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The road trip is often a rite of passage in American lore. From beats coasting down Route 66 to the breezy Sunday drives of the Mad Men era, the road has always been a place to relax, reflect, and re-group. For three business professors, the American road held a different allure. It was an artery dotted with businesses and their stories of ingenuity, perseverance, and triumph.
HEADING ON THE ROAD TO LEARN WHAT COMPANIES ARE FACING
In business schools, students habitually read those sexy case studies featuring multinationals buffeted by major economic shifts or haunted by tragic events. In 2010, Stanford’s Paul Oyer, Northwestern’s Mike Mazzeo, and Utah’s Scott Schaefer – economists all – decided to hit the road to study those businesses often overlooked by MBA programs. They visited recycling plants, rubber parts producers, and hole-in-the-wall restaurants. They asked questions about pricing, scaling, hiring, branding, positioning, and strategy. And they dispensed advice to the passionate and talented owners of these small and mid-sized firms. Since then, these three amigos have completed six more week-long treks. Each time, they cram themselves into a rented car, make Dairy Queen runs, rest up in Holiday Inns, and hit four companies a day.
From Memphis to Missoula and Denver to Dothan, these men discovered several compelling themes during these journeys. For one, according to an interview with Mazzeo in the Kansas City Examiner, the ability to grow is often “rooted in the fundamental economics of the business.” For another, he adds, small businesses must build their “strategies around things the Big Boys aren’t able to do well.” In the process of interviewing over 100 businesses, these economists discovered Mazzeo’s Law: “The answer to any strategic question is, ‘It depends.’” That said, the answer is the easy part, Mazzeo adds. “The trick is finding what it depends on.”
Two years ago, the trio chronicled their lessons (and adventures) in The Roadside MBA. Now, they’re bringing the takeaways from the book into the realm of MOOCs with “Strategic Thinking for Growing Your Enterprise,” which begins on May 2nd. Chances are, it will be quite different from any MOOC that you’ve taken before. Instead of studies, Mazzeo, Oyer, and Schaefer focus on stories to breathe life into the lessons they learned. In fact, the course will include webinars so students can hear from (and interact with) the business owners chronicled in the classes. Forget just learning what works. The sessions are designed to explore the underlying how and why. In other words, students can understand the unique variables inherent to each organization and how they play out against structure, capabilities, planning, and positioning. Best of all, students can take their own virtual road trip, with a team project where they ask questions of a business and offer solutions to their strategic growth issues.
WHARTON AND COLUMBIA LEAD WITH MOOCs IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCE
The MOOC answer to On The Road won’t be the only MOOC to thrill students this month. If you’re dreaming of launching a startup, you can’t miss Wharton’s “Entrepreneurship 4,” which covers financing options to sustain growth and help owners turn that elusive profit. Columbia Business School reviews the fail fast model with “New Venture Discovery: From Idea to Minimal Viable Product.” Here, students can gain insights on quickly moving from prototyping to market to capitalize on potential market openings. And Michigan State continues its “How To Start Your Business” series with “Structure,” a primer on those details (i.e. legal, hiring, etc.) that can quickly engulf a firm if they’re ignored.
Finance-related MOOCs are even more prominent in May. Wharton (who else) is unveiling “Decision-Making and Scenarios,” which examines high level math and stats models to help students better measure risk and probabilities. At long last, Columbia Business School returns with its two-part series, “Finance Engineering and Risk Management,” to expose students to fundamental Wall Street models and practices. The University of Illinois continues to position itself as an online finance juggernaut with two new MOOCs focused on understanding income statements and market structures. If you want to learn accounting basics – but lack previous experience in the area – check out IESE’s “Accounting: Making Sound Decisions” to master basics and learn how to read standard reports.
To learn more about these courses – and register for them – click on the links below.
