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A comprehensive 18-module program, Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Foundations is designed to build strong entrepreneurship, business, and innovation skills across all core competencies. Ideal for learners who want a deeper, more comprehensive foundational experience. Earn a digital badge and certificate of completion by completing all modules.

This course provides the basic concepts of management with particular emphasis on the functions of management in a global environment. This course examines the antecedents of globalization; the role of global environments in shaping organization structure, strategy and processes, as well as the basic principles of managing in complex cross-cultural settings. This course will also emphasize global institutional arrangements and macroeconomic issues. Finally, this course applies global business concepts in understanding global political economics, legal systems, and socio-cultural environments.

This course provides learners with an introduction to accounting, budgeting, and finance fundamentals, equipping them with the skills and knowledge needed to make informed financial decisions in both business and personal contexts. Learners will gain insights into the ways in which financial information is generated, analyzed, and used to support decision-making, as well as the role of budgeting in effective resource planning and management. The course also explores core financial principles and tools, and prepares learners how to navigate a variety of financial challenges and evaluate investment opportunities with confidence. This course serves as a foundation for global accounting and finance while providing practical applications for personal and professional financial well-being.

This course explores the ways in which global marketing strategies reflect a deep understanding of markets and create valuable offerings for customers globally. Broadly speaking, marketing strategy making is comprised of: Segmentation: the process by which we segregate a relatively heterogeneous mass market into relatively homogeneous market segments. Targeting: the process by which we analyze opportunities and identify those customers where our business has the greatest prospects for success. Positioning: the process of assembling the 'total offering' (product, service, distribution and price) and communicating the benefits of this 'total offering' to the members of our target market.

This course provides an introduction to sustainability, emphasizing the interconnectedness of environmental, economic, and social systems and their relevance to business practices in the 21st century. It explores key sustainability principles through the lens of leadership and innovation, focusing on the importance of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Environmental Social and Governance tools (ESGs), and circular economy practices in addressing global challenges like climate change. Learners will analyze the three pillars of sustainability, examine the roles of leadership and technology in advancing sustainable initiatives, and develop strategies for integrating socially responsible practices into organizational operations. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped with the knowledge and tools to make informed decisions and drive innovative solutions that promote integrated human-environmental well-being.

This course delves into the entrepreneurship field from both a micro and macro perspective. The course content is clustered into four major subjects. Starting with a theoretical framework evolution and then focusing on key success factors for launching a business, followed by cultural and institutional differences across borders, and the different approaches to venturing globally. This course will guide learners as they experience the innovation process, and how new products and services can create value for a market niche. This course will also navigate across the divergent characteristics of international entrepreneurial ecosystems and those challenges faced by entrepreneurs around the globe. A series of case studies and articles will take students on a journey across Latin America, Africa and China, where companies and entrepreneurs aim to lead in industries such as technology, fashion, finance and agriculture. entrepreneurship field from both a micro and macro perspective. The course content is clustered into four major subjects. Starting with a theoretical framework evolution and then focusing on key success factors for launching a business, followed by cultural and institutional differences across borders, and the different approaches to venturing globally.

The world desperately needs a new generation of leaders. The goal of this course is to empower learners and professionals around the world to be ethical, creative, agile and effective leaders under two critical contextual conditions: the technological transformations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in conjunction with cultural dynamics within and across societies in a Globalized World. This course provides learners and professionals across regions with the "Digital Global" mindsets and skillsets to be successful leaders in the XXI century developing competencies in areas such as purpose and vision, ethics and integrity, agility and resilience, innovation and creativity. Personal leadership development is optimized by grounded reflection, self-knowledge and continuous learning as we interact with others. Therefore, the personal development part of this course cultivates introspective and skill-building competencies that include conceptual grounding that is based in an experiential learning focus. Discusses self- and other-awareness and engages in group/team interaction, as well as conducts individual self-assessments and individual feedback. We focus on leadership as a craft, with a set of strategies that can be learned at the personal, team/group, organization, and system levels.

Entrepreneurship has become a buzzword around the world, but it's not merely a means to start a new venture. Entrepreneurship is inter-related with innovation but also different. This course will provide learners with an entrepreneurial mindset in relation to an innovation mindset which can be applied to work on a startup, inside a corporation, as part of a public office in government, in the social sector (social enterprise) and also, to plan one's career and life. This course will help you understand the desirable attributes of teammates, identify an opportunity, and teach you the Fourth Industrial Revolution tools and capabilities that are needed to start and scale an enterprise. Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship are crafts linked to leadership and management and vary across contexts – geographies, cultures, sectors, industries- that are dynamically evolving in our globalized world. Entrepreneurship is about doing and experimenting, learning from failure and success, iterating and less about theoretical concepts, therefore this course will provide practical tools and ideas to help you figure out how your skills and passions may fit in different entrepreneurial ecosystems. The course aims to teach students how to quickly identify and test new business ideas and how to successfully launch their first venture when they've found an idea worth pursuing or scale up their existing ones. This course will offer a perspective on the implications of applying an entrepreneurial lens to the way you perceive the world, its challenges and its opportunities, but also differences that can be found in startup clusters around the world. You will hear perspectives from entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and innovators who will provide stories and advice from around the world.

This Advanced program course covers the fundamentals of financial accounting and managerial accounting in a global environment. Financial accounting focuses on providing useful information to users for external decision-making. By understanding the structure and process of preparing a balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows, students learn how to interpret, analyze, and evaluate domestic and international companies. Managerial accounting focuses on providing useful information for internal decision-making. By identifying and understanding different types of cost information, students learn how to utilize and prepare cost-volume-profit analysis, relevant cost analysis, activity-based costing, and performance evaluation within global organizations.

Over the past 60 years, advances in digital Information Technology (IT) have enabled organizations to develop increasingly sophisticated digital systems that provide comprehensive real-time information and enable business innovation across strategy, processes, products and services. Today, almost every enterprise process across sectors is enabled by, and often dependent upon, digital technologies. IT has moved far beyond the support and automation of back office clerical activities into the frontier of being a key enabler of innovations in competitive strategy, product/service design, process redesign, and disruptive new value creation. This course will help learners develop an informed understanding about effectively managing the identification, acquisition, deployment, adoption and use of appropriate information and digital technology resources that enable business innovation, culminating in the realization of business value. This understanding will be situated within the broader global context of digital disruption and its often asymmetric or unintended impacts. The overarching goal is to develop capabilities in questioning and critical thinking in this area fundamental for sustainable competitive success in the 21st century.

This Advanced program course focuses on macro issues of digital marketing, including market orientation, segmentation, targeting and positioning, and their strategic implications within the context of customer, competitor, and context analysis. This curriculum emphasizes analytical and managerial decision tools for creating competitive advantage, as well as the similarities and differences in domestic and global marketing. Learners will examine the ways that digital transformation has influenced the role of analytics in today's hyper competitive organizations, while also focusing on the micro topics used to execute and implement strategies in the first part of the course. Learners will cover the marketing mix (4Ps) in detail, namely pricing, product, promotion, and place, and examine how these tools add value to firms in an international setting. By the end of this course, learners will gain insight into how the 4Ps can effectively help establish price while communicating and delivering value to customers and important stakeholders using quantitative and qualitative analyses.

A fast, 9-module learning experience, the Entrepreneurship and Business Essentials Bootcamp is designed for learners who want a quick, accessible introduction to entrepreneurship and business essentials. Ideal for those seeking a short, flexible starting point. Earn a digital badge when you finish. The Essentials Bootcamp is appropriate for learners from all educational levels.