human mind works. From these biases, you will be able to examine how the insights of behavioral finance complement the traditional finance paradigm. We also look at the micro and macro biases.",
  -Marketing: Understanding Your Customers,marketing-iese,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-iese,Business,IESE Business School,Understanding who your customers are and what they need and want is at the heart of successful marketing strategies. In this course you will explore how to identify and classify customers and the different methods that marketing professionals use to shed light on how they make purchase decisions.,
  -Innovation and Design for Global Grand Challenges,grand-challenges,https://coursera.org/learn/grand-challenges,Business,Duke University,"The purpose of this course is to introduce you to current global challenges in conservation and development, including changes in both sectors. This course will inspire you to rethink assumptions to address global challenges in conservation and development, and introduce you to new models and approaches that harness technological, behavioral, and financial innovation. This course will equip you with the insights, skills and approaches necessary to successfully overcome these obstacles. In addition, this course will provide participants with the tools, models, and approaches to address global grand challenges in conservation and development, to question fundamental assumptions, and to create and execute new solutions. Course participants will be trained in the processes around innovation and design to address global grand challenges",
  -Structure,start-your-own-business-4-structure,https://coursera.org/learn/start-your-own-business-4-structure,Business,Michigan State University,Georgia Institute of Technology,
  -"Business Statistics, Data Analysis, and Decision Making: Part 2",business-statistics-2,https://coursera.org/learn/business-statistics-2,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an analytical framework to help you evaluate key problems in a structured fashion and will equip you with tools to better manage the uncertainties that pervade and complicate business processes. The course aim to cover statistical ideas that apply to managers. We will consider two basic themes: first, is recognizing and describing variations present in everything around us, and then modeling and making decisions in the presence of these variations. The fundamental concepts studied in this course will reappear in many other classes and business settings.",
  -Corporate Strategy,strategy-corporate,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-corporate,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value, and how it is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand economic value creation and value appropriation, and learn the tools to analyze both competition and cooperation from a corporate level perspective, (e.g., through vertical integration, diversification, and geographic scope decisions).",
  -Positioning: What you need for a successful Marketing Strategy,positioning,https://coursera.org/learn/positioning,Business,IE Business School,"Positioning is the heart of any Marketing Strategy, the core that you must get right. It does not matter whether you start with a clearly defined target group or with a differential value proposition: you will need end up with a clear segment or segments upon which we build our Marketing Plan. In this course - the second in our Marketing Strategy Specialization - IE professor Ignacio Gafo will guide you through the essential stages of this key marekting process, starting with the basic elements that you will require and deciding on the market segmentation and marketing.",
  -Innovation Career Lessons from a Master,startup-entrepreneurship-innovation-career-lessons,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-entrepreneurship-innovation-career-lessons,Business,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,"This course, which is Part Three in the series of Startup Entrepreneurship specialization, offers Life Lessons from a Master Innovator, with proven achievements. During this course you will listen to conversations and interviews with Mr. David (Dadi) Perlmutter, who until recently was Executive VP of Intel corporate. Dadi will talk about 10 life lessons, based on his 34 years as a rebel innovator and entrepreneur.",
  -Shaping Your Professional Brand,professional-brand,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-brand,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"You've thought about who you are and how you want your career to be. You have some skills to deal with situations that could cause problems. What about the team around you? How do you build functional and constructive professional relationships? How can you add value? What do employers look for when they are promoting? Skill-building in this course will include asking questions, listening, developing likeability (you’d better be stellar if you’re difficult), identifying cognitive bias, apologizing, receiving apologies, and the basics of whistleblowing.",
  -Behavioral Finance,duke-behavioral-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/duke-behavioral-finance,Business,Duke University,"We make thousands of decisions every day. Do I cross the road now, or wait for the oncoming truck to pass? Should I eat fries or a salad for lunch? How much should I tip the cab driver? We usually make these decisions with almost no thought, using what psychologists call “heuristics” – rules of thumb that enable us to navigate our lives. Without these mental shortcuts, we would be paralyzed by the multitude of daily choices. But in certain circumstances, these shortcuts lead to predictable errors – predictable, that is, if we know what to watch out for. Did you know, for example, that we are naturally biased towards selling investments that are doing well for us, but holding on to those that are doing poorly?",
  -Sports Sponsorship. Let them Play,sports-sponsorship,https://coursera.org/learn/sports-sponsorship,Business,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,Are you interested in sport sponsorship? Would you like to understand which actors participate in sport sponsorship? Would you like to know the latest and innovative proposals that are arising in the sport sponsorship world? Are you interested in learning and connecting with sports enthusiasts/students from all around the world? The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Johan Cruyff Institute jointly offer this introductory course in sports sponsorship for all those interested in knowing how to create a sponsorship plan for a sports event.,
  -Personal & Family Financial Planning,family-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/family-planning,Business,University of Florida,Personal and Family Financial Planning will address many critical personal financial management topics in order to help you learn prudent habits both while in school and throughout your lifetime.,
  -Coaching Conversations,coaching-conversations,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-conversations,Business,"University of California, Davis","Throughout the Coaching Skills for Managers specialization, we’ve discussed many topics for improving coaching conversations with our employees. It is now time to put all of that theory and discussion into practice and examine great examples of common coaching conversations! Note: This course builds on all previous courses in the Coaching Skills for Managers specialization. It is highly recommended that students complete or be familiar with the topics covered in those courses before taking this course.",
  -Financing and Investing in Infrastructure,infrafinance,https://coursera.org/learn/infrafinance,Business,Università Bocconi,Learn how debt and equity can be used to finance infrastructure investments and how investors approach infrastructure investments!,
  -"Investment Strategy, Philosophy, Client Management and Current Trends",investment-philosophy,https://coursera.org/learn/investment-philosophy,Business,Indian School of Business,"Discover the basic concepts of needs analysis, investment policy, asset allocation, product selection, portfolio monitoring and re-balancing. We will look at the types of institutional investors - pension funds and insurance companies. You will learn the client management life cycle and dive into portfolio management as a process. You will learn the basic concepts, principles, and the major styles of investing in alternative assets. Finally, we study the impact of digitization on investment strategies.",
  -Business Writing,writing-for-business,https://coursera.org/learn/writing-for-business,Business,University of Colorado Boulder,"Writing well is one of the most important skills you can learn for success in the business world. Knowing how to write well allows you to deliver your ideas with the power they deserve. Good writing also conveys a sense of your professional excellence to the world around you. In this course, you'll master the simple, effective skills that drive all successful business writing.",
  -Organizational Behavior: Managing People,managingpeople-iese,https://coursera.org/learn/managingpeople-iese,Business,IESE Business School,"Peter Drucker, a pioneer in the field of management, once said that people have a perverse tendency to behave like human beings. Of course, we are not machines, and certainly not programmable. But through the study of organizational behavior, we can gain insights into what makes people tick within a work context.",
  -The Olympic Games and the Media,olympic-games,https://coursera.org/learn/olympic-games,Business,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,"This course gives you a complete insight into the communication and managerial techniques put into practice in the creation of the most important sporting mega event in the world. You will learn about the essentials of television production, programming strategies and television rights management of the Olympic Games. At the same time, you will gain valuable knowledge about the fundamentals of communication via social media and of the Olympic culture which is so closely connected with classic culture and humanism.",
  -Finance For Everyone: Value,finance-value,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-value,Business,McMaster University,"In Value, you will explore the most powerful generator of value in the world – ideas. Ideas are the engines of productivity, both in the private and public sectors. You will learn about the universal frameworks that determine how ideas and money interact, leading to the allocation of financial resources. We will identify components of cash flow for any project, business or venture as the most essential ingredients of value. We also assess the investment techniques used to give life to some ideas while killing others. This course will help you understand pricing, diversification, uncertainty and even behavioural approaches to dealing with risk. Using Nobel Prize-winning insights, you will learn how to measure the size of the risk premium and build valuation models.",
  -Accounting for Business Decision Making: Part 1,business-accounting-1,https://coursera.org/learn/business-accounting-1,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an introduction to accounting’s measurement role inside of an organization and how accountants communicate information that helps managers and employees make operational decisions. In particular, you will learn how cost information is created and organized to help managers and employees conduct profitability analyses, develop and choose products, make pricing decisions, and make common business decisions.",
  -Advanced Search Engine Optimization Strategies,advanced-seo-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-seo-strategies,Business,"University of California, Davis","This course focuses on technical, mobile and social strategies for increasing site traffic. Learn how to build SEO for international audiences through content localization, global team alignment and optimizing for local search engines. Discover techniques to optimize mobile-friendly websites, get mobile apps discovered, and leverage social media to drive organic SEO traffic.",
  -Securing Investment Returns in the Long Run,investment-returns-long-run,https://coursera.org/learn/investment-returns-long-run,Business,University of Geneva,"In this course, you will learn about the famous dichotomy between active and passive investing, how to appropriately measure and analyze investment performance and what the future trends in the investment management industry are. You will first learn about absolute and relative performance, risk-adjusted returns and how to decompose investment performance.",
  -Marketing Mix Fundamentals,marketing-mix,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-mix,Business,IE Business School,"Marketing Mix Fundamentals prepares you for arguably the most important stage of bring your product to market - how and where are you going to market it? It sets out a detailed introduction to the four P’s of Marketing (Product, Pricing, Place and Promotion), this course forces you to strategically analyze your product and/or service.",
  -Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation,social-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/social-innovation,Business,University of Cape Town,"This free 6 week course is for anyone who wants to make a difference. Whether you are already familiar with the field of social innovation or social entrepreneurship, working for an organization that wants to increase its social impact, or just starting out, this course will take you on a journey of exploring the complex problems that surround us and how to start thinking about solutions.",
  -Moving to the Cloud,movingtothecloud,https://coursera.org/learn/movingtothecloud,Business,The University of Melbourne,"Commercial research analysts consider cloud as one of the most significant trends with a potential to change the whole global IT industry. Governments, including those in the US, Britain, and Australia, have cloud-first policies now in place which mandate cloud over non-cloud services in ICT procurement. But CIOs and other senior executives, while it's on the majority of their agendas, aren't sure what it really means for their organisations - how to leverage the benefits, control the commercials, manage the business risk, and adapt their organisations.",
  -Financial Accounting: Foundations,financial-accounting-foundations,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-accounting-foundations,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn foundations of financial accounting information. You will start your journey with a general overview of what financial accounting information is and the main financial statements. You will then learn how to code financial transactions in financial accounting language. In the meantime, you will learn about the most important concept in contemporary financial accounting: accrual accounting. You will then critically analyze how firms recognize revenues. Finally, you will finish the course with an analysis of accounting for short-term assets where you will go into detail on how firms account for accounts receivables and inventories.",
  -"Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis",managerial-accounting-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/managerial-accounting-analysis,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn how to use accounting to facilitate and align decisions made by owners, managers, and employees. You will learn how accountants create, organize, interpret, and communicate information that improves internal processes, and allows organizations to identify and leverage opportunities to create value within the supply chain and with customers.",
  -Strategy,howtostartabusiness5,https://coursera.org/learn/howtostartabusiness5,Business,Michigan State University,"This course is the last course in this specialization before its capstone experience where you, the learner will launch your business. Consider all the activities associated with the final preparation for a NASA launch before the final countdown takes place. Those are the type of activities with respect to launching a business that will be covered in this course. The goal of the course is for you to have a document that details all the actions you need to take, and all the things that you need to think about before launching your business, with instructions on how to do those actions and how to thing about those things.",
  -Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions,managerial-accounting-tool,https://coursera.org/learn/managerial-accounting-tool,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will explore how to use accounting to allocate resources and incentivize manager and employee behaviors in using these resources. You will also learn how financial and non-financial accounting information facilitates strategic performance measurement and how to integrate this information to continuously improve strategy.",
  -Accounting for Business Decision Making: Part 2,business-accounting-2,https://coursera.org/learn/business-accounting-2,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Accounting information is the lifeblood of the organization, as it facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions intended to achieve organizational goals. Organizations benefit from three decision-oriented roles of accounting: measurement, control, and communication. This course provides an introduction to accounting’s role in helping managers develop and implement, and improve the organization’s strategy. In particular, you will learn how non-financial and financial information is created, organized, and communicated to help managers make strategic decisions, as well as measure strategic success.",
  -Corporate Finance I: Measuring and Promoting Value Creation,corporate-finance-copy,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-copy,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn how to use key finance principles to understand and measure business success and to identify and promote true value creation. You will learn how to use accounting information to form key financial ratios to measure a company’s financial health and to manage a company's short-term and long-term liquidity needs. You will also learn how to use valuation techniques to make sound business investment and acquisition decisions. Finally, you will learn how to incorporate risk and uncertainty into investment decisions and how to evaluate the performance of existing investments.",
  -Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics,financial-accounting-advanced,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-accounting-advanced,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will explore advanced topics in financial accounting. You will start your journey with accounting for assets with more than one-year life. You will learn in detail how firms account for fixed assets. You will then move to financing of assets and discuss accounting for liabilities. The course will continue with an in-depth exploration of shareholders’ equity. Finally, you will critically evaluate preparation, components, and analysis of cash flows statement.",
  -Finance for Everyone: Debt,finance-debt,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-debt,Business,McMaster University,"In Debt, we take on one of the most challenging financial questions that remains unresolved: How much to borrow? We start by demonstrating why using debt has always been and continues to be a great temptation, particularly when borrowing costs are historically low. We identify conditions for selecting the optimal amount of debt for a corporation looking to maximize its value. You’ll become fluent in related concepts like norms and benchmarks. You will explore these and other factors that influence debt for individuals and for public sector organizations -including governments, who are the largest consumers of debt. Like pollution, debt creates systemic risks even for the people and organizations that don’t create it. This course discusses the imperative of limiting and reducing debt and the costs to all of us if we don’t.",
  -The Marketing Plan,marketingplan,https://coursera.org/learn/marketingplan,Business,IE Business School,"Create your own Marketing Plan for your own product or service idea. In this course you will learn how to produce arguably the most important marketing tool for any business. Rather than simply learning the stages of The Marketing Plan, you will be asked each week to complete a peer graded assignment which will help you complete a simplified version of the plan. You will be required either to map the four crucial stages for your own product or service idea or use the Nissan Leaf case study (attached in the additional readings) in order to produce a professional example.",
  -Supply Chain Logistics,supply-chain-logistics,https://coursera.org/learn/supply-chain-logistics,Business,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Have you ever wondered how goods get delivered to us so quickly as soon as we order them? One word: Logistics! In this introductory Supply Chain Logistics course, I will take you on a journey to this fascinating backbone of global trade. We cover the three major building blocks of logistics networks: transportation, warehousing, and inventory. After completing this course, you will be able to differentiate the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of transportation. You will understand what goes into designing and setting up a warehousing facility.",
  -"Managing Responsibly: Practicing Sustainability, Responsibility and Ethics",responsiblemanagement,https://coursera.org/learn/responsiblemanagement,Business,University of Manchester,"Managers are increasingly confronted with issues of sustainability, responsibility and ethics. Managing responsibly is an integrative approach to sustainability, responsibility and ethics, which allows you as a manager to deal competently with such challenges. This course will facilitate your learning process to engage in changing practices to make them more sustainable, responsible, and ethically informed.",
  -Finance for Non-Financial Managers,finance-for-non-financial-managers,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-for-non-financial-managers,Business,Emory University,"Finance is for “Non-financial Managers” who want to understand key financial principles and apply them in a real-world context. Over the course of the program window, you will work your way through a series of nine modules that move from understanding basic financial principles to applying financial analysis and ratios to drive decisions. In addition, each module is capped with an ending self-evaluation to ensure that you have absorbed the following key learning objectives:",
  -Graphic Design,presentation-design,https://coursera.org/learn/presentation-design,Business,University of Colorado Boulder,"Visual communication is as critical to professional success as written or oral communication. Graphic design skills will help you ensure that your visual business assets convey a clear and compelling message - and learning the essentials of good design is surprisingly easy. This course introduces you to a straightforward design process that emphasizes planning, clarity, and focus. You’ll learn to use contrast, repetition, proximity, and tension to create design that is both credible and visually appealing, and you’ll emulate best practices as you work with examples from a wide range of media.",
  -The Impact of Technology,impact-of-technology,https://coursera.org/learn/impact-of-technology,Business,EIT Digital,"In this course you will learn how to use theories and methods to make predictions of the potential impact of new technology – in general, as well as for a specific application. This will prepare you for the changes that we are facing in society, and also help you take advantage of transformations which are driven by technology. The course takes a broad approach, including social and economic factors. You will study historical examples and learn to recognize recurring patterns and cycles.",
  -Finance for Non-Finance Professionals,finance-for-non-finance-professionals,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-for-non-finance-professionals,Business,Rice University,"This short course surveys all the major topics covered in a full semester MBA level finance course, but with a more intuitive approach on a very high conceptual level. The goal here is give you a roadmap and framework for how financial professional make decisions. We will cover the basics of financial valuation, the time value of money, compounding returns, and discounting the future.",
  -The Power of Team Culture,team-culture,https://coursera.org/learn/team-culture,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Behind the success and failure of teams lies team culture. But what exactly is culture? How and why does it contribute to success and failure? In this course, you will learn how to recognize aspects of team culture of which most people are normally unaware. It is often these seemingly unimportant aspects that have the greatest effect on the outcomes of group tasks. Your recognition of them will enable you to more effectively form, join, and lead teams. You will also come to appreciate the role of ritual and symbols in the daily operation of teams, as well as in situations of change and crisis. Knowledge of the ideas and information in this class will enable you to be not only a better team player but also a more effective team leader.",
  -Launching New Ventures,new-ventures,https://coursera.org/learn/new-ventures,Business,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Launching New Ventures, a course about Entrepreneurship & Strategy for Technology-Driven Startups, is designed for professionals, entrepreneurs, and students who want to learn about how to successfully launch a business. Through short, animated lectures, inspiring interviews with entrepreneurs from around the world, short quizzes, suggested readings and a practical final project, students will gain a broad overview of entrepreneurship strategy with insights they can apply to their venture regardless of location, industry or venture stage.",
  -Operations Management,operations-management-1,https://coursera.org/learn/operations-management-1,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn about the role of operations and how they are connected to other business functions in manufacturing- and service-focused organizations. You will learn and practice the use of decision-making frameworks and techniques applicable at all levels, from management-level strategic decisions such as connecting process to the needs of various customer segments, to front-line tactical decisions such as choosing between ordering larger quantities vs. ordering more frequently.",
  -Identifying Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities,social-entrepreneurship-opportunities,https://coursera.org/learn/social-entrepreneurship-opportunities,Business,Copenhagen Business School,This Course will clarify the definition and meaning of Social Entrepreneurship and will focus on the need to learn about the source and root of a social problem. You will be introduced to different perspectives about Social Entrepreneurship and you will learn about complementary and opportunistic assets which will help you to detect an opportunity and develop an idea of how to create a business for social change.,
  -Meaningful Marketing Insights,meaningful-marketing-insights,https://coursera.org/learn/meaningful-marketing-insights,Business,Emory University,"With marketers are poised to be the largest users of data within the organization, there is a need to make sense of the variety of consumer data that the organization collects. Surveys, transaction histories and billing records can all provide insight into consumers’ future behavior, provided that they are interpreted correctly. In Introduction to Marketing Analytics, we introduce the tools that learners will need to convert raw data into marketing insights. The included exercises are conducted using Microsoft Excel, ensuring that learners will have the tools they need to extract information from the data available to them. The course provides learners with exposure to essential tools including exploratory data analysis, as well as regression methods that can be used to investigate the impact of marketing activity on aggregate data (e.g., sales) and on individual-level choice data (e.g., brand choices).",
  -Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation,investments-fundamentals,https://coursera.org/learn/investments-fundamentals,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, we will discuss fundamental principles of trading off risk and return, portfolio optimization, and security pricing. We will study and use risk-return models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and multi-factor models to evaluate the performance of various securities and portfolios. Specifically, we will learn how to interpret and estimate regressions that provide us with both a benchmark to use for a security given its risk (determined by its beta), as well as a risk-adjusted measure of the security’s performance (measured by its alpha). Building upon this framework, market efficiency and its implications for patterns in stock returns and the asset-management industry will be discussed.",
  -Valuation for Startups Using Discounted Cash Flows Approach,discounted-cash-flow,https://coursera.org/learn/discounted-cash-flow,Business,Yonsei University,"Discounted cash flow method means that we can find firm value by discounting future cash flows of a firm. That is, firm value is present value of cash flows a firm generates in the future. In order to understand the meaning of present value, we are going to discuss time value of money, first. That is, the value of $100 today is different from the value of $100 a year later. Then, what should be the present value of $100 that you are going to receive in 1 year? How about the value of $100 dollars that you are going to receive every year for next 10 years? How about forever?",
  -Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society,design,https://coursera.org/learn/design,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This is a course aimed at making you a better designer. The course marries theory and practice, as both are valuable in improving design performance. Lectures and readings will lay out the fundamental concepts that underpin design as a human activity. Weekly design challenges test your ability to apply those ideas to solve real problems. The course is deliberately broad - spanning all domains of design, including architecture, graphics, services, apparel, engineered goods, and products. The emphasis of the course is the basic design process: define, explore, select, and refine.",
  -Global Financial Markets and Instruments,global-financial-markets-instruments,https://coursera.org/learn/global-financial-markets-instruments,Business,Rice University,"Get a running start in the high-stakes world of financial investment! This first course is designed to help you become an informed investor by providing you with the essential concepts for long-term success in managing money. You’ll start by learning the role of financial markets and financial assets in a well-functioning economy. From there, you’ll learn about the wide range of financial instruments available in major asset classes, their features and valuations.",
  -Managing Social and Human Capital,wharton-managing-human-capital,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-managing-human-capital,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"People are the most valuable asset of any business, but they are also the most unpredictable, and the most difficult asset to manage. And although managing people well is critical to the health of any organization, most managers don't get the training they need to make good management decisions. Now, award-wining authors and renowned management Professors Mike Useem and Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School have designed this course to introduce you to the key elements of managing people. Based on their popular course at Wharton, this course will teach you how to motivate individual performance and design reward systems, how to design jobs and organize work for high performance, how to make good and timely management decisions, and how to design and change your organization’s architecture.",
  -Building the Business Model for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurs-business-model,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurs-business-model,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","Led by Dan Gordon, a University of Maryland faculty member who teaches business modeling in the National Science Foundation's I-Corps Program, this course enables you to develop and apply the Business Model Canvas tool to scope a corporate challenge or opportunity. You will learn how to identify and communicate the nine elements of a business model: Customer Segments, Value Propositions, Channels, Customer Relationships, Revenue Streams, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, and Cost Structure.",
  -Developing the Opportunity for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurs-opportunity,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurs-opportunity,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","For an increasing number of established companies, creating new businesses and programs within the company is an imperative for success. Maturing technologies and aging product portfolios are requiring established companies to create, develop, and sustain innovative new initiatives. In this course, learners will develop knowledge on how to navigate the barriers to creating, developing, and sustain innovative new businesses and programs within established companies or organizations with an emphasis on: • Introducing the skills for identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial ideas within a corporate environment; • Examining entrepreneurial thinking within yourself and your colleagues with an awareness of entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial motivations, and entrepreneurial behaviors;",
  -Sales Strategies: Mastering the Selling Process,sales-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/sales-strategies,Business,The University of Chicago,"Selling is a life skill. As people, we interact with other people every day in many different types of situations. And if you stop and think about those various situations, many of them are sales situations. You might be interviewing for a job, or meeting a new potential customer, or trying to convince someone that your idea is the right one. These are sales situations, and in this course you will learn how high-performing salespeople use critical skills and disciplines to create success each and every time they interact with another person. You",
  -Financing and Profiting from Innovation for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurs-financing,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurs-financing,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","This course is for aspiring or active corporate entrepreneurs who wants to understand how to secure and manage funding for their corporate venture. We will demystify key accounting and financing concepts to give corporate entrepreneurs a guide to developing the business case for their ideas, and securing funding to translate ideas into reality. This course focuses on four key areas: • Learning the fundamentals and how to create financial statements for new ventures within the corporate environment; • Examining valuation techniques for understanding how to assess and grow the value of the corporate venture; • Exploring the different sources of internal and external financing for the corporate venture; and • Applying lessons learned in the course to structure a funding deal and pitch the corporate venture.",
  -Construction Project Management,construction-project-management,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-project-management,Business,Columbia University,"Construction Project Management introduces you to Project Initiation and Planning. Industry experts join Columbia University professor, Ibrahim Odeh, to give an overview of the construction industry. Professor Odeh teaches the fundamentals of the Project Development Cycle while guest lecturers discuss Lean Project Delivery method and Lean Design Behaviors. Technological advances, such as Building Information Modeling, will be introduced with real world examples of the uses of BIM during the Lifecycle of the Project. The course concludes with Professor Odeh discussing the importance of project planning and scheduling and an opportunity to develop a Work Breakdown Structure.",
  -Master Class for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurship-project,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurship-project,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","The Master Class experience is designed to serve as the final project experience for the Corporate Entrepreneurship Specialization. Alternatively, professionals with experience in opportunity analysis, business modeling, and corporate finance are invited to complete the Master Class experience without the preliminary courses. With maturing technologies and aging product portfolios requiring established companies to create, develop, and sustain innovative new businesses, graduates of the Master Class will develop an understanding of how to create new businesses and initiatives within the corporate environment.",
  -Crafting Strategies for Innovation Initiatives for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurs-innovation-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurs-innovation-strategy,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park",This course focuses on enhancing your understanding of (1) how an internal venture is organized and (2) how to overcome resistance to your new venture ideas within the company. The course is specifically valuable for: • Employees who have creative ideas important to their company; • Managers seeking to assemble creative people and resources; • Technical specialists desiring to become part of an internal venture; and • Consultants who advise companies on ways to launch and grow internal ventures.,
  -An Introduction to Consumer Neuroscience & Neuromarketing ,neuromarketing,https://coursera.org/learn/neuromarketing,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"How do we make decisions as consumers? What do we pay attention to, and how do our initial responses predict our final choices? To what extent are these processes unconscious and cannot be reflected in overt reports? This course will provide you with an introduction to some of the most basic methods in the emerging fields of consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing. You will learn about the methods employed and what they mean. You will learn about the basic brain mechanisms in consumer choice, and how to stay updated on these topics. The course will give an overview of the current and future uses of neuroscience in business.",
  -Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Social Impact,social-impact,https://coursera.org/learn/social-impact,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course offers an introduction to social impact strategy and social entrepreneurship, including key concepts, an overview of the field, and tools to get started as a changemaker. Students will learn how to innovate and design new ideas and new organizational forms to implement those ideas. Students who take this course will be better prepared to launch social impact organizations of their own invention.",
  -Self Awareness and the Effective Leader,self-awareness,https://coursera.org/learn/self-awareness,Business,Rice University,"Course 1 in the Leadership Development for Engineers Specialization and part of Rice University's Engineering Management and Leadership Certificate. Part of being an effective leader is learning how to play to your strengths and overcome characteristics that don't lend to good leadership practices. During the course, you will examine your own strengths and learn ways to use them in a leadership role. Learn to manage stress and solve problems creatively. Throughout the course, you will also build a tool kit of useful techniques that you can begin using right away in your engineering career.",
  -Leadership and Influence,leadership-influence,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-influence,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"The only thing you get to change is yourself, and in the prerequisites to this course we’ve given you real tools to do that. Now, use those tools to influence the course of your future, your team's future, and your organization's future. Make a plan for yourself that will help you help others, and learn skills to make it happen. Listening and being sure of your values underpins everything that comes with professional influencer and leadership skills. We’ll go on to look at self-assessment and leadership planning, negotiation, addressing and resolving conflict, and successfully identifying and promoting circumstances you want.",
  -Organizational Analysis (Self-Paced),organizational-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/organizational-analysis,Business,Stanford University,"In this introductory, self-paced course, you will learn multiple theories of organizational behavior and apply them to actual cases of organizational change. Organizations are groups whose members coordinate their behaviors in order to accomplish a shared goal. They can be found nearly everywhere in today’s society: universities, start-ups, classrooms, hospitals, non-profits, government bureaus, corporations, restaurants, grocery stores, and professional associations are some of many examples of organizations.",