Marketing
Viral Marketing and How to Craft Contagious Content / May 9 / Wharton School
The Business of Social / May 9 / Northwestern University
Finance
Decision-Making and Scenarios / May / Wharton School
Understanding Financial Statements: Company Performance / May 9 / University of Illinois
Accounting: Making Sound Decisions / May / IESE
Firm Level Economics: Markets and Allocations / May 11 / University of Illinois
Valuation: Alternative Methods / May 2 / University of Michigan (Ross)
Leadership
Applications of Everyday Leadership / May 9 / University of Illinois
Managing Employee Compensation / May / University of Minnesota
Entrepreneurship
Strategic Thinking for Growing Your Enterprise / May 2 / Stanford
Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability / May / Wharton
New Venture Discovery: From Idea to Minimal Viable Product / May 2 / Columbia Business School
Structure / May / Michigan State
Operations
Supply Chain Design / May 18 / MIT
Viral Marketing and How to Craft Contagious Content
School: Wharton School
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 9, 2016
Workload: 4 Weeks Long
Grades: To complete the course, students must earn passing grades on all assignments submitted.
Instructor: Jonah Berger
Credentials: Berger is an associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School. Here, he teaches Marketing Management and conducts research in social influence, word of mouth, viral marketing, product adoption and consumer behavior. A Stanford Ph.D., Gerger is the author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On, a best-seller that has been translated into 30 languages. In his spare time, Berger is a consultant whose client list includes Google, Coca-Cola and General Electric.
Description: Ever heard the term, “gone viral?” It means that a video or article has spread globally, generally through social media. Whether the message is funny, touching, or thought-provoking, it stirs the imagination and inspires people to share it with their social circle. The same dynamic occurs in pitching ideas and launching products. Many times, they will quickly “catch fire,” gaining a legion of advocates and users whose endorsements are far more persuasive and cost-effective than any traditional marketing pitch or campaign.
In this course, students will learn “how to make ideas stick, how to increase [their] influence, how to generate more word of mouth, and how to use the power of social networks to spread information and influence. By the end of this course, [students will] have a better understanding of how to craft contagious content, build stickier messages, and get any product, idea, or behavior to catch on.” Drawing from research in disciplines ranging from sociology to economics to marketing, the course will identify the characteristics that differentiate the best products, ideas, and behaviors; examine how psychology shapes whether something is engaging and memorable; evaluate the cultural and group dynamics that influence decision-making; and explain how triggers, emotions, and narratives foster a resonance that drives action.
Review: No reviews.
School: Northwestern University
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 9, 2016 (4 Weeks Long)
Workload: 1-2 Hours Per Week
Grades: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a fee.
Instructor: Randy Hlavac
Credentials: An academic and a practitioner, Hlavac is the President and CEO of Marketing Synergy, a firm that helps CEOs and CMOs develop social, mobile and integrated marketing strategies. Since 1992, he has also taught at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he heads the school’s integrated marketing communications department. There, he also directs the department’s IBM OmniChannel Initiative. His classes have been profiled by the Wall Street Journal and he recently published a book on social media marketing: Social IMC – Social Strategies with Bottom-Line ROI.
Description: How do I measure my impact? How can I show a return on my investment? Those two questions have vexed marketers since Don Draper would drink himself to an afternoon nap. How do you measure the value of a brand – and the social capital it brings? With the advent of social media, you can better track your investments through clicks and orders. In this course, you’ll learn how to generate business metrics that connects sales and marketing in the social space. What’s more, the course covers the legal and data security end, as well as the psychology and strategy behind metrics.
Review: No reviews.
Additional Note: This is the fifth of a six course specialization from Northwestern University called “Social Media Marketing.” To learn more about this specialization and register for it, click here.
School: Wharton School
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 2015
Workload: Not Available
Instructors: Richard Lambert and Robert W. Holthausen
Credentials: Lambert teaches Problems in Financial Accounting at Wharton, where he has earned the WEMBA Core Teaching Award five times since 2007. A long-time researcher whose interests include performance measurement and financial incentives, Lambert’s recent work has been pushed by Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Finance, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics.
Holthausen chairs the accounting department at Wharton, along with serving as academic director for Wharton’s Mergers and Acquisitions program. He teaches courses in corporate valuation and empirical research in accounting. During his quarter century at Wharton, Holthausen has collected several undergraduate teaching awards and has authored the book, Corporate Valuation: Theory, Evidence and Practice. Before entering academia in 1973, Holthausen worked as an auditor and financial analyst for two Fortune 500 firms.
