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Mini
MBA This Course Collection was
COURSES INCLUDE: designed to present the core
skills of an MBA-style
education for employees who
° Corporate Finance I: Measuring want to improve their business
and Promoting Value Creation acumen and accelerate their
° Corporate Finance II: Financing careers.
Investments and Managing Risk
° Strategic Innovation: Building and
Sustaining Innovative
Organizations Who this is for
° Advanced Business Strategy Junior level professionals in
This Course Collection
features courses from the ° Foundations of Business Strategy any business function.
University of Virginia, ° Competitive Strategy
Illinois University, and ° Introduction to Corporate Finance
Ludwig-Maximilians- Operations Management
Universität München
°
° Managing Social and Human
Capital
MiniMBA

SPECIALIZATION Business Strategy

University of Virginia
RATING 4.7 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Strategic Analysis
Foundations of Business TIME

hours
❏
❏
Strategic Management
Business Strategy
Strategy hours
~12.5 total 3.1 per
week

❏ Competitiveness
~4 hours of video
❏ Porter's Five Forces DESCRIPTION

Develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive

environment, and recommend firm positioning and value creation. ~5.7 assignment hours
In this course, we will explore the underlying theory and frameworks
that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy and
provide the tools you need to understand that strategy: SWOT,
Competitor, Environmental, Five Forces, and Capabilities Analyses. TAUGHT BY

Link to course TOPICS PRACTICE

Michael Lenox
★ Introduction to Senior Associate Dean and Chief
4 Quizzes
Strategic Analysis Strategy Officer
★ Analyzing Industry
Structure 1 Peer-Reviewed
★ Analyzing Firm Assignments
Capabilities
★ Determining 0
Programming Jared Harris
Assignments Samuel L. Slover Research Chair
Competitive Position
in Business Administration
MiniMBA

SPECIALIZATION Business Strategy

University of Virginia
RATING 4.8 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Strategic Management
Advanced Business TIME

hours
❏
❏
Business Strategy
Competitiveness
Strategy ~11
hours
total
2.7 per
week

❏ Strategic Thinking
~3.8 hours of video
❏ Supply Chain DESCRIPTION

Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to

Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, you'll learn the ~5.1 assignment hours
tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics),
industries ( corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy),
and institutions (non-market strategy).
TAUGHT BY

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Michael Lenox
★ Dynamic Strategy Senior Associate Dean and Chief
4 Quizzes
★ International Strategy Officer
Strategy
★ Diversification 1 Peer-Reviewed
Strategy Assignments
★ Stakeholder Strategy
0
Programming Jared Harris
Assignments Samuel L. Slover Research Chair
in Business Administration
MiniMBA

Competitive Strategy and

SPECIALIZATION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Organization Design
München (LMU)
RATING 4.7 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Strategic Thinking
Competitive Strategy TIME

hours
❏ Game Theory hours
~15.4 total 2.6 per
❏ Competition (Economics) week

❏ Strategic Management
~6.1 hours of video
❏ Pricing DESCRIPTION

In this six-module course, you will learn how businesses and

organizations behave in situations in which strategic decisions are ~9.3 assignment hours
interdependent, i.e. where my actions affect my competitors' profits
and vice versa. Using the basic tools of game theory, we will analyse
how businesses choose strategies to attain competitive advantage.
TAUGHT BY

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Tobias Kretschmer
★ Take Care of Your Institute for Strategy, Technology
7 Quizzes
Competitors and Organization
★ Why Firms Work
Together 0 Peer-Reviewed
★ Complementary Assignments
Products and
Programming
Strategic 0 Assignments
Partnerships
★ Entering a New
Market
MiniMBA

SPECIALIZATION Financial Management

University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
RATING 4.8 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED
Corporate Finance I: Measuring TIME
❏ Mergers And Acquisitions
❏ Corporate Finance
and Promoting Value Creation hours
~23.9 total 6
hours
per
❏ Finance week

❏ Financial Plan
~9.3 hours of video
❏ Investment DESCRIPTION

In this course you will learn how to use key finance principles to
understand and measure business success and to identify and ~14.6 assignment hours
promote true value creation. You will learn how to use accounting
information to form key financial ratios to measure a company’s
financial health and to manage a company's short-term and
long-term liquidity needs. TAUGHT BY

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Heitor Almeida
★ Course Overview Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder
4 Quizzes
★ The Objective of the Professor of Corporate Finance
Corporation and
Analysis of Financial 4 Peer-Reviewed
Ratios Assignments
★ Financial Planning
Programming
★ Making Investment 0 Assignments
Decisions
MiniMBA

SPECIALIZATION Financial Management

University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
RATING 4.8 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED
Corporate Finance II: Financing TIME
❏ Corporate Finance
❏ Risk Management
Investments and Managing Risk hours
~18.2 total 4.6
hours
per
❏ Debt week

❏ Financial Statement
~8.6 hours of video
❏ Investment DESCRIPTION

In this course you will learn how companies decide on how much
debt to take, and whether to raise capital from markets or from ~9.6 assignment hours
banks. You will also learn how to measure and manage credit risk
and how to deal with financial distress. You will discuss the
mechanics of dividends and share repurchases, and how to choose
the best way to return cash to investors. TAUGHT BY

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Heitor Almeida
★ Course Orientation Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder
4 Quizzes
★ Raising Financing: Professor of Corporate Finance
The Capital
Structure Decision 2 Peer-Reviewed
★ Understanding Debt Assignments
Financing and
Programming
Payout Policy 0 Assignments
★ Risk Management
MiniMBA

Innovation: From Creativity

SPECIALIZATION
University of Illinois at to Entrepreneurship
Urbana-Champaign
RATING 4.8 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED
Strategic Innovation: Building TIME
❏ Innovation
❏ Product (Business)
and Sustaining Innovative hours
~12.9 total 3.3
hours
per
❏ Entrepreneurship Organizations week

❏ Value Proposition
~4.6 hours of video
❏ Business Model DESCRIPTION

Innovation strategy is about creating unique value for consumers by

delivering a great product that satisfies their needs and capturing ~8.3 assignment hours
value back from consumers.At the core of a successful innovation
strategy is a great product concept. Product is an all-encompassing
term that includes physical goods, intangible services, and ideas.
TAUGHT BY

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Raj Echambadi
★ Course Orientation Alan J. and Joyce D. Baltz
4 Quizzes
★ Crafting a Great Professor
Value Proposition
★ There Is More to a 2 Peer-Reviewed
Product Than Just Assignments
Function: Assessing
Programming
Industry Trends 0 Assignments
★ Developing Winning
Products:
Sometimes Less Is
More
MiniMBA

SPECIALIZATION Value Chain Management

University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
RATING 4.5 out of 5 stars
SKILLS ACQUIRED

❏ Quality Control
Operations Management TIME

hours
❏ Operations Management hours
~27.3 total 5.5 per
❏ Inventory week

❏ Supply Chain
~11.8 hours of video
❏ Management DESCRIPTION

In this course, you will learn about the role of operations and how
they are connected to other business functions in manufacturing- ~15.5 assignment hours
and service-focused organizations. You will learn and practice the
use of decision-making frameworks and techniques applicable at
all levels.
TAUGHT BY

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Gopesh Anand
★ Course Orientation Associate Professor of Business
4 Quizzes
★ Module 1: Administration
Operations Strategy
★ Module 2: Process 6 Peer-Reviewed
Analysis Assignments
★ Module 3: Inventory
Programming
and Supply Chain 0 Assignments
Management