  -Globalization of Business Enterprise,global-business,https://coursera.org/learn/global-business,Business,IESE Business School,"The majority of businesses say they want to become more global. And business leaders say that the lack of people with global intelligence is the key constraint holding them back. This course will address both gaps — at the business and the personal level, it will focus on practical strategies for dealing with the real consequences of globalization.",
  -Supply Chain Operations,operations,https://coursera.org/learn/operations,Business,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Have you ever wondered how products and services are created exactly the same thousands of times over? And how companies are able to smooth out operations to manufacture efficiently, effectively, and without any waste? How is such precision possible? The answer lies at the heart of operations. In the Supply Chain Operations course, we introduce and apply essential process improvement tools to achieve perfection. After completing this course, you will be able to apply the Six Sigma methodology for process improvement. You will demonstrate that you understand the basic tenets of the Lean philosophy that enables manufacturers to eliminate waste and make processes more efficient. Finally, you will be able to apply the tools that you just gained to improve a process of your own.",
  -Valuation for Startups Using Multiple Approach,valuation-multiples,https://coursera.org/learn/valuation-multiples,Business,Yonsei University,"In addition to discounted cash flow method, multiple method is one of the most popular methods of firm valuation. PER is often used among financial professionals to make a quick-and-dirty estimate of a firm value. In this course, you are going to learn the concept and usage of PER, PBR and PSR. In addition to these basic multiple ratios, you are going to learn how to make an estimate of enterprise value and founder’s ownership before and after additional funding. Startups require a number of financings before IPO. After taking this course, you are going to be able to answer questions such as What the price per share should be given the startup’s estimate of earnings in the future; How many shares the founder should give up to raise additional capital; and so on? In the discounted cash flow method and multiple method, you are always given earnings or cash flows to make estimate of firm value.",
  -Building blocks of trading strategies,building-blocks,https://coursera.org/learn/building-blocks,Business,Indian School of Business,"The purpose of this course is to equip you with the knowledge required to comprehend the financial statements of a company and understand the various transactions that take place in the stock market so that you can replicate the strategies discovered by the extant academic literature. The first part of the course provides a brief introduction to financial statements and various common filings of firms. You will learn how to obtain information regarding a company's performance from them and use the information to build trading strategies. Next, you are taught basic asset pricing theories so that you will be able to calculate the expected returns of a stock or a portfolio.",
  -Process Improvement,process-improvement-1,https://coursera.org/learn/process-improvement-1,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will focus on process improvement. You will learn how to set organizational priorities for continuous process improvement, how to execute process improvement projects, and how to sustain the initiative for continuous improvements. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Understand the roles of process improvement • Relate underlying principles to frameworks and techniques used for process improvement • Synthesize information to make decisions for organizational initiatives and process improvement • Apply analytical techniques for tactical decisions in a process improvement project",
  -Digital Transformations,digital-transformations,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-transformations,Business,Indian School of Business,"Information Technology (IT) is fast changing the world around us. This course will provide you an understanding of IT-enabled changes in the business environment, and how insightful executives leverage IT to create value and win competitive battles. The course is divided into three parts – the first part of the course focuses on the industry impacts of technological innovation. Here, we will explore competition and business models in the high-tech industry, using examples of companies like Google, Apple and Facebook. We will also explore competitive dynamics of industries that consume significant technology with emphasis on how technology has disrupted industries such as music, media and education.",
  -Building High-Performing Teams,high-performing-teams,https://coursera.org/learn/high-performing-teams,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers miscommunicate, and groups struggle to adapt to changes in the market or their organizations. When teams lack self-awareness about these challenges, performance suffers. Based on years of team culture research and consulting experience, this course will help you understand the problems that hurt productivity, and give you tools for creating positive change. This course will help you create the ground rules and structure to set your team up for success. You will gain the skills to diagnose issues such as conflicts, groupthink, and lack of commitment in your team before they get out of control.",
  -Social Business Model and Planning for Social Innovation,social-business-model,https://coursera.org/learn/social-business-model,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"In this course we will take the social business opportunity that you have identified in the first course to a higher level. Specifically, you will develop a business model using the Business Model Canvas. Gradually you will also start writing your business plan. Moreover, you will be able to assess different organizational forms and select the one that is appropriate for your developed business model. By the end of the course you will be able to compare different social impact investment methods and choose the right funding strategy for your social venture.",
  -Portfolio Selection and Risk Management,portfolio-selection-risk-management,https://coursera.org/learn/portfolio-selection-risk-management,Business,Rice University,"When an investor is faced with a portfolio choice problem, the number of possible assets and the various combinations and proportions in which each can be held can seem overwhelming. In this course, you’ll learn the basic principles underlying optimal portfolio construction, diversification, and risk management. You’ll start by acquiring the tools to characterize an investor’s risk and return trade-off. You will next analyze how a portfolio choice problem can be structured and learn how to solve for and implement the optimal portfolio solution. Finally, you will learn about the main pricing models for equilibrium asset prices.",
  -Strategic Innovation for Managers,strategic-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-innovation,Business,Vanderbilt University,"Does your business culture nurture innovation—or stifle it? Are you looking for ways to build your business creatively but find daunting constraints at every turn? Innovation is too important to your success to be left to chance. This course is designed to help you understand the forces that limit innovation, identify those barriers in your own business culture, and break free of them in order to realize the full value of your imagination. You’ll learn the six most common constraints on innovation in organizations—that is, the six ways that creative thinking is usually sabotaged before it can produce results. You’ll learn the barriers to creativity in both individual and group settings, plus discover which stakeholders are actively invested in stopping your ideas in their tracks.",
  -Construction Scheduling,construction-scheduling,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-scheduling,Business,Columbia University,"Learners will discover the key project scheduling techniques and procedures including; how to create a network diagram, how to define the importance of the critical path in a project network, and defining project activities float. Also covered are the fundamentals of Bar Charts, Precedence Diagrams, Activity on Arrow, PERT, Range Estimating, and linear project operations and the line of balance.",
  -Managing Uncertainty in Marketing Analytics,uncertainty-marketing-decisions,https://coursera.org/learn/uncertainty-marketing-decisions,Business,Emory University,"Marketers must make the best decisions based on the information presented to them. Rarely will they have all the information necessary to predict what consumers will do with complete certainty. By incorporating uncertainty into the decisions that they make, they can anticipate a wide range of possible outcomes and recognize the extent of uncertainty on the decisions that they make. In Incorporating Uncertainty into Marketing Decisions, learners will become familiar with different methods to recognize sources of uncertainty that may affect the marketing decisions they ultimately make. We eschew specialized software and provide learners with the foundational knowledge they need to develop sophisticated marketing models in a basic spreadsheet environment. Topics include the development and application of Monte Carlo simulations, and the use of probability distributions to characterize uncertainty.",
  -Investments II: Lessons and Applications,investments-applications,https://coursera.org/learn/investments-applications,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will start by reviewing the fundamentals of investments, including the trading off of return and risk when forming a portfolio, asset pricing models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the 3-Factor Model, and the efficient market hypothesis. You will be introduced to the two components of stock returns – dividends and capital gains – and will learn how each are taxed and the incentives provided to investors from a realization-based capital gains tax. You will examine the investment decisions (and behavioral biases) of participants in defined-contribution (DC) pension plans like 401(k) plans in the U.S. and will learn about the evidence regarding the performance of individual investors in their stock portfolios. The course concludes by discussing the evidence regarding the performance of actively-managed mutual funds. You will learn about the fees charged to investors by mutual funds and the evidence regarding the relation between fees charged and fund performance.",
  -Arts and Heritage Management,arts-heritage,https://coursera.org/learn/arts-heritage,Business,Università Bocconi,"Today cultural institutions are facing important dilemmas in many aspects of their management. Over the past decades, a new figure has emerged that of the art manager. Imagine you went to work every day to connect artists with audiences, vision with reality, and money with a mission. That is what managers in the arts do, they play an essential role in transforming the minds, lives, and communities through creative expression. This course has been conceptualized to address the need of skills and techniques to help professionals and managers in running art and cultural institutions.",
  -Relationship Management ,relationship-managment,https://coursera.org/learn/relationship-managment,Business,Rice University,"Course 2 in the Leadership Development for Engineers Specialization and part of Rice University's Engineering Management and Leadership Certificate. To be a successful engineer, you must work and play well with others. This course focuses on developing the skills you will need to build and sustain professional relationships and networks. Learn to coach and mentor others, manage conflict and build power and influence in the workplace.",
  -Successful Presentation,presentation-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/presentation-skills,Business,University of Colorado Boulder,"Few kinds of communication can have the effect of a powerful presentation. Even a short speech can motivate people to change long-held beliefs or to take action, and a wonderfully delivered speech can transform a normal person into a leader. In this course, Prof. William Kuskin provides a series of pragmatic videos and exercises for successful public speaking and presentations. The course develops through four themes—mastering fear, developing a creative formula, using verbal and body language, and anticipating the room—so that you can discover your personal power as a speaker and give excellent presentations.",
  -Optimizing Diversity on Teams,diverse-teams,https://coursera.org/learn/diverse-teams,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Drawing on social science perspectives, this course will enable participants to learn what diversity is and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation, and creativity. Participants will learn how to draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams, handle conflict, and establish common ground rules through real-world cases and peer-to-peer discussions. In addition, participants in this course will learn how to overcome common biases faced in diverse teams. Systems of power, reward, and rhetoric will be discussed in order to help participants create prosperous teams where differences flourish.",
  -Strategy and Sustainability,strategysustainability,https://coursera.org/learn/strategysustainability,Business,IESE Business School,"Business and environmental sustainability are not natural bedfellows. Business is about making money. Sustainability is about protecting the planet. Business is measured in months and quarters. Sustainability often requires significant short term costs to secure a sometimes uncertain long-term benefit. To some activists, all executives are exploitative, selfish one percenters. To some executives, all activists are irresponsible, unyielding extremists. And yet engaging with the issue isn’t optional – all businesses must have a strategy to deal with sustainability and, like any strategy, this involves making choices. This Strategy and Sustainability course based on Rosenberg's recently published book by Palgrave (http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137501738) that encourages learners to filter out the noise and make those choices in a hard-nosed and clear-eyed way. Prof. Rosenberg’s nuanced and fact-based point of view recognizes the complexity of the issues at hand and the strategic choices businesses must make.",
  -Financial Analysis for Startups,financial-ratios,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-ratios,Business,Yonsei University,"In the previous two courses, you have learned how to value startups using the discounted cash flow method and multiple methods. However, you have not learned how to estimate cash flows or earnings of startups. In this course, you are going to learn the concepts and usage of financial ratios. Using financial ratios such as profitability, liquidity, leverage, efficiency, and growth, you can tell financial health of a startup. Profitability ratios measure how profitable a firm is by looking at ROS, ROA, and ROE. Liquidity ratios measure how quickly a firm turns assets into cash to pay-off short-term liability and they include Current Ratio, Quick Ratio, and Cash Ratio. Leverage ratios measure how much long-term debt a firm has relative to its assets or equity. Efficiency ratios measure how efficiently a firm utilizes its assets. It is like a physical exam for humans and you can tell the fiscal status of a startup using financial ratios. You can also develop pro forma financial statement using financial ratios.",
  -Construction Cost Estimating and Cost Control,construction-cost-estimating,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-cost-estimating,Business,Columbia University,"This course introduces the types of cost estimation from the conceptual design phase through the more detailed design phase of a construction project. In addition, the course highlights the importance of controlling costs and how to monitor project cash flow. Students will work on a break-even analysis of construction tasks in a project.",
  -Supply Chain Planning,planning,https://coursera.org/learn/planning,Business,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Have you ever wondered how companies know how much to produce in advance so that they do not make too much or too little? Matching supply and demand requires planning. This course introduces you to the exciting area of supply chain planning. Part of a broader specialization on Supply Chain Management, you will master different forecasting techniques, essential for building a Sales and Operations Plan. At the completion of this course you will have the tools and techniques to analyze demand data, construct different forecasting techniques, and choose the most suitable one for projecting future demand.",
  -Interest Rate Models,interest-rate-models,https://coursera.org/learn/interest-rate-models,Business,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"This course gives you an easy introduction to interest rates and related contracts. These include the LIBOR, bonds, forward rate agreements, swaps, interest rate futures, caps, floors, and swaptions. We will learn how to apply the basic tools duration and convexity for managing the interest rate risk of a bond portfolio. We will gain practice in estimating the term structure from market data. We will learn the basic facts from stochastic calculus that will enable you to engineer a large variety of stochastic interest rate models. In this context, we will also review the arbitrage pricing theorem that provides the foundation for pricing financial derivatives.",
  -Accounting and Finance for Managers,finance-and-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-and-accounting,Business,Vanderbilt University,"The course will show you how to determine the value of an asset by the level and the riskiness of its expected after-tax cash flows. We’ll teach you the techniques used to discount cash flows and determine the value implications of investment decisions, as well as the guidelines used to construct after-tax cash flow forecasts. We’ll teach you to estimate risk in the context of modern portfolio theory and talk about the impact of capital structure (your firm’s mix of debt and equity) on the riskiness of financial instruments issued by your firm. In the accounting portion of the course, we’ll give you a basic introduction to financial accounting, including overviews of financial statements, income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows. You’ll learn about LIFO vs. FIFO accounting, accounting for inventory, and the valuation of long-term assets.",
  -Intellectual Humility: Theory,intellectual-humility-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/intellectual-humility-theory,Business,The University of Edinburgh,"In this course we try to define intellectual humility and intellectual virtues in general, and ask how we know who is humble. All lectures are delivered by leading specialists, and the course is organised around a number of interesting readings and practical assignments which will help you address issues related to humility in your daily life. This course is a part of a series which explores the theory, the science and the applied issues surrounding intellectual humility (the latter two coming in June and November 2017). Completing all three courses will give you a broader understanding of this fascinating topic.",
  -European Business Law: Competing in Europe,eu-competition-law,https://coursera.org/learn/eu-competition-law,Business,Lund University,"This six-week course titled Competing in Europe is the third in a series of three exploring some of the main business aspects of European Union law. Besides providing learners with a sound knowledge base of European laws and regulations, the series explores business considerations within a broader perspective by including inputs from leading law practitioners in the field. More specifically, the third course discusses how to compete on the internal market and protect your brand, product or invention. It includes legal disciplines such as Intellectual Property law (IP law), Competition law and specific branches within Public law, such as public procurement and state aid.",
  -Unleashing the Impact of your Social Enterprise,social-impact-growth,https://coursera.org/learn/social-impact-growth,Business,Copenhagen Business School,In Course 3 of this Specialization you will first of all learn about Social Impact Assessment. Hence you will be able to develop a method to evaluate the social mission that you achieve while implementing your business plan. Next you will outline an appropriate communication strategy for your social enterprise and will demonstrate how to market your products and services to beneficiaries and other customers. Here you will employ an adaptable communication strategy as you move from early adopters to a broader market share.,
  -Action Planning,action-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/action-planning,Business,Rice University,"Course 3 in the Leadership Development for Engineers Specialization and part of Rice University's Engineering Management and Leadership Certificate. An actionable leadership improvement plan enables you to leverage strengths and close the gaps on weaknesses. In this course, you will build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals within the next two years. It lays the foundation for an evergreen process of selection and prioritization of skills, and action planning for sustained leadership development.",
  -3D Printing Software,3d-printing-software,https://coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-software,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course will demonstrate how to use 3D printing software to create digital designs that can be turned into physical objects. It will also demonstrate how 3D scanners work to turn physical objects into digital designs. This course is hands-on in nature and will provide step-by-step instructions to guide you through two popular 3D modeling programs, Tinkercad and Fusion 360. Learners who complete this course will be able to use 3D software to design a wide variety of objects for both personal and professional use. In addition, learners who enroll in the course certificate will receive extended free access to Fusion 360 (provided by Autodesk).",
  -Accounting and Finance for IT professionals,accounting-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/accounting-finance,Business,Indian School of Business,"This course presents an introduction to the basics of financial accounting and finance for IT professionals. The first part of the course will focus on understanding the most important financial statements, namely, the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. We will then focus on how we can understand the financial health and performance of the company by examining a number of important financial ratios that are derived from the financial statements of the company. The second part of the course will focus on the basics of finance. This includes the concept of time value of money, discounting cash flows, and capital budgeting.",
  -Creating a Team Culture of Continuous Learning,continuous-learning-culture,https://coursera.org/learn/continuous-learning-culture,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"With good reason there is mounting concern that organizational groups and teams often fail to learn from their experience. This is deeply troubling because groups and teams are often the main ways that work gets done in organizations. Two of the main reasons that groups and teams are often ineffective are because of: 1) The lack of organizational structures and support for teams and groups, 2) The lack of understanding and emphasis on learning.",
  -Innovation & Entrepreneurship - From Basics to Open Innovation,open-innovation-entrepreneurship,https://coursera.org/learn/open-innovation-entrepreneurship,Business,EIT Digital,"This Innovation and Entrepreneurship course focuses on the interconnection between entrepreneurial thinking and innovation. Specifically, we look at models used in Silicon Valley to grow both start-up companies as well as innovation inside large organizations. Bringing together top Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley faculty, this course addresses critical areas for successful growth, including design thinking, open innovation, business models, product-market fit, and financing. This course will teach you how to think like an entrepreneur and provides the models, tools and frameworks to further develop your business or idea. An emphasis will be placed on the IT space.",
  -Marketing Management I,marketing-management,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-management,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn how businesses create value for customers. We will examine the process by which Marketing builds on a thorough understanding of buyer behavior to create value. You will learn the major elements of the marketing mix - product policy, channels of distribution, communication, and pricing - and see how they fit within different analytical frameworks that are useful to managers. This will enhance your understanding of how marketing works in the business world. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Define marketing and describe how marketing creates value • Describe the elements of the marketing mix • Explain how these elements interact to create value for consumers • Use different analytical frameworks to examine how managers solve business problems • Evaluate brand extensions • Develop a marketing Plan proposal",
  -Construction Finance,construction-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-finance,Business,Columbia University,"The final course of the specialization expands the knowledge of a construction project manager to include an understanding of economics and the mathematics of money, an essential component of every construction project. Topics covered include the time value of money, the definition and calculation of the types of interest rates, and the importance of Cash Flow Diagrams.",
  -Forecasting Models for Marketing Decisions,forecasting-models-marketing-decisions,https://coursera.org/learn/forecasting-models-marketing-decisions,Business,Emory University,"How will customers act in the future? What will demand for our products and services be? How much inventory should we order for the next season? Beyond simply forecasting what customers will do, marketers need to understand how their actions can shape future behavior. In Developing Forecasting Tools with Excel, learners will develop an understanding of the basic components of a forecasting model, how to build their own forecasting models, and how to evaluate the performance of forecasting models. All of this is done using Microsoft Excel, ensuring that learners can take their skills and apply them to their own business problems.",
  -The Strategy of Content Marketing,content-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/content-marketing,Business,"University of California, Davis","This course is a partnership between the leading content marketing authority, Copyblogger, and UC Davis Extension. In this course, you will learn the core strategies content marketers use to acquire and retain customers profitably. Specifically, you will learn how to develop, organize and implement a content marketing strategy, analyze and measure the effectiveness of content marketing, write compelling copy, use a strategic framework when writing, and build your professional brand and authority through content marketing. You will also learn how to put the ideas presented to you into action and build your own personal brand through content marketing.",
  -Digital Business Models,digital-business-models,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-business-models,Business,Lund University,"Digital business models are disrupting 50-year old companies in telecommunications, transportation, advertising, e-commerce, automotive, insurance and many other industries. This course will explore the business models of software disruptors of the west such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon, and the east such as Xiaomi and weChat. The class uses a structured framework for analysing business models with numerous examples so that students can apply it to their own business or case study. We will explore how software developers are not just the innovators but also the decision makers in modern competitive battles from mobile to cloud, and from consumer goods to enterprise software.",
  -Strategic Organization Design,organization-design,https://coursera.org/learn/organization-design,Business,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"Strategic Organization Design will introduce new topics and modules with even more real world examples and opportunities for student interaction than its predecessors Competitive Strategy (https://www.coursera.org/learn/competitive-strategy) and Advanced Competitive Strategy (https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-competitive-strategy). The final course in the Competitive Strategy and Organization Design specialization covers the internal workings of an organization and its interactions with the outside world. Where the first two courses mainly covered the way firms interact with the outside world, in particular competitors and complementors, the third course looks at the way a firm’s organization should be designed to compete effectively.",
  -Professional Skills for International Business,professional-skills-networking,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-skills-networking,Business,University of London,"This course provides insight into the key professional skills needed by managers at all levels of an organisation. You’ll learn key skills such as how to make a positive first impression; how to become a role model at work; effective time and resource management; and networking. This course forms part of a specialisation from the University of London designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study.",
  -Biases and Portfolio Selection,biases-portfolio-selection,https://coursera.org/learn/biases-portfolio-selection,Business,Rice University,"Investors tend to be their own worst enemies. In this third course, you will learn how to capitalize on understanding behavioral biases and irrational behavior in financial markets. You will start by learning about the various behavioral biases – mistakes that investors make and understand their reasons. You will learn how to recognize your own mistakes as well as others’ and understand how these mistakes can affect investment decisions and financial markets. You will also explore how different preferences and investment horizons impact the optimal asset allocation choice. After this course, you will be more effective in overcoming biases to do the wrong things at the wrong times and tailoring an investment strategy that is best suited on your or your client’s profile and investment needs.",
  -Statistics for International Business,statistics-international-business,https://coursera.org/learn/statistics-international-business,Business,University of London,"This course introduces core areas of statistics that will be useful in business and for several MBA modules. It covers a variety of ways to present data, probability, and statistical estimation. You can test your understanding as you progress, while more advanced content is available if you want to push yourself. This course forms part of a specialisation from the University of London designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study.",
  -Quantitative Foundations for International Business,quantitative-foundations-international-business,https://coursera.org/learn/quantitative-foundations-international-business,Business,University of London,"This course provides the essential mathematics required to succeed in the finance and economics related modules of the Global MBA, including equations, functions, derivatives, and matrices. You can test your understanding with quizzes and worksheets, while more advanced content will be available if you want to push yourself. This course forms part of a specialisation from the University of London designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study.",
  -Marketing Strategy for Entrepreneurs,marketing-strategy-entrepreneurs,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-strategy-entrepreneurs,Business,EIT Digital,"If you want to earn money and be able to pay all the salaries you and your employees desperately need. If so: Is there anything else but sales and marketing? This is also the reason why we will start of in a situation “as if” you did start up the sales process in a new company where no previous customers did exist. Gradually your sales efforts bare fruit, you get customers and market expansion becomes important to be able to handle. The course begins in the art of cold calling and analyzing the customers, then gradually move over to segmentation, positioning, closing the deal, competition, marketing strategy and market expansion.",
  -Oral Communication for Engineering Leaders,oral-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/oral-communication,Business,Rice University,"Taught by Rice University communication faculty from the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL). This course covers core topics in oral communication: Communication strategy, content, data visualization, and delivery. You’ll learn key principles in • Creating a communication strategy • Developing a clear message and organizing persuasive content • Creating strong visual support • Presenting data effectively • Presenting professionally and confidently • Handling formal presentations, giving pitches, speaking extemporaneously, managing online presentations, and lowering public speaking anxiety",
  -Research kitchen,research-kitchen,https://coursera.org/learn/research-kitchen,Business,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"The research kitchen is a unique format that we have developed extra for you: curious learners interested in competitive strategy and organization design yearning for a first glimpse into the world of research. It is voluntary and ""just for fun"" - so please, go on and have a look! Different to other courses of our specialization Competitive Strategy and Organization Design it is comprised of brief paper sessions rather than modules. For a change, you will experience the instructor Tobias Kretschmer at the whiteboard of his very own institute at LMU Munich. Here he will summarize key findings of recent research papers on topics relating to the three courses Competitive Strategy, Advanced Competitive Strategy and Strategic Organization Design.",
  -Financial Planning for Young Adults,personal-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/personal-finance,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Financial Planning for Young Adults (FPYA), developed in partnership with the CFP Board, is designed to provide an introduction to basic financial planning concepts for young adults. The FPYA course is organized across eight separate modules within a 4-week window. Topics covered include financial goal setting, saving and investing, budgeting, financial risk, borrowing and credit. Because financial planning is such a personal topic, you will be encouraged to define your own financial goals and objectives while we discuss concepts and provide tools which can be applied in helping you reach those goals. Within each module, you will view a combination of traditional lecture style videos along with video vignettes that introduce financial topics for discussion among participants. The video vignettes provide a unique and exciting component to this course.",
  -Supply Chain Sourcing,sourcing,https://coursera.org/learn/sourcing,Business,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Have you ever wondered how companies manage relationships with their thousands of suppliers? Sourcing is an important part of managing a successful supply chain. This course introduces you to the exciting area of supply chain sourcing. Part of a broader specialization on Supply Chain Management, you will master the supplier selection process and supplier segmentation. At the completion of this course you will have the tools and techniques to find the right vendors and maintain the right relationship with any one of your existing suppliers.",
  -Management Skills for International Business,management-skills-international-business,https://coursera.org/learn/management-skills-international-business,Business,University of London,"The United States has always been a source of fascination — both attraction and repulsion — for the people of France, Mexico, China, and African countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, and Sudan. ""America Through Foreign Eyes"" is a rich, interdisciplinary, international course that features Rice University faculty from a variety of disciplines and area studies. Focused on perceptions of America abroad, the course is a cross between World Cultures and American Studies. The course features four modules, each covering the perceptions and interactions of particular regions with America, Americans and Americanization.",
  -International Business Environment,global-business-environment,https://coursera.org/learn/global-business-environment,Business,University of London,"This course explores the international business environment in which organisations function. You’ll learn about core analysis methods, including PESTLE, SWOT, and Boston Box Matrices, as well as the applications of Porter’s Five Forces. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in discussion forums and access case studies, as well as testing your understanding in quizzes. This course forms part of a specialization from the University of London designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study.",
  -How to finance your venture ?,finance-venture,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-venture,Business,École Polytechnique,"The course aims at providing knowledge and experience to entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs generally start with a mission, a new idea that they want to bring to the world. If the idea is original, it is probably not expected by the market, which has to be educated. This is a very costly experience. Entrepreneurs need to gather capital at the start of the journey. They need to articulate clear plans, define objectives and resources and raise money accordingly. They also need to manage cash for two reasons: i) because the better it is managed, the less you need to raise with outsiders; ii) because generation of cash flow is the pillar of the valuation of the company.",
  -Applying Investment Decision Rules for Startups,capital-budgeting,https://coursera.org/learn/capital-budgeting,Business,Yonsei University,"In the previous course, you learned financial statement analysis and how to make estimate of future financial status. In this course, you are going to learn capital budgeting. That is, how to make an investment decision. You would like to select the best project among various projects you can take. Then, you need to know the criteria. In this course, you are going to learn investment decision criteria such as NPV and IRR, which are most popular decision rules. Using financial analysis and discounted cash flow method, you can make pro forma financial statement and estimate project cash flows. Then, you apply investment criteria to determine whether to invest or not.",
  -Corporate Finance II: Financing Investments and Managing Risk,corporate-finance-two,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-two,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn how companies decide on how much debt to take, and whether to raise capital from markets or from banks. You will also learn how to measure and manage credit risk and how to deal with financial distress. You will discuss the mechanics of dividends and share repurchases, and how to choose the best way to return cash to investors. You will also learn how to use derivatives and liquidity management to offset specific sources of financial risk, including currency risks. Finally, You will learn how companies finance merger and acquisition decisions, including leveraged buyouts, and how to incorporate large changes in leverage in standard valuation models.",
  -Negotiation  Fundamentals,negotiation-fundamentals,https://coursera.org/learn/negotiation-fundamentals,Business,ESSEC Business School,"This course gives you access to negotiation practical tools and best practices gathered by Professor Aurélien Colson & his team from assignments in more than seventy countries and in a wide set of sectors, be they services, industry, high tech, or public organizations. In an interactive manner, this course will help you, among other topics: get prepared for any negotiation; avoid traps; know how to prompt value-creating partnerships; structure an effective negotiation sequence; bargain in an efficient and respectful manner; overcome deadlocks; and much more!",
  -Supply Chain Principles,supply-chain-principles,https://coursera.org/learn/supply-chain-principles,Business,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course will provide a solid understanding of what a supply chain is all about. The course: - Provides an introduction to Supply Chain - Leverages graphics to promote the Integrated Supply Chain model - Emphasizes understanding the Extended Supply Chain - Presents a holistic approach – Incorporating People, Process, and Technology - Calls-out industry-specific supply chain",