Graded: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a $119 fee.
Description: For many, accounting is a means to measure credits and debits or a set of processes for producing the annual financial statement. As markets become increasingly competitive and operations grow more complex, organizations rely on quantitative analysis to predict behavior and identify cost savings and opportunities. In this course, Wharton will introduce students to common mathematical and statistical models, such as regression analysis and cost-volume profit analysis. Along with learning step-by-step processes for building these models, students will understand how to measure risk, calculate probabilities, and weigh alternatives.
Review: No reviews.
Additional Background: This is the final course in Wharton’s brand new “Business and Financial Modeling” specialization. Other courses in the series will cover spreadsheets, modeling risk and realities, and decision-making. To learn more about this specialization and register for it, click here.
Financial Engineering and Risk Management (Parts 1 and 2)
School: Columbia University
Platform: Coursera
Registration Links:
Part II: CLICK HERE
Part I: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 16, 2016 (Part 2) / May 23, 2016 (Part 1)
Workload: Part 2 (13 Hours Total) / Part 1 (12 Hours Total)
Instructors: Martin Haugh and Garud Iyengar
Credentials: Haugh is an associate professor of professional practice at Columbia University, where he also serves as the co-Director of the school’s Center for Financial Engineering. A true practitioner, Haugh spent four years as Elon Park and CQS as a Quantitative Analyst, where he specialized in equity and credit derivatives. He earned a Ph.D. in operations research from MIT. He currently teaches courses in Quantitative Risk Management, Advanced Programming for Financial Engineering, and Machine Learning. He also earned the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association’s Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in 2013.
Iyengar is the chair of Columbia’s industrial engineering and operations research department. A respected researcher whose work has been published in journals like IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Mathematics of Operations Research, Iyengar focuses on areas like machine learning, risk management, financial engineering, asset pricing and allocation, and optimization. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Graded: The course does not offer any certificates
Description: The first part of this course will cover “simple stochastic models to price derivative securities in various asset classes including equities, fixed income, credit and mortgage-backed securities,” along with their role in the financial crisis. In the second half, the instructors will focus on asset allocation and portfolio optimization as well as other applications of financial engineering such as real options, commodity and energy derivatives and algorithmic trading.”
Review: “This is a course you will not soon forget, if you stick with it! I struggled a fair amount in the beginning, but over time I began to understand the fairly detailed mathematically intricate material. When you finish the course, you will have a much better understanding of important topics in financial engineering such as a wide variety option type products, term structures of interest rates, portfolio optimization, bonds, fixed instruments default mechanics, etc.
I can’t say enough about the instructors (Haugh and Iyengar) enthusiasm, active participation, and diligence, not to mention their broad knowledge of the topics covered. They were actively involved not only in designing the detailed spreadsheets used in the problem sets, but also providing a fair amount of mechanical guidance in the forums. This is a valuable and practical course and I can’t recommend it enough for those interested in learning some of the intricacies relevant to financial engineering.” For additional reviews, click here.
School: University of Illinois
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 9, 2016
Workload: Not available.
Instructor: Kevin Jackson
Credentials: Since 2004, Jackson has taught accounting courses at the University of Illinois to graduate and undergraduate students. Holding a Ph.D. in accounting psychology from the University of Texas, Jackson is renowned as a top teacher, with students ranking him “Excellent” on average from 2005-2014. Before entering academia, Jackson held senior and leadership positions at Ernst & Young, Baker Hughes, and KPMG Peat Marwick. His most recent work has been published by The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research.
Graded: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a $79 fee.
Description: Revenues and expenses. Profit and loss. These are the yin and yang of business. To truly understand your organization’s health, you need to be fluent in how to read a profit-and-loss statement. Building off the previous “Company Position” course – which focused on the fundamentals of interpreting balance sheets – “Company Performance” examines income statements. In particular, it covers how it drives decision-making. During the course, students will be exposed to the basic components of an income statement – including how the data is derived and what each component means (and how they interrelate with each other). As part of the course, students will also review and evaluate statements from real companies.
