Excellence in Business Certificate

Explore issues associated with the emerging forms of applications and services changing software ecosystems and commerce interactions. We will involve both design and development of real apps, gizmos, and widgets. This course will enable students to learn the design, development and distribution of the small and the many, and leave with a portfolio, not just a certificate.

Using real-world applications from various industries, the goal of the course is to familiarize students with tools and methods used for measuring and managing the value of current and future customers effectively. The tools we introduce are commonly employed by managers to assess marketing decisions, such as a new customer acquisition campaign. These tools are also used by executives and investors to assess the health of customer-based businesses.

Explore the importance of iteration in the innovation process, engage in an interactive team-based exercise in design thinking, solve an unfamiliar problem to better understand and apply design thinking concepts, and apply all that you’ve learned in a high-impact problem-solving activity. In this course, you’ll dig into the strategy and principles of design thinking. Finish feeling ready to solve any problem back at the office.

How many of us have experienced stress and anxiety over the past year that impacted our relationships? You are not alone. How many of our close friends and colleagues have experienced losses that resulted in emotional distress? The focus of this program on Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is to learn to identify, use, understand, and manage emotions in an effective and positive way. A higher EQ helps individuals to communicate better, reduce their anxiety and stress, defuse conflicts, improve relationships, empathize with others, and effectively overcome life’s challenges.

Organizations survive or fail based upon the decisions of their leaders. Every day, you make many decisions, from the seemingly unimportant to those that could determine the very survival of the business. By matching decisions with the tools and frameworks best suited to solve them, you can analyze the underlying dynamics of an organizational issue in order to quickly and effectively resolve it. This interactive live online short course will provide you with insights into the psychology, physiology, and sociology of decision making, so that you can evaluate both your role in and your responsibility for the decision-making process to deliver better outcomes yourself and your organization.

In the Goizueta Executive Women’s Leadership Forum, you’ll examine the power of storytelling, develop a personal leadership narrative, and discover how you can leverage your own story to drive your organization’s culture, strategy, and direction. Join your peers in this dynamic program to discover the role executive narrative plays in leading organizations and inspiring high-performing teams.

Strategy & Execution focuses on closing the gaps between the planning and execution of your strategy
by evaluating how you align your operations with strategic objectives. You will learn how to
strategically review, plan, and execute initiatives that are important to your line of work. You will
also gain new insights on hidden barriers many strategists face during the execution phase.

Multinational Firms & Strategy will be in-person and typically held on Saturday afternoons from 1:30-5:30pm on August 28-December 4, 2021. Learn how to examines strategy and organization of business in this global economy. This course considers international competitive forces and national/regional contexts as determinants of strategic challenges and options for managers. We employ a cross-functional approach, drawing from strategic management, microeconomics, political science, and regional studies.

Gain insights for solving messy, unstructured challenges with no clear “right answer”. You will emerge with expertise managing the process of problem solving in a structured manner, from framing the problem to communicating a compelling case for action.