Free Business And Management Courses & Certifications

Entrepreneurship 101: Who is your customer? the certification course emphasizes entrepreneurship is a combination of discipline and innovation. This program is based on case studies of MIT founders and their start-ups. They will expose you to concepts and topics such as 3D printing, innovative mobile applications, international development, watchmaking, power electronics, and more. 

The Entrepreneurship 101 online course will teach you how to interview potential customers. You will also learn the difference between bottom-up and top-down market analysis. The knowledge will enable you to build a strategic framework in deciding which markets to target for your service or product. 

Additionally, edX Entrepreneurship 101 certification prepares you for an MIT boot camp. This program will challenge you to start a company in five days. You will be taught by MIT faculty and receive coaching from MIT entrepreneurs. Completion of this Entrepreneurship course will earn you a certificate to verify your achievement. 

A successful entrepreneur must be able to solve real problems, create a superior solution, and sustainably deliver the solution. Entrepreneurship 102: What can you do for your customer? helps candidates cultivate these concepts into practice. 

Entrepreneurship 102 certification program teaches candidates how to approach a product design holistically and translate user needs into product priorities. These product priorities will further be turned into experience design. For individuals trying to create a product or service, and facing resource scarcity, the program will teach how to generate desired outcomes quickly via reliable insights.

A ten-week course, Entrepreneurship 102: What can you do for your customer? is a short-term course that is a part of the course series entrepreneurship 101, 102, and 103. MITx educators teach this course via video lectures and MIT entrepreneur case studies. 

Besides, this course is a prerequisite for anyone wanting to join the MIT Bootcamp. Also, candidates who wish to have a verified certificate after course completion need to pay a fee.

Entrepreneurship 103: Show Me the Money is a ten-week Business and Management programme offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It aims to teach you more than just entrepreneurship. It will help you become a business leader and guide you through the process of creating a start-up that is cash-positive and profitable.

You will learn how to design a business model, price a product, build the sales process, measure customer acquisition cost, and estimate the lifetime value of a customer, through cases studies of MIT start-up companies. Interviews with the founders of these companies are also a part of the Entrepreneurship 103 certification syllabus.

Together with the Entrepreneurship 101 and Entrepreneurship 102, the Entrepreneurship 103 online course will address the three questions that every entrepreneur needs to ask themselves: Does your product/service solve a real problem? Is your solution better than what is already available in the market? Can you deliver this solution sustainably?

The program of You can Innovate: User Innovation and Entrepreneurship presented by the platform of edx provides a learning opportunity to all the individuals who want to explore and work in the areas related to entrepreneurship. The You can Innovate: User Innovation and Entrepreneurship certification course are created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in collaboration with the edx platform. 

This program is a digital learning program that makes the candidates understand all the concepts related to the area of business, management, and entrepreneurship through the online mode. Participants need to spend 10 weeks completing the course. Students should invest 2-4 hours per week for completing this course. Learners may achieve verified certification after pursuing the course. The candidates who are enrolled in the course can achieve verified certification after paying the amount of the payable fee to the concerned authorities of the platform. You can Innovate: User Innovation and Entrepreneurship program is an introductory level course. Candidates can learn according to their schedules as the course is a self-paced learning program.

For the candidates' comfort, the Business Environment Certification contains pertinent examples, cases, and scenarios.

Business Environment Classes cover a variety of topics, such as the collection of all internal and external factors, including workers, customers' needs and expectations, supply and demand, management, clients, suppliers, and owners, as well as government activities, technological innovation, social trends, market trends, and economic changes. Later on, we define what is business in the Business Environment Certification Syllabus.

All students get a Business Environment Certification by IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur under the Swayam Initiative by Government of India.

The Agile Methodology course has been designed and formulated to help the students learn about the basic tenets of “agile technology” for increasing their opportunities in the world domain. The participating candidates in this Agile Methodology program will learn about the Agile- practices, principles, methodologies, and mindset. 

The certification course has been designed by experienced and abled industry practitioners who have years of experience. Agile Methodology online course will be following two primary characters- Maria and Roman, who will bear the testimony to their success. The session will be further covered from the details of the application methods. With the help of videos and lectures, students will be introduced to the concepts. The students after the course can also decide to upgrade the Agile Methodology program, after which they will be able to download the roll-Royce R2 data tables. The program will help the participants to become an expert in their course.

The ‘Agri-Food Systems Analysis’ online course is developed and offered on the  Edx online education provider platform by Doane University. The online programme will take approximately eight weeks to complete as the candidate has to spend ten to fifteen hours each week. This course is about the study of the economic, social, and environmental factors that influence the sustainability of food systems and deciphering solutions for policymakers and decision-makers in the industries.

The students of the ‘Agri-Food Systems Analysis’ training course will know about the role of the various departments like finance, agriculture, commerce, health and environment in different countries and the significance of them working together to face the challenges of sustainability. 

This business and management course in the intermediate level instructed by Amanda Mckinney (Associate dean and executive director at the Institute of Human and Planetary Health) will help the learners understand the economic and social aspects of health, climate change, living conditions which enable the policymakers and leaders in the business industry to frame relevant policies. The learners can join the programme either by paying the fee or free of cost. In the free mode, the students will have only a limited duration of access to the course. 

The Corporate social responsibility online course by Swayam provides learners with an overview of the subject of Corporate Social Responsibility. The program begins with a review of the history of Corporate Social Responsibility activities and progresses through the CSR cycle in profit-making businesses' planning, implementation, assessment, and development. The Corporate social responsibility training closes with a discussion of how the area of corporate social responsibility is expected to grow in the future.