Review: No reviews.
Additional Background: This course is the second part of a “Fundamentals of Accounting specialization, a five course series that covers strategy assessment and control, decision making and measurement, and company positioning in financial statements. To learn more about these courses and register for them, click here.
School: IESE
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 2016 (4 Weeks Long)
Workload: 2-4 Hours Per Week
Instructor: Marc Badia
Credentials: Badia is the assistant professor of accounting and control at IESE Business School, where he also serves as the academic director for first year students. His research focuses on fair value accounting, international financial accounting, trading strategies, and accounting-based analysis and valuation. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Ph.D. in business administration from Columbia University.
Graded: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a $119 fee.
Description: Cash flows…Profit and loss…Assets and liabilities…Income statements. These are the bedrock concepts of financial accounting, a discipline focused on logging financial transactions and reporting financial data to outside stakeholders in a consistent and understandable format. In this course, designed for managers with limited financial literacy, students will learn how to “read and interpret financial statements for business diagnosis and decision-making. More importantly, [they] will possess the conceptual base to keep learning more sophisticated accounting and finance on [their] own.”
Review: No reviews.
Additional Background: This course is the first part of a “Foundations of Management” specialization, a four course series that includes areas like finance, marketing, and organizational behavior. To learn more about these courses and register for them, click here.
School: University of Illinois
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 11, 2016 (4 Weeks Long)
Workload: 3-5 Hours Per Week
Instructor: Larry DeBrock
Credentials: DeBrock is the former dean of the College of Business, where he teaches courses in microeconomics and industrial competition. During his tenure, he has also served as the associate dean of faculty and graduation and professional programs at the school. A highly decorated teacher in the MBA program, DeBrock holds masters and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Cornell University.
Graded: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a $79 fee.
Description: Different market structures produce different outcomes. A competitive market, for example, often creates more options and lower prices for consumers. In contrast, a monopoly generally curbs supply, stifles innovation, and benefits only a handful of producers. In this course, students will learn how various market structures shape the long-term vitality of markets. In particular, students will be able to do the following after the course is complete:
“Model the impact of external shocks to a particular market structure and demonstrate the new equilibrium price and quantity after the impact of this external shock has played out.• Evaluate the efficiency of an equilibrium. Different market structures produce different levels of efficiency.
• Explain when and why the government might intervene with regulatory authority or antitrust litigation to lessen inefficiencies in some markets.
• Describe how information problems can cause inefficient outcomes.
• Understand externalities and consider optimal government response to these market failures.”
Review: No reviews.
Additional Background: This course is the second part of the university’s “Managerial Economics and Business Analysis” specialization. To learn more about these courses and register for them, click here.
School: University of Michigan
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 2, 2016 (6 Weeks Long)
Workload: 5-10 Hours Per Week
Grades: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a $79 fee.
Instructors: Gautam Kaul and Qin Lei
Credentials: Professor Kaul has won five Excellence in Teaching awards at Ross, along with earning the Victor L. Bernard Leadership in Teaching Award in 2009. He is widely published in financial journals and teaches a variety of introductory and advanced courses, including Corporate Finance, Investment and Financial Institutions, and Sustainable Enterprise. Lei, a Ph.D. holder from the University of Michigan, joined the University of Michigan staff in 2013 after earning the MBA Outstanding Teaching Award at Southern Methodist University in 2012. He currently teaching courses in applied investment management, options and futures, and capital markets. His most recent research has been published by the Journal of Financial Markets and the Journal of Industrial Economics.
Description: There are two key factors in any financial decision-making: Time value of money and risk and return. However, there are far more factors than simply looking at long-term impact and whether the possible rewards are offset by the risk. In this course, student will study other real world variables that comprise valuation, particularly tax laws and regulations. By the end of this course, according to Kaul, students will be able to “conduct analysis of most projects and companies.” Along with reviewing the fundamentals of time value and risk and return, the course will examine the effects of areas like leveraging and bankruptcy on valuation. The course will be taught through videos, with students evaluated through mandatory exercises and a final test.
Review: No reviews.