  -Trading Strategies - Strategies for emerging markets,trading-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/trading-strategies,Business,Indian School of Business,"This course covers two of the seven trading strategies that work in emerging markets. The seven include strategies based on momentum, momentum crashes, price reversal, persistence of earnings, quality of earnings, underlying business growth, behavioral biases and textual analysis of business reports about the company. In the first part of the course, you will learn how to read an academic paper. What parts to pay attention to and what parts to skim through will be discussed here. For every strategy, first you will be introduced to the original research and then how to implement the strategy.",
  -The Science of Success: What Researchers Know that You Should Know,success,https://coursera.org/learn/success,Business,University of Michigan,"This engaging course is designed to help you achieve the success that you desire. Drawing on decades of scientific research, you will learn what the most successful people do differently than others, why IQ is not the most significant predictor of success (and can sometimes backfire), and why many commonly held beliefs hold people back from achieving their goals.",
  -Operations Management and Strategy,strategy-and-operations,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-and-operations,Business,Vanderbilt University,"Are you looking for a deeper understanding of the basic elements of business strategy, from design through execution? This four-part course covers the fundamentals of designing a business strategy, executing that strategy and measuring results, managing operations and improving processes, and running successful projects that support your business goals.",
  -Survey analysis to Gain Marketing Insights,survey-analysis-marketing-insights,https://coursera.org/learn/survey-analysis-marketing-insights,Business,Emory University,"How do consumers see your brand relative to your competitors? How should a new product be positioned when it’s launched? Which customer segments are most interested in our current offerings? For these questions and many others, surveys remain the tried and true method for gaining marketing insights. From one-off customer satisfaction surveys to brand tracking surveys that are administered on a continuous basis, they provide the information that marketers need to understand how their products, services and brands are seen by consumers. In Analytic Methods for Survey Data, learners will become familiar with established statistical methods for converting survey responses to insights that can support marketing decisions. Techniques discussed include factor analytics, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis and multi-dimensional scaling.",
  -Creating Innovation,creating-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/creating-innovation,Business,Macquarie University,The third course of the specialization CREATING INNOVATION will teach you what is at the core of all innovations that solve complex problems and how to foster methods to make big breakthroughs possible. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways.,
  -Evaluating Problems,evaluating-problems,https://coursera.org/learn/evaluating-problems,Business,Macquarie University,The second course of the specialization EVALUATING PROBLEMS will show you how humans think and how to utilize different disciplinary approaches to tackle problems more effectively. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways.,
  -Business Strategies for Emerging Markets,business-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/business-strategies,Business,Higher School of Economics,"The course aims to transfer the fundamental knowledge and to form the basic competencies necessary for the development and the implementation of a business strategy in an emerging market. The students are going to improve their analyzing, decision making, and planning skills as well as the ability to recognize strategic opportunities and threats. The course requires the knowledge of basic economics concepts as the pre-requisite. It is preferable that the students have some practical entrepreneurial or marketing experience, but this is not obligatory.",
  -Analysing Complexity,analysing-complexity,https://coursera.org/learn/analysing-complexity,Business,Macquarie University,"The first course of the specialization ANALYZING COMPLEXITY will teach you what unifying patterns lie at the core of all complex problems. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways. ANALYZING COMPLEXITY is constructed in the following way: Week I. ""What is Complexity?"" - What is at the core of all complex problems Week II. ""Complex Physical Systems"" - What complex problems all have in common in the inanimate world Week III. ""Complex Adaptive Systems"" - What complex problems all have in common in nature Week IV.",
  -Innovation & Entrepreneurship - From Design Thinking to Funding,design-thinking-entrepreneurship,https://coursera.org/learn/design-thinking-entrepreneurship,Business,EIT Digital,"This Innovation and Entrepreneurship course focuses on the interconnection between entrepreneurial thinking and innovation. Specifically, we look at models used in Silicon Valley to grow both start-up companies as well as innovation inside large organizations. Bringing together top Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley faculty, this course addresses critical areas for successful growth, including design thinking, open innovation, business models, product-market fit, and financing. This course will teach you how to think like an entrepreneur and provides the models, tools and frameworks to further develop your business or idea. An emphasis will be placed on the IT space.",
  -Marketing Management II,marketing-management-two,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-management-two,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will further examine how businesses create value for customers. In Marketing Management I, you learned the major elements of the marketing mix - product policy, channels of distribution, communication, and pricing - and saw how they fit within different analytical frameworks that are useful to managers. In this course, you will complete a more detailed analysis of these elements in order to conduct a thorough strategic analysis of marketing opportunities and communicate marketing decisions. This will enable you to see “marketing in action” in the business world.",
  -Trading Strategies – Back testing and performance management,back-testing-performance-measurement,https://coursera.org/learn/back-testing-performance-measurement,Business,Indian School of Business,This course will provide back test results for all the strategies in developed and emerging markets. The learner will also be taught scientific ways of back testing without succumbing to either look ahead (or) survival bias. You will learn various methods of building a robust back testing system for the strategies discussed in the previous course. You will be taught how to differentiate between mere data mining and results based on solid empirical or theoretical foundation.,
  -Interpersonal Communication for Engineering Leaders,interpersonal-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/interpersonal-communication,Business,Rice University,"This course covers communication skills that engineering leaders use every day to motivate, inspire, and support the people in their organizations. Speaking and writing are basic leadership communication skills. (We covered these topics in the Specialization course 1 and 3.) However, leaders also need to be skillful interpersonal communicators. Modern business requires communication skills that are effective across cultures, generations, and genders. Communication is also a key skill in building your personal brand. Leaders need to look, act, and speak like leaders.",
  -Investment Strategies and Portfolio Analysis,investment-strategies-portfolio-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/investment-strategies-portfolio-analysis,Business,Rice University,"In this course, you will learn about latest investment strategies and performance evaluation. You will start by learning portfolio performance measures and discuss best practices in portfolio performance evaluation. You will explore different evaluation techniques such as style analysis and attribution analysis and apply them to evaluate different investment strategies. Special emphasis will be given to recent financial market innovations and current investment trends. After this course, learners will be able to: • Describe performance measurement measures • Evaluate portfolio performance • Describe and contrast different investment strategies",
  -Capstone,bighistorycapstone,https://coursera.org/learn/bighistorycapstone,Business,Macquarie University,"From the very start of the specialization, your assignments will be geared toward tackling a complex issue of your choice that you face in your career path, industry, or field. Each phase of the course builds up to a briefing paper that analyzes, evaluates, and attempts to solve a highly complex problem. Not only does this course teach you a skill set, but it puts you further down the road in understanding the problems of your chosen field. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways. This is the CAPSTONE where the scaffolding of our problem solving and innovation skills will bear fruit in a series of preparatory assignments to make your briefing paper as effective as possible.",
  -Leading the Life You Want,leading-the-life-you-want,https://coursera.org/learn/leading-the-life-you-want,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Pursue a meaningful life and improve your performance as a leader. Taught by acclaimed Wharton professor, best-selling author, and former Ford Motor Company executive and head of its Leadership Development Center, Stew Friedman, Leading the Life You Want provides you with the skills you need to lead in all four domains of your life: at work, at home, in the community, and in your private self (mind, body, and spirit). You'll explore the core principles of leadership and learn the skills you need to bring them to life. You learn how to find a greater sense of purpose, see how to convey values with stories, learn how to mange attention, feel less stressed, lead through serving others, and more. You'll see these skills illustrated in the inspiring yet imperfect lives of six remarkable leaders: Tom Tierney (former CEO of Bain), Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook), Michelle Obama (former First Lady), Eric Greitens (Republican Governor of Missouri), Julie Foudy (world champion soccer star and three-time Olympic medalist), and Bruce Springsteen (world-famous rock musician). You'll have the opportunity to assess your own leadership skills, and learn simple, proven exercises to practice them.",
  -IT Project Management,it-project-management,https://coursera.org/learn/it-project-management,Business,Indian School of Business,"The concepts and use of project management tools, techniques and methodologies are becoming all pervasive. This course addresses project management in the context of IT projects, including software projects. Using the framework of project life cycle, the course covers various aspects pertaining to (i) project initiation, (ii) project planning and scheduling, (iii) project monitoring and control, and (iv) project termination. For planning and scheduling of projects, the use of project network and estimation of time and cost are covered in detail. Scheduling of projects with resource limitations is covered next.",
  -Strategic Innovation: Building and Sustaining Innovative Organizations,strategic-innovation-building-and-sustaining-innovative-organizations,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-innovation-building-and-sustaining-innovative-organizations,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Innovation strategy is about creating unique value for consumers by delivering a great product that satisfies their needs and capturing value back from consumers. At the core of a successful innovation strategy is a great product concept. Product is an all-encompassing term that includes physical goods, intangible services, and even ideas. There are three pillars to a successful product strategy: a clear understanding of (a) the target customers (WHO), (b) the specific elements of the product offering (WHAT) that satisfies consumer needs and dovetails with company capabilities, and (c) the tactical plans to reach end consumers (HOW). The value proposition has to be embedded in a coherent business model in order to create and capture value. But well-laid innovation plans can go awry without a consideration of the business ecosystem that includes competitors, collaborators, including suppliers, distributors, and retailers, or the contextual environment in which the company operates.",
  -Writing as Engineers,engineering-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/engineering-writing,Business,Rice University,"Engineering leaders must write extensively for their jobs, and their writing needs to be professional, reader-focused, and error-free. What leaders write in particular can affect productivity and the bottom line, so the written communication that leaders create must be clear and concise. In this course, you’ll learn essential writing skills that you can apply in your daily activities on the job as an engineering leader. You’ll learn key principles in • Approaching various engineering genres • Using the writing process to create quality documents • Making your writing structured • Making your writing clear and concise • Handling style, tone, and voice",
  -Diversity and inclusion in the workplace,diversity,https://coursera.org/learn/diversity,Business,ESSEC Business School,"Diversity is a fact. It is also paradoxical. We need to be capable of seeing and hearing differences in order to reap the benefits of diversity. But seeing and hearing differences hone our discriminating reflexes and can also lead to discrimination. If you take this MOOC, you will: 1. understand this paradox, 2. understand its dynamics, and 3. identify ways to manage it, so that you can better channel the diversity potential in the workplace for greater performance and innovation.",
  -Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces,subsistence-marketplaces-1,https://coursera.org/learn/subsistence-marketplaces-1,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course focuses on understanding subsistence marketplaces and designing business solutions for the billions of people living in poverty in the global marketplace. To develop understanding of subsistence marketplaces, we use exercises to enable participants to view the world from the eyes of subsistence consumers and entrepreneurs, facilitate bottom‐up understanding generated by participants, and provide insights from extensive research. More broadly, the course uses the context of extreme resource constrained contexts to learn about the bottom-up approach pioneered through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative, and apply it in any context.",
  -Financial Accounting Fundamentals,uva-darden-financial-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-financial-accounting,Business,University of Virginia,"This course will teach you the tools you'll need to understand the fundamentals of financial accounting. Concise videos, the financial records of a small business, and ""your turn"" activities guide you through the three most commonly used financial statements: the Balance Sheet, the Income Statement, and the Statement of Cash Flows. Beyond recording transactions, you'll learn how to prepare these financial statements, and read and analyze them to draw basic conclusions about a company's financial health.",
  -Business Strategy in Practice (Project-centered Course),uva-darden-business-strategy-capstone,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-business-strategy-capstone,Business,University of Virginia,"A Capstone Project is an assignment designed specifically to apply and showcase the skills you learned in the Specialization. To this end, the Business Strategy Capstone Project, a comprehensive Strategic Analysis, provides an opportunity for you to synthesize concepts and knowledge from the four prerequisite courses in the specialization. You may continue with the organization you selected for previous assignments or select a new organization for this project. You will analyze the current state of the organization, strategic issues facing the organization, strategic paths the organization might pursue, make a recommendation of the best path for the organization to pursue, and write an Executive Summary.",
  - Effective Business Presentations with Powerpoint,powerpoint-presentations,https://coursera.org/learn/powerpoint-presentations,Business,PwC,"This course is all about presenting the story of the data, using PowerPoint. You'll learn how to structure a presentation, to include insights and supporting data. You'll also learn some design principles for effective visuals and slides. You'll gain skills for client-facing communication - including public speaking, executive presence and compelling storytelling. Finally, you'll be given a client profile, a business problem, and a set of basic Excel charts, which you'll need to turn into a presentation - which you'll deliver with iterative peer feedback.",
  +Regardless of your familiarity with the topic, you'll get insightful tips, portable handouts, lively demonstrations, and personalized assignments to bridge and enhance your own knowledge and history within the conflict narrative. In any area of your life, you'll benefit from the practical techniques and transferable information offered throughout this five-week journey."
  +What’s Your Big Idea?,big-ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/big-ideas,Business,California Institute of the Arts,"Whether your interest lies in solving the world’s biggest problems, creating the next commercial success or addressing something closer to home, this course will give you a toolbox to vet your ideas and test them in the real world."
  +Fundamentals of Management,fundamentals-of-management,https://coursera.org/learn/fundamentals-of-management,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Are you about to enter the workforce? Are you an emerging professional? Are you new to your role in the organization? All prospective new employees benefit from understanding management principles, roles and responsibilities, regardless of position. Now you can acquire an in-depth understanding of the basic concepts and theories of management while exploring the manager's operational role in all types of organizations. Gain insight into the manager's responsibility in planning, organizing, leading, staffing and controlling within the workplace. It’s never too soon to plan your professional path by learning how the best managers manage for success!"
  +Inspiring and Motivating Individuals,motivate-people-teams,https://coursera.org/learn/motivate-people-teams,Business,University of Michigan,"In this course, you will learn how to create a shared vision for your team and effectively communicate it to your teammates. You will also learn how to set effective goals and expectations in a way that best enables your team to attain the shared vision. Finally, you will understand the most important needs and drivers of performance across cultures, and will learn to align rewards with desired behaviors so that your teammates are motivated to attain the team’s objectives."
  +Introduction to Public Relations,public-relations,https://coursera.org/learn/public-relations,Business,National University of Singapore,"In this course, you will learn what Public Relations is, what are some of the key growth areas in Public Relations, and the future of the practice. You will learn about the various theories of Public Relations and how to put these theories to use when carrying out Public Relations activities. The course will provide you a big picture of the Public Relations process, and the important roles of strategy and tactics in the process."
  +Conflict Resolution Skills,conflict-resolution-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/conflict-resolution-skills,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Resolving conflict in a positive manner is a skill than can be developed and practiced. Being heard can be one of the most important goals of someone engaged in conflict. Knowing how to listen and deploy appropriate communication tactics is determinative of whether a conflict will have a positive or negative resolution. Examine listening skills, appropriate and strategic verbal and non-verbal communication skills, and how to assemble a conflict management plan likely to yield positive resolutions."
  +Budgeting and Scheduling Projects,schedule-projects,https://coursera.org/learn/schedule-projects,Business,"University of California, Irvine",A good project schedule helps all team members’ work together to meet project objectives. A project budget with realistic cost constraints is also an essential bedrock of any project. In this course you’ll learn to plan and stick to time and cost constraints in order to ensure the success of your projects.
  +What is Social?,what-is-social,https://coursera.org/learn/what-is-social,Business,Northwestern University,"This course has been designed to give you the tools, insights, knowledge, and skills to immediately impact your organization. In addition, we will help you network with thought leaders in social. After completing this course, you and your organization’s staff will be able to position, engage, and grow relationships with the consumers of highest value to you."
  +Effective Problem-Solving and Decision-Making,problem-solving,https://coursera.org/learn/problem-solving,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Critical thinking enables us to avoid common obstacles, test our beliefs and assumptions, and correct distortions in our thought processes. Gain confidence in assessing problems accurately, evaluating alternative solutions, and anticipating likely risks. Learn how to use analysis, synthesis, and positive inquiry to address individual and organizational problems and develop the critical thinking skills needed in today’s turbulent times. Using case studies and situations encountered by class members, explore successful models and proven methods that are readily transferable on-the-job."
  +Building Your Leadership Skills,leadership-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-skills,Business,HEC Paris,"When taking this course, you will raise your own self-awareness and gain self-confidence for a better leadership. You will discover a new approach to leadership based on trust and sense. The “Savoir-Relier” leadership, a new approach of leadership, taught to HEC MBA’s student and top executives, enables better team leadership and encourages relationships between people in spite of their differences of opinion."
  +Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I,financial-engineering-1,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-engineering-1,Business,Columbia University,"The emphasis of FE & RM Part I will be on the use of simple stochastic models to price derivative securities in various asset classes including equities, fixed income, credit and mortgage-backed securities. We will also consider the role that some of these asset classes played during the financial crisis. A notable feature of this course will be an interview module with Emanuel Derman, the renowned ``quant'' and best-selling author of ""My Life as a Quant""."
  +Communication in the 21st Century Workplace,communication-in-the-workplace,https://coursera.org/learn/communication-in-the-workplace,Business,"University of California, Irvine","The focus of this course is to heighten students’ awareness of workplace communication, and add new interpersonal skills, with the end result of becoming a more competent communicator overall. Target areas include: the process and functions of communication, behavioral patterns, perceptions as reality, verbal and nonverbal cues and behaviors, confidence, assertiveness, tact, anger management, criticism and constructive feedback, conflict resolution, team building, leadership, interviewing, and communicating more effectively with technology (email, Skype, texting, etc.)."
  +Managing Data Analysis,managing-data-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-data-analysis,Business,Johns Hopkins University,This is a focused course designed to rapidly get you up to speed on the process of data analysis and how it can be managed. Our goal was to make this as convenient as possible for you without sacrificing any essential content. We've left the technical information aside so that you can focus on managing your team and moving it forward.
  +Managing Project Risks and Changes,project-risk-management,https://coursera.org/learn/project-risk-management,Business,"University of California, Irvine","This course will help you manage project risk effectively by identifying, analyzing, and communicating inevitable changes to project scope and objectives. You will understand and practice the elements needed to measure and report on project scope, schedule, and cost performance. You will be equipped with the tools to manage change in the least disruptive way possible for your team and other project stakeholders."
  +Managing Your Money: MBA Insights for Undergraduates,managingmoney,https://coursera.org/learn/managingmoney,Business,"University of California, Irvine",This course will use as its foundation the principles of managerial economics and draw in a multidisciplinary way upon other disciplines in business education.The goal of the course is to introduce college students in a very practical and useful way to the concepts of time and money management along with career and life planning.
  +Intercultural Communication and Conflict Resolution,intercultural-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/intercultural-communication,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Intercultural Communication and Conflict Resolution is a growing area of importance considering the pace and volume of global transactions. The ease of global communication using technology, the abundance of cheaper transportation costs, and the frequency of businesses using cross-border talent is fostering millions of interactions a day between people of different cultures."
  +Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals: Marketing Analytics in Practice,digital-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-analytics,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,This course builds on the theory and foundations of marketing analytics and focuses on practical application by demystifying the use of data in marketing and helping you realize the power of visualizing data with artful use of numbers found in the digital space.
  +Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action,entrepreneurial-thinking,https://coursera.org/learn/entrepreneurial-thinking,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Success in business can be greatly enhanced with an understanding of key entrepreneurial characteristics and competencies solutions. This interactive course provides potential entrepreneurs with the knowledge of succeeding in an entrepreneurial opportunity. Topics include: how creativity, opportunity and feasibility are best evaluated; business strategies for new businesses;"
  +Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals: Marketing Analytics in Theory,marketing-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-analytics,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu."
  +"Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part II",smart-growth-strategy-2,https://coursera.org/learn/smart-growth-strategy-2,Business,University of Virginia,"This course focuses on the common human resource (""people"") challenges faced by existing private businesses when they attempt to grow substantially. PART 1 OF THE GROW TO GREATNESS COURSE IS NOT A PREREQUISITE FOR TAKING THIS COURSE."
  +Leadership in 21st Century Organizations,leadership-21st-century,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-21st-century,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"The course is based on a book, Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a 21st Century Leader, by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell, published by Harvard Business Review Press. Purchase of the book is optional. If you want more information about the book or wish to buy it, see https://hbr.org/product/harder-than-i-thought-adventures-of-a-twenty-first/an/10332-HBK-ENG or http://www.amazon.com/Harder-Than-Thought-Adventures-Twenty-First/dp/1422162591"
  +"Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part I",smart-growth-strategy-1,https://coursera.org/learn/smart-growth-strategy-1,Business,University of Virginia,This course focuses on the common growth challenges faced by existing private businesses when they attempt to grow substantially.
  +Types of Conflict,types-of-conflict,https://coursera.org/learn/types-of-conflict,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Conflict is everywhere and it is impossible to avoid conflicting viewpoints. However, not all conflict is bad, nor is it inherently negative. How conflict is handled makes all the difference. It is through proper identification and understanding of conflict that allows for effective resolutions, some of which may yield positive outcomes. In this course, we will examine the different types of conflict, how to understand and embrace the positive aspects of conflict, and how to successfully navigate conflict to positive resolution."
  +On Strategy : What Managers Can Learn from Philosophy - PART 1,management-philosophy,https://coursera.org/learn/management-philosophy,Business,CentraleSupélec,"In the expression “creative thinking”, the keyword is not creativity; the keyword is thinking. With the help of great philosophers, you will rediscover the art of thinking. To help leaders to be rigorous even without figures, great philosophers have lots of ideas. Managers are invited to rediscover the art of thinking. They should understand the role of mental models, realize the importance of cognitive bias, agree on clear definitions and efficient criteria etc."
  +Foundations of Business Strategy,foundations-business-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/foundations-business-strategy,Business,University of Virginia,"Develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend firm positioning and value creation. In this course, we will explore the underlying theory and frameworks that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy and provide the tools you need to understand that strategy: SWOT, Competitor, Environmental, Five Forces, and Capabilities Analyses, as well as Strategy Maps. We'll apply these tools in case studies of industry leaders Google, Redhook, Piaggio and Apple."
  +New Models of Business in Society,businessinsociety,https://coursera.org/learn/businessinsociety,Business,University of Virginia,"In this course we will be discussing the emergence of a new story about business. This new story locates business within a societal framework. Almost every business creates or destroys value for customers, suppliers, employees, communities and society, in addition to shareholders and other financiers. A number of new models of business can be built on this idea such as corporate responsibility, philanthropy, shared value and sustainability. Profits and stakeholder value go together, and this course explains how."
  +Marketing in a Digital World,marketing-digital,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-digital,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course examines how digital tools, such as the Internet, smartphones, and 3D printing, are revolutionizing the world of marketing by shifting the balance of power from firms to consumers. Marketing in a Digital World is one of the most popular courses on Coursera with over 150,000 Learners and is rated by Class Central as one of the Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (https://www.class-central.com/report/top-moocs/). This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price."
  +Competitive Strategy,competitivestrategy,https://coursera.org/learn/competitivestrategy,Business,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"In this six-module course, you will learn how businesses and organizations behave in situations in which strategic decisions are interdependent, i.e. where my actions affect my competitors' profits and vice versa. Using the basic tools of game theory, we will analyse how businesses choose strategies to attain competitive advantage."
  +Strategic Management,strategic-management,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-management,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"The world of business strategy is in transition. What used to work doesn't anymore -- not necessarily. This course prepares you to think strategically in an age when companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have become more valuable (in market cap terms) than companies like Exxon. Today, business value and competitive advantage arise more often from consumer perceptions of what is ""cool"" than from physical assets or economies of scale."
  +Digital Marketing Channels: The Landscape,marketing-channels,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-channels,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Learn the role of digital channels in an integrated marketing campaign and why you need a digital strategy. Interact with the content and hear from industry experts invited to join the course. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu."
  +The Art of Negotiation,art-of-negotiation,https://coursera.org/learn/art-of-negotiation,Business,"University of California, Irvine","The art of negotiation comes into play daily in the life of employees at all levels and in every position. Participants explore how current approaches to negotiation strategy and tactics are used, what negotiation entails, types of negotiation relationships that exist from hard bargain to win-win, to fully partnered relationships and personal ones. The course explores the personal and behavioral characteristics of an effective negotiator."
  +The fundamentals of hotel distribution,hotel-distribution,https://coursera.org/learn/hotel-distribution,Business,ESSEC Business School,"In today’s hotel sector an increasingly complex network of traditional and web based channels have to be managed to insure hotel success. Key questions include: how should you distribute over the web? What should you include on your brand.com website so people book through it? How can you maximise the potential of online travel agents (OTAs)? With the distribution environment both highly complex and constantly evolving, this course will give you comprehensive foundation of current industry practices to help jumpstart your career in this fascinating domain."
  +Giving 2.0: The MOOC,philanthropist,https://coursera.org/learn/philanthropist,Business,Stanford University,"A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything — time, money, experience, skills, and networks — in any amount, to create a better world. This course will empower you to practice philanthropy more effectively and make your giving more meaningful to both you and those you strive to help."
  +Project Management: The Basics for Success,project-management-basics,https://coursera.org/learn/project-management-basics,Business,"University of California, Irvine","This course combines the essential elements of Project Management and Team Leadership into one course. Through class engagement and reflection, you will acquire further understanding of the responsibilities of leadership and become better prepared to apply this knowledge to the project environment."
  +"Two Speed IT: How Companies Can Surf the Digital Wave, a BCG Perspective",2-speed-it,https://coursera.org/learn/2-speed-it,Business,CentraleSupélec,"Transform or disappear, the Darwinism of IT: In order to adapt to a digital world, a two-speed IT is needed. Despite the importance of IT in today’s digital world, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) often struggle to get their voices heard by executive committees."
  +Management of Fashion and Luxury Companies,mafash,https://coursera.org/learn/mafash,Business,Università Bocconi,"Learn how fashion and luxury companies work and understand their brands, products, retail, and communication strategies. Travel through business models, international development, and product categories with industry influent experts."
  +Private Equity and Venture Capital,private-equity,https://coursera.org/learn/private-equity,Business,Università Bocconi,"The course deals with the analysis of the private equity and venture capital business. Over the course, students will be provided with a deep understanding of the mechanism underpinning the creation and/or development of a firm and the financial support it can get from the financial system through venture capital investment."
  +Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills,negotiation-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/negotiation-skills,Business,University of Michigan,"We all negotiate on a daily basis. On a personal level, we negotiate with friends, family, landlords, car sellers and employers, among others. Negotiation is also the key to business success. No business can survive without profitable contracts. Within a company, negotiation skills can lead to your career advancement."
  +Initiating and Planning Projects,project-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/project-planning,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Successful projects require careful upfront planning. In this course, you’ll learn the key roles and responsibilities of the project manager and project team. You’ll also learn to answer some key questions upfront to help you meet project objectives: What will this project accomplish? Why is this project important? Who benefits from this project? How will we plan for successful outcomes?"
  +High-Impact Business Writing,business-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/business-writing,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Effective writing is a powerful tool in the business environment. Learn how to articulate your thoughts in a clear and concise manner that will allow your ideas to be better understood by your readers. Improve your business writing skill by learning to select and use appropriate formats for your audience, use the correct medium and adjust your writing style accordingly, as well as identify your objective and communicate it clearly. You'll also learn to spot, correct and avoid the most common writing pitfalls, and gain valuable experience analyzing, writing and revising a wide spectrum of business documents. From a simple interoffice memo to a twenty-page business proposal, learn how to put good business writing to work for you."
  +Finance for Non-Financial Professionals,finance-for-non-finance-managers,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-for-non-finance-managers,Business,"University of California, Irvine","Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have gained general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis; planning, forecasting, and budgeting; cash flow, and strategic financing. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities."
  +"Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity",work-smarter-not-harder,https://coursera.org/learn/work-smarter-not-harder,Business,"University of California, Irvine","You will be able to gain and apply your knowledge and understanding of personal and professional awareness, organization and commitment, and use the tools, methods and techniques that you have learned in goal setting, prioritization, scheduling, and delegation to overcome time management challenges and enhance productivity."
  +Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies,entrepreneurship-development,https://coursera.org/learn/entrepreneurship-development,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"The path for entrepreneurs to grow their companies outside of well-developed entrepreneurial ecosystems like Silicon Valley is challenging. Most markets around the world do not look like Silicon Valley, and they never will. But there are other models to support new businesses. In transitioning markets (where entrepreneurs do not have much access to private sector financing), government officials, donors, and business leaders are experimenting with creative approaches to support the growth of entrepreneurs. Northeast Ohio, whose largest city is Cleveland, is one such community."
  +Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic Playbook for Becoming a Principled and Persuasive Negotiator,negotiation,https://coursera.org/learn/negotiation,Business,Yale University,"This course will help you be a better negotiator. Unlike many negotiation courses, we develop a framework for analyzing and shaping negotiations. This framework will allow you to make principled arguments that persuade others. It will allow you to see beneath the surface of apparent conflicts to uncover the underlying interests. You will leave the course better able to predict, interpret, and shape the behavior of those you face in competitive situations."
  +Digital Marketing Channels: Planning,marketing-plan,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-plan,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Learn the role of digital channels in an integrated marketing campaign and why you need a digital strategy. Interact with the content and hear from industry experts invited to join the course. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price."
