List of Online Courses and Certifications

The New Age Business Models is a 6-week certification programme offered by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). The course is designed to provide learners with an in-depth understanding of new business models and strategies to make their businesses succeed. 

The course also provides the latest trends and best practices in management and business. It allows students to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of the industry. The New Age Business Models by IIMB consists of a grading policy on which students will be awarded a certificate.

The Corporate Governance: Maximise Your Effectiveness in the Boardroom online course is designed to equip executives and professionals with the essential knowledge and skills to excel as board members and effectively navigate the complexities of corporate governance. This Corporate Governance: Maximize Your Effectiveness in the Boardroom certification by Emeritus explores the role, structure, and responsibilities of corporate boards, providing participants with critical insights into the realities of board service.

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the board's role in strategy development, financial oversight, and accountability. They will also learn about key considerations in compensation and succession planning, crisis management, and the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on corporate decision-making.

The Corporate Governance: Maximize Your Effectiveness in the Boardroom certification course offers a high-impact learning experience through interactive online lectures, real-world case studies, peer discussions, and practical assignments. Participants will benefit from engaging with experienced faculty members from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and interacting with a global network of boardroom peers. The user-friendly learning platform allows for flexible access to programme content, making it convenient for busy executives and professionals.

The Executive Compensation: Strategies And Frameworks online course is a comprehensive and data-driven course designed to empower marketing analysts and managers with the knowledge and tools needed to make strategic pricing decisions in today's competitive business landscape. The Executive Compensation: Strategies And Frameworks certification by Emeritus highlights the underutilised potential of pricing for maximising profitability, enhancing customer value, and gaining market share.

Participants of the Executive Compensation: Strategies And Frameworks certification course will delve into effective quantitative pricing techniques, harnessing realistic methodologies to achieve a competitive advantage amid changing market dynamics. Led by an industry expert from the University of Pennsylvania Robert L. Phillips, former director of pricing research at Amazon and founder of Nomis Solutions, the programme offers invaluable insights into pricing optimization and customer behaviour analysis.

Over six weeks, the online programme covers diverse modules, including pricing analytics, price differentiation strategies, behavioural economics, pricing in competitive markets, and more. Participants will learn to leverage analytical tools to optimise pricing decisions, design effective pricing strategies, and differentiate prices based on customer segments and willingness to pay.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: DEI Strategies for Business Impact online course is designed to address critical issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion faced by organisations of all sizes and industries. In the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: DEI Strategies for Business Impact certification by Emeritus, participants, and other professionals passionate about advancing DEI efforts will embark on a journey that combines cutting-edge research with practical applications to create inclusive cultures within their organisations.

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: DEI Strategies for Business Impact certification course curated by the professionals at the University of Cambridge, features a diverse range of perspectives from academic experts and industry leaders, providing participants with a holistic understanding of diversity that goes beyond race and gender, encompassing class, accessibility, and more. Through engaging learning methods such as case studies, interactive webinars, and discussions, participants will explore topics such as individual and organisational factors that lead to discrimination, intentional hiring practices, data-driven DEI strategies, and communication techniques.

To keep up with these brisk improvements, the business firms are required to follow the market trends and demands of the consumers.

The programme aims to direct the participants towards learning the effective and sustainable methods to grow and expand their businesses. The programme has been designed keeping leaders, general managers, top level executives, senior executives, president and vice president level candidates. Senior level profiles need to learn the importance of being competitive and innovative at the same time. This programme prepares leaders in being visionary and enables them to execute strategies in micro and macro level. The Various concepts of innovation and how to be innovative are covered in this programme. The management and allocation of resources as well as the delegation of responsibilities are very important concepts in this module.

The curriculum also includes classroom discussions and debates as well as projects and assignments to stimulate the participants' minds to let creativity and innovation flow. 

In today’s changing business environment it is important to effectively convey your ideas as a leader, for them to be efficiently implemented. This requires more than just holding a position of power. Unless every individual is motivated to work towards your goals, they will be difficult to achieve. For your ideas to be implemented effectively it is important that you motivate and inspire your subordinates and colleagues. This can be achieved through the necessary communication skills. In addition to this, the workshop will give you a chance to develop a communication strategy that will help you and your team work together effectively.