The ‘Ethics in Engineering Practice’ online certification program is a massive online course for engineering students/aspirants. In this course, the students learn how engineering serves as a tool for the good of the public. The engineers can do this by earnestly adhering to the codes of conduct set down in the ethics (ensuring the health, safety, and welfare of the public.) 

The course raises questions such as: Who is the public? Whether the future generations are included? What technical and managerial responsibilities can engineers take on? What risks can they take? Responsibilities towards the community, environment, etc. The candidates confront the moral issues that organizations, individuals face in engineering. (character, important policies, relations ships between people, etc.) 

The ‘Ethics in Engineering Practice’ online certification program lasts for eight weeks. The candidates will learn through online lectures, books, videos, references, etc. After successful completion, the candidates gain digital certification. The elective course also offers credit points.

All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE) have approved this online course. The course provider Swayam provides this course on its platform. The instructor is Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay from the department of IIT Kharagpur. 

Business Law for Managers Certification introduces the basic principles of business law, in context with India laws. It also covers the importance and impact of the legal system on business management through reference to contract, pension etc..

Business Law for Managers Classes will help the students and employees to understand legal and regulatory issues. 

All students get a Business Law for Managers Certification by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) under the Swayam Initiative by Government of India. 

IIT Kharagpur has curated the Managing Change in Organizations training programme. It is an elective-type course intended for both undergraduate and postgraduate-level students. This FDP course is approved by AICTE and falls under the category of management studies. The programme has plenty of industry support from IT companies, Pharma companies, the Manufacturing and service sector, and R&D companies.

The Managing Change in Organizations programme by Swayam is taught by a top instructor from IIT Kharagpur, Professor KBL Srivastava. It aims to equip the candidates with the necessary training and tools to become trained change management professionals. It will help candidates understand the need for change and how to implement that change. They will also learn the different issues a change manager can face and how to combat them.

The Managing Change in Organizations certification is an online programme. The candidates can enroll and participate in this course without paying any course fee. There will be graded tests and assessments and an optional end-term examination for those candidates who apply for certification.

The Principles of Human Resource Management online course is curated by IIT Kharagpur. Professor Aradhna Mailk from the School of Management instructs the eight-week program. Learners will study more on employee commitment, performance appraisal, salary administration, and career planning in an organizational set-up. Students with management as an elective subject can take the course.

With a total of 11 learning modules, the Principles of Human Resource Management certification syllabus also includes weekly quizzes in the form of multiple-choice questions. These modules based on Management studies will include HR scorecard, appraisal process, staffing, employee relations, and compensation management.

Candidates can learn from the course free of cost. The study comes with video lectures and references. However, for the Principles of Human Resource Management certification, they must submit all in-course assignments and appear for an end-term assessment. To register for the test, students must check the website updates from time to time.

IIT Kharagpur has curated the Strategic Performance Management training under the category of humanities and social sciences. This course will be conducted online and at a postgraduate level with Prof KBL Shrivastava. NPTEL and AICTE have approved of this FDP course, allowing credit transfer to other universities as well.

The Strategic Performance Management online course explores various areas of performance management to assist HR professionals and students with the dynamics of the performance management system. This system is in a constant state of evolving and requires professionals to have up-to-date knowledge. These changes involve planning, analysing, defining, and developing performance.

In the Strategic Performance Management programme, candidates will also learn about support-building and commitment and identify and reward good contribution and performance. This course also clarifies the roles and their expected performance by instilling performance development. For better comprehension, this course also uses examples of real-life Indian PM systems.

The course will be primarily emphasizing marketing management techniques and their application. The certification program on Introduction to Marketing Management-1  by Swayam will be focusing on the concepts that include- the concepts related to marketing and its managerial decisions for helping the students formulate an effective marketing strategy. The Introduction to Marketing Management-1 certification syllabus over the period of eight weeks will cover the topics like- marketing environment, ethical issues related to marketing, microeconomics, marketing information, and others. 

The course will be focusing on the subject of- “management studies”.  After completing the Introduction to Marketing Management-1 certification course the students will have their skills enhanced in the subject of consumer behavior. The student's post completion of the program will learn to target the customers for the products by effectively placing their products. The program will be focusing on the working knowledge of the different concepts involved in marketing.

This Econometric Modelling online course offered by Swayam is intended to introduce students to the fundamental ideas of econometrics. The fundamental material, on the other hand, makes an attempt to address certain aspects of time series analysis.

Econometric Modelling training is designed to be largely theoretical in nature, with the goal of providing knowledge of the mechanisms, economics and mathematics underlying the tools and approaches employed. The ideas will be shown using examples, primarily in MS Excel.

The Econometric Modelling syllabus will provide students with a solid theoretical foundation that will allow them to better comprehend the application of various methodologies and instruments in diverse economic scenarios or contexts.

The Supply Chain Analytics certification course proves exceptionally beneficial in the current era of supreme global competition. The course throws light on the crucial aspects that will enable students to understand how to bring better quality and service at lower prices and increase customer demand. This program falls under the shared domain of management studies and operations. 

The Supply Chain Analytics certification syllabus perfectly suits the academic requirements of both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Moreover, this FDP course has also been approved by the AICTE. Professor Rajat Agrawal, an associate professor of the Department of Management Studies at IIT Roorkee, offers the course training. He has guided thirteen Ph.D. thesis papers related to operations and has also published several international journal articles. 

The Supply Chain Analytics online program is scheduled for eight weeks and makes sure that the curriculum is comprehensively covered. Students are presented with the opportunity to utilize analytics to bring greater functionality to the supply chains.