  +Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part II,financial-engineering-2,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-engineering-2,Business,Columbia University,"Financial Engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving finance and economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering and computational methods. The emphasis of FE & RM Part II will be on the use of simple stochastic models to (i) solve portfolio optimization problems (ii) price derivative securities in various asset classes including equities and credit and (iii) consider some advanced applications of financial engineering including algorithmic trading and the pricing of real options. We will also consider the role that financial engineering played during the financial crisis"
  +Foundations of strategic business analytics,strategic-business-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-business-analytics,Business,ESSEC Business School,"This course is designed for students, business analysts, and data scientists who want to apply statistical knowledge and techniques to business contexts. For example, it may be suited to experienced statisticians, analysts, engineers who want to move more into a business role."
  +Food & Beverage Management,food-beverage-management,https://coursera.org/learn/food-beverage-management,Business,Università Bocconi,"Food and beverage products are so deeply rooted in the culture of most countries that making and selling them is not only a matter of making and selling good and tasty products, but products that nurture people's body, soul, and heart. Given this, it's not difficult to see that the task quickly becomes complex."
  +Financial Markets,financial-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-markets,Business,Yale University,"Professor Robert Shiller, 2013 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, explores the topic of Financial Markets in this eight module course. Coming in May 2017, a new Financial Markets course will be available on Coursera. Our final cohort in the existing course will be March 20th! We are so eager to share updated lectures, Chalk Talks, student Q+A sessions, and more in our new course! Please stay tuned for updates!"
  +Public Relations Research,prresearch,https://coursera.org/learn/prresearch,Business,National University of Singapore,"Perhaps you are familiar with research. You might have learned about research or maybe you conduct research in your life. How is that different from research in Public Relations practice? In this course, you will learn the foundations of research in PR. PR research is applied research. Practical application of research allows you to improve the organization’s performance. Research can be used in many ways in Public Relations practice."
  +Strategy Formulation,strategy-formulation,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-formulation,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"The purpose of this course is to present, analyze and discuss the different facets of business strategy formulation. Emphasizing that strategy can be seen as a unified theme that provides coherence and direction to the actions and decisions of a firm, we will cover a variety of business strategy topics concerned with firm positioning in the context of different markets, industries and locations."
  +Leadership Communication for Maximum Impact: Storytelling,leadership-storytelling,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-storytelling,Business,Northwestern University,"Storytelling is an essential part of leadership. Effective leaders communicate to inspire talent to excel; to partner with investors and communities; to engage with customers and clients and to grow their impact in the world as part of a global community. Cultivating an authentic, trustworthy and compelling narrative is vital to a leader’s success. This course helps leaders find their own story through personal branding; develop storytelling success with all constituencies; initiate an effective voice for crisis; interact well through social and third party media; and communicate a vision for innovation."
  +"High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation",leadership-collaboration,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-collaboration,Business,Northwestern University,"Are leaders born or made? Learn the essential skills to develop and expand your leadership repertoire, design teams for collaboration, and craft win-win negotiation strategies. High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation focuses on leadership, teamwork, and negotiation. Students will engage in self-assessments to analyze their leadership style, develop team charters to optimize their groups, and develop a game plan for effective negotiation."
  +Foundations of marketing analytics,foundations-marketing-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/foundations-marketing-analytics,Business,ESSEC Business School,"This course is designed for students, business analysts, and data scientists who want to apply statistical knowledge and techniques to business contexts. For example, it may be suited to experienced statisticians, analysts, engineers who want to move more into a business role, in particular in marketing."
  +Giving Sense to Your Leadership Experience,leading-sense,https://coursera.org/learn/leading-sense,Business,HEC Paris,"In this course, second course of the ""Inspirational Leadership"" Specialization, you will discover the characteristics of charismatic leadership. You’ll personally learn how to embody these traits through the “Savoir-Relier” (art of connecting and leading with sense) methodology, which covers 3Gs: being Genuine, Generous, and Generative. You will then choose which style of leadership best fits you, why and when so you can adapt to more complex and difficult situations with resilience."
  +Advanced Business Strategy,advanced-business-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-business-strategy,Business,University of Virginia,"Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, you'll learn the tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics), industries ( corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy), and institutions (non-market strategy). We'll introduce the tools you need to complete a comprehensive evaluation and understand the strategy dynamics of an industry: Competitive Lifecycle, Internationalization and Stakeholder Analyses, and Diversification Matrices."
  +Design Thinking for Innovation,design-thinking-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/design-thinking-innovation,Business,University of Virginia,"Today innovation is everyone's business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. And that is why we all need design thinking. At every level in every kind of organization, design thinking provides the tools you need to become an innovative thinker and uncover creative opportunities that are there – you're just not seeing them yet."
  +"Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector, Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Leadership and Governance",nonprofit-gov-1,https://coursera.org/learn/nonprofit-gov-1,Business,The State University of New York,"This course introduces you to the nonprofit sector, nonprofit organizations, and the concepts of leadership and governance. While this course has been developed with North American culture in mind, we do appreciate that in other parts of the world the nature of the nonprofit sector, nonprofit organizations, nonprofit leadership and governance may not be the same. Nevertheless, it is our hope that much of the course content will still be of value to those in other parts of the world."
  +Managing Talent,managing-talent,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-talent,Business,University of Michigan,"In this course, you will learn best practices for selecting, recruiting, and onboarding talent. You will also learn about the key approaches to measuring performance and evaluating your employees. In addition, you will learn how to develop and coach your talent so that they can realize their full potential at work. Altogether, you will gain a thorough understanding of the complete cycle of managing talent and creating a robust talent pipeline for your team and organization."
  +Operations Analytics,wharton-operations-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-operations-analytics,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course is designed to impact the way you think about transforming data into better decisions. Recent extraordinary improvements in data-collecting technologies have changed the way firms make informed and effective business decisions. The course on operations analytics, taught by three of Wharton’s leading experts, focuses on how the data can be used to profitably match supply with demand in"
  +Operations Management,operations-management,https://coursera.org/learn/operations-management,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn about the role of operations and how they are connected to other business functions in manufacturing- and service-focused organizations. You will learn and practice the use of decision-making frameworks and techniques applicable at all levels, from management-level strategic decisions such as connecting process to the needs of various customer segments, to front-line tactical decisions such as choosing between ordering larger quantities vs. ordering more frequently."
  +The fundamentals of revenue management,fundamentalsofrevenuemanagement,https://coursera.org/learn/fundamentalsofrevenuemanagement,Business,ESSEC Business School,"With a fixed capacity, a highly disposable product and high fixed costs, hotels are a natural candidate for the application of revenue management. Originally developed by the airlines in the 1970s, these analytics-based techniques help predict consumer behavior at the hotel’s market level so that the hotel can sell each room each night at the optimum price."
  +Introduction to Marketing,wharton-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-marketing,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Taught by three of Wharton's top faculty in the marketing department, consistently ranked as the #1 marketing department in the world, this course covers three core topics in customer loyalty: branding, customer centricity, and practical, go-to-market strategies."
  +Introduction to Operations Management,wharton-operations,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-operations,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Learn to analyze and improve business processes in services or in manufacturing by learning how to increase productivity and deliver higher quality standards. Key concepts include process analysis, bottlenecks, flows rates, and inventory levels, and more. After successfully completing this course, you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization."
  +Introduction to Financial Accounting,wharton-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-accounting,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to read the three most common financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Then you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization."
  +International Leadership and Organizational Behavior,ilob,https://coursera.org/learn/ilob,Business,Università Bocconi,"Leaders in business and non-profit organizations increasingly work across national borders and in multi-cultural environments. You may work regularly with customers or suppliers abroad, or be part of a globally dispersed cross-functional team, or an expatriate manager on an international assignment. You may be a member of a global online community, or a development aid worker collaborating with an international network of partner organizations."
  +Marketing Analytics,market-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/market-analytics,Business,University of Virginia,Organizations large and small are inundated with data about consumer choices. But that wealth of information does not always translate into better decisions. Knowing how to interpret data is the challenge -- and marketers in particular are increasingly expected to use analytics to inform and justify their decisions.
  +Introduction to Corporate Finance,wharton-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-finance,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period."
  +The Language and Tools of Financial Analysis,financialanalysis,https://coursera.org/learn/financialanalysis,Business,The University of Melbourne,"In this course, participants will learn the foundations of accounting principles and financial analysis, develop an understanding of the links between these, and the measurement of value creation at the firm level. This is the first course in a four-course Specialization on the Essentials of Corporate Financial Analysis and Decision-Making, created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon)."
  +The Role of Global Capital Markets,capital-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/capital-markets,Business,University of Rochester,"In this course, participants will learn about how different markets around the world can interact to create value for, and effectively manage the risk of, corporations and their stakeholders. This is part of a Specialization in corporate finance created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon)."
  +The Power of Markets I: The Basics of Supply and Demand and Consumer Behavior ,market-power,https://coursera.org/learn/market-power,Business,University of Rochester,"This opening module of the Power of Markets course covers the basic assumptions about market participants made by economists, the concept of opportunity cost, and the key determinants of supply and demand. We will then learn how to use the supply-demand framework to explain and predict market outcomes and to show how government policies affect those market outcomes. We will look at how quantity demanded and supplied respond to their key determinants in quantitative (elasticity) as well as qualitative terms."
  +The Power of Markets III: Input Markets and Promoting Efficiency,market-efficiency,https://coursera.org/learn/market-efficiency,Business,University of Rochester,"In order to maximize profits, firms must ensure that any given output level is produced at least cost and then select the price-output combination that results in total revenue exceeding total cost by the greatest amount possible. With this in mind, this second module of the Power of Markets course addresses how firms can most effectively convert inputs into final output and then covers determining the best price-output combination for a firm and how this varies depending on whether the firm is operating in a perfectly competitive or imperfectly competitive market setting."
  +The Power of Markets II: Market Structure and Firm Behavior,market-structure,https://coursera.org/learn/market-structure,Business,University of Rochester,"In order to maximize profits, firms must ensure that any given output level is produced at least cost and then select the price-output combination that results in total revenue exceeding total cost by the greatest amount possible. With this in mind, this second module of the Power of Markets course addresses how firms can most effectively convert inputs into final output and then covers determining the best price-output combination for a firm and how this varies depending on whether the firm is operating in a perfectly competitive or imperfectly competitive market setting."
  +Alternative Approaches to Valuation and Investment,valuation,https://coursera.org/learn/valuation,Business,The University of Melbourne,"In this course, participants will develop an understanding of the intuitive foundations of asset and investment valuation, and how alternative valuation techniques may be used in practice. This is part of a Specialization in corporate finance created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon)."
  +Accounting Analytics,accounting-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/accounting-analytics,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Accounting Analytics explores how financial statement data and non-financial metrics can be linked to financial performance. In this course, taught by Wharton’s acclaimed accounting professors, you’ll learn how data is used to assess what drives financial performance and to forecast future financial scenarios. While many accounting and financial organizations deliver data, accounting analytics deploys that data to deliver insight, and this course will explore the many areas in which accounting data provides insight into other business areas including consumer behavior predictions, corporate strategy, risk management, optimization, and more."
  +Firm Level Economics: Markets and Allocations,firm-level-economics-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/firm-level-economics-markets,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this class, we will derive equilibrium outcomes across a variety of market structures. We will begin by understanding equilibrium under a market structure called Perfect Competition, a benchmark construction. Economists have tools to measure the efficiency of market outcomes. We next consider the polar extreme of a competitive market: a monopoly market. We will determine the monopoly equilibrium price and quantity and efficiency properties. Much economic activity takes place in markets with just a handful of very large producers."
  +Business of Games and Entrepreneurship,gamedev-business,https://coursera.org/learn/gamedev-business,Business,Michigan State University,"As well as a form of art and entertainment, games are about business. Whether you want to work at a game studio, start your own business or make games as a hobby, recognizing the dynamic landscape of the videogame industry is critical to finding your place. This course will introduce you to game production, project management, teamwork skills, and how to position your game ideas and yourself in the broader marketplace. By the end of the course, you will be able to develop an impactful portfolio of game work to get noticed and/or develop an effective business plan to bring your game to market."
  +Leadership through Marketing,leadership-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-marketing,Business,Northwestern University,"The success of every organization depends on attracting and retaining customers. Although the marketing concepts for doing so are well established, digital technology has empowered customers, while producing massive amounts of data, revolutionizing the processes through which organizations attract and retain customers. In this course, students will learn how to identify new opportunities to create value for empowered consumers, develop strategies that yield an advantage over rivals, and develop the data science skills to lead more effectively, allocate resources, and to confront this very challenging environment with confidence."
  +Intro to International Marketing,intro-international-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/intro-international-marketing,Business,Yonsei University,"This course brings together two key subjects, International Marketing and Cross Industry Innovation. It will provide the basic foundations of international marketing and then explain how companies can grow by going abroad or sourcing ideas/expanding into other countries or industries. This is summarized as CCCI: Cross-Country and Cross-Industry Innovation, a term and analytical platform used throughout not only this course but others in the specialization. As an introductory course, we keep the concepts short and simple in order to ease learners into the wonderful world of international marketing."
  +Entrepreneurship 2: Launching your Start-Up,wharton-launching-startup,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-launching-startup,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Once you have a prototype and a clearer vision of the opportunity, you’ll need to create a small organization to discover how to create a repeatable and scalable business model. Designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the critical components of a creating a start-up, Entrepreneurship 2: Launching the Start-up, provides practical, real-world knowledge about the lean approach, the minimum viable product, when to pivot, when to quit your day job, the art of the pitch, building and managing a team, allocating equity, and building your external team, advisory board members, professional services, and entrepreneurial strategy."
  +Brand and Product Management,brand-management,https://coursera.org/learn/brand-management,Business,IE Business School,"Identify the critical information needed to develop a product and brand strategy that generates both quick-wins and long-term value. By completing this course, you will be in position to create an activity plan to bring your brand strategy to life - both externally towards consumers and internally to employees. You will be able to define the right metrics for determining success in the implementation of your product and brand strategy, considering any adjustments that may need to be made under a test and learn methodology."
  +Leading Innovation in Arts and Culture,arts-culture-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/arts-culture-innovation,Business,"Vanderbilt University, National Arts Strategies","Developed by David Owens at Vanderbilt University and customized for the cultural sector with National Arts Strategies, this course is designed to help arts and culture leaders create an environment where new ideas are constantly created, shared, evaluated and the best ones are successfully put to work. One of the toughest challenges for any leader is getting traction for new ideas. Winning support can be a struggle."
  +"Recruiting, Hiring, and Onboarding Employees",recruiting-hiring-onboarding-employees,https://coursera.org/learn/recruiting-hiring-onboarding-employees,Business,University of Minnesota,"Finding and hiring the right people is often cited as the number one concern of businesses today. It seems we are all competing for the best and brightest workers. As you will see in our time together in the second course, a critical component of the People Manager Value Proposition is to hire talented people who enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals. This course is an introduction into the topic of recruitment, selection and onboarding"
  +Innovating in a Digital World,innovating-digital-world,https://coursera.org/learn/innovating-digital-world,Business,Institut Mines-Télécom,"Facebook, AirBnB, Tesla, Amazon, Uber. In just a few years, companies like these have changed the face of the global economy. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of start-ups are disrupting old business models, taking on centennial industrial groups – and winning. It’s clear that the rules of business have changed forever. This MOOC provides a knowledge toolkit for the ongoing digital revolution. You’ll discover 15 concepts that are essential for understanding the new mechanisms of digital business and innovation."
  +Viral Marketing and How to Craft Contagious Content,wharton-contagious-viral-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-contagious-viral-marketing,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Ever wondered why some things become popular, and other don't? Why some products becomes hits while others flop? Why some ideas take off while others languish? What are the key ideas behind viral marketing? This course explains how things catch on and helps you apply these ideas to be more effective at marketing your ideas, brands, or products. You'll learn how to make ideas stick, how to increase your influence, how to generate more word of mouth, and how to use the power of social networks to spread information and influence. Drawing on principles from his best-selling book, ""Contagious: Why Things Catch On,"" Professor Jonah Berger illustrates successful strategies for you to use buzz to create virality so that your campaigns become more shareable on social media and elsewhere."
  +Creating and Developing a Tech Startup,tech-startup,https://coursera.org/learn/tech-startup,Business,"École Polytechnique, HEC Paris","This course will allow you to identify and evaluate opportunities for creating a tech business, and to better understand its principal issues on ahuman, technical, commercial, environmental and financial level. As such, you will obtain solid foundations either for building your own tech business, or for joining one."
  +Managing as a Coach,managing-as-a-coach,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-as-a-coach,Business,"University of California, Davis","Do you (or do you want to) manage employees? Have you ever wondered how to get better performance out of those you manage? Are you unsure if you are communicating effectively with your employees? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this course – and its associated specialization – is for you! Leadership and management responsibilities have changed dramatically, particularly in the last decade."
  + Business Model Canvas: A Tool for Entrepreneurs and Innovators (Project-Centered Course),business-model-canvas,https://coursera.org/learn/business-model-canvas,Business,University System of Georgia,"In this project-centered course*, you will use the Business Model Canvas innovation tool to approach either a personal or corporate challenge or opportunity. You’ll learn to identify and communicate the nine key elements of a business model: Customer Segments, Value Proposition, Channels, Customer Relationships, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, Revenue Streams, and Cost Structure."
  +Applications of Everyday Leadership,everyday-leadership-application,https://coursera.org/learn/everyday-leadership-application,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course covers the following topics: negotiation, feedback and coaching, conflict management, and leading change. The objectives are to learn how to use leadership skills to work more effectively with others, how to use leadership skills to organize others to work more effectively together, and to apply the foundations of effective leadership skills to everyday situations faced by leaders."
  +Public Relations Campaigns,prcampaign,https://coursera.org/learn/prcampaign,Business,National University of Singapore,"In this course, you will learn the structure of a PR campaign and the steps involved in putting it together. You will learn about the nuts and bolts of setting up objectives, developing strategy and creating tactics. In doing so, the course will take you through a brief tour of various campaign theories. You will also learn about the key lessons that have been derived from critical analyses and synthesis of the research on campaigns. Finally, you will pick up the key elements of campaign evaluation."
  +The Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Boards and the Governance Process,nonprofit-gov-3,https://coursera.org/learn/nonprofit-gov-3,Business,The State University of New York,"The third course in this Specialization introduces you to the factors that influence how effective boards of directors will be in carrying out their roles and responsibilities and hence the impact they have in shaping the success of the organization they govern. While this course has been developed with North American culture in mind, we do appreciate that, in other parts of the world, the nature of the factors that influence the effectiveness of nonprofit boards of directors may vary. Nevertheless,it is our hope that much of the course content will still be of value to those in other parts of the world."
  +Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change!,women-in-leadership,https://coursera.org/learn/women-in-leadership,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"This course aims to inspire and empower women and men across the world to engage in purposeful career development and take on leadership for important causes---to lead change with more conviction and confidence---and improve our workplaces and communities for all. By offering more complex understandings of issues related to professional women and work, the course will help you increase self-knowledge about your own values and vision, as well as enhance your capabilities as a leader, manager, and team contributor. We will examine the opportunities, challenges, trade-offs, and organizational dynamics experienced by women in work organizations, as well as reflect on and practice effective individual behaviors"
  +Influencing People,influencing-people,https://coursera.org/learn/influencing-people,Business,University of Michigan,"This course will improve your ability to influence people in situations where you cannot use formal authority. You will learn about effective ways to build, develop, and sustain a power base in your organization. You will also learn influence tactics that enable you to be more persuasive and influential in working with your superiors, peers, and even subordinates. In addition, you will learn how to build and maintain high-quality relationships to further maximize your informal power and ability to influence others. Importantly, you will distinguish between influence and manipulation and learn how to protect yourself from the unwanted influence of others."
  +Principles of Valuation: Time Value of Money,time-value-money,https://coursera.org/learn/time-value-money,Business,University of Michigan,"We will introduce the time value of money (TVM) framework in a carefully structured way, using relatively simple applications at first and quickly moving to more advance ones. We will then spend some time on developing an understanding of alternative decision criteria (NPV, IRR, Profitability, etc.) that are commonly used in the real world. We will wrap up the course with an exposure to the determination of cash flows using accounting principles. The main focus in this building block will be on individual/personal decisions because of two reasons: (a) we learn when we see value to us as individuals and (b) the beauty of finance is that the building blocks of finance are applicable to any decision, personal or corporate. The course will last six weeks with time included for assimilation and two final exams."
  +Introduction to Spreadsheets and Models,wharton-introduction-spreadsheets-models,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-introduction-spreadsheets-models,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"The simple spreadsheet is one of the most powerful data analysis tools that exists, and it’s available to almost anyone. Major corporations and small businesses alike use spreadsheet models to determine where key measures of their success are now, and where they are likely to be in the future. But in order to get the most out of a spreadsheet, you have know how to use it. This course is designed to give you an introduction to basic spreadsheet tools and formulas so that you can begin harness the power of spreadsheets to map the data you have now and to predict the data you may have in the future."
  +Leading Organizations,leading-organizations,https://coursera.org/learn/leading-organizations,Business,HEC Paris,"This course is the last course of the a Specialization on Leadership called “Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense”, so you may want to take the courses “Building Your Leadership Skills” and “Giving Sense to your Leadership Experience” prior of taking this course. In this course you’ll get the opportunity to apply the skills learned in the first two courses of the “Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense” as an individual to a group setting."
  +More Introduction to Financial Accounting,wharton-financial-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-financial-accounting,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course provides a brief introduction to game theory. Our main goal is to understand the basic ideas behind the key concepts in game theory, such as equilibrium, rationality, and cooperation. The course uses very little mathematics, and it is ideal for those who are looking for a conceptual introduction to game theory."
  +Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence,emotional-intelligence-leadership,https://coursera.org/learn/emotional-intelligence-leadership,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels."
  +Entrepreneurship 1: Developing the Opportunity,wharton-entrepreneurship-opportunity,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-entrepreneurship-opportunity,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"How does a good idea become a viable business opportunity? What is entrepreneurship and who fits the profile of an entrepreneur? This introductory course is designed to introduce you to the foundational concepts of entrepreneurship, including the definition of entrepreneurship, the profile of the entrepreneur, the difference between entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial management, and the role of venture creation in society. You’ll explore where technology entrepreneurship and impact entrepreneurship align and where they diverge, and you’ll learn proven techniques for identifying the opportunity, assessing the opportunity, hypothesis testing and creating a prototype."
  +Content Strategy for Professionals: Ensuring Your Content's Impact,effective-content-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/effective-content-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"In the fourth course of the Content Strategy Specialization - Ensuring Your Content's Impact - you will look at visual communication and the ways you can be more effective with your font choices, photography, and video. You'll also dive deeper into social communities to help you understand how these communities form and what you can do to build your role within them. The last module is pivotal for Content Strategists. It will help you to understand how best to measure your content to maximize its effectiveness relative to the time you commit to it."
  +Business Growth Strategy,business-growth-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/business-growth-strategy,Business,University of Virginia,"Get the tools you need to analyze, evaluate and recommend specific actions organizations can take to grow their value and avoid common growth pitfalls. Learn to determine how best to build value, whether by scaling existing markets, entering established markets or creating new markets through innovation and acquisitions. Apply these concepts in case studies of industry leaders JetBlue, Starbucks, Intel Corporate Venturing and Tata Motors."
  +The Business of Social,business-of-social,https://coursera.org/learn/business-of-social,Business,Northwestern University,"In a 2014 study of CEOs and CMOs, IBM found 63% wanted social strategies which generate business metrics while only 20% of businesses worldwide actually have them. This means strategies which not only grow your company’s social footprint but link to your sales and marketing systems. With this critical linkage, your social and mobile strategies will provide you with the ability to engage consumers at a 1-to-1 level and measure your social investments in terms of costs, revenues, profits and ROI. In this fifth MOOC of the Social Marketing Specialization - ""The Business of Social"" - you will learn how to transform your organization's social marketing from an untracked investment to an integral part of your company’s marketing strategy."
  +"Content, Advertising & Social IMC",social-imc,https://coursera.org/learn/social-imc,Business,Northwestern University,"Want your content to go viral? Who doesn't! It takes a thoughtful, integrated approach to make content that stands out in our increasingly oversaturated world. In this fourth course of the Social Marketing Specialization - ""Content, Advertising & Social IMC"" - you will learn how marketers are successfully navigating today's media landscape. You will learn why developing engaging content for your audience is an essential component in effective social marketing. A panel of experts will unlock the paid/owned/earned media riddle and replace it with an integrated who/what/where approach that utilizes platform-specific messaging to grow your market share."
  +People Analytics,wharton-people-analytics,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-people-analytics,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"People analytics is a data-driven approach to managing people at work. For the first time in history, business leaders can make decisions about their people based on deep analysis of data rather than the traditional methods of personal relationships, decision making based on experience, and risk avoidance. In this brand new course, three of Wharton’s top professors, all pioneers in the field of people analytics, will explore the state-of-the-art techniques used to recruit and retain great people, and demonstrate how these techniques are used at cutting-edge companies. They’ll explain how data and sophisticated analysis is brought to bear on people-related issues, such as recruiting, performance evaluation, leadership, hiring and promotion, job design, compensation, and collaboration."
  +Cracking the Creativity Code: Discovering Ideas,startup-entrepreneurship-discovering-ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-entrepreneurship-discovering-ideas,Business,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,"Skill at discovering new ideas, and delivering them, may be one of the most important practical job skills, in today’s and tomorrow’s job market. Creativity is an acquired skill, one that improves with practice. This course aims to empower individuals who believe they have lost their innate creativity, because they, their employers or teachers prefer the three R's:"
  +Content Strategy for Professionals: Expanding Your Content’s Reach,increase-reach,https://coursera.org/learn/increase-reach,Business,Northwestern University,"In this, the third Content Strategy course, participants will learn actionable ways to grow internal and external audiences. They will deepen their understanding about those target individuals and will use a host of known and emerging tools and social networks to meaningfully reach them. As its name makes clear, this course will expand your content's impact and reach. You will begin by learning how to utilize content trends to jump-start your organization's influence. You'll also look at how to engage with multi-channel digital communities across all social media."
  +Principles of Valuation: Risk and Return,risk-and-return,https://coursera.org/learn/risk-and-return,Business,University of Michigan,"This second course in the specialization will last six weeks and will focus on the second main building block of financial analysis and valuation: risk. The notion of risk and statistics are intimately related and we will spend a fair amount of time on the development of some statistical concepts and tools, namely distribution theory and regression analysis. This time will be well spent because these concepts and tools are also commonly used in many applications in the real world."
  +Content Strategy for Professionals: Engaging Audiences,engagement-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/engagement-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"In this course, professionals at all levels of an organization will learn the best ways to engage an audience they want and need by smartly implementing their important, strategic stories and information and by using proven tools and techniques to enhance an audience’s experiences and interest."
  +Demand management: Breaking down today’s commercial silos,demandmanagement,https://coursera.org/learn/demandmanagement,Business,ESSEC Business School,"The biggest challenge facing the hospitality industry over the next 5 years is the lack of integration between the key commercial disciplines of sales, revenue, distribution and finance and the negative impact this will continue to have on delivering asset value and maximum profitability."
  +New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs,startup-funding,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-funding,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park",This course is for aspiring or active entrepreneurs who wants to understand how to secure funding for their company. This course will demystify key financing concepts to give entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs a guide to secure funding.
  +Healthcare Marketplace,healthcare-marketplace,https://coursera.org/learn/healthcare-marketplace,Business,University of Minnesota,"In this course in the Healthcare Marketplace specialization you will identify, define, and describe potential business and public policy solutions to the challenges facing society’s growing demand for health services. Students will master a body of knowledge on the health care sectors major components through reading and reflection."
  +Preparing to Manage Human Resources,managing-human-resources,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-human-resources,Business,University of Minnesota,"One way or another, all employees are managed. But approaches to managing employees varying from employee-to-employee, job-to-job, manager-to-manager, organization-to-organization, and country-to-country. This course provides a foundation for developing your own approach to skillfully managing employees by illustrating alternative human resource management (HRM) strategies, introducing the importance of the legal context, and thinking about what motivates employees."
  +International Marketing Entry and Execution,international-marketing-entry-execution,https://coursera.org/learn/international-marketing-entry-execution,Business,Yonsei University,"This will be part 2 of a two-series foundation courses for the Specialization: International Marketing & Cross Industry Growth. This course will dive in more deeply into consumer science investigation, B2C marketing, International Marketing Entry, Targeting, Positioning, International Product, International Promotion, International Place and International Price. The last set of classes will discuss seven new ways to innovate in International Marketing that all start with the letter ""S"" and hence will be called the 7S International Marketing Innovation."
  +Managing the Company of the Future,company-future-management,https://coursera.org/learn/company-future-management,Business,"University of London, London Business School",The aim of the course is to provide you with a comprehensive framework for understanding both the traditional principles of management inside companies today as well as the alternative principles that are becoming increasingly important. It provides both theoretical and practical perspectives on the nature of management in today’s organisations.