Additional Note: This course is the third part of an “Introduction to Finance: Valuation and Investing” specialization, a four course series that includes a capstone project. To learn more about these courses and register for them, CLICK HERE.
School: University of Illinois
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 9, 2016
Workload: Not Specified
Grades: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a $79 fee.
Instructor: Gregory Northcraft
Credentials: Northcraft is a professor of business administration at the University of Illinois’ College of Business in Urbana-Champaign. A Ph.D. from Stanford, Northcraft’s research focuses on “conflict management and negotiation, collaboration in teams, managerial decision-making, and employee motivation and job design.” His research has also been featured in academic journals ranging from Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes to the Academy of Management Journal. He is currently the senior editor of Organizational Science and was previously the University of Illinois’ associate dean of faculty.
Description: Communication is the foundation of leadership. It is the means to convey expectations, build consensus, and resolve differences. In this course, students will focus on influencing behavior and decisions, using negotiation to produce win-win outcomes; coaching and feedback to raise performance; and planning and communication to reduce conflict and manage change.
Review: No reviews.
Additional Notes: This is the second of a seven course specialization from the University of Illinois called “Strategic Leadership and Management.” It includes courses on organizational design, business and corporate strategy, and applying leadership techniques. To learn more about this specialization and register for it, CLICK HERE.
School: University of Minnesota
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 2016
Workload: Not Available
Instructors: Alan Benson and Mike Davis
Credentials: Benson teaches courses in negotiation strategy, economics, and personnel compensation at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. A Ph.D. from MIT, Benson teaches students ranging from undergraduates to MBAs to Ph.D. candidates. His research focuses on applying big data to personnel management and using microeconomics principles to make employment practices more relevant and effective within the labor market. His recent research has uncovered best incentive and operational practices in nursing, sales, and manufacturing, with the results covered by outlets ranging from the Wall Street Journal to NBC News.
Davis, an adjunct professor at Carlson, serves as the Executive Vice President of Global Human Resources at General Mills. Aside from his leadership and teaching roles, he serves on several boards, including the Employee Benefits Research Institute and the Human Resources Policy Association.
Graded: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a $119 fee.
Description: How do you attract the best and brightest to your firm? While flexibility, impact, and mission are popular enticements these days, your advantage still comes down to compensation. Traditionally, compensation has been based on metrics like role and responsibility, not to mention performance, education, tenure, experience, and even geography. However, pay also reflects company values, fairness, and strategy. In order to attract people who are cultural fits and difference makers, the compensation model and benefits package must balance market expectations with business objectives, always rewarding the right priorities and behaviors.
In this course, students will examine the following areas: “compliance with pay regulations, understanding stock options, shopping for health insurance and pension providers, designing incentive plans…[and] non-monetary methods of motivating employees.”
Review: No reviews.
Additional Background: This is the second course in a “Human Resource Management: HR For People Managers” specialization. To learn more about these courses and register for them, click here.
Strategic Thinking for Growing Your Enterprise
Schools: Stanford GSB, University of Utah, Northwestern University
Platform: NovoEd
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 2, 2016 (4 Weeks Long)
Workload: 2-3 Hours Per Week
Instructors: Paul Oyer (Stanford), Scott Schaefer (Utah) and Mike Mazzeo (Northwestern)
Credentials: Oyer teaches core and elective courses in the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ MBA program. These courses have included Strategic Leadership, Microeconomics, Small Business Strategy, Human Resources Management, Critical Analytical Thinking, and Hiring and Selecting. A Stanford faculty member since 2000, Oyer is the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Labor Economics and a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economics Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
Schaefer has taught at the University of Utah since 2005, where his academic interests include the economics of organizations, personnel, and strategy. During his time at Utah, he has earned several teaching awards at the postgraduate level. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and policy from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mazzeo teaches several core and elective courses at the Kellogg School of Management, including Business Strategy, Business Analytics I, Strategies for Growth and Foundations of Strategy. A distinguished researcher, his recent work has been published by the Journal of Competition, Law and Economics, Journal of Financial Services Research, and the George Mason Law Review. His digital work has also been nominated for an Emmy. Like Schaefer, Mazzeo holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford.