The Communication Strategies for Leaders certification course by IIM Ahmedabad is a weeklong programme that will help you learn skills such as persuasion strategies and management of the organisation's reputation amongst many more. In addition to this, the workshop is an integration of interactive lectures, workshops and case studies that will equip you with the necessary skills to become better leaders.

The Communication Strategies for Leaders workshop will prove to be a rich learning opportunity for individuals in positions of management and leadership.

The Inspiring and Motivating Arts and Culture Teams online course is taught by the mentors from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in collaboration with the National Arts Strategies. Course learners are equipped with crucial leadership skills to inspire better employee behaviour and motivate people to embrace change. 

Through the Inspiring and Motivating Arts and Culture Teams certification course, candidates will learn how to communicate their teams' shared vision effectively. They will also learn to set goals and expectations efficiently and productively. 

Candidates taking the Inspiring and Motivating Arts and Culture Teams training programme are encouraged to delve deep into understanding different cultures and aligning their behavioural actions with empathy. 

Since motivation remains a massive challenge for many organizations, this online course provides a useful approach for teams to always stay inspired, and successfully achieve the team objectives.  

The programme of Design Practice in Business: Spark Innovation like a Designer offered by the platform of edx gives an amazing chance to all the participants who want to develop their business and want to pursue a career in the field of business as well as in innovation. This course by edX is offered in association with TUDelft. 

Design Practice in Business: Spark Innovation like a Designer programme is an 100 percent online learning course. Learner’s who want to pursue this course should spend at least 5 weeks to study through this curriculum. 3-6 hours each week time investment is required for completing this course. Learners can avail of Design Practice in Business: Spark Innovation like a Designer by edX at zero cost. The course offered by Edx is an introductory-level programme. Candidates will be able to study subjects such as business and management. The course is a self-paced learning course that offers limited period access to those who have selected the audit mode and those who have opted for the verified mode will have unlimited access. Students who are interested in achieving verified certification for the programme can achieve this by paying the required fee to the platform.

Jump Start: Small/ Medium Business program is specifically structured for providing details about the security solutions pertaining to business networking. The students will be taught the cost-efficient ways of implementing the full array of checkpoint access control and also preventing the zero-day threat. The course will make the students proficient in the given domains- monitoring user, network deployment, network activity, security policy, initial configuration, mitigating security events, and identification. 

The five-week course will help the students to learn about the fundamentals of network managing and maintaining. Jump Start: The small/ Medium Business program will help students detect any upcoming business catastrophe and hence will save them from enduring any losses and will also teach students about the topic of TCP protocol along with the IP addressing techniques. The course will also be allowing the students to attain the classes of their own will also the  Jump Start: Small/ Medium Business training materials will be available to them 24*7. Two different tracks are available on edX to complete the course and can be enrolled into by the candidates. Both the tracks are self-paced but during the verified track, the candidates will be able to access the course for a lifetime by paying some fee. Whereas to access the audit track, nothing is charged but the materials can be accessed for a restricted period.

The Advanced Corporate Strategy course by edX provides modern exposure to corporate approach. The programme has been built on the IIMBx course of strategic management which is concerned with strategies for sole business organisation. The foremost centre of attention of this programme will be the critical issues that are being faced by the institution carrying out operations in many complex, multi-dimensional environments.

The Advanced Corporate Strategy programme provides a conceptual conception of corporate strategies, the influence of circumstances and conditions on the corporate strategy of the business, investigation of the barrier of an organization and development of corporate strategies, valuing its limitations.

The programme allows candidates the key blend of systematic and theoretical skills needed to combat complicated problems by enlargement and accomplishing corporate strategies for organisations that carry out operations across industries and across national boundaries.