  +Interview Research and Preparation,interview-preparation,https://coursera.org/learn/interview-preparation,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","This course, the first in the ""Interviewing and Resume Writing in English"" specialization, guides you to discover the interests, talents and competencies that you can use to find and do work that leverages your strengths, passions and who you are as a person, so you can start doing work that matters to you and to the world. Whether you already have a career and are looking to move forward, whether you’re looking to change careers, whether you’re starting out in the world of work, whether you’re coming back into the world of work after some time away – this course will help you see your path more clearly and will teach you how to communicate your value to an employer in a way that he or she can immediately recognize."
  +Introduction to European Business Law,europeanbusinesslaw,https://coursera.org/learn/europeanbusinesslaw,Business,Lund University,"The European Union is one of the world’s largest and most important economies. This five week course is the first in a series of three that will provide students with an insight into European Business Law. The series ranges from considering the basic structures and principles of the European Union to focusing on various specialized areas of law. Each course will give the students an understanding of the laws and policies that regulate the internal market of European Union, as well as relevant case law and useful inputs from leading practitioners in the field."
  +Foundations of Everyday Leadership,everyday-leadership-foundation,https://coursera.org/learn/everyday-leadership-foundation,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn about the “head and heart” of everyday leadership, individual decision making, group decision making, and managing motivation. The objectives are to understand why and how leadership skills are so critical to organizational success, and learn the foundations of effective leadership skills."
  +Corporate Finance Essentials,corporate-finance-essentials,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-essentials,Business,IESE Business School,"Corporate Finance Essentials will enable you to understand key financial issues related to companies, investors, and the interaction between them in the capital markets. By the end of this course you should be able to understand most of what you read in the financial press and use the essential financial vocabulary of companies and finance professionals."
  +Leadership through Design Innovation,leadership-designinnovation,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-designinnovation,Business,Northwestern University,University of Geneva
  +Corporate Financial Decision-Making for Value Creation,value-creation,https://coursera.org/learn/value-creation,Business,The University of Melbourne,"In this course, participants will learn about the key financial decisions modern corporations face, as well as the alternative methods that can be employed to optimize the value of the firm’s assets. This is part of a Specialization in corporate finance created in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon)."
  +Writing Professional Email and Memos (Project-Centered Course),professional-emails,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-emails,Business,University System of Georgia,"Want your workplace writing to make a positive impression? At the end of this course, you will be a more confident writer, able to create higher quality professional documents more quickly. This course is at the introductory or beginner level and focuses on mastering the basics of email etiquette and communication. While this course will help learners become faster and more efficient writers by virtue of practice with common writing purposes, it does not cover marketing emails or job application materials."
  +Critical Perspectives on Management,critical-management,https://coursera.org/learn/critical-management,Business,IE Business School,"This course is designed for students of all backgrounds who have an interest in how firms are governed, the forces that have helped define modern management practice, and the outcomes of that practice not only for the firm itself, but also for the societies in which they operate. For students who are thinking of a career in management, it may also prove useful as a basic introduction to some of the conceptual vocabulary and ideas behind modern theories of management."
  +Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship,innovative-ideas,https://coursera.org/learn/innovative-ideas,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","This course assists aspiring and active entrepreneurs in developing great ideas into great companies. With strong economies presenting rich opportunities for new venture creation, and challenging economic times presenting the necessity for many to make their own job, the need to develop the skills to develop and act on innovative business opportunities is increasingly vital."
  +Design and Make Infographics (Project-Centered Course),infographic-design,https://coursera.org/learn/infographic-design,Business,Michigan State University,"In this project-centered course*, you will create a content-rich infographic on a topic of your choice using Adobe Illustrator (which you can download for a free, 30-day trial). You might choose to create a visual representation of data from the world of sports, entertainment, politics, or science, to explain a business trend or environmental issue, or even to present a theme or development from your personal life. Your finished infographic will engage your target audience and convey information clearly through effective use of design elements such as typography, color, and structure."
  +Process Improvement,process-improvement,https://coursera.org/learn/process-improvement,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will focus on process improvement. You will learn how to set organizational priorities for continuous process improvement, how to execute process improvement projects, and how to sustain the initiative for continuous improvements."
  +Keeping up with Change: Issues for the Finance Professional,change-for-the-finance-professional,https://coursera.org/learn/change-for-the-finance-professional,Business,University of London,"This MOOC identifies and explores a number of challenges to the finance professional arising from the ever changing business environment. Increasingly, financial decisions must take account of strategic consequences."
  +Valuation: Alternative Methods,valuation-methods,https://coursera.org/learn/valuation-methods,Business,University of Michigan,"This course is a rigorous introduction to alternative methods of valuation and will enable the learner to conduct analysis of most projects and companies. This course will also serve useful to anyone interested in, or required to, critically evaluating project and company analyses conducted by experts."
  +Introduction to Search Engine Optimization,search-engine-optimization,https://coursera.org/learn/search-engine-optimization,Business,"University of California, Davis","Ever wonder how major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo rank your website within their searches? Or how content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users? Welcome to the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This course is the first within the SEO Specialization and it is intended to give you a taste of SEO."
  +Entrepreneurial Strategic Management,entstrategicmgmt,https://coursera.org/learn/entstrategicmgmt,Business,University of New Mexico,This course utilizes an inquiry based approach to understanding sources of competitive advantages in companies and other organizations.
  +Developing An Entrepreneurial Mindset: First Step Towards Success ,entrepreneurial-mindset,https://coursera.org/learn/entrepreneurial-mindset,Business,Michigan State University,"This course is the first in a series on starting a business. Though new venture creation is the focus of the specialization, this course is important for everyone. It provides learners with insights to reframe their thinking in order to maximize their chances for success. Whether success is defined by the performance of their own venture, or by their performance within someone else’s venture. The course is as much, if not more about fulfilling one's potential as it is about one starting a business."
  +"Technology Commercialization, Part 1: Setting up your Idea Filtering System",technology-commercialization,https://coursera.org/learn/technology-commercialization,Business,University of Rochester,New ideas based on high-technology research have a high failure rate because they hit the ground running with lopsided priorities and misalignments. Students complete this course with an Innovation Creed (“Why are you doing this?”) and a customized Idea Filter (“Are you working on the right priorities?”)—2 simple tools that steer concept-stage commercialization to success.
  +Management of Urban Infrastructures – part 1,m-infra-1,https://coursera.org/learn/m-infra-1,Business,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Sustainability, Resilience and Efficiency are fundamental considerations for city managers in managing urban infrastructures. Today, more than 3.9 billion people, making up more than 54% of the global population, live in cities. Urbanization is expected to continue in the coming years, raising the urban population to 6.0 billion by 2045. This dramatic increase in urban populations will inevitably"
  +Leading Teams,leading-teams,https://coursera.org/learn/leading-teams,Business,University of Michigan,"In this course, you will learn how to build your team, improve teamwork and collaboration, and sustain team performance through continuous learning and improvement. Specifically, you will learn best practices for composing a team and aligning individual and team goals. You will also learn how to establish roles, build structures, and manage decision making so that your team excels. This course will also help you manage critical team processes such as conflict resolution and building trust that have a profound impact on your team’s performance."
  +Leadership through Social Influence,leadership-socialinfluence,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-socialinfluence,Business,Northwestern University,"This course will provide learners with a systematic general framework for analyzing persuasive influence situations. Learners will be able to identify different challenges faced by persuaders and to fashion appropriate strategies for addressing those challenges. The broad goal is to provide learners with not only an extensive persuasion tool kit, but also with an understanding of how different tools are useful in different situations."
  +Strategy Implementation,strategy-implementation,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-implementation,Business,Copenhagen Business School,Even a thoroughly developed business strategy may fail if you don't pay enough attention to its implementation. This rings particularly true with strategies based on innovation or implemented in complex or fast-changing environments.
  +Valuing Projects and Companies,company-valuation,https://coursera.org/learn/company-valuation,Business,University of Michigan,"This course is a theoretically sound and practical exposure to valuation. As the final course of the Specialization, it will be useful to anyone in understanding, conducting or critically evaluating project and company analyses conducted by experts."
  +Engagement & Nurture Marketing Strategies,nurture-market-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/nurture-market-strategies,Business,Northwestern University,"In this third course in the Social Marketing Specialization - ""The Engagement & Nurture Marketing Strategies"" - you will learn two of the most effective social strategies used by organizations today. You'll see real-world best practice examples and learn what metrics they use to gauge success. You will also learn the importance of infographics and the impact a well-designed landing page can have on your bottom line."
  +Healthcare Delivery Providers,healthcare-delivery-providers,https://coursera.org/learn/healthcare-delivery-providers,Business,University of Minnesota,"This second course in the Healthcare Marketplace Specialization will help you understand the various providers of healthcare across the U.S. delivery continuum. We will explore the unique value proposition of the various providers- from hospitals and clinics to physicians to community based providers. We will dissect this important value chain using various lenses such as- site of care delivery, people who provide the care and payers who pay for care. You will also learn about the challenges facing these providers and the innovations they are creating in order to help transform this important industry"
  +Firm Level Economics: Consumer and Producer Behavior,firm-level-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/firm-level-economics,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"All goods and services are subject to scarcity at some level. Scarcity means that society must develop some allocation mechanism – rules to determine who gets what. Over recorded history, these allocation rules were usually command based – the king or the emperor would decide. In contemporary times, most countries have turned to market based allocation systems. In markets, prices act as rationing devices, encouraging or discouraging production and encouraging or discouraging consumption in such a way as to find an equilibrium allocation of resources."
  +Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling,wharton-quantitative-modeling,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-quantitative-modeling,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"How can you put data to work for you? Specifically, how can numbers in a spreadsheet tell us about present and past business activities, and how can we use them to forecast the future? The answer is in building quantitative models, and this course is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of this critical, foundational, business skill. Through a series of short lectures, demonstrations, and assignments, you’ll learn the key ideas and process of quantitative modeling so that you can begin to create your own models for your own business or enterprise."
  +The Roles and Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards of Directors within the Governance Process,nonprofit-gov-2,https://coursera.org/learn/nonprofit-gov-2,Business,The State University of New York,"This course provides a more in-depth look at the roles and responsibilities of boards of directors in the governance of nonprofit organizations. While the course has been developed with North American culture in mind, we do appreciate that in other parts of the world, the nature of the roles and responsibilities of boards of directors may not be the same. Nevertheless,it is our hope that much of the course content will still be of value to those in other parts of the world."
  +Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination,forensic-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/forensic-accounting,Business,West Virginia University,"Everyday across the world, thousands of businesses are victimized by fraud. Who commits these bad acts? Why? And, how? In this course we are going to help you answer the questions: who commits fraud, why and how. We’ll also help you develop skills for catching them."
  +Understanding Financial Markets,understanding-financial-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/understanding-financial-markets,Business,University of Geneva,"In this course, you will learn what the main financial markets and their characteristics are as well as how they are linked to the economy. Our very diversified team of experts will start by teaching you how the price of stocks and bonds are computed and why they move while you will become increasingly aware of the notion of risk and why it matters when measuring an investment's performance."
  +Content Strategy for Professionals: Managing Content,content-management-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/content-management-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"In the second course of the Content Strategy Specialization - ""Managing Content"" - you will dive deeper into Content Strategy by learning some great options for managing your important content once it's been created. You will look at media platforms and how best to tell an organization’s “content story” across those platforms using a human-centered design. Then, you'll take a close look at ways to best utilize social and mobile media, as well as some of the issues around insourcing/outsourcing content."
  +International Business II,globalbusiness2,https://coursera.org/learn/globalbusiness2,Business,University of New Mexico,"This course, Introduction to the Global Business Environment II, focuses on managing organizations in the international economy. Building on Introduction to the Global Business Environment I, this second course focuses on organizational level and management issues in international settings. The course prepares students with practical as well as research-based knowledge and skills necessary to successfully operating an organizational across borders."
  +Pricing Strategy,pricing-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/pricing-strategy,Business,IE Business School,"Pricing is one of the most important but least understood marketing decisions. Learn and practice concepts, techniques, and get to grips with the latest thinking on assessing and formulating pricing strategies. Analyze how firms attempt to capture value, as well as profits, in the revenues they earn. After this course, you will be able to contribute to the process of formulating pricing strategies for your own products and services, or those of your firm."
  +Innovation for Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Marketplace,innovative-entrepreneur,https://coursera.org/learn/innovative-entrepreneur,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","Develop insights on navigating the innovation process from idea generation to commercialization. Build knowledge on how to create strategies to bring innovations to market. Develop an innovation portfolio and business model canvas for your venture. We establish a framework for examining the innovation process, and quickly transition into exploring how to successfully bring innovations to market."
  +Setting Expectations & Assessing Performance Issues,coaching-expectations-performance,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-expectations-performance,Business,"University of California, Davis","If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. One of the most important roles of a manager is to ensure everyone knows the destination. The most effective managers set expectations and assess their employees’ performance against those expectations, and take a coaching approach to helping them get to the destination. That’s exactly what you’ll learn to do in this course!"
  +From Idea to Startup,startup-entrepreneurship-from-idea-to-startup,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-entrepreneurship-from-idea-to-startup,Business,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,"This course provides practical proven tools for transforming an idea into a product or service that creates value for others. As students acquire these tools, they learn how to tell bad ideas from good, how to build a winning strategy, how to shape a unique value proposition, prepare a business plan, compare their innovation to existing solutions, build flexibility into their plan and determine when best to quit."
  +Strategic Planning and Execution,strategic-planning-execution,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-planning-execution,Business,University of Virginia,"Avoid the pitfalls of strategy planning and execution with the tools and skills from this course. You'll learn the pillars of strategy execution--analysis, formulation, and implementation--and how to use the 4A model to effectively approach strategy execution. Finally, a panel of leaders from entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and industry, share their expertise gleaned from years of successful strategy planning and execution."
  +Entender el diseño,entender-diseno,https://coursera.org/learn/entender-diseno,Business,Arizona State University,"¿Qué es el diseño? ¿Qué hacen los diseñadores para practicar su arte y que crean? ¿Qué importancia tiene el diseño de las corporaciones en la sociedad y la cultura? ¿Quiénes son algunos de los diseñadores más importantes de nuestra época y que han hecho? ¿Cómo uno puede convertirse en diseñador? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que exploraremos en este cuso introductorio de diseño. Con frecuencia se ha descrito el diseño como solución de problemas, el proceso de convertir las ideas en realidad o los medios, mediante los cuales podemos hacer que el mundo sea un lugar mejor."
  +Supply Chain Management: A Learning Perspective ,supply-chain-management,https://coursera.org/learn/supply-chain-management,Business,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,"As a human being, we all consume products and/or services all the time. This morning you got up and ate your breakfast, e.g., eggs, milk, bread, fresh fruits, and the like. After the breakfast, you drove your car to work or school. At your office, you used your computer, perhaps equipped with 27” LCD monitor. During your break, you drank a cup of coffee and played with your iPhone. So on and so forth. You probably take it for granted that you can enjoy all of these products. But if you take a closer look at how each of these products can be made and eventually delivered to you, you will realize that each one of these is no short of miracle."
  +Search Engine Optimization Fundamentals,seo-fundamentals,https://coursera.org/learn/seo-fundamentals,Business,"University of California, Davis","Gain an understanding of search engine algorithms and how they affect organic search results and websites. Building on this knowledge, you’ll learn the key elements for creating an effective SEO strategy, including how to select keywords and perform keyword research; consumer psychology and search behavior; and how to conduct on-page SEO analysis to identify opportunities to improve a website’s search optimization."
  +Power Onboarding,poweronboarding,https://coursera.org/learn/poweronboarding,Business,Northwestern University,"Power Onboarding provides practical, easy-to-use tools to guide an individual who is transitioning to a new job. Students will prepare an actionable personal onboarding plan that will set them up for success in their new role. Research has shown that an actively followed power onboarding plan will allow an individual to reach proficiency in a new position up to 30% faster than the typical transitioning manager. In this course, students will develop their own onboarding plan, allowing them to contribute sooner and be eligible for promotion earlier."
  +The Search for Great Ideas: Harnessing creativity to empower innovation. ,start-your-own-business-2-ideation,https://coursera.org/learn/start-your-own-business-2-ideation,Business,Michigan State University,Where do great business ideas come from? We all have compelling business concepts that we've been thinking about for years. In this course we will explore how to use observational tools and other techniques for idea generation and we will talk about how to evaluate the good ideas from the bad. The goal is to settle on a business idea that you are not only passionate about but also has real market application.
  +Innovation Management,erasmus-innovationmanagement,https://coursera.org/learn/erasmus-innovationmanagement,Business,Erasmus University Rotterdam,"What is innovation management? How do firms bring in new business models and get new products and services to the market? Go on a nine-week journey through innovation management concepts, theories of idea generation, selection, strategy formulation and implementation in this MOOC in Innovation Management. In it, you will also learn the tools for implementing innovation projects yourself."
  +"Conversations That Inspire: Coaching Learning, Leadership and Change",leadership-coaching,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-coaching,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"Coaching can inspire and motivate people to learn, change, and be effective leaders, among other roles in life. Although most attempts are “coaching for compliance” (coaching someone to your wishes or expectations), decades of behavioral and neuroscience research show us that “coaching with compassion” (coaching someone to their dreams and desires) is more effective."
  +3D Printing Revolution,3d-printing-revolution,https://coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-revolution,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course will demonstrate how 3D printers work, show what people make with them, and examine the 3D printing ecosystem. It will also explore the future of 3D printing and discuss how this technology will revolutionize our world. The course materials include informative video lectures, on-location interviews with a variety of 3D printing experts, and engaging hands-on exercises."
  +Country Level Economics: Macroeconomic Variables and Markets,country-level-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/country-level-economics,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course discusses how macroeconomic variables affect individuals’ personal, professional, and public activities and lays the foundation for the analysis of the mechanisms that drive macroeconomic variables. It start in its first module by introducing the key macroeconomic variables and explaining how they are defined and measured in order to enable the students to interpret macroeconomic data properly."
  +Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organizational Structure,designing-organization,https://coursera.org/learn/designing-organization,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will understand how firms are organized, what factors must be taken into account in making critical design decisions, and what role managers play in making these choices. In order to answer these questions, we will first develop a conceptual process model that links business models, external and internal contingencies, and organizational design. Second, we will focus on the fundamental principles of organization design and what alternative design choices are available for managers. Finally, we will apply these concepts and ideas to organizational situations to develop the critical insights and decision making skills to build effective organizations."
  +Introducción a la Gestión de Operaciones,wharton-gestion-operaciones,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-gestion-operaciones,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Aprende a analizar y a mejorar los procesos empresariales en servicios o en la industria. Aprende cómo incrementar la productividad y a ofrecer niveles de calidad mayores. Después de que finalices con éxito este curso, podrás aplicar estas habilidades en un reto empresarial del mundo real como parte de la Programa Especializado de Fundamentos Empresariales de Wharton."
  +Meeting Investors' Goals,meeting-investors-goals,https://coursera.org/learn/meeting-investors-goals,Business,University of Geneva,"In this course, you will dive into the concepts of rationality and irrationality and understand how they impact our investment decisions and what the consequences can be at the market level. You will first explore the different biases that we, as humans, are subjected to when facing investment decisions and how they may impact the outcomes of these decisions."
  +Scaling Operations: Linking Strategy and Execution,operations-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/operations-strategy,Business,Northwestern University,"Over the past several decades, operations strategy has played an increasingly important role in business’ success. In this course, we will equip you with concepts and tools to build operations in a way that not only supports your competitive strategy, but also allows you to create new opportunities in the market place."
  +International B2B (Business to Business) Marketing,international-b2b-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/international-b2b-marketing,Business,Yonsei University,"This course offers a unique perspective into the differentiating aspects of business to business (B2B) marketing that can be contrasted to traditional business to consumer (B2C) marketing that is the subject of most other marketing curricula. Moreover, as one of the courses in the Specialization: International Marketing & Cross Industry Growth, here too there is an emphasis on how companies can expand by cross-country and cross-industry innovation."
  +Subsistence Marketplaces,subsistence-marketplaces,https://coursera.org/learn/subsistence-marketplaces,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"The foundation for this course lies with unique synergies between pioneering research, teaching, and social initiatives through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative. Unique to this approach is a bottom-up understanding of the intersection of poverty and the marketplace. The goals of this course are to help you develop an understanding of marketplace activity in the radically different context of subsistence where much of humanity resides and survives, and for you to design solutions that can be implemented by individuals, businesses, and social enterprises through economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable products for subsistence marketplaces."
  +Investment Management in an Evolving and Volatile World by HEC Paris and AXA Investment Management ,investment-management,https://coursera.org/learn/investment-management,Business,HEC Paris,"Have you ever wanted to invest in financial markets, but were always afraid that you didn’t have the proper tools or knowledge to make informed decisions? Have you ever wondered how investment management companies operate and what fund managers do? AXA Investment Managers, in partnership with HEC Paris, will introduce you to the most important ideas and concepts in investment management, to help you better understand your financial future."
  +Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Innovations,pharma-medical-device-innovations,https://coursera.org/learn/pharma-medical-device-innovations,Business,University of Minnesota,This course in the Healthcare Marketplace specialization gives the learner an in-depth view of the intellectual property creation that is vital to creating breakthrough technologies. Included is an understanding of the strategy deployed for pricing drugs and new technologies as well as the market sizing exercise to identify where future research and development investments should be made.
  +How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC,startupfinancewithoutvc,https://coursera.org/learn/startupfinancewithoutvc,Business,"University of London, London Business School","This course will introduce, and help you put to use in your startup, the five models through which your customers can – and will, if you ask them! – fund your business. These five time-tested models have been put to use by entrepreneurial superstars like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and more. Sadly, though, the five models are rarely talked about and not widely understood. Until now! The five models will be brought to life by the real-world stories of an inspiring collection of incredibly creative entrepreneurs from around the world – including successes and failures – through a series of captivating no-holds-barred interviews with founders and others, and investors, too."
  +Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position,financial-statements,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-statements,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial statements with an emphasis on the balance sheet. However, to understand accounting driven financial statements, it is important to recognize that accounting is less about counting and more about measuring. “What is it that is being measured?” Well, as the course unfolds, you will learn about the three measurement questions and how the balance sheet helps to answer the first two of these questions. By touring a real company and interviewing real business people, the course describes the basic content of financial statements in a simple yet relevant context. The goal of the course is to leave a lasting impression about what balance sheet consists of and what it reveals."
  +Portfolio and Risk Management,portfolio-management,https://coursera.org/learn/portfolio-management,Business,Indian School of Business,"This course teaches you the concepts of risk and expected return. This course presents an overview of the basic concepts and techniques used to construct financial portfolios. You will learn about the investment process and get a very good understanding of economic, industry, and company analyses. We will also look at understanding and interpreting major portfolio management and risk concepts."
  +Channel Management and Retailing ,channel-management,https://coursera.org/learn/channel-management,Business,IE Business School,"Understand how channel management and retailing can improve performance in your business. Nowadays, a distribution strategy is part of the DNA of many companies and a correct channel management is key for the success of your product. Distribution plans need to be prepared for the long run, combining the following main areas: company profile, portfolio structure and price positioning, go-to-market policy, trade and retail marketing, e-commerce and global retail management."
  +Entrepreneurship 3: Growth Strategies,wharton-entrepreneurship-growth-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-entrepreneurship-growth-strategies,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Start-ups are designed to grow quickly, but successful start-ups grow smart. This course is designed to provide you with an understanding of the essential elements of successful scaling, including an overview of demand generation, customer acquisition, adoption, diffusion and forecasting demand. You’ll also learn how to market effectively using best practices of digital marketing, social media,"
  +Leading Positive Change through Appreciative Inquiry,appreciative-inquiry,https://coursera.org/learn/appreciative-inquiry,Business,Case Western Reserve University,"Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative and constructive inquiry process that searches for everything that gives life to organizations, communities, and larger human systems when they are most alive, effective, creative and healthy in their interconnected ecology of relationships. To appreciate, quite simply, means to value and to recognize that which has value—it is a way of knowing and valuing the best in life."
  +Modeling Risk and Realities,wharton-risk-models,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-risk-models,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Useful quantitative models help you to make informed decisions both in situations in which the factors affecting your decision are clear, as well as in situations in which some important factors are not clear at all. In this course, you can learn how to create quantitative models to reflect complex realities, and how to include in your model elements of risk and uncertainty. You’ll also learn the methods for creating predictive models for identifying optimal choices; and how those choices change in response to changes in the model’s assumptions."
  +Accounting: Making Sound Decisions,accounting-iese,https://coursera.org/learn/accounting-iese,Business,IESE Business School,"Financial Accounting is often called the language of business; it is the language that managers use to communicate the firm's financial and economic information to external parties such as shareholders and creditors. Nobody working in business can afford financial illiteracy. Whether you run your own business, work as a manager or are just starting your career, you want to understand financial information and be able to interact with accountants, controllers, and financial managers. You want to talk business!"
  +(Re)-invent your business model with the Odyssey 3.14 approach,newbusinessmodel,https://coursera.org/learn/newbusinessmodel,Business,HEC Paris,"This course gives you access to Odyssey 3.14 - an original approach developed to help you invent or reinvent a business model. This highly innovative approach has been developed by Laurence Lehmann-Ortega and Hélène Musikas and has been shown to be very effective. It is taught to top executives, entrepreneurs, and HEC students. You will learn about the concept and tools that combine innovation and strategy. Starting with the 3 pillars that make up the core business model, this approach recommends 14 directions to consider in order to invent or reinvent the business model."
  +"Country Level Economics: Policies, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Performance",country-level-economics-policies,https://coursera.org/learn/country-level-economics-policies,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course examines macroeconomic performance in the short run and the long run based on the economy’s institutional and policy environment. The first module develops a model of macroeconomy in the short run when the price level has its own momentum and does not respond much to supply and demand forces. The model enables one to see how GDP, interest rate, and exchange rate are determined in the short run and how they respond to macroeconomic shocks and policies."
  +Managing Employee Performance,managing-employee-performance,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-employee-performance,Business,University of Minnesota,"Once you have hired good employees, the next step that successful people managers take is to develop the full potential of their employees. Performance management is a process that helps managers achieve the goal of getting the best from their employees. In this third course in the Human Resources for People Managers specialization, we will discuss the skills and key processes you will need to develop your employees to attain department and organizational goals. These skills will include setting clear expectations, providing positive and corrective feedback, and delivering an effective performance appraisal."
  +Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution,managing-organization,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-organization,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,In this course you will build a practical framework to understand the critical linkages between organization design and the creation of economic value through execution. We will focus on four critical linkages: 1. How organizational growth and life cycle require design changes to improve execution 2. How managerial decision making can be improved through better organization design 3. How the design of human resource practices shape the culture of the organization 4. How innovation and change can be facilitated through organization design
  +Foundations of Professional Identity,professional-identity,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-identity,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Many find themselves frustrated in their careers by lack of preparation for dealing with predictable dilemmas that regularly arise in the world of work. Two in five professionals fired in their jobs after college are terminated for lying, or misuse of technology. Easy to avoid! Or is it? What if you find you have to compromise your values to keep your job? What if they ask you to lie or cheat, even though you know if you are found out you will be fired? What if you find out the company is breaking the law?"
  +Optimizing a Website for Search,optimizing-web-search,https://coursera.org/learn/optimizing-web-search,Business,"University of California, Davis","Learn the ins and outs of optimizing a website, from conducting an initial audit to presenting your findings and recommendations. Hands-on activities include learning how to select and apply appropriate keywords throughout a website, incorporating keyword research in a content marketing strategy, and optimizing a site for local search. You will also learn strategies for setting goals and"
  +Medical Technology and Evaluation,healthcare-medical-technology,https://coursera.org/learn/healthcare-medical-technology,Business,University of Minnesota,"Innovations in medical technologies are one of the leading areas of economic growth in the world. Whether new technologies take the form of pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology, information technology of some combination of these innovations, the opportunities for both private enterprise and social welfare are substantial. However, these innovations are not without cost, and require"
  +Managing Employee Compensation,managing-employee-compensation,https://coursera.org/learn/managing-employee-compensation,Business,University of Minnesota,"This course covers how to pay employees. We begin by asking: ""What kind of a person do I need to attract, retain, and motivate for my business to succeed?"" From here, we'll explain how to translate that pay strategy into the pay mix: the salary structure, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and benefits that are aligned to your business objectives."