Graded: Students will receive a signed statement of accomplishment after completing this course.
Description: Many times, academics rely on research and data to drive home their points. In 2010, three MBA professors decided to try something different. For the past six years, they’ve hit the road together, visiting organizations ranging from internet startups to mom-and-pop restaurants to discover the pitfalls they’re facing in growing their operations. In that time, they’ve absorbed some strategies, grounded in economic fundamentals, that can spur sustainable growth in a variety of businesses.
As part of this course, students will study real companies whose situations illustrate whether an operation can scale or not; the impact on cost structure; and value propositions that ensure profitable price points. This course also includes live webinars where students can interact directly with the companies being students. Students will also complete a team project on a company’s strategic growth challenge.
Review: No reviews.
School: Wharton School
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 2016 (4 Weeks Long)
Workload: 1-3 Hours Per Week
Instructors: Kartik Hosanagar, Lori Rosenkopf, David Hsu, Ethan Mollick, Laura Huang, David Bell, Karl Ulrich
Credentials: This specialization features many of the top faculty members at Wharton. Karl Ulrich, for example, is the school’s Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, along with being an award-winning teacher. Bell teaches Marketing Management in Wharton’s MBA and Executive MBA programs, along with serving as the Academic Director for Wharton’s Advanced Management Program. Huang, an award-winning researcher who teaches Wharton’s Entrepreneurship course, previously worked as an investment banker and consultant whose clients ranged from IBM global services to startups across the United States, Europe and China.
Graded: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a $135 fee.
Description: This is the make-or-break stage for any startup. You’ve turned your idea into a solution. And you’ve managed to grow a customer base. Question is, how can sustain your progress? How can you attract an infusion of capital without tapping into your personal finances or mortgage – let alone max out your credit cards? And how can you hedge the risk to make your operation a profitable venture able to pique the interests of investors or lenders?
In this course, students will explore the financing options available to entrepreneurs. In particular, it will “explore 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.”
Review: No reviews.
Additional Background: This course is part of Wharton’s “Entrepreneurship” Specialization, a four course series that also includes conceiving ideas, designing prototypes, implementing growth strategies, finding financing, and achieving profitability. In addition, students will produce a pitch as a capstone, with the top students being selected to make a pitch directly to venture capital firms. To learn more about this specialization and register for it, click here.
Jack McGourty
School: Columbia Business School
Platform: Canvas
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 2, 2016 (5 Weeks Long)
Workload: Not Available
Instructor: Jack McGourty, Ph.D.
Credentials: McGourty has spent the past 17 years at Columbia University, where he currently serves as the Director of Community and Global Entrepreneurship at the business school. During his tenure, he established an undergraduate minor in entrepreneurship, as well as being vice dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. An esteemed researcher, McGourty’s findings on product innovation have been implemented by organizations ranging from 3M and AT&T to the U.S. Army. The founder of Columbia University-Harlem Small Business Development Center, McGourty also sits on several nonprofit boards, including the Cherie Blair Foundation and Venture For Kids.
Graded: Not Specified.
Description: “Lean and mean” and “Fail fast.” These are mantras for this generation’s entrepreneurs. In this course, you’ll learn models for quickly launching scalable ventures that last. As part of the course, students will study “lean” planning models that include “problem-solution identification, product-market fit, customer discovery, in-depth industry and market analysis, minimal viable product development, and startup success metrics.” You’ll test your assumptions with target interviews, build prototypes to gain early feedback, study competitors to differentiate your solution, and evaluate various delivery channels and revenue streams.
School: Michigan State University
Platform: Coursera
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 2016
Workload: Not Specified
Instructors: Ken Szymusiak, Forrest S. Carter, David Wheeler
Credentials: Szymusiak is the Managing Director, Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Michigan State’s Broad College of Business. He was previously a director at the Lansing Economic Development Corporation, where he was involved in economic development and revitalizing depressed business properties. Carter is the Institute’s faculty director and associate professor of marketing, teaching courses in market research, marketing strategy, and entrepreneurship. Wheeler is the director of Michigan State’s Media Sandbox. He was previously involved in developing broadcast journalism, film, television and commercials for CBS. He has also been heavily involved in developing and directing video games in his career.