The duration of the Advanced Corporate Strategy course is 5 weeks and 3-4 hours of weekly effort is needed by candidates. The course is free of cost but to get an institutional certificate candidates will have to upgrade their programme. In the free mode, the learner will get only a limited duration of access. 

Business Growth: Tackling the Scale-up Challenge training is a 5 week online course where the certificate is provided by FutureLearn. There are tons of challenges that are faced by mature corporations in their early stage of entrepreneurship. But challenges can be faced while identifying the growth factors and addressing them. This course is ideal for providing learners with needs, concepts and applications of how to scale up.

The Business Growth: Tackling the Scale-up Challenge certification syllabus basically gives an introduction to a new model called Triple Chasm Model. This model is a new, and different approach based on research when it comes to managing the challenges that are faced for growth. This course will enable the different CXO level executives to acknowledge the need for a new approach, the several concepts of the Triple Chasm Model, and the ways to apply this to their business for benefits in the long run.

The Construction Ethics and Compliance certification is a 5 weeks course that is curated by the joint efforts of FutureLearn, and the Chartered Institute of Building Academy. This course falls under the Business, and Management category, and The CPD Certification Services gives accreditation to it. 

There are many large construction firms that have faced innumerable fines for breaching ethics due to cases of bribery, and collusion. This CIOB Construction Ethics and Compliance training tell the candidates how they can stay ethical in construction industries. Ethics is nothing but a moral set of values that define a person’s character and behavior so it is important for both the individual and the organization.

This free online course is owned by CIOB which is the world's largest construction management professional body since the year 1834. So, the construction Ethics and Compliance certification syllabus is the guiding light for students who want to understand what role is played by compliance in the construction industry.

Struggling to grow, develop, and succeed in the competitive environment? This Business Growth Strategies Online course will provide candidates with a full grasp of the technical factors driving business innovation as well as useful insights into how to adapt to modern world market demands.

The 5 weeks Business Growth Strategies online training offered by IMD discovers how to increase an organization's capacity to acquire and nurture information vital to the company's future success by delving deeply into proven techniques and business cases. The course provides methods, frameworks, and tools to the candidates for effectively growing their business at the lowest possible cost and risk. The curriculum is chock-full of examples, exercises, and case studies to help in converting theories into perspective.

With the help of a professional development coach, the Business Growth Strategies Online syllabus teaches to create a tailored business expansion strategy for the company as well as an implementation strategy to put it into action.

Agribusiness is a kind of business that concentrates on handling, distributing, promoting, and distributing agricultural products. Agribusiness aims to enhance operations to maintain reasonable rates. Challenges of Agribusiness Management certification course is developed by Bocconi University and taught by Vitaliano Fiorillo - Lecturer of Operations & Technology Management at SDA Bocconi School of Management, which is made available by Coursera.

Challenges of Agribusiness Management online training contains 5 hours of learning resources that focus on providing an in-depth understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved with agribusiness. With the Challenges of Agribusiness Management online course, individuals will be taught about concepts and strategies involved with agribusiness sustainability, agricultural system, agro-system, prosumerism, commoditization, service innovation, and much more.

The course on ‘People Management Skills’ is offered by the online educational platform FutureLearn for a period of five weeks and three study hours every week. This course is developed by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to improve the business and management expertise of the leaders.

The People Management Skills online course helps managers exercise their role with improved confidence and preparation as successful leaders. This course provides insights into the various kinds of leadership and management, organising skills, and adaptive techniques. 

Specific human resource and management concepts like labour market, recruitment process, team development and successful coaching, conflict management, and well-being in a workplace are discussed during the training. The course instruction engages with performance management aspects like the high-performing team and setting team performance goals through practical strategies.

Learning with Andy Lancaster (learning and development head in CIPD), Michelle Parry-Slater(L&D Consultancy owner), Jo Squires (Learning and development content producer at CIPD) and Robin Lawrence(leadership and management developing specialist) will help the candidates acquire valuable knowledge of the domain.

