Growth

Leaders are strategic decision-makers who can influence and mobilize stakeholders. They unite all parties to understand and achieve shared purposes. In this course, you will look at individual and group influences on decision-making, and how to use persuasion and influencing tools to maximize personal impact on organizational outcomes.  

While data is critical for making well-informed decisions, how you present and analyze data to stakeholders can make the difference between a new or improved business model and a missed opportunity. This course covers the design concepts involved in visualizing and analyzing data for decision-makers. You’ll use market-ready tools to perform ETL processes and create storytelling using data visualization tools.

If marketing is the management of demand, then operations is the management of supply. This course looks at the supply of goods and services in a global economy. Learn how to match supply and demand at any organization.

This course explores the role of businesses and managers in contributing to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You'll learn how to integrate sustainability principles into various business functions and develop strategies for creating positive social, environmental, and economic impact

This course builds upon topics covered in Global Operations and particularly important for those interested in the areas of business analytics, operations, and marketing. This course teaches you some of the best practices for defining operational analytics, competitive priorities, aligning functions behind strategy, decide on the best use of resources, and choosing the right metrics to improve decision making for various market segments. The application of software tools for data analysis is also covered. This course is required for students completing the MBA with Analytics.

Put all your newly acquired knowledge and skills directly into practice at the end of each block through a practical and relevant business challenge. Teams will draw on the content and themes of previous courses in each block to complete challenges involving simulations, executive pitch presentations, innovation hackathons, real company challenges, designing new business models, etc.