Graded: Students can choose to explore course videos, discussions, and ungraded assignments for free, but they won’t be able to submit graded assignments, earn a certificate, or complete a specialization without paying a $119 fee.
Description: You have a great idea. And that’s the center of your business. As you refine your idea, your universe expands. However, flawless design and suitable financing are only two factors at play in your success. In reality, execution involves a serious of make-or-break foundational variables. In this course, you’ll master the issues that are sometimes overlooked – until it is too late. In particular, the course covers managing legal documentation and regulatory requirements, selecting employees and growing a management team, developing a manufacturing and distribution system, and creating a sales process and a marketing message. In other words, you’ll develop a “framework” (in the professors’ words) for successfully launching and sustaining your enterprise.
Review: No reviews.
Additional Background: This course is the second part of a “How To Start Your Own Business” specialization, a five course series that includes areas like planning, strategy, and developing an entrepreneurial mindset. To learn more about these courses and register for them, click here.
Supply Chain Design
School: MIT
Platform: edX
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Start Date: May 18, 2016
Workload: Not Specified.
Instructors: Dr. Chris Caplice, Yossi Sheffi, Jarrod Goentzel, James Blayney Rice, Jr.
Credentials: Dr. Caplice teaches logistics and supply management at MIT, ranked #1 (graduate) and #2 (undergraduate) in this field. He oversees the MIT Freight Lab, which researches ways to improve the design and management of freight transportation. He also manages the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and MIT’s Global SCALE Network. Caplice, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, also serves as the chief scientist for Chainalytics, a supply chain consulting firm.
Sheffi previously headed MIT’s engineering systems division and has founded five different companies. Goentzel is the founder and director of MIT’s Humanitarian Response Lab, which is part of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. Rice is the deputy director of this center, along with teaching supply chain management and finance courses at the school.
Graded: After completing the course, students can receive an instructor-signed certificate for $150.
Description: It’s easy to take supply chains for granted. We just naturally expect a WalMart to stock shampoo or a KFC to have biscuits and honey. However, there is a complex process in getting supplies from point A to B. In fact, there are many points in between, such as supply source, manufacturing, storage, and distribution. At a micro level, each of these points is tied together in a process and regularly interacts with each other. The trick, of course, is to design a model that shaves time and cost off the process without making too many tradeoffs in terms of service quality and scale.
As part of this course, students will learn:
How to design supply chain networks and flow How to translate supply chain actions into financial terms How to source and procure products and services How to plan, demand and run operations planning How to design a supply chain organization How to assess supply chain performance metricsIn addition, student will master the three flows (physical, financial, and information) inherent to supply chain operations.
Review: “This is an excellent course to go through for supply chain professionals. It addresses each of the supply chain processes and the design considerations that go into those processes. The course wraps up with the prevalent organizational structures and the metrics for measuring the performance. Many of the practitioners would be working in a particular area of the supply chain and this course helps develop a comprehensive overview of the whole chain and the interdependencies of his function with the other interfacing functions. Similarly for software professionals and consultants working in a particular area, it provides a complete overview and also helps in developing a good understanding of the logic (S&OP, optimization, MRP, ATP) that goes into the functioning of the software. With respect to the course content, I suggest inclusion of the following either within the existing topics or as additional topics- 1. Little’s law and the concepts of lean manufacturing 2. Theory of Constraints 3. Cellular manufacturing As the course is further developed, MIT can consider making the problems broad based with respect to the industry content. For example, blending problems of the process industries, model mix problems in the auto industry etc.” For additional reviews, click here.
Here are some additional courses starting in April that may interest you:
Data Science Ethics / May 1 / University of Michigan
3D Printing Applications / May / University of Illinois
Leading Positive Change through Appreciative Inquiry / May 16 / Case Western Reserve
Big Data: Mathematical Modelling / May 30 / Queensland University of Technology
Reputation Management in a Digital World / May 30 / Curtin University
Digital Leadership: Creating Value Through Technology / May 30 / University of Reading
New Business Models / May / iVersity
Design Kit: Prototyping / May 24 / Acumen
Contract Management: Building Relationships in Business / May 16 / University of Southampton
Lean Data Approaches to Measure Social Impact / May 10 / Acumen
Big Data: Statistical Inference and Machine Learning / May 2 / Queensland University of Technology
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In December, students in the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program traveled to Washington, DC for their final field immersion before graduation.