The Enterprise Systems online programme is provided by the online educational platform Coursera and is developed by the University of Minnesota. This information systems specialization course will take almost eight hours to complete the programme and is guided by the course educator, Jason Chan who is an assistant professor at the Carlson School of Management, Information and Decision Sciences. It is a beginner-level course that enables the students to identify the operation of the enterprise resource systems in the companies and the kinds of jobs that utilize enterprise resource planning systems. This course deals with the change management strategies and the implementation of enterprise systems in the organization to improve data management. 

The Enterprise Systems online certification course helps the learners gain knowledge about the potential of the enterprise resource planning systems and the changes required by the company to undergo in order to the executions. The graded assignments with feedback will assist the learners in comprehending the techniques and principles in an optimised manner. This online course is available to the candidates to learn at their own convenient speed.

The English for Business and Entrepreneurship Training Course is a beginner-level course provided by the University of Pennsylvania and financed by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs. The course available on the Coursera website is taught in a 100% online mode.

The English for Business and Entrepreneurship Certification Course is a self-paced course that is suitable for non-native speakers of the English language who would like to explore more about the aspects of language in connection with the global economy and entrepreneurship sector. The course is delivered through interesting video lectures and authentic reading materials in the English language.

The English for Business and Entrepreneurship Online Course will help learners become proficient in the language topics required to emerge successful in the international business arena. The 5 weeks long will include core business concepts and notions along with business vocabulary and language features.

The Healthcare in India: Strategic Perspectives online course is a study about the Indian healthcare system and the risks and strategies that enable its effective implementation. This online course is provided by the online education platform Edx and is offered by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. The course is scheduled for five weeks and the students are expected to spend a minimum of three to four hours every week. 

The training program is led by the instructor Chirantan Chatterjee who was a faculty member of the department of strategy in IIM Bangalore. This business and management course on Indian healthcare enables the students to gain perspectives on the strategies and innovation in the domain. The students are provided with opportunities to discuss the hospital, pharmaceutical industries, and companies that provide diagnostic equipment along with healthcare markets. 

The ‘Healthcare in India: Strategic Perspectives’ certification course improves the business knowledge and opportunities in the field of healthcare.

Two main work strategies for any business today are transformation and innovation. Meanwhile, digitisation has also become a necessary aspect of business strategy today. This new requirement has led to an expansion in the role of the Chief Information Officer or CIO. 

Leadership for Digital Strategy: Be the Next Generation CIO online course by Indian School of Business equips the students with various tools such as new business models, business model analysis, balanced scorecard, and governance analysis to help in business transformation. Furthermore, the programme will help candidates lead an organisation towards digital innovation and digital business strategies. 

The ISB Leadership for Digital Strategy: Be the Next Generation CIO Course is a digital learning course that provides real-time learning and incorporates the real-world application of the concepts. Moreover, students will gain a certificate on completing the course by the Centre for Executive Education at the Indian School of Business and many top-class learning facilities.

Digitization is no longer only a productivity boost; it is also a necessary change in maintaining successful operations that are aligned with the future of the company. Learn to improve corporate operations management processes with the 6 weeks Operations Management: Digital Strategy online course at Northwestern University.

Manufacturing digitization may result in up to a 20% decrease in manufacturing and operations expenses, as well as a 30% reduction in working capital, resulting in a 6% rise in operating margins. The Operations Management: Digital Strategy training teaches you to understand the value that digital transformation and digitization may bring to business operations by introducing students to important ideas in operations management.

Participants will also learn to analyze their operations and discover possibilities for digitalization, as well as how 4IR solutions like smart controls, automation, machine learning, big data and analytics are used. The Operations Management: Digital Strategy syllabus covers how to increase the speed and scalability of management and operations, which has a direct impact on the bottom line of the firm.

The ‘Introduction to Accounting - Part 1: Basics of Financial Statements’ online certification course is developed for the students to get familiar with the fundamental concepts and theories of accounting. This course enables students to enhance their basic knowledge of accounting for application in day-to-day activities. This certification course is provided by Edx online platform and is designed by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. The course is organized for five weeks and the classes are conducted through videos, quizzes, and discussion forums.

