Growth

Values are the driving force behind authentic leadership. Your own background and behavior influence your vision and principles. Explore the relationship between values and leadership, with a special focus on the global business environment. Gain a deeper understanding of your fundamental values, what to do when those values conflict, and how to harness your moral perspective for powerful forms of organizational leadership.

Data tells a powerful story. You’ll need to quickly and decisively extract the key insights hidden in data to inform decision-making. Data visualization techniques and tools enable us to summarize data details and patterns into graphically-expressed representations, leading to actionable conclusions. Presentation is key. Get to know the design concepts involved in visualizing data for decision-makers.

All managers contribute to, and are responsible for, certain financial functions within a company—profit planning, breakeven analysis, operating budgets, capital budgets, and variance analysis. This course prepares you to understand and contribute to financial processes and decisions.

Your future job will involve project work—whatever your career. Equip yourself with a set of best-practice tools and frameworks for operating successfully in project environments. Develop the critical skills and knowledge to successfully define, plan, implement, and lead projects.

In your final project, you’ll consult for a live client: conduct market research to understand consumer trends, the competitive landscape in new markets, and potential impacts on the value chain. Find and set out a solution that makes use of emerging technology, discuss the impact on the client's brands, competitors, and current product offerings—and indicate whether, why, and how those offerings should change.