While there, the executive MBA students met with Federal Reserve Chairman and Haas Professor Emeritus Janet Yellen. Berkeley-Haas Professor Laura Tyson, a former economic advisor to Presidents Clinton and Obama, leads the immersion, which allows students to go behind the scenes in Washington and dig deeper into the development of the policies that affect their professions and their companies’ business decisions.
EMBA student David Dietrich found the experience very valuable. “To go to the boardroom of the Fed and meet Chair Yellen—and to know that she had reviewed our bios ahead of meeting us, that she clearly had an understanding of our backgrounds, and had tailored her presentation—created such a lasting impression,” he says.
The students also visited the National Press Club for a panel discussion by Prof. Tyson, NBC journalist Andrea Mitchell, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal correspondent David Wessel, and capped the week with a formal dinner at the Italian Embassy.
Professor Laura Tyson with journalists Andrea Mitchell and David Wessel.
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Last fall, Poets & Quants introduced new MBA students from our September intake. To complement this, we are presenting a few students from the January intake who together make up the Class of 2017.
This program prepares executives with a general understanding of accounting and financial principles as they relate to organizations' operations and decision-making processes. It also prepares financial analysts and investors with a general understanding of the valuation content and limitations of financial statement information. Starting with a review of financial data in a company's annual report and accounting statements, participants will gain a well-rounded understanding of how basic accounting information may be used in communicating with financial managers, as well as to assess a firm's future prospects and value. The remaining time will be spent covering finance principles relevant to leaders whose primary job responsibilities are outside of the finance function with implications for project decisions, corporate structure and performance measurement.This program is for general and functional business managers who interact regularly with the firm’s finance area; managers who make business decisions that affect the firm’s financial results, or are impacted by financial models; and financial analysts and investors who would like to understand how to interpret the data in financial statements to assess a firm's future prospects and value.
For more information on this short course for executives, please visit the course webpage: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/executive-education/short-courses/schedule/short-course-program-3 …
A wanderlust of corporate proportions!
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To celebrate his own departure as CEO of Admiral Insurance, Henry Engelhardt (MBA'88J) has decided to gift £7m to his own staff.
As one co-founder of Admiral Insurance prepares to hand over the reins to another, the pair look to the future. When Henry Engelhardt said he was giving £1,000 to every employee at Admiral to celebrate his own departure, staff in Cardiff gave him a standing ovation. In Rome, employees making a thank…
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Dr Emma Banister, Senior Lecturer in Consumer Research at Alliance MBS is the co-leader of the project Making Room for Dads. The project has been designed to explore the concept of shared parental leave (SPL)
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In April 2015, Shared Parental Leave was introduced to allow new parents to split up to 52 weeks of shared parental leave between them. Parents would also have the opportunity to take up to 39 weeks of statutory shared parental pay.
The musical received 16 #TonyAwards nominations. Congrats to Jill and the whole Hamilton team! http://bit.ly/22L6Pot
Jill Furman ’97, founder of Jill Furman Productions, talks about her role in bringing the smash hit “Hamilton” to Broadway.
Carnegie Mellon's The Originals – led by undergraduate business administration student Leopoldo Galvan – will travel to New York this weekend to compete in the final round of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. As part of this round, The Originals will get to work with Ben Bram, arranger for Pentatonix, John Legend, executive producer of Sing It On, and perform for many other executives and producers in New York City. http://bit.ly/1NDmuTq
This week London Stock Exchange Group welcomed 16 UK companies to ELITE, its innovative support programme for high growth businesses delivered in partnership with Imperial College Business School. The 16 UK companies come from across the country, from Edinburgh to Stockport and represent a diverse range of sectors including a liquid collagen supplement manufacturer, peer-to-peer mortgage platform and biometric technology security firm. Learn more about the programme here: www.elite-growth.com
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