The course instructor for this program is the academic expert, Dr. Narayanaswamy professor of finance and control at IIM Bangalore. The students of this course are expected to study for four to five hours every week to complete the course.

The ‘Introduction to Accounting - Part 1: Basics of Financial Statements’ online training program is offered with a certification received by the students at the end of the program after successful completion of the course of study and the graded assessments.

The role of line executives essentially involves taking tremendous amounts of managerial responsibilities in a business setup. They require a great sense of business acumen and an inclination towards taking the right decisions in financial and commercial dimensions. The managers need to provide strategic steps to the management in their respective fields. The line executives need to create financial and commercial expertise in order to add value to their role, as well as the organisation. Developing such acumen requires a good understanding of business model economics including risks, key value drivers, cost structure and controls. It also requires understanding business relationships from the commercial point-of-view including relative bargaining power, negotiation skills based on assessment of freedom available with the counter-parties, and tools and techniques to analyse business decisions.

IIM-Ahmedabad’s Developing Commercial and Financial Skills for Strategic Business Certification Course has been designed to develop commercial acumen and financial skills of mid-level line managers/executives who might or might not be a part of their organisation’s finance function.

The 30-days course on Contract Management covers contracts in detail: its terms, forming a contract, managing it and much more. We can see two types of business that take place: international and domestic. In these businesses, a number of contracts are made each day and businesses run on those contracts. 

There are different types of contracts: for service or sale, private or public, b2b or consumer, offline or online. To provide services or sell their goods, businesses make contracts and get themselves partners or distributors, exporters and associates. Even the government makes contracts for the development of infrastructure and services such as railways, highways and much more.

Nowadays in the world of contracting, various practices are mingling. For starters, due to the business being marked by integration, specialization and outsourcing, business entities are getting into various kinds of contracts. Furthermore, now there are certain standard terms in business which is known as General Conditions of Contract. Even though there is a decrease in transaction cost, the theme of either take it or leave it has been introduced. Next, the digitalization has accelerated contracts as now they take place on emails, e-stores and much more. Lastly with the help of software and digital contracts take place but it increases risks of careless mistakes.

The course of EQ for Family Business by edX platform gives an amazon opportunity to all the candidates who want to develop their relationships as well want to strengthen them through procedures related to the business. EQ for Family Business certification course is created by the medium of edx in collaboration with The University of British Columbia. Candidates who are interested in learning through this programme should invest 4 weeks. Students can acquire information related to this EQ for Family Business course through an online learning platform only. Practice Pants can avail of the course free of cost.

Every candidate who is interested in pursuing EQ for Family Business certification course should give 2-4 hours per week. The EQ for Family Business programme offered here by the Edx platform is an introductory level programme. Candidates will learn about the concepts related to the subjects of communications. Students will be able to learn through a self-paced learning programme. Verified certification can be availed by the candidates after paying the payable amount. The candidates will have limited access during the audit mode but unlimited access in the verified mode to the course materials.

An agile problem-solver is responsible for possessing critical thinking skills. It is vital to identify and address primary sources of risk in the path of devising the best solutions for any business. With the Agile Innovation and Problem-Solving Skills course by edX, you can transform into a business asset by learning to unleash your organization's buried innovative potential.

The Agile Innovation and Problem Solving Skills certification program is part of a five-course series by the University of Maryland (College Park) and the University System of Maryland. You will have the opportunity to learn the skills to develop a sustainable innovation environment within your organization. You will be gaining proficiency in the best practices of Agile, such as timeboxes, empathetic problem-solving, and constraint-based thinking processes.

Additionally, the Agile Innovation and Problem-Solving Skills online program offers ten Professional Development Units to the learners. If you are willing to maintain the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, these PDUs will prove to be useful. Also, the course completion certificate will provide you with a competitive advantage. You will be learning with an industry expert from the course provider university.

Learners have the option to choose anyone from the verified track or audit track and complete the programme. Both these tracks are self-paced but there is a time constraint in case the students choose the free audit mode since it offers only limited access to the course materials. The verified track on the other hand is a paid version that offers paid but unlimited access to the materials of the course.

