Financial Mastery

The finance function in a corporation often includes a financial planning and analysis department, which serves as an analytical support for the senior and line managers. This course will cover the primary functions of FP&A including operating planning and budgets, capital investment decisions, financial modeling, and risk assessment.

This course encompasses financial markets, their functions, and primary global actors. This course prepares students to work within US financial markets and institutions, then expands the view to international markets and their interrelationships. You’ll look at examples that illustrate the different structures, practices, policies and evolutions, which are shaping financial systems across the global economy.

Effective communication enables leaders to grow their impact in the world as part of a global community. In Communicating with Impact, you will learn to use storytelling as a powerful communication tool to inform, engage, motivate and inspire others. You will also develop presentation skills for success in business environments by learning how to create and deliver a clear, concise, and compelling pitch.

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.