  +Finance for Everyone: Decisions,finance-decisions,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-decisions,Business,McMaster University,"Finance for Everyone: Decisions will introduce you to the workings of the free markets and the foundations of finance. You will learn how free markets and their “creative destruction” provide the architecture for the global economy and how those same markets move money in ways that create and destroy wealth. Your financial toolkit will include timeless concepts like compounding, discounting, annuities, effective interest rates, and more. You will also learn how to simplify important financial calculations and apply that knowledge to real-life decisions that can influence everything from how you pay for your car to where you live."
  +Introduction to Financial Markets,financial-markets-intro,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-intro,Business,Indian School of Business,"Learn the general concepts of financial markets and economy. You will see the difference between primary and secondary markets and learn about markets for different products. You will also look at various economic Indicators and their influence on the markets. After completing this course, you will have a much stronger background of financial markets and ready to go to the next stage in the Specialization. This course is designed to help students with very little or no finance background to learn the basics of investments."
  +Understanding Financial Statements: Company Performance,income-statement,https://coursera.org/learn/income-statement,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial statements with an emphasis on the income statement. Building on the foundation formed in the first course, you will learn about the third of our three measurement questions and how the income statement helps to answer this final measurement question. Returning to the real business people introduced in the first course, this second course describes the basic content of income statement in a simple yet relevant context."
  +Finance: Building a Robust Business,robustbusiness-iese,https://coursera.org/learn/robustbusiness-iese,Business,IESE Business School,"When it comes to numbers, there is always more than meets the eye. In operational finance, you will learn how to read the “story” that the balance sheet and income statement tells about the company’s operations. The insights you gain from this “financial story” will then become a tool for short-term decision-making at the top management level relating to current assets, current liabilities and the management of working capital."
  +Coaching Practices,coaching-practices,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-practices,Business,"University of California, Davis","In order for coaching to be most effective, it’s important that there is strong culture of coaching and accountability which you will learn how to incorporate into your one-on-one meetings in this course. We’ll discuss strategies in coaching great employees who are highly motivated, consistent performers, and poor performers. We’ll explore specific tools, such as a coaching agenda, you can employ immediately in your coaching conversations. You will learn how to use the ""Coaching Algebra"" technique in typical performance scenarios managers encounter."
  +Writing Winning Resumes and Cover Letters,winning-resumes,https://coursera.org/learn/winning-resumes,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park",How can you bring your resume to the top of the pile? How can you present yourself to prospective employers using the language they already speak inside their organization? This course will give you answers to those questions. You will learn how to convert a boring resume into a dynamic asset statement that conveys your talents in the language that an employer understands.
  +European Business Law: Doing Business in Europe,european-business-law,https://coursera.org/learn/european-business-law,Business,Lund University,"This six-week course titled Doing Business in Europe is the second in a series of three exploring some of the main business aspects of European Union law. Besides providing learners with a sound knowledge base of European laws and regulations relevant to establishing and managing a company within the European Union, the course also explores business considerations within a broader perspective by including inputs from leading law practitioners in the field. More specifically, the course discusses strategic and financial considerations within Company law, as well as Labour law issues such as restructuring enterprises, working conditions and handling crises situations. The course also examines other legal areas such as Tax law, Environmental law and Private International law, and how they tie in to doing business in Europe."
  +Integrated Marketing Communications,integrated-marketing-communications,https://coursera.org/learn/integrated-marketing-communications,Business,IE Business School,Through this course you will understand the most important issues when planning and evaluating marketing communications strategies and executions. You'll be able to combine the appropriate theories and models with practical information to make better marketing communications decisions. After completing this course you'll be able to use integrated marketing communications (IMC) in the process of creating valuable brands and winning your consumers.
  +International Business I,international-business,https://coursera.org/learn/international-business,Business,University of New Mexico,"We live in a world of intensifying global relationships, one in which international business has become the key determinant of economic development and prosperity. This course, Global Business Environment, Part I, introduces students to a fundamental understanding of the socioeconomic political, cultural, and linguistic environment in which international businesses operate. This course utilizes an inquiry-based approach to understanding country level relationships in the Global Business Environment. It surveys the global business environment by asking and answering key questions about society, the global economy, cultures, institutions and languages."
  +International Hospitality & Healthcare Services Marketing,international-hospitality-healthcare-services-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/international-hospitality-healthcare-services-marketing,Business,Yonsei University,"As the fastest-growing sectors of the current global economy, both hospitality and healthcare services sector offer tremendous growth opportunities for incumbents and entrepreneurial opportunities for new entrants. To flourish on these opportunities, one must first understand each industry's unique characteristics. This course is designed to help those who are interested in career advancement opportunities in these industries or who want to be inspired by these industries to better equip themselves with enlightened and creative management capabilities."
  +The Manager's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Managing People at Work,people-management,https://coursera.org/learn/people-management,Business,"University of London, Birkbeck, University of London","The aim of this course is to give you a practical guide to managing people at work. It does not matter whether you are a first time manager in a shop or a middle manager in an office environment; the same skills apply to every work place. In the course you will engage with some HR theories and then see how they translate into every day working life. At the end of the course we hope you will be better equipped to choose a suitable employee, to motivate and appraise your team, to manage conflict in the work place and to lead and make decision on a day to day basis."
  +Today’s Music Industry,music-industry,https://coursera.org/learn/music-industry,Business,West Virginia University,"This course provides an engaging and methodical insight into the past and present cultural and commercial music industry developments, directions, and trends. It will equip the students with the knowledge and skills necessary to appreciate, understand and more productively participate in today’s music industry field."
  +Decision-Making and Scenarios,wharton-decision-making-scenarios,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-decision-making-scenarios,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course is designed to show you how use quantitative models to transform data into better business decisions. You’ll learn both how to use models to facilitate decision-making and also how to structure decision-making for optimum results. Two of Wharton’s most acclaimed professors will show you the step-by-step processes of modeling common business and financial scenarios, so you can significantly improve your ability to structure complex problems and derive useful insights about alternatives. Once you’ve created models of existing realities, possible risks, and alternative scenarios, you can determine the best solution for your business or enterprise, using the decision-making tools and techniques you’ve learned in this course."
  +Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability,wharton-entrepreneurship-financing-profitabilty,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-entrepreneurship-financing-profitabilty,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Start-ups can benefit from a wide variety of financing options on the path to profitability, but how do you know which one to choose? This course explores different financing models, including bootstrapping, organic growth, debt and risk capital, and also provides a clear overview of equity financing including the key types of investors: angels, venture capital, and crowdfunding. You’ll learn about terms, and term sheets, exit modes and what exit strategy might be best for you. By the end of this course, you’ll have an understanding of what success looks like and how it can be financed."
  +3D Printing Applications,3d-printing-applications,https://coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-applications,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course will help you understand how 3D printing is being applied across a number of domains, including design, manufacturing, and retailing. It will also demonstrate the special capabilities of 3D printing such as customization, self-assembly, and the ability to print complex objects. In addition to business applications, this course will also examine how individuals, including those in developing countries, are using this technology to create solutions to the problems they face. This course will also provide an overview of design thinking and how you can use this framework to develop ideas that can be turned into objects."
  +"Anticipating Your Next Battle, in Business and Beyond",anticipate,https://coursera.org/learn/anticipate,Business,HEC Paris,"In this MOOC, you will learn how to better anticipate the future, and reinvent yourself and your activity accordingly. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to account for the broader context and the possible convergence of long-term trends, and thus be able to develop a long-term, consistent strategy and vision, beyond mere day-to-day tactics. Thanks to this approach and mindset, you will become more agile and more resilient in a highly complex and uncertain landscape."
  +Portfolio and Risk Management,portfolio-risk-management,https://coursera.org/learn/portfolio-risk-management,Business,University of Geneva,"In this course, you will gain an understanding of the theory underlying optimal portfolio construction, the different ways portfolios are actually built in practice and how to measure and manage the risk of such portfolios. You will start by studying how imperfect correlation between assets leads to diversified and optimal portfolios as well as the consequences in terms of asset pricing. Then, you will learn how to shape an investor's profile and build an adequate portfolio by combining strategic and tactical asset allocations. Finally, you will have a more in-depth look at risk: its different facets and the appropriate tools and techniques to measure it, manage it and hedge it."
  +Market Research and Consumer Behavior,market-research,https://coursera.org/learn/market-research,Business,IE Business School,"Your marketing quest begins here! The first course in this specialization lays the neccessary groundwork for an overall successful marketing strategy. It is separated into two sections: Market Research and Consumer Behavior. Gain the tools and techniques to translate a decision problem into a research question in the Market Research module. Learn how to design a research plan, analyze the data gathered and accurately interpret and communicate survey reports, translating the results into practical recommendations."
  +Planning,start-your-own-business-3-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/start-your-own-business-3-planning,Business,Michigan State University,"According to Steven Blank a business startup, or any new venture startup is essentially a proto-type. Thus the startup process essentially becomes a learning process to refine that business proto-type into a scalable, replicable finished 'product'. At the end of this course learners will be able to: -complete a business model summarizing assumptions about what value they will offer to whom, and how they will make money."
  +Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making,business-data,https://coursera.org/learn/business-data,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an analytical framework to help you evaluate key problems in a structured fashion and will equip you with tools to better manage the uncertainties that pervade and complicate business processes. Specifically, you will be introduced to statistics and how to summarize data and learn concepts of frequency, normal distribution, statistical studies, sampling, and confidence intervals."
  +Innovating Solutions for Aging Populations,health-care-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/health-care-innovation,Business,"University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School","This course will introduce you to health care innovation within the theme of ‘healthy living and active aging’, covering both the medical and the commercial aspects of innovations. Following two cases on diabetes and rehabilitation, this interdisciplinary course will present the key theories, tools, and concepts within health care innovation, and teach you to analyse and develop solutions to some of the great health care challenges of our time. This master-level online course is created by leading experts from Denmark and the Netherlands and is directed at students and practitioners from different fields, including public health and business economics."
  +Business Strategy,strategy-business,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-business,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School"
  +"The Three Pillar Model for Business Decisions: Strategy, Law & Ethics",strategy-law-ethics,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-law-ethics,Business,University of Michigan,"Prominent business school researchers have identified a powerful model for making business decisions that is based on economics, law and ethics. The Three Pillar model in this course expands this model by adding strategy in place of economics. With this change, the model becomes a practical framework that you can use to make all types of decisions—business, leadership and personal. This course uses business decision making to show you how to use the model. In essence, to achieve business and career success, you must manage risk (the Law Pillar) and create value (the Strategy Pillar) in a responsible manner (the Ethics Pillar)."
  +Finance for Everyone: Markets,finance-markets,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-markets,Business,McMaster University,"Markets begins with one of the most common and important elements of the financial system – interest rates. You will learn why interest rates have always been a key barometer in determining the value of everything. You will explore the changing influence of interest rates; the impact of interest rates on consumption, investment and economic growth; and the bizarre realities of negative interest rates. Markets explains how interest rates change the value of all financial instruments, highlighting the role of the bond and stock markets that have toppled empires. We take a closer look at the equity pricing models and equity markets that reverberate across the globe, and explore everything from the first stock ever issued – by the Dutch East India Company – to the little-understood but powerful derivative securities market."
  +How to Validate your Startup Idea,startup-idea,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-idea,Business,UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales),"Starting a new business begins with an idea that needs to evolve through experimentation, iteration and interactions with people. This course is for existing and potential entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance and support to make their ‘great idea’ a reality. In addition to reviewing the basic principles of entrepreneurship, this course guides you through the process of actively validating your idea in the market. We encourage you to identify and communicate good opportunities and to create and capture value from these opportunities."
  +Advanced Content and Social Tactics to Optimize SEO,seo-tactics,https://coursera.org/learn/seo-tactics,Business,"University of California, Davis","Discover the content marketing and social media ecosystems and how these interconnected channels drive search results to a website. Leverage content marketing and social media as part of your SEO strategy, and how to use influence marketing to establish a website’s authority."
  +International Entertainment and Sports Marketing,international-entertainment-sports-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/international-entertainment-sports-marketing,Business,Yonsei University,"This course will provide learners with a fundamental understanding of the characteristics and marketing strategies related to two key global industries, sports and entertainment. The growth in both industries have been fueled by their ability to innovate via CCCI, i.e. cross-country and cross-industry expansion. There will be a graded quiz that will consists of 10 questions during the first two weeks (together worth 50% of the grade) and a final quiz that contains 20 questions (worth 50% of the grade) in the third week."
  +Investor Characteristics and Behavioral Aspects of Investment,behavioral-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/behavioral-finance,Business,Indian School of Business,"Through this course, you will learn how individuals and firms make financial decisions, and how those decisions might deviate from those predicted by traditional financial or economic theory. We will explore the nature of these biases and their origins, using insights from psychology, neurosciences and experimental economics on how the human mind works. From these biases, you will be able to examine how the insights of behavioral finance complement the traditional finance paradigm. We also look at the micro and macro biases."
  +Marketing: Understanding Your Customers,marketing-iese,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-iese,Business,IESE Business School,Understanding who your customers are and what they need and want is at the heart of successful marketing strategies. In this course you will explore how to identify and classify customers and the different methods that marketing professionals use to shed light on how they make purchase decisions.
  +Innovation and Design for Global Grand Challenges,grand-challenges,https://coursera.org/learn/grand-challenges,Business,Duke University,"The purpose of this course is to introduce you to current global challenges in conservation and development, including changes in both sectors. This course will inspire you to rethink assumptions to address global challenges in conservation and development, and introduce you to new models and approaches that harness technological, behavioral, and financial innovation. This course will equip you with the insights, skills and approaches necessary to successfully overcome these obstacles. In addition, this course will provide participants with the tools, models, and approaches to address global grand challenges in conservation and development, to question fundamental assumptions, and to create and execute new solutions. Course participants will be trained in the processes around innovation and design to address global grand challenges"
  +Structure,start-your-own-business-4-structure,https://coursera.org/learn/start-your-own-business-4-structure,Business,Michigan State University,Georgia Institute of Technology
  +"Business Statistics, Data Analysis, and Decision Making: Part 2",business-statistics-2,https://coursera.org/learn/business-statistics-2,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an analytical framework to help you evaluate key problems in a structured fashion and will equip you with tools to better manage the uncertainties that pervade and complicate business processes. The course aim to cover statistical ideas that apply to managers. We will consider two basic themes: first, is recognizing and describing variations present in everything around us, and then modeling and making decisions in the presence of these variations. The fundamental concepts studied in this course will reappear in many other classes and business settings."
  +Corporate Strategy,strategy-corporate,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-corporate,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value, and how it is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand economic value creation and value appropriation, and learn the tools to analyze both competition and cooperation from a corporate level perspective, (e.g., through vertical integration, diversification, and geographic scope decisions)."
  +Positioning: What you need for a successful Marketing Strategy,positioning,https://coursera.org/learn/positioning,Business,IE Business School,"Positioning is the heart of any Marketing Strategy, the core that you must get right. It does not matter whether you start with a clearly defined target group or with a differential value proposition: you will need end up with a clear segment or segments upon which we build our Marketing Plan. In this course - the second in our Marketing Strategy Specialization - IE professor Ignacio Gafo will guide you through the essential stages of this key marekting process, starting with the basic elements that you will require and deciding on the market segmentation and marketing."
  +Innovation Career Lessons from a Master,startup-entrepreneurship-innovation-career-lessons,https://coursera.org/learn/startup-entrepreneurship-innovation-career-lessons,Business,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,"This course, which is Part Three in the series of Startup Entrepreneurship specialization, offers Life Lessons from a Master Innovator, with proven achievements. During this course you will listen to conversations and interviews with Mr. David (Dadi) Perlmutter, who until recently was Executive VP of Intel corporate. Dadi will talk about 10 life lessons, based on his 34 years as a rebel innovator and entrepreneur."
  +Shaping Your Professional Brand,professional-brand,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-brand,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"You've thought about who you are and how you want your career to be. You have some skills to deal with situations that could cause problems. What about the team around you? How do you build functional and constructive professional relationships? How can you add value? What do employers look for when they are promoting? Skill-building in this course will include asking questions, listening, developing likeability (you’d better be stellar if you’re difficult), identifying cognitive bias, apologizing, receiving apologies, and the basics of whistleblowing."
  +Behavioral Finance,duke-behavioral-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/duke-behavioral-finance,Business,Duke University,"We make thousands of decisions every day. Do I cross the road now, or wait for the oncoming truck to pass? Should I eat fries or a salad for lunch? How much should I tip the cab driver? We usually make these decisions with almost no thought, using what psychologists call “heuristics” – rules of thumb that enable us to navigate our lives. Without these mental shortcuts, we would be paralyzed by the multitude of daily choices. But in certain circumstances, these shortcuts lead to predictable errors – predictable, that is, if we know what to watch out for. Did you know, for example, that we are naturally biased towards selling investments that are doing well for us, but holding on to those that are doing poorly?"
  +Sports Sponsorship. Let them Play,sports-sponsorship,https://coursera.org/learn/sports-sponsorship,Business,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,Are you interested in sport sponsorship? Would you like to understand which actors participate in sport sponsorship? Would you like to know the latest and innovative proposals that are arising in the sport sponsorship world? Are you interested in learning and connecting with sports enthusiasts/students from all around the world? The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Johan Cruyff Institute jointly offer this introductory course in sports sponsorship for all those interested in knowing how to create a sponsorship plan for a sports event.
  +Personal & Family Financial Planning,family-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/family-planning,Business,University of Florida,Personal and Family Financial Planning will address many critical personal financial management topics in order to help you learn prudent habits both while in school and throughout your lifetime.
  +Coaching Conversations,coaching-conversations,https://coursera.org/learn/coaching-conversations,Business,"University of California, Davis","Throughout the Coaching Skills for Managers specialization, we’ve discussed many topics for improving coaching conversations with our employees. It is now time to put all of that theory and discussion into practice and examine great examples of common coaching conversations! Note: This course builds on all previous courses in the Coaching Skills for Managers specialization. It is highly recommended that students complete or be familiar with the topics covered in those courses before taking this course."
  +Financing and Investing in Infrastructure,infrafinance,https://coursera.org/learn/infrafinance,Business,Università Bocconi,Learn how debt and equity can be used to finance infrastructure investments and how investors approach infrastructure investments!
  +"Investment Strategy, Philosophy, Client Management and Current Trends",investment-philosophy,https://coursera.org/learn/investment-philosophy,Business,Indian School of Business,"Discover the basic concepts of needs analysis, investment policy, asset allocation, product selection, portfolio monitoring and re-balancing. We will look at the types of institutional investors - pension funds and insurance companies. You will learn the client management life cycle and dive into portfolio management as a process. You will learn the basic concepts, principles, and the major styles of investing in alternative assets. Finally, we study the impact of digitization on investment strategies."
  +Business Writing,writing-for-business,https://coursera.org/learn/writing-for-business,Business,University of Colorado Boulder,"Writing well is one of the most important skills you can learn for success in the business world. Knowing how to write well allows you to deliver your ideas with the power they deserve. Good writing also conveys a sense of your professional excellence to the world around you. In this course, you'll master the simple, effective skills that drive all successful business writing."
  +Organizational Behavior: Managing People,managingpeople-iese,https://coursera.org/learn/managingpeople-iese,Business,IESE Business School,"Peter Drucker, a pioneer in the field of management, once said that people have a perverse tendency to behave like human beings. Of course, we are not machines, and certainly not programmable. But through the study of organizational behavior, we can gain insights into what makes people tick within a work context."
  +The Olympic Games and the Media,olympic-games,https://coursera.org/learn/olympic-games,Business,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,"This course gives you a complete insight into the communication and managerial techniques put into practice in the creation of the most important sporting mega event in the world. You will learn about the essentials of television production, programming strategies and television rights management of the Olympic Games. At the same time, you will gain valuable knowledge about the fundamentals of communication via social media and of the Olympic culture which is so closely connected with classic culture and humanism."
  +Finance For Everyone: Value,finance-value,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-value,Business,McMaster University,"In Value, you will explore the most powerful generator of value in the world – ideas. Ideas are the engines of productivity, both in the private and public sectors. You will learn about the universal frameworks that determine how ideas and money interact, leading to the allocation of financial resources. We will identify components of cash flow for any project, business or venture as the most essential ingredients of value. We also assess the investment techniques used to give life to some ideas while killing others. This course will help you understand pricing, diversification, uncertainty and even behavioural approaches to dealing with risk. Using Nobel Prize-winning insights, you will learn how to measure the size of the risk premium and build valuation models."
  +Accounting for Business Decision Making: Part 1,business-accounting-1,https://coursera.org/learn/business-accounting-1,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course provides an introduction to accounting’s measurement role inside of an organization and how accountants communicate information that helps managers and employees make operational decisions. In particular, you will learn how cost information is created and organized to help managers and employees conduct profitability analyses, develop and choose products, make pricing decisions, and make common business decisions."
  +Advanced Search Engine Optimization Strategies,advanced-seo-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/advanced-seo-strategies,Business,"University of California, Davis","This course focuses on technical, mobile and social strategies for increasing site traffic. Learn how to build SEO for international audiences through content localization, global team alignment and optimizing for local search engines. Discover techniques to optimize mobile-friendly websites, get mobile apps discovered, and leverage social media to drive organic SEO traffic."
  +Securing Investment Returns in the Long Run,investment-returns-long-run,https://coursera.org/learn/investment-returns-long-run,Business,University of Geneva,"In this course, you will learn about the famous dichotomy between active and passive investing, how to appropriately measure and analyze investment performance and what the future trends in the investment management industry are. You will first learn about absolute and relative performance, risk-adjusted returns and how to decompose investment performance."
  +Marketing Mix Fundamentals,marketing-mix,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-mix,Business,IE Business School,"Marketing Mix Fundamentals prepares you for arguably the most important stage of bring your product to market - how and where are you going to market it? It sets out a detailed introduction to the four P’s of Marketing (Product, Pricing, Place and Promotion), this course forces you to strategically analyze your product and/or service."
  +Becoming a changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation,social-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/social-innovation,Business,University of Cape Town,"This free 6 week course is for anyone who wants to make a difference. Whether you are already familiar with the field of social innovation or social entrepreneurship, working for an organization that wants to increase its social impact, or just starting out, this course will take you on a journey of exploring the complex problems that surround us and how to start thinking about solutions."
  +Moving to the Cloud,movingtothecloud,https://coursera.org/learn/movingtothecloud,Business,The University of Melbourne,"Commercial research analysts consider cloud as one of the most significant trends with a potential to change the whole global IT industry. Governments, including those in the US, Britain, and Australia, have cloud-first policies now in place which mandate cloud over non-cloud services in ICT procurement. But CIOs and other senior executives, while it's on the majority of their agendas, aren't sure what it really means for their organisations - how to leverage the benefits, control the commercials, manage the business risk, and adapt their organisations."
  +Financial Accounting: Foundations,financial-accounting-foundations,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-accounting-foundations,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn foundations of financial accounting information. You will start your journey with a general overview of what financial accounting information is and the main financial statements. You will then learn how to code financial transactions in financial accounting language. In the meantime, you will learn about the most important concept in contemporary financial accounting: accrual accounting. You will then critically analyze how firms recognize revenues. Finally, you will finish the course with an analysis of accounting for short-term assets where you will go into detail on how firms account for accounts receivables and inventories."
  +"Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis",managerial-accounting-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/managerial-accounting-analysis,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn how to use accounting to facilitate and align decisions made by owners, managers, and employees. You will learn how accountants create, organize, interpret, and communicate information that improves internal processes, and allows organizations to identify and leverage opportunities to create value within the supply chain and with customers."
  +Strategy,howtostartabusiness5,https://coursera.org/learn/howtostartabusiness5,Business,Michigan State University,"This course is the last course in this specialization before its capstone experience where you, the learner will launch your business. Consider all the activities associated with the final preparation for a NASA launch before the final countdown takes place. Those are the type of activities with respect to launching a business that will be covered in this course. The goal of the course is for you to have a document that details all the actions you need to take, and all the things that you need to think about before launching your business, with instructions on how to do those actions and how to thing about those things."
  +Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions,managerial-accounting-tool,https://coursera.org/learn/managerial-accounting-tool,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will explore how to use accounting to allocate resources and incentivize manager and employee behaviors in using these resources. You will also learn how financial and non-financial accounting information facilitates strategic performance measurement and how to integrate this information to continuously improve strategy."
  +Accounting for Business Decision Making: Part 2,business-accounting-2,https://coursera.org/learn/business-accounting-2,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Accounting information is the lifeblood of the organization, as it facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions intended to achieve organizational goals. Organizations benefit from three decision-oriented roles of accounting: measurement, control, and communication. This course provides an introduction to accounting’s role in helping managers develop and implement, and improve the organization’s strategy. In particular, you will learn how non-financial and financial information is created, organized, and communicated to help managers make strategic decisions, as well as measure strategic success."
  +Corporate Finance I: Measuring and Promoting Value Creation,corporate-finance-copy,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-copy,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn how to use key finance principles to understand and measure business success and to identify and promote true value creation. You will learn how to use accounting information to form key financial ratios to measure a company’s financial health and to manage a company's short-term and long-term liquidity needs. You will also learn how to use valuation techniques to make sound business investment and acquisition decisions. Finally, you will learn how to incorporate risk and uncertainty into investment decisions and how to evaluate the performance of existing investments."
  +Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics,financial-accounting-advanced,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-accounting-advanced,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will explore advanced topics in financial accounting. You will start your journey with accounting for assets with more than one-year life. You will learn in detail how firms account for fixed assets. You will then move to financing of assets and discuss accounting for liabilities. The course will continue with an in-depth exploration of shareholders’ equity. Finally, you will critically evaluate preparation, components, and analysis of cash flows statement."
  +Finance for Everyone: Debt,finance-debt,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-debt,Business,McMaster University,"In Debt, we take on one of the most challenging financial questions that remains unresolved: How much to borrow? We start by demonstrating why using debt has always been and continues to be a great temptation, particularly when borrowing costs are historically low. We identify conditions for selecting the optimal amount of debt for a corporation looking to maximize its value. You’ll become fluent in related concepts like norms and benchmarks. You will explore these and other factors that influence debt for individuals and for public sector organizations -including governments, who are the largest consumers of debt. Like pollution, debt creates systemic risks even for the people and organizations that don’t create it. This course discusses the imperative of limiting and reducing debt and the costs to all of us if we don’t."
  +The Marketing Plan,marketingplan,https://coursera.org/learn/marketingplan,Business,IE Business School,"Create your own Marketing Plan for your own product or service idea. In this course you will learn how to produce arguably the most important marketing tool for any business. Rather than simply learning the stages of The Marketing Plan, you will be asked each week to complete a peer graded assignment which will help you complete a simplified version of the plan. You will be required either to map the four crucial stages for your own product or service idea or use the Nissan Leaf case study (attached in the additional readings) in order to produce a professional example."
  +Supply Chain Logistics,supply-chain-logistics,https://coursera.org/learn/supply-chain-logistics,Business,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Have you ever wondered how goods get delivered to us so quickly as soon as we order them? One word: Logistics! In this introductory Supply Chain Logistics course, I will take you on a journey to this fascinating backbone of global trade. We cover the three major building blocks of logistics networks: transportation, warehousing, and inventory. After completing this course, you will be able to differentiate the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of transportation. You will understand what goes into designing and setting up a warehousing facility."
  +"Managing Responsibly: Practicing Sustainability, Responsibility and Ethics",responsiblemanagement,https://coursera.org/learn/responsiblemanagement,Business,University of Manchester,"Managers are increasingly confronted with issues of sustainability, responsibility and ethics. Managing responsibly is an integrative approach to sustainability, responsibility and ethics, which allows you as a manager to deal competently with such challenges. This course will facilitate your learning process to engage in changing practices to make them more sustainable, responsible, and ethically informed."
  +Finance for Non-Financial Managers,finance-for-non-financial-managers,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-for-non-financial-managers,Business,Emory University,"Finance is for “Non-financial Managers” who want to understand key financial principles and apply them in a real-world context. Over the course of the program window, you will work your way through a series of nine modules that move from understanding basic financial principles to applying financial analysis and ratios to drive decisions. In addition, each module is capped with an ending self-evaluation to ensure that you have absorbed the following key learning objectives:"
  +Graphic Design,presentation-design,https://coursera.org/learn/presentation-design,Business,University of Colorado Boulder,"Visual communication is as critical to professional success as written or oral communication. Graphic design skills will help you ensure that your visual business assets convey a clear and compelling message - and learning the essentials of good design is surprisingly easy. This course introduces you to a straightforward design process that emphasizes planning, clarity, and focus. You’ll learn to use contrast, repetition, proximity, and tension to create design that is both credible and visually appealing, and you’ll emulate best practices as you work with examples from a wide range of media."