Candidates with the Introduction to Business Management certification can explore what qualities it takes to become a successful manager of the business. This 4 weeks short online course on business and Management is designed in partnership with King's College London, and FutureLearn. With this course, candidates will develop their very own personal style of managing a business.

With the help of this Introduction to Business Management certification, candidates can learn a whole range of business management skills that may seem relevant to their life, or any other field of work they are into. Candidates will also grasp mandatory concepts, terminology, and tools in Business Management.

Introduction to Business Management certification syllabus focuses on 4 important pillars under business management which are managing the people, the money, the information, and also having an understanding of one’s own self so that the candidate can communicate professionally in business situations thereby identifying their own leadership style.

Product leadership is a crucial factor that provides product managers and teams the corporate strategy and opportunity to concentrate on developing better products. Modern Product Leadership online certification is developed by The University of Maryland and the University System of Maryland and taught by John Johnson - Strategic Program Manager, Faculty, Clark School of Engineering, the University of Maryland at the University of Maryland, College Park, which is offered by edX.

Modern Product Leadership online course contains approximately 4 weeks of video lectures that begin by establishing strong leadership because of facts and research before assisting the candidates in aligning product teams, product designs, and product development for efficiency and innovation. Modern Product Leadership online training also covers topics like product communication, product evangelism, conflict resolution, team management, product discovery, and product delivery to help applicants develop the leadership skills necessary to guide product teams and organizations in delivering successful customer solutions while fostering engagement and innovation throughout the business.  Edx gives two varied modes to join the programme; verified and free audit modes. In the former mode, the students will get unlimited access to the course and a certificate of completion whereas in the latter mode, they will get only limited access to it. 

How To Create A Profitable Pricing Strategy course is offered by the Future Learn portal in collaboration with the entrepreneur now network in online mode. During this course, candidates will learn about developing pricing strategies, analysing the target market and communicating with the target audience via a series of strategies. Learners will be able to develop unique value in the market for the organisation, which will help them to grow their business in the specific market.

The course will be instructed by Ken Burke, founder of entrepreneur now network and the medium of instruction will be English. The course will be a four weeks programme, where a student is required to invest three hours per week to complete all the topics of How To Create A Profitable Pricing Strategy course. To apply for this course, candidates must visit the provider’s official website and register. Students are advised to go through the article below for course requirements, fee structure, etc.

The ‘Strategic planning for professional service firms in the time of COVID-19’ online course is provided by the online educational website and developed by ‘The College of Law’. This business and management course will provide insights on the strategic techniques involved in planning at organisations to face the challenges and risks during uncertain times like the COVID-19 pandemic. The course is designed for four weeks consisting of two hours weekly to study. The course helps in bringing back the stability and continuity that has faced challenges during the pandemic in business organisations. 

This online course enhances the adaptability of the organisation to the new challenges and ensures change management regarding the ‘new normal’ and enables the survival of the competitive business markets. The course steps and expert guidance by Peter Edwards (Director, Legal Business Management), Maryann Haffenden, and Jams Jung(Director of Programs) will allow the candidates from professional service firms to develop a strategic mindset for planning and organisation.

The ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Hospitality: Challenges and Business Opportunities’ online course is developed by the ‘Swiss Education Group’ and offered by the online educational platform FutureLearn. The course is scheduled for a period of four weeks with weekly four hours for study. This online course is an exploration of AI potential in the hospitality business and the business challenges it has created. It delves into the concepts of cost reduction, increasing the rate of customer satisfaction, and inventing modern techniques for front office and housekeeping.

This ten hours course allows the candidates to discover the possibilities of digitization in hospitality and the scope of innovation that becomes the future of the hospitality industry. The course educators for the ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Hospitality: Challenges and Business Opportunities’ online programme are Antoine Casanova-Mazet (Digital Entrepreneur and lecturer at Hotel Institute of Montreux) and Hawah Mahmoudi (Career coach and Alumni Coordinator).