  +The Impact of Technology,impact-of-technology,https://coursera.org/learn/impact-of-technology,Business,EIT Digital,"In this course you will learn how to use theories and methods to make predictions of the potential impact of new technology – in general, as well as for a specific application. This will prepare you for the changes that we are facing in society, and also help you take advantage of transformations which are driven by technology. The course takes a broad approach, including social and economic factors. You will study historical examples and learn to recognize recurring patterns and cycles."
  +Finance for Non-Finance Professionals,finance-for-non-finance-professionals,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-for-non-finance-professionals,Business,Rice University,"This short course surveys all the major topics covered in a full semester MBA level finance course, but with a more intuitive approach on a very high conceptual level. The goal here is give you a roadmap and framework for how financial professional make decisions. We will cover the basics of financial valuation, the time value of money, compounding returns, and discounting the future."
  +The Power of Team Culture,team-culture,https://coursera.org/learn/team-culture,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Behind the success and failure of teams lies team culture. But what exactly is culture? How and why does it contribute to success and failure? In this course, you will learn how to recognize aspects of team culture of which most people are normally unaware. It is often these seemingly unimportant aspects that have the greatest effect on the outcomes of group tasks. Your recognition of them will enable you to more effectively form, join, and lead teams. You will also come to appreciate the role of ritual and symbols in the daily operation of teams, as well as in situations of change and crisis. Knowledge of the ideas and information in this class will enable you to be not only a better team player but also a more effective team leader."
  +Launching New Ventures,new-ventures,https://coursera.org/learn/new-ventures,Business,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"Launching New Ventures, a course about Entrepreneurship & Strategy for Technology-Driven Startups, is designed for professionals, entrepreneurs, and students who want to learn about how to successfully launch a business. Through short, animated lectures, inspiring interviews with entrepreneurs from around the world, short quizzes, suggested readings and a practical final project, students will gain a broad overview of entrepreneurship strategy with insights they can apply to their venture regardless of location, industry or venture stage."
  +Operations Management,operations-management-1,https://coursera.org/learn/operations-management-1,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn about the role of operations and how they are connected to other business functions in manufacturing- and service-focused organizations. You will learn and practice the use of decision-making frameworks and techniques applicable at all levels, from management-level strategic decisions such as connecting process to the needs of various customer segments, to front-line tactical decisions such as choosing between ordering larger quantities vs. ordering more frequently."
  +Identifying Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities,social-entrepreneurship-opportunities,https://coursera.org/learn/social-entrepreneurship-opportunities,Business,Copenhagen Business School,This Course will clarify the definition and meaning of Social Entrepreneurship and will focus on the need to learn about the source and root of a social problem. You will be introduced to different perspectives about Social Entrepreneurship and you will learn about complementary and opportunistic assets which will help you to detect an opportunity and develop an idea of how to create a business for social change.
  +Meaningful Marketing Insights,meaningful-marketing-insights,https://coursera.org/learn/meaningful-marketing-insights,Business,Emory University,"With marketers are poised to be the largest users of data within the organization, there is a need to make sense of the variety of consumer data that the organization collects. Surveys, transaction histories and billing records can all provide insight into consumers’ future behavior, provided that they are interpreted correctly. In Introduction to Marketing Analytics, we introduce the tools that learners will need to convert raw data into marketing insights. The included exercises are conducted using Microsoft Excel, ensuring that learners will have the tools they need to extract information from the data available to them. The course provides learners with exposure to essential tools including exploratory data analysis, as well as regression methods that can be used to investigate the impact of marketing activity on aggregate data (e.g., sales) and on individual-level choice data (e.g., brand choices)."
  +Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation,investments-fundamentals,https://coursera.org/learn/investments-fundamentals,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, we will discuss fundamental principles of trading off risk and return, portfolio optimization, and security pricing. We will study and use risk-return models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and multi-factor models to evaluate the performance of various securities and portfolios. Specifically, we will learn how to interpret and estimate regressions that provide us with both a benchmark to use for a security given its risk (determined by its beta), as well as a risk-adjusted measure of the security’s performance (measured by its alpha). Building upon this framework, market efficiency and its implications for patterns in stock returns and the asset-management industry will be discussed."
  +Valuation for Startups Using Discounted Cash Flows Approach,discounted-cash-flow,https://coursera.org/learn/discounted-cash-flow,Business,Yonsei University,"Discounted cash flow method means that we can find firm value by discounting future cash flows of a firm. That is, firm value is present value of cash flows a firm generates in the future. In order to understand the meaning of present value, we are going to discuss time value of money, first. That is, the value of $100 today is different from the value of $100 a year later. Then, what should be the present value of $100 that you are going to receive in 1 year? How about the value of $100 dollars that you are going to receive every year for next 10 years? How about forever?"
  +Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society,design,https://coursera.org/learn/design,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This is a course aimed at making you a better designer. The course marries theory and practice, as both are valuable in improving design performance. Lectures and readings will lay out the fundamental concepts that underpin design as a human activity. Weekly design challenges test your ability to apply those ideas to solve real problems. The course is deliberately broad - spanning all domains of design, including architecture, graphics, services, apparel, engineered goods, and products. The emphasis of the course is the basic design process: define, explore, select, and refine."
  +Global Financial Markets and Instruments,global-financial-markets-instruments,https://coursera.org/learn/global-financial-markets-instruments,Business,Rice University,"Get a running start in the high-stakes world of financial investment! This first course is designed to help you become an informed investor by providing you with the essential concepts for long-term success in managing money. You’ll start by learning the role of financial markets and financial assets in a well-functioning economy. From there, you’ll learn about the wide range of financial instruments available in major asset classes, their features and valuations."
  +Managing Social and Human Capital,wharton-managing-human-capital,https://coursera.org/learn/wharton-managing-human-capital,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"People are the most valuable asset of any business, but they are also the most unpredictable, and the most difficult asset to manage. And although managing people well is critical to the health of any organization, most managers don't get the training they need to make good management decisions. Now, award-wining authors and renowned management Professors Mike Useem and Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School have designed this course to introduce you to the key elements of managing people. Based on their popular course at Wharton, this course will teach you how to motivate individual performance and design reward systems, how to design jobs and organize work for high performance, how to make good and timely management decisions, and how to design and change your organization’s architecture."
  +Building the Business Model for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurs-business-model,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurs-business-model,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","Led by Dan Gordon, a University of Maryland faculty member who teaches business modeling in the National Science Foundation's I-Corps Program, this course enables you to develop and apply the Business Model Canvas tool to scope a corporate challenge or opportunity. You will learn how to identify and communicate the nine elements of a business model: Customer Segments, Value Propositions, Channels, Customer Relationships, Revenue Streams, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, and Cost Structure."
  +Developing the Opportunity for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurs-opportunity,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurs-opportunity,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","For an increasing number of established companies, creating new businesses and programs within the company is an imperative for success. Maturing technologies and aging product portfolios are requiring established companies to create, develop, and sustain innovative new initiatives. In this course, learners will develop knowledge on how to navigate the barriers to creating, developing, and sustain innovative new businesses and programs within established companies or organizations with an emphasis on: • Introducing the skills for identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial ideas within a corporate environment; • Examining entrepreneurial thinking within yourself and your colleagues with an awareness of entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial motivations, and entrepreneurial behaviors;"
  +Sales Strategies: Mastering the Selling Process,sales-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/sales-strategies,Business,The University of Chicago,"Selling is a life skill. As people, we interact with other people every day in many different types of situations. And if you stop and think about those various situations, many of them are sales situations. You might be interviewing for a job, or meeting a new potential customer, or trying to convince someone that your idea is the right one. These are sales situations, and in this course you will learn how high-performing salespeople use critical skills and disciplines to create success each and every time they interact with another person. You"
  +Financing and Profiting from Innovation for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurs-financing,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurs-financing,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","This course is for aspiring or active corporate entrepreneurs who wants to understand how to secure and manage funding for their corporate venture. We will demystify key accounting and financing concepts to give corporate entrepreneurs a guide to developing the business case for their ideas, and securing funding to translate ideas into reality. This course focuses on four key areas: • Learning the fundamentals and how to create financial statements for new ventures within the corporate environment; • Examining valuation techniques for understanding how to assess and grow the value of the corporate venture; • Exploring the different sources of internal and external financing for the corporate venture; and • Applying lessons learned in the course to structure a funding deal and pitch the corporate venture."
  +Construction Project Management,construction-project-management,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-project-management,Business,Columbia University,"Construction Project Management introduces you to Project Initiation and Planning. Industry experts join Columbia University professor, Ibrahim Odeh, to give an overview of the construction industry. Professor Odeh teaches the fundamentals of the Project Development Cycle while guest lecturers discuss Lean Project Delivery method and Lean Design Behaviors. Technological advances, such as Building Information Modeling, will be introduced with real world examples of the uses of BIM during the Lifecycle of the Project. The course concludes with Professor Odeh discussing the importance of project planning and scheduling and an opportunity to develop a Work Breakdown Structure."
  +Master Class for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurship-project,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurship-project,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park","The Master Class experience is designed to serve as the final project experience for the Corporate Entrepreneurship Specialization. Alternatively, professionals with experience in opportunity analysis, business modeling, and corporate finance are invited to complete the Master Class experience without the preliminary courses. With maturing technologies and aging product portfolios requiring established companies to create, develop, and sustain innovative new businesses, graduates of the Master Class will develop an understanding of how to create new businesses and initiatives within the corporate environment."
  +Crafting Strategies for Innovation Initiatives for Corporate Entrepreneurs,corporate-entrepreneurs-innovation-strategy,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-entrepreneurs-innovation-strategy,Business,"University of Maryland, College Park",This course focuses on enhancing your understanding of (1) how an internal venture is organized and (2) how to overcome resistance to your new venture ideas within the company. The course is specifically valuable for: • Employees who have creative ideas important to their company; • Managers seeking to assemble creative people and resources; • Technical specialists desiring to become part of an internal venture; and • Consultants who advise companies on ways to launch and grow internal ventures.
  +An Introduction to Consumer Neuroscience & Neuromarketing ,neuromarketing,https://coursera.org/learn/neuromarketing,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"How do we make decisions as consumers? What do we pay attention to, and how do our initial responses predict our final choices? To what extent are these processes unconscious and cannot be reflected in overt reports? This course will provide you with an introduction to some of the most basic methods in the emerging fields of consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing. You will learn about the methods employed and what they mean. You will learn about the basic brain mechanisms in consumer choice, and how to stay updated on these topics. The course will give an overview of the current and future uses of neuroscience in business."
  +Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Social Impact,social-impact,https://coursera.org/learn/social-impact,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"This course offers an introduction to social impact strategy and social entrepreneurship, including key concepts, an overview of the field, and tools to get started as a changemaker. Students will learn how to innovate and design new ideas and new organizational forms to implement those ideas. Students who take this course will be better prepared to launch social impact organizations of their own invention."
  +Self Awareness and the Effective Leader,self-awareness,https://coursera.org/learn/self-awareness,Business,Rice University,"Course 1 in the Leadership Development for Engineers Specialization and part of Rice University's Engineering Management and Leadership Certificate. Part of being an effective leader is learning how to play to your strengths and overcome characteristics that don't lend to good leadership practices. During the course, you will examine your own strengths and learn ways to use them in a leadership role. Learn to manage stress and solve problems creatively. Throughout the course, you will also build a tool kit of useful techniques that you can begin using right away in your engineering career."
  +Leadership and Influence,leadership-influence,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership-influence,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"The only thing you get to change is yourself, and in the prerequisites to this course we’ve given you real tools to do that. Now, use those tools to influence the course of your future, your team's future, and your organization's future. Make a plan for yourself that will help you help others, and learn skills to make it happen. Listening and being sure of your values underpins everything that comes with professional influencer and leadership skills. We’ll go on to look at self-assessment and leadership planning, negotiation, addressing and resolving conflict, and successfully identifying and promoting circumstances you want."
  +Organizational Analysis (Self-Paced),organizational-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/organizational-analysis,Business,Stanford University,"In this introductory, self-paced course, you will learn multiple theories of organizational behavior and apply them to actual cases of organizational change. Organizations are groups whose members coordinate their behaviors in order to accomplish a shared goal. They can be found nearly everywhere in today’s society: universities, start-ups, classrooms, hospitals, non-profits, government bureaus, corporations, restaurants, grocery stores, and professional associations are some of many examples of organizations."
  +Globalization of Business Enterprise,global-business,https://coursera.org/learn/global-business,Business,IESE Business School,"The majority of businesses say they want to become more global. And business leaders say that the lack of people with global intelligence is the key constraint holding them back. This course will address both gaps — at the business and the personal level, it will focus on practical strategies for dealing with the real consequences of globalization."
  +Supply Chain Operations,operations,https://coursera.org/learn/operations,Business,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Have you ever wondered how products and services are created exactly the same thousands of times over? And how companies are able to smooth out operations to manufacture efficiently, effectively, and without any waste? How is such precision possible? The answer lies at the heart of operations. In the Supply Chain Operations course, we introduce and apply essential process improvement tools to achieve perfection. After completing this course, you will be able to apply the Six Sigma methodology for process improvement. You will demonstrate that you understand the basic tenets of the Lean philosophy that enables manufacturers to eliminate waste and make processes more efficient. Finally, you will be able to apply the tools that you just gained to improve a process of your own."
  +Valuation for Startups Using Multiple Approach,valuation-multiples,https://coursera.org/learn/valuation-multiples,Business,Yonsei University,"In addition to discounted cash flow method, multiple method is one of the most popular methods of firm valuation. PER is often used among financial professionals to make a quick-and-dirty estimate of a firm value. In this course, you are going to learn the concept and usage of PER, PBR and PSR. In addition to these basic multiple ratios, you are going to learn how to make an estimate of enterprise value and founder’s ownership before and after additional funding. Startups require a number of financings before IPO. After taking this course, you are going to be able to answer questions such as What the price per share should be given the startup’s estimate of earnings in the future; How many shares the founder should give up to raise additional capital; and so on? In the discounted cash flow method and multiple method, you are always given earnings or cash flows to make estimate of firm value."
  +Building blocks of trading strategies,building-blocks,https://coursera.org/learn/building-blocks,Business,Indian School of Business,"The purpose of this course is to equip you with the knowledge required to comprehend the financial statements of a company and understand the various transactions that take place in the stock market so that you can replicate the strategies discovered by the extant academic literature. The first part of the course provides a brief introduction to financial statements and various common filings of firms. You will learn how to obtain information regarding a company's performance from them and use the information to build trading strategies. Next, you are taught basic asset pricing theories so that you will be able to calculate the expected returns of a stock or a portfolio."
  +Process Improvement,process-improvement-1,https://coursera.org/learn/process-improvement-1,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will focus on process improvement. You will learn how to set organizational priorities for continuous process improvement, how to execute process improvement projects, and how to sustain the initiative for continuous improvements. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Understand the roles of process improvement • Relate underlying principles to frameworks and techniques used for process improvement • Synthesize information to make decisions for organizational initiatives and process improvement • Apply analytical techniques for tactical decisions in a process improvement project"
  +Digital Transformations,digital-transformations,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-transformations,Business,Indian School of Business,"Information Technology (IT) is fast changing the world around us. This course will provide you an understanding of IT-enabled changes in the business environment, and how insightful executives leverage IT to create value and win competitive battles. The course is divided into three parts – the first part of the course focuses on the industry impacts of technological innovation. Here, we will explore competition and business models in the high-tech industry, using examples of companies like Google, Apple and Facebook. We will also explore competitive dynamics of industries that consume significant technology with emphasis on how technology has disrupted industries such as music, media and education."
  +Building High-Performing Teams,high-performing-teams,https://coursera.org/learn/high-performing-teams,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers miscommunicate, and groups struggle to adapt to changes in the market or their organizations. When teams lack self-awareness about these challenges, performance suffers. Based on years of team culture research and consulting experience, this course will help you understand the problems that hurt productivity, and give you tools for creating positive change. This course will help you create the ground rules and structure to set your team up for success. You will gain the skills to diagnose issues such as conflicts, groupthink, and lack of commitment in your team before they get out of control."
  +Social Business Model and Planning for Social Innovation,social-business-model,https://coursera.org/learn/social-business-model,Business,Copenhagen Business School,"In this course we will take the social business opportunity that you have identified in the first course to a higher level. Specifically, you will develop a business model using the Business Model Canvas. Gradually you will also start writing your business plan. Moreover, you will be able to assess different organizational forms and select the one that is appropriate for your developed business model. By the end of the course you will be able to compare different social impact investment methods and choose the right funding strategy for your social venture."
  +Portfolio Selection and Risk Management,portfolio-selection-risk-management,https://coursera.org/learn/portfolio-selection-risk-management,Business,Rice University,"When an investor is faced with a portfolio choice problem, the number of possible assets and the various combinations and proportions in which each can be held can seem overwhelming. In this course, you’ll learn the basic principles underlying optimal portfolio construction, diversification, and risk management. You’ll start by acquiring the tools to characterize an investor’s risk and return trade-off. You will next analyze how a portfolio choice problem can be structured and learn how to solve for and implement the optimal portfolio solution. Finally, you will learn about the main pricing models for equilibrium asset prices."
  +Strategic Innovation for Managers,strategic-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-innovation,Business,Vanderbilt University,"Does your business culture nurture innovation—or stifle it? Are you looking for ways to build your business creatively but find daunting constraints at every turn? Innovation is too important to your success to be left to chance. This course is designed to help you understand the forces that limit innovation, identify those barriers in your own business culture, and break free of them in order to realize the full value of your imagination. You’ll learn the six most common constraints on innovation in organizations—that is, the six ways that creative thinking is usually sabotaged before it can produce results. You’ll learn the barriers to creativity in both individual and group settings, plus discover which stakeholders are actively invested in stopping your ideas in their tracks."
  +Construction Scheduling,construction-scheduling,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-scheduling,Business,Columbia University,"Learners will discover the key project scheduling techniques and procedures including; how to create a network diagram, how to define the importance of the critical path in a project network, and defining project activities float. Also covered are the fundamentals of Bar Charts, Precedence Diagrams, Activity on Arrow, PERT, Range Estimating, and linear project operations and the line of balance."
  +Managing Uncertainty in Marketing Analytics,uncertainty-marketing-decisions,https://coursera.org/learn/uncertainty-marketing-decisions,Business,Emory University,"Marketers must make the best decisions based on the information presented to them. Rarely will they have all the information necessary to predict what consumers will do with complete certainty. By incorporating uncertainty into the decisions that they make, they can anticipate a wide range of possible outcomes and recognize the extent of uncertainty on the decisions that they make. In Incorporating Uncertainty into Marketing Decisions, learners will become familiar with different methods to recognize sources of uncertainty that may affect the marketing decisions they ultimately make. We eschew specialized software and provide learners with the foundational knowledge they need to develop sophisticated marketing models in a basic spreadsheet environment. Topics include the development and application of Monte Carlo simulations, and the use of probability distributions to characterize uncertainty."
  +Investments II: Lessons and Applications,investments-applications,https://coursera.org/learn/investments-applications,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will start by reviewing the fundamentals of investments, including the trading off of return and risk when forming a portfolio, asset pricing models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the 3-Factor Model, and the efficient market hypothesis. You will be introduced to the two components of stock returns – dividends and capital gains – and will learn how each are taxed and the incentives provided to investors from a realization-based capital gains tax. You will examine the investment decisions (and behavioral biases) of participants in defined-contribution (DC) pension plans like 401(k) plans in the U.S. and will learn about the evidence regarding the performance of individual investors in their stock portfolios. The course concludes by discussing the evidence regarding the performance of actively-managed mutual funds. You will learn about the fees charged to investors by mutual funds and the evidence regarding the relation between fees charged and fund performance."
  +Arts and Heritage Management,arts-heritage,https://coursera.org/learn/arts-heritage,Business,Università Bocconi,"Today cultural institutions are facing important dilemmas in many aspects of their management. Over the past decades, a new figure has emerged that of the art manager. Imagine you went to work every day to connect artists with audiences, vision with reality, and money with a mission. That is what managers in the arts do, they play an essential role in transforming the minds, lives, and communities through creative expression. This course has been conceptualized to address the need of skills and techniques to help professionals and managers in running art and cultural institutions."
  +Relationship Management ,relationship-managment,https://coursera.org/learn/relationship-managment,Business,Rice University,"Course 2 in the Leadership Development for Engineers Specialization and part of Rice University's Engineering Management and Leadership Certificate. To be a successful engineer, you must work and play well with others. This course focuses on developing the skills you will need to build and sustain professional relationships and networks. Learn to coach and mentor others, manage conflict and build power and influence in the workplace."
  +Successful Presentation,presentation-skills,https://coursera.org/learn/presentation-skills,Business,University of Colorado Boulder,"Few kinds of communication can have the effect of a powerful presentation. Even a short speech can motivate people to change long-held beliefs or to take action, and a wonderfully delivered speech can transform a normal person into a leader. In this course, Prof. William Kuskin provides a series of pragmatic videos and exercises for successful public speaking and presentations. The course develops through four themes—mastering fear, developing a creative formula, using verbal and body language, and anticipating the room—so that you can discover your personal power as a speaker and give excellent presentations."
  +Optimizing Diversity on Teams,diverse-teams,https://coursera.org/learn/diverse-teams,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Drawing on social science perspectives, this course will enable participants to learn what diversity is and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation, and creativity. Participants will learn how to draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams, handle conflict, and establish common ground rules through real-world cases and peer-to-peer discussions. In addition, participants in this course will learn how to overcome common biases faced in diverse teams. Systems of power, reward, and rhetoric will be discussed in order to help participants create prosperous teams where differences flourish."
  +Strategy and Sustainability,strategysustainability,https://coursera.org/learn/strategysustainability,Business,IESE Business School,"Business and environmental sustainability are not natural bedfellows. Business is about making money. Sustainability is about protecting the planet. Business is measured in months and quarters. Sustainability often requires significant short term costs to secure a sometimes uncertain long-term benefit. To some activists, all executives are exploitative, selfish one percenters. To some executives, all activists are irresponsible, unyielding extremists. And yet engaging with the issue isn’t optional – all businesses must have a strategy to deal with sustainability and, like any strategy, this involves making choices. This Strategy and Sustainability course based on Rosenberg's recently published book by Palgrave (http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137501738) that encourages learners to filter out the noise and make those choices in a hard-nosed and clear-eyed way. Prof. Rosenberg’s nuanced and fact-based point of view recognizes the complexity of the issues at hand and the strategic choices businesses must make."
  +Financial Analysis for Startups,financial-ratios,https://coursera.org/learn/financial-ratios,Business,Yonsei University,"In the previous two courses, you have learned how to value startups using the discounted cash flow method and multiple methods. However, you have not learned how to estimate cash flows or earnings of startups. In this course, you are going to learn the concepts and usage of financial ratios. Using financial ratios such as profitability, liquidity, leverage, efficiency, and growth, you can tell financial health of a startup. Profitability ratios measure how profitable a firm is by looking at ROS, ROA, and ROE. Liquidity ratios measure how quickly a firm turns assets into cash to pay-off short-term liability and they include Current Ratio, Quick Ratio, and Cash Ratio. Leverage ratios measure how much long-term debt a firm has relative to its assets or equity. Efficiency ratios measure how efficiently a firm utilizes its assets. It is like a physical exam for humans and you can tell the fiscal status of a startup using financial ratios. You can also develop pro forma financial statement using financial ratios."
  +Construction Cost Estimating and Cost Control,construction-cost-estimating,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-cost-estimating,Business,Columbia University,"This course introduces the types of cost estimation from the conceptual design phase through the more detailed design phase of a construction project. In addition, the course highlights the importance of controlling costs and how to monitor project cash flow. Students will work on a break-even analysis of construction tasks in a project."
  +Supply Chain Planning,planning,https://coursera.org/learn/planning,Business,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Have you ever wondered how companies know how much to produce in advance so that they do not make too much or too little? Matching supply and demand requires planning. This course introduces you to the exciting area of supply chain planning. Part of a broader specialization on Supply Chain Management, you will master different forecasting techniques, essential for building a Sales and Operations Plan. At the completion of this course you will have the tools and techniques to analyze demand data, construct different forecasting techniques, and choose the most suitable one for projecting future demand."
  +Interest Rate Models,interest-rate-models,https://coursera.org/learn/interest-rate-models,Business,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,"This course gives you an easy introduction to interest rates and related contracts. These include the LIBOR, bonds, forward rate agreements, swaps, interest rate futures, caps, floors, and swaptions. We will learn how to apply the basic tools duration and convexity for managing the interest rate risk of a bond portfolio. We will gain practice in estimating the term structure from market data. We will learn the basic facts from stochastic calculus that will enable you to engineer a large variety of stochastic interest rate models. In this context, we will also review the arbitrage pricing theorem that provides the foundation for pricing financial derivatives."
  +Accounting and Finance for Managers,finance-and-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-and-accounting,Business,Vanderbilt University,"The course will show you how to determine the value of an asset by the level and the riskiness of its expected after-tax cash flows. We’ll teach you the techniques used to discount cash flows and determine the value implications of investment decisions, as well as the guidelines used to construct after-tax cash flow forecasts. We’ll teach you to estimate risk in the context of modern portfolio theory and talk about the impact of capital structure (your firm’s mix of debt and equity) on the riskiness of financial instruments issued by your firm. In the accounting portion of the course, we’ll give you a basic introduction to financial accounting, including overviews of financial statements, income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows. You’ll learn about LIFO vs. FIFO accounting, accounting for inventory, and the valuation of long-term assets."
  +Intellectual Humility: Theory,intellectual-humility-theory,https://coursera.org/learn/intellectual-humility-theory,Business,The University of Edinburgh,"In this course we try to define intellectual humility and intellectual virtues in general, and ask how we know who is humble. All lectures are delivered by leading specialists, and the course is organised around a number of interesting readings and practical assignments which will help you address issues related to humility in your daily life. This course is a part of a series which explores the theory, the science and the applied issues surrounding intellectual humility (the latter two coming in June and November 2017). Completing all three courses will give you a broader understanding of this fascinating topic."
  +European Business Law: Competing in Europe,eu-competition-law,https://coursera.org/learn/eu-competition-law,Business,Lund University,"This six-week course titled Competing in Europe is the third in a series of three exploring some of the main business aspects of European Union law. Besides providing learners with a sound knowledge base of European laws and regulations, the series explores business considerations within a broader perspective by including inputs from leading law practitioners in the field. More specifically, the third course discusses how to compete on the internal market and protect your brand, product or invention. It includes legal disciplines such as Intellectual Property law (IP law), Competition law and specific branches within Public law, such as public procurement and state aid."
  +Unleashing the Impact of your Social Enterprise,social-impact-growth,https://coursera.org/learn/social-impact-growth,Business,Copenhagen Business School,In Course 3 of this Specialization you will first of all learn about Social Impact Assessment. Hence you will be able to develop a method to evaluate the social mission that you achieve while implementing your business plan. Next you will outline an appropriate communication strategy for your social enterprise and will demonstrate how to market your products and services to beneficiaries and other customers. Here you will employ an adaptable communication strategy as you move from early adopters to a broader market share.
  +Action Planning,action-planning,https://coursera.org/learn/action-planning,Business,Rice University,"Course 3 in the Leadership Development for Engineers Specialization and part of Rice University's Engineering Management and Leadership Certificate. An actionable leadership improvement plan enables you to leverage strengths and close the gaps on weaknesses. In this course, you will build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals within the next two years. It lays the foundation for an evergreen process of selection and prioritization of skills, and action planning for sustained leadership development."
  +3D Printing Software,3d-printing-software,https://coursera.org/learn/3d-printing-software,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course will demonstrate how to use 3D printing software to create digital designs that can be turned into physical objects. It will also demonstrate how 3D scanners work to turn physical objects into digital designs. This course is hands-on in nature and will provide step-by-step instructions to guide you through two popular 3D modeling programs, Tinkercad and Fusion 360. Learners who complete this course will be able to use 3D software to design a wide variety of objects for both personal and professional use. In addition, learners who enroll in the course certificate will receive extended free access to Fusion 360 (provided by Autodesk)."
  +Accounting and Finance for IT professionals,accounting-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/accounting-finance,Business,Indian School of Business,"This course presents an introduction to the basics of financial accounting and finance for IT professionals. The first part of the course will focus on understanding the most important financial statements, namely, the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. We will then focus on how we can understand the financial health and performance of the company by examining a number of important financial ratios that are derived from the financial statements of the company. The second part of the course will focus on the basics of finance. This includes the concept of time value of money, discounting cash flows, and capital budgeting."
  +Creating a Team Culture of Continuous Learning,continuous-learning-culture,https://coursera.org/learn/continuous-learning-culture,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"With good reason there is mounting concern that organizational groups and teams often fail to learn from their experience. This is deeply troubling because groups and teams are often the main ways that work gets done in organizations. Two of the main reasons that groups and teams are often ineffective are because of: 1) The lack of organizational structures and support for teams and groups, 2) The lack of understanding and emphasis on learning."
  +Innovation & Entrepreneurship - From Basics to Open Innovation,open-innovation-entrepreneurship,https://coursera.org/learn/open-innovation-entrepreneurship,Business,EIT Digital,"This Innovation and Entrepreneurship course focuses on the interconnection between entrepreneurial thinking and innovation. Specifically, we look at models used in Silicon Valley to grow both start-up companies as well as innovation inside large organizations. Bringing together top Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley faculty, this course addresses critical areas for successful growth, including design thinking, open innovation, business models, product-market fit, and financing. This course will teach you how to think like an entrepreneur and provides the models, tools and frameworks to further develop your business or idea. An emphasis will be placed on the IT space."
  +Marketing Management I,marketing-management,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-management,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will learn how businesses create value for customers. We will examine the process by which Marketing builds on a thorough understanding of buyer behavior to create value. You will learn the major elements of the marketing mix - product policy, channels of distribution, communication, and pricing - and see how they fit within different analytical frameworks that are useful to managers. This will enhance your understanding of how marketing works in the business world. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Define marketing and describe how marketing creates value • Describe the elements of the marketing mix • Explain how these elements interact to create value for consumers • Use different analytical frameworks to examine how managers solve business problems • Evaluate brand extensions • Develop a marketing Plan proposal"
  +Construction Finance,construction-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/construction-finance,Business,Columbia University,"The final course of the specialization expands the knowledge of a construction project manager to include an understanding of economics and the mathematics of money, an essential component of every construction project. Topics covered include the time value of money, the definition and calculation of the types of interest rates, and the importance of Cash Flow Diagrams."
  +Forecasting Models for Marketing Decisions,forecasting-models-marketing-decisions,https://coursera.org/learn/forecasting-models-marketing-decisions,Business,Emory University,"How will customers act in the future? What will demand for our products and services be? How much inventory should we order for the next season? Beyond simply forecasting what customers will do, marketers need to understand how their actions can shape future behavior. In Developing Forecasting Tools with Excel, learners will develop an understanding of the basic components of a forecasting model, how to build their own forecasting models, and how to evaluate the performance of forecasting models. All of this is done using Microsoft Excel, ensuring that learners can take their skills and apply them to their own business problems."
  +The Strategy of Content Marketing,content-marketing,https://coursera.org/learn/content-marketing,Business,"University of California, Davis","This course is a partnership between the leading content marketing authority, Copyblogger, and UC Davis Extension. In this course, you will learn the core strategies content marketers use to acquire and retain customers profitably. Specifically, you will learn how to develop, organize and implement a content marketing strategy, analyze and measure the effectiveness of content marketing, write compelling copy, use a strategic framework when writing, and build your professional brand and authority through content marketing. You will also learn how to put the ideas presented to you into action and build your own personal brand through content marketing."
  +Digital Business Models,digital-business-models,https://coursera.org/learn/digital-business-models,Business,Lund University,"Digital business models are disrupting 50-year old companies in telecommunications, transportation, advertising, e-commerce, automotive, insurance and many other industries. This course will explore the business models of software disruptors of the west such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon, and the east such as Xiaomi and weChat. The class uses a structured framework for analysing business models with numerous examples so that students can apply it to their own business or case study. We will explore how software developers are not just the innovators but also the decision makers in modern competitive battles from mobile to cloud, and from consumer goods to enterprise software."
  +Strategic Organization Design,organization-design,https://coursera.org/learn/organization-design,Business,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"Strategic Organization Design will introduce new topics and modules with even more real world examples and opportunities for student interaction than its predecessors Competitive Strategy (https://www.coursera.org/learn/competitive-strategy) and Advanced Competitive Strategy (https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-competitive-strategy). The final course in the Competitive Strategy and Organization Design specialization covers the internal workings of an organization and its interactions with the outside world. Where the first two courses mainly covered the way firms interact with the outside world, in particular competitors and complementors, the third course looks at the way a firm’s organization should be designed to compete effectively."
  +Professional Skills for International Business,professional-skills-networking,https://coursera.org/learn/professional-skills-networking,Business,University of London,"This course provides insight into the key professional skills needed by managers at all levels of an organisation. You’ll learn key skills such as how to make a positive first impression; how to become a role model at work; effective time and resource management; and networking. This course forms part of a specialisation from the University of London designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study."
  +Biases and Portfolio Selection,biases-portfolio-selection,https://coursera.org/learn/biases-portfolio-selection,Business,Rice University,"Investors tend to be their own worst enemies. In this third course, you will learn how to capitalize on understanding behavioral biases and irrational behavior in financial markets. You will start by learning about the various behavioral biases – mistakes that investors make and understand their reasons. You will learn how to recognize your own mistakes as well as others’ and understand how these mistakes can affect investment decisions and financial markets. You will also explore how different preferences and investment horizons impact the optimal asset allocation choice. After this course, you will be more effective in overcoming biases to do the wrong things at the wrong times and tailoring an investment strategy that is best suited on your or your client’s profile and investment needs."
  +Statistics for International Business,statistics-international-business,https://coursera.org/learn/statistics-international-business,Business,University of London,"This course introduces core areas of statistics that will be useful in business and for several MBA modules. It covers a variety of ways to present data, probability, and statistical estimation. You can test your understanding as you progress, while more advanced content is available if you want to push yourself. This course forms part of a specialisation from the University of London designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study."
  +Quantitative Foundations for International Business,quantitative-foundations-international-business,https://coursera.org/learn/quantitative-foundations-international-business,Business,University of London,"This course provides the essential mathematics required to succeed in the finance and economics related modules of the Global MBA, including equations, functions, derivatives, and matrices. You can test your understanding with quizzes and worksheets, while more advanced content will be available if you want to push yourself. This course forms part of a specialisation from the University of London designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study."
  +Marketing Strategy for Entrepreneurs,marketing-strategy-entrepreneurs,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-strategy-entrepreneurs,Business,EIT Digital,"If you want to earn money and be able to pay all the salaries you and your employees desperately need. If so: Is there anything else but sales and marketing? This is also the reason why we will start of in a situation “as if” you did start up the sales process in a new company where no previous customers did exist. Gradually your sales efforts bare fruit, you get customers and market expansion becomes important to be able to handle. The course begins in the art of cold calling and analyzing the customers, then gradually move over to segmentation, positioning, closing the deal, competition, marketing strategy and market expansion."
  +Oral Communication for Engineering Leaders,oral-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/oral-communication,Business,Rice University,"Taught by Rice University communication faculty from the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL). This course covers core topics in oral communication: Communication strategy, content, data visualization, and delivery. You’ll learn key principles in • Creating a communication strategy • Developing a clear message and organizing persuasive content • Creating strong visual support • Presenting data effectively • Presenting professionally and confidently • Handling formal presentations, giving pitches, speaking extemporaneously, managing online presentations, and lowering public speaking anxiety"
  +Research kitchen,research-kitchen,https://coursera.org/learn/research-kitchen,Business,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU),"The research kitchen is a unique format that we have developed extra for you: curious learners interested in competitive strategy and organization design yearning for a first glimpse into the world of research. It is voluntary and ""just for fun"" - so please, go on and have a look! Different to other courses of our specialization Competitive Strategy and Organization Design it is comprised of brief paper sessions rather than modules. For a change, you will experience the instructor Tobias Kretschmer at the whiteboard of his very own institute at LMU Munich. Here he will summarize key findings of recent research papers on topics relating to the three courses Competitive Strategy, Advanced Competitive Strategy and Strategic Organization Design."
  +Financial Planning for Young Adults,personal-finance,https://coursera.org/learn/personal-finance,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Financial Planning for Young Adults (FPYA), developed in partnership with the CFP Board, is designed to provide an introduction to basic financial planning concepts for young adults. The FPYA course is organized across eight separate modules within a 4-week window. Topics covered include financial goal setting, saving and investing, budgeting, financial risk, borrowing and credit. Because financial planning is such a personal topic, you will be encouraged to define your own financial goals and objectives while we discuss concepts and provide tools which can be applied in helping you reach those goals. Within each module, you will view a combination of traditional lecture style videos along with video vignettes that introduce financial topics for discussion among participants. The video vignettes provide a unique and exciting component to this course."
  +Supply Chain Sourcing,sourcing,https://coursera.org/learn/sourcing,Business,Rutgers the State University of New Jersey,"Have you ever wondered how companies manage relationships with their thousands of suppliers? Sourcing is an important part of managing a successful supply chain. This course introduces you to the exciting area of supply chain sourcing. Part of a broader specialization on Supply Chain Management, you will master the supplier selection process and supplier segmentation. At the completion of this course you will have the tools and techniques to find the right vendors and maintain the right relationship with any one of your existing suppliers."
  +Management Skills for International Business,management-skills-international-business,https://coursera.org/learn/management-skills-international-business,Business,University of London,"The United States has always been a source of fascination — both attraction and repulsion — for the people of France, Mexico, China, and African countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, and Sudan. ""America Through Foreign Eyes"" is a rich, interdisciplinary, international course that features Rice University faculty from a variety of disciplines and area studies. Focused on perceptions of America abroad, the course is a cross between World Cultures and American Studies. The course features four modules, each covering the perceptions and interactions of particular regions with America, Americans and Americanization."
  +International Business Environment,global-business-environment,https://coursera.org/learn/global-business-environment,Business,University of London,"This course explores the international business environment in which organisations function. You’ll learn about core analysis methods, including PESTLE, SWOT, and Boston Box Matrices, as well as the applications of Porter’s Five Forces. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in discussion forums and access case studies, as well as testing your understanding in quizzes. This course forms part of a specialization from the University of London designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study."
  +How to finance your venture ?,finance-venture,https://coursera.org/learn/finance-venture,Business,École Polytechnique,"The course aims at providing knowledge and experience to entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs generally start with a mission, a new idea that they want to bring to the world. If the idea is original, it is probably not expected by the market, which has to be educated. This is a very costly experience. Entrepreneurs need to gather capital at the start of the journey. They need to articulate clear plans, define objectives and resources and raise money accordingly. They also need to manage cash for two reasons: i) because the better it is managed, the less you need to raise with outsiders; ii) because generation of cash flow is the pillar of the valuation of the company."
  +Applying Investment Decision Rules for Startups,capital-budgeting,https://coursera.org/learn/capital-budgeting,Business,Yonsei University,"In the previous course, you learned financial statement analysis and how to make estimate of future financial status. In this course, you are going to learn capital budgeting. That is, how to make an investment decision. You would like to select the best project among various projects you can take. Then, you need to know the criteria. In this course, you are going to learn investment decision criteria such as NPV and IRR, which are most popular decision rules. Using financial analysis and discounted cash flow method, you can make pro forma financial statement and estimate project cash flows. Then, you apply investment criteria to determine whether to invest or not."
  +Corporate Finance II: Financing Investments and Managing Risk,corporate-finance-two,https://coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-two,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course you will learn how companies decide on how much debt to take, and whether to raise capital from markets or from banks. You will also learn how to measure and manage credit risk and how to deal with financial distress. You will discuss the mechanics of dividends and share repurchases, and how to choose the best way to return cash to investors. You will also learn how to use derivatives and liquidity management to offset specific sources of financial risk, including currency risks. Finally, You will learn how companies finance merger and acquisition decisions, including leveraged buyouts, and how to incorporate large changes in leverage in standard valuation models."
  +Negotiation  Fundamentals,negotiation-fundamentals,https://coursera.org/learn/negotiation-fundamentals,Business,ESSEC Business School,"This course gives you access to negotiation practical tools and best practices gathered by Professor Aurélien Colson & his team from assignments in more than seventy countries and in a wide set of sectors, be they services, industry, high tech, or public organizations. In an interactive manner, this course will help you, among other topics: get prepared for any negotiation; avoid traps; know how to prompt value-creating partnerships; structure an effective negotiation sequence; bargain in an efficient and respectful manner; overcome deadlocks; and much more!"
  +Supply Chain Principles,supply-chain-principles,https://coursera.org/learn/supply-chain-principles,Business,Georgia Institute of Technology,"This course will provide a solid understanding of what a supply chain is all about. The course: - Provides an introduction to Supply Chain - Leverages graphics to promote the Integrated Supply Chain model - Emphasizes understanding the Extended Supply Chain - Presents a holistic approach – Incorporating People, Process, and Technology - Calls-out industry-specific supply chain"
  +Trading Strategies - Strategies for emerging markets,trading-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/trading-strategies,Business,Indian School of Business,"This course covers two of the seven trading strategies that work in emerging markets. The seven include strategies based on momentum, momentum crashes, price reversal, persistence of earnings, quality of earnings, underlying business growth, behavioral biases and textual analysis of business reports about the company. In the first part of the course, you will learn how to read an academic paper. What parts to pay attention to and what parts to skim through will be discussed here. For every strategy, first you will be introduced to the original research and then how to implement the strategy."
  +The Science of Success: What Researchers Know that You Should Know,success,https://coursera.org/learn/success,Business,University of Michigan,"This engaging course is designed to help you achieve the success that you desire. Drawing on decades of scientific research, you will learn what the most successful people do differently than others, why IQ is not the most significant predictor of success (and can sometimes backfire), and why many commonly held beliefs hold people back from achieving their goals."
  +Operations Management and Strategy,strategy-and-operations,https://coursera.org/learn/strategy-and-operations,Business,Vanderbilt University,"Are you looking for a deeper understanding of the basic elements of business strategy, from design through execution? This four-part course covers the fundamentals of designing a business strategy, executing that strategy and measuring results, managing operations and improving processes, and running successful projects that support your business goals."
  +Survey analysis to Gain Marketing Insights,survey-analysis-marketing-insights,https://coursera.org/learn/survey-analysis-marketing-insights,Business,Emory University,"How do consumers see your brand relative to your competitors? How should a new product be positioned when it’s launched? Which customer segments are most interested in our current offerings? For these questions and many others, surveys remain the tried and true method for gaining marketing insights. From one-off customer satisfaction surveys to brand tracking surveys that are administered on a continuous basis, they provide the information that marketers need to understand how their products, services and brands are seen by consumers. In Analytic Methods for Survey Data, learners will become familiar with established statistical methods for converting survey responses to insights that can support marketing decisions. Techniques discussed include factor analytics, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis and multi-dimensional scaling."
  +Creating Innovation,creating-innovation,https://coursera.org/learn/creating-innovation,Business,Macquarie University,The third course of the specialization CREATING INNOVATION will teach you what is at the core of all innovations that solve complex problems and how to foster methods to make big breakthroughs possible. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways.
  +Evaluating Problems,evaluating-problems,https://coursera.org/learn/evaluating-problems,Business,Macquarie University,The second course of the specialization EVALUATING PROBLEMS will show you how humans think and how to utilize different disciplinary approaches to tackle problems more effectively. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways.
  +Business Strategies for Emerging Markets,business-strategies,https://coursera.org/learn/business-strategies,Business,Higher School of Economics,"The course aims to transfer the fundamental knowledge and to form the basic competencies necessary for the development and the implementation of a business strategy in an emerging market. The students are going to improve their analyzing, decision making, and planning skills as well as the ability to recognize strategic opportunities and threats. The course requires the knowledge of basic economics concepts as the pre-requisite. It is preferable that the students have some practical entrepreneurial or marketing experience, but this is not obligatory."
  +Analysing Complexity,analysing-complexity,https://coursera.org/learn/analysing-complexity,Business,Macquarie University,"The first course of the specialization ANALYZING COMPLEXITY will teach you what unifying patterns lie at the core of all complex problems. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways. ANALYZING COMPLEXITY is constructed in the following way: Week I. ""What is Complexity?"" - What is at the core of all complex problems Week II. ""Complex Physical Systems"" - What complex problems all have in common in the inanimate world Week III. ""Complex Adaptive Systems"" - What complex problems all have in common in nature Week IV."
  +Innovation & Entrepreneurship - From Design Thinking to Funding,design-thinking-entrepreneurship,https://coursera.org/learn/design-thinking-entrepreneurship,Business,EIT Digital,"This Innovation and Entrepreneurship course focuses on the interconnection between entrepreneurial thinking and innovation. Specifically, we look at models used in Silicon Valley to grow both start-up companies as well as innovation inside large organizations. Bringing together top Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley faculty, this course addresses critical areas for successful growth, including design thinking, open innovation, business models, product-market fit, and financing. This course will teach you how to think like an entrepreneur and provides the models, tools and frameworks to further develop your business or idea. An emphasis will be placed on the IT space."
  +Marketing Management II,marketing-management-two,https://coursera.org/learn/marketing-management-two,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"In this course, you will further examine how businesses create value for customers. In Marketing Management I, you learned the major elements of the marketing mix - product policy, channels of distribution, communication, and pricing - and saw how they fit within different analytical frameworks that are useful to managers. In this course, you will complete a more detailed analysis of these elements in order to conduct a thorough strategic analysis of marketing opportunities and communicate marketing decisions. This will enable you to see “marketing in action” in the business world."
  +Trading Strategies – Back testing and performance management,back-testing-performance-measurement,https://coursera.org/learn/back-testing-performance-measurement,Business,Indian School of Business,This course will provide back test results for all the strategies in developed and emerging markets. The learner will also be taught scientific ways of back testing without succumbing to either look ahead (or) survival bias. You will learn various methods of building a robust back testing system for the strategies discussed in the previous course. You will be taught how to differentiate between mere data mining and results based on solid empirical or theoretical foundation.
  +Interpersonal Communication for Engineering Leaders,interpersonal-communication,https://coursera.org/learn/interpersonal-communication,Business,Rice University,"This course covers communication skills that engineering leaders use every day to motivate, inspire, and support the people in their organizations. Speaking and writing are basic leadership communication skills. (We covered these topics in the Specialization course 1 and 3.) However, leaders also need to be skillful interpersonal communicators. Modern business requires communication skills that are effective across cultures, generations, and genders. Communication is also a key skill in building your personal brand. Leaders need to look, act, and speak like leaders."
  +Investment Strategies and Portfolio Analysis,investment-strategies-portfolio-analysis,https://coursera.org/learn/investment-strategies-portfolio-analysis,Business,Rice University,"In this course, you will learn about latest investment strategies and performance evaluation. You will start by learning portfolio performance measures and discuss best practices in portfolio performance evaluation. You will explore different evaluation techniques such as style analysis and attribution analysis and apply them to evaluate different investment strategies. Special emphasis will be given to recent financial market innovations and current investment trends. After this course, learners will be able to: • Describe performance measurement measures • Evaluate portfolio performance • Describe and contrast different investment strategies"
  +Capstone,bighistorycapstone,https://coursera.org/learn/bighistorycapstone,Business,Macquarie University,"From the very start of the specialization, your assignments will be geared toward tackling a complex issue of your choice that you face in your career path, industry, or field. Each phase of the course builds up to a briefing paper that analyzes, evaluates, and attempts to solve a highly complex problem. Not only does this course teach you a skill set, but it puts you further down the road in understanding the problems of your chosen field. It advances your knowledge of your own field by teaching you to look at it in new ways. This is the CAPSTONE where the scaffolding of our problem solving and innovation skills will bear fruit in a series of preparatory assignments to make your briefing paper as effective as possible."
  +Leading the Life You Want,leading-the-life-you-want,https://coursera.org/learn/leading-the-life-you-want,Business,University of Pennsylvania,"Pursue a meaningful life and improve your performance as a leader. Taught by acclaimed Wharton professor, best-selling author, and former Ford Motor Company executive and head of its Leadership Development Center, Stew Friedman, Leading the Life You Want provides you with the skills you need to lead in all four domains of your life: at work, at home, in the community, and in your private self (mind, body, and spirit). You'll explore the core principles of leadership and learn the skills you need to bring them to life. You learn how to find a greater sense of purpose, see how to convey values with stories, learn how to mange attention, feel less stressed, lead through serving others, and more. You'll see these skills illustrated in the inspiring yet imperfect lives of six remarkable leaders: Tom Tierney (former CEO of Bain), Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook), Michelle Obama (former First Lady), Eric Greitens (Republican Governor of Missouri), Julie Foudy (world champion soccer star and three-time Olympic medalist), and Bruce Springsteen (world-famous rock musician). You'll have the opportunity to assess your own leadership skills, and learn simple, proven exercises to practice them."
  +IT Project Management,it-project-management,https://coursera.org/learn/it-project-management,Business,Indian School of Business,"The concepts and use of project management tools, techniques and methodologies are becoming all pervasive. This course addresses project management in the context of IT projects, including software projects. Using the framework of project life cycle, the course covers various aspects pertaining to (i) project initiation, (ii) project planning and scheduling, (iii) project monitoring and control, and (iv) project termination. For planning and scheduling of projects, the use of project network and estimation of time and cost are covered in detail. Scheduling of projects with resource limitations is covered next."
  +Strategic Innovation: Building and Sustaining Innovative Organizations,strategic-innovation-building-and-sustaining-innovative-organizations,https://coursera.org/learn/strategic-innovation-building-and-sustaining-innovative-organizations,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"Innovation strategy is about creating unique value for consumers by delivering a great product that satisfies their needs and capturing value back from consumers. At the core of a successful innovation strategy is a great product concept. Product is an all-encompassing term that includes physical goods, intangible services, and even ideas. There are three pillars to a successful product strategy: a clear understanding of (a) the target customers (WHO), (b) the specific elements of the product offering (WHAT) that satisfies consumer needs and dovetails with company capabilities, and (c) the tactical plans to reach end consumers (HOW). The value proposition has to be embedded in a coherent business model in order to create and capture value. But well-laid innovation plans can go awry without a consideration of the business ecosystem that includes competitors, collaborators, including suppliers, distributors, and retailers, or the contextual environment in which the company operates."
  +Writing as Engineers,engineering-writing,https://coursera.org/learn/engineering-writing,Business,Rice University,"Engineering leaders must write extensively for their jobs, and their writing needs to be professional, reader-focused, and error-free. What leaders write in particular can affect productivity and the bottom line, so the written communication that leaders create must be clear and concise. In this course, you’ll learn essential writing skills that you can apply in your daily activities on the job as an engineering leader. You’ll learn key principles in • Approaching various engineering genres • Using the writing process to create quality documents • Making your writing structured • Making your writing clear and concise • Handling style, tone, and voice"
  +Diversity and inclusion in the workplace,diversity,https://coursera.org/learn/diversity,Business,ESSEC Business School,"Diversity is a fact. It is also paradoxical. We need to be capable of seeing and hearing differences in order to reap the benefits of diversity. But seeing and hearing differences hone our discriminating reflexes and can also lead to discrimination. If you take this MOOC, you will: 1. understand this paradox, 2. understand its dynamics, and 3. identify ways to manage it, so that you can better channel the diversity potential in the workplace for greater performance and innovation."
  +Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces,subsistence-marketplaces-1,https://coursera.org/learn/subsistence-marketplaces-1,Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"This course focuses on understanding subsistence marketplaces and designing business solutions for the billions of people living in poverty in the global marketplace. To develop understanding of subsistence marketplaces, we use exercises to enable participants to view the world from the eyes of subsistence consumers and entrepreneurs, facilitate bottom‐up understanding generated by participants, and provide insights from extensive research. More broadly, the course uses the context of extreme resource constrained contexts to learn about the bottom-up approach pioneered through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative, and apply it in any context."
  +Financial Accounting Fundamentals,uva-darden-financial-accounting,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-financial-accounting,Business,University of Virginia,"This course will teach you the tools you'll need to understand the fundamentals of financial accounting. Concise videos, the financial records of a small business, and ""your turn"" activities guide you through the three most commonly used financial statements: the Balance Sheet, the Income Statement, and the Statement of Cash Flows. Beyond recording transactions, you'll learn how to prepare these financial statements, and read and analyze them to draw basic conclusions about a company's financial health."
  +Business Strategy in Practice (Project-centered Course),uva-darden-business-strategy-capstone,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-business-strategy-capstone,Business,University of Virginia,"A Capstone Project is an assignment designed specifically to apply and showcase the skills you learned in the Specialization. To this end, the Business Strategy Capstone Project, a comprehensive Strategic Analysis, provides an opportunity for you to synthesize concepts and knowledge from the four prerequisite courses in the specialization. You may continue with the organization you selected for previous assignments or select a new organization for this project. You will analyze the current state of the organization, strategic issues facing the organization, strategic paths the organization might pursue, make a recommendation of the best path for the organization to pursue, and write an Executive Summary."
  + Effective Business Presentations with Powerpoint,powerpoint-presentations,https://coursera.org/learn/powerpoint-presentations,Business,PwC,"This course is all about presenting the story of the data, using PowerPoint. You'll learn how to structure a presentation, to include insights and supporting data. You'll also learn some design principles for effective visuals and slides. You'll gain skills for client-facing communication - including public speaking, executive presence and compelling storytelling. Finally, you'll be given a client profile, a business problem, and a set of basic Excel charts, which you'll need to turn into a presentation - which you'll deliver with iterative peer feedback."
   The hidden value – Lean in manufacturing and services,lean-manufacturing-services,https://coursera.org/learn/lean-manufacturing-services,Business,"École des Ponts ParisTech, BCG","Lean is a powerful methodology that enables managers and employees to shift their mindset and helps companies to keep their business sustainable by creating competitive advantage. Today, in an increasingly complex and dynamic world, where companies struggle to maintain competitive advantage, Lean is more important than ever.
   
   This course combines the experience of many senior experts and practitioners from the Boston Consulting Group and École des Ponts, and brings perspectives on Lean in manufacturing and services. It offers strong topic foundation as well as deep practical insights into the art of continuous improvement.
  
positive.code:   -Marginal cost-plus pricing
    -Peak-load pricing
    -Index-based pricing
  --Evaluate the impact of channel intermediaries and customer lifetime value on pricing",
  Customer Value in Pricing Strategy,uva-darden-pricing-strategy-customer-value,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-pricing-strategy-customer-value,Business,"University of Virginia, BCG","The traditional approach to pricing based on costs works to pay the bills, but it leaves revenue on the table. You can, in fact, price your products in a way that increases sales--if you know what your customers are willing to pay and can leverage psychology to create better deal and discount plans. In this course, we'll show you how to price a product based on how your customers value it and the psychology behind their purchase decisions. Led by Darden faculty and Boston Consulting Group global pricing experts, this course provides an in-depth understanding of value-based pricing and how to use it to capture more revenue.
  
  By the end of this course, you'll be able to...
  -- Apply knowledge of customer value to price products
  -- Leverage core value-based pricing techniques to inform pricing decisions
  -- Measure customer willingness to pay using models (surveys, conjoint analysis, other data)
  -- Use knowledge of consumer psychology to set prices beneficial to both consumers and sellers",
  Market and Competition in Pricing Strategy,uva-darden-pricing-strategy-market-competition,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-pricing-strategy-market-competition,Business,"University of Virginia, BCG","If you haven’t considered what the competition is charging, you may not be maximizing your revenue. Spend time analyzing the market and you can influence price and improve margins. In this course, we'll show you how to implement competitive pricing and avoid common legal pitfalls of market-based pricing. You will also learn how to predict, influence and respond to competitors’ pricing moves. Led by Darden faculty and Boston Consulting Group global pricing experts, this course provides an in-depth understanding of market-based pricing and how to use it to capture more revenue.",
  Leadership for Managers,leadership,https://coursera.org/learn/leadership,Business,Vanderbilt University,"Personal branding is critical for today’s executive—it distinguishes you as a competent authority, of course, but it also helps you establish your own goals for continuous improvement and develop your strengths as a business leader. If you’re looking to establish yourself more effectively in a leadership role and align your actions and behaviors with how you want to be perceived, this course is for you.
  
  This course is composed of three modules about managing self, managing others, and leading efforts for change. You’ll complete a capstone project on organizational change that tests your skills in a variety of simulated situations, and you’ll receive detailed feedback about your efforts. You’ll leave with a thorough understanding of how your leadership can make an impact on your organization—and a set of sharpened skills to help you accomplish your goals.
  
negative.code: - why Lean is a key driver for sustainable competitive advantage
  - how different companies can leverage Lean to create value both in manufacturing and services
  - what it takes to drive a Lean transformation and build a culture of continuous improvement 
  - how new technologies impact traditional lean practices"
  Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy,uva-darden-pricing-strategy-cost-economics,https://coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-pricing-strategy-cost-economics,Business,"University of Virginia, BCG","How much should you charge for your products and services? Traditionally, businesses have answered this question based on the cost to produce or provide their goods and services. This course shows you the economic factors behind pricing based on cost and the pros and cons of a cost-based pricing approach. Led by Darden faculty and Boston Consulting Group global pricing experts, the course provides the practical and research-based models and methods you need to set prices that maximize your profits. 
  
  By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
  