Harvard Business School Online
LEARN ONLINE FROM THE LEADERS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION
Expand your business skills and engage with a global network of learners with the flexible, online courses. Harvard Business School Online is pleased to collaborate with many colleges and universities from around the world – also with KMU Akademie & Management AG - to provide additional benefits to their students.
Online Business Certificate Courses
At a glance
Price
$ 1.350,-
Virtually
Location-independent
Graduation
Certificate
Course start
various dates
CHOOSE YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS CERTIFICATE COURSE
Gain applicable skills, build new business capabilities, and tap into the confidence you need to improve your
organization and advance your career.
Develop the Leadership Skills to Advance Your Career, Team, and Organization
Leadership Principles is designed to help new and aspiring leaders unleash the potential in themselves and others, and cultivate high-performing teams. Become a more versatile leader who can mobilize others by immersing yourself in real-world leadership challenges, self-assessments, and 360-degree feedback from colleagues and peers.
What you'll LEARN
- Understand your motivational drivers, emotional intelligence, and communication methods to establish a personal leadership style
- Apply or adapt your leadership style to meet specific challenges
- Manage the conditions that drive team performance
- Coach colleagues and share feedback in ways that enable them to develop and deliver
- Handle stressful and demanding leadership situations
- Take charge of your professional development as you navigate the challenges of transitioning from an individual contributor to a leader
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Harness the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Craft Winning Strategies
Disruptive Strategy enables you to make innovation a reality. Created by Clayton Christensen, who coined the theory of disruptive innovation, this online course will equip you with the skills and techniques to develop executive-level strategy, organize for innovation, and discover customer jobs to be done.
What you'll LEARN
- Become fluent in disruptive innovation theory
- Assess new opportunities and potential threats
- Discover jobs to be done and develop frameworks to better understand customer needs
- Acquire techniques for executive-level strategy development• Organize for innovation and maintain a disruptive scope
- Gain confidence articulating complex viewpoints
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Disruptive Strategy Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Elevate Your Managerial Approach
Management Essentials, formerly known as Becoming a Better Manager, provides the real-world tools and strategies needed to excel in decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change management.
What you'll LEARN
- Design, direct, and shape organizational processes to your advantage
- Influence the context and environment in which decisions get made
- Implement strategies, plans, and projects on time, on budget, and at the highest quality
- Spearhead learning initiatives that enable your organization to improve and innovate
- Manage and lead change in organizations of varying sizes
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Management Essentials Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Secure maximum value for your organization through a mastery of negotiation techniques.
Negotiation Mastery prepares you to close deals that might otherwise be dead-locked, maximize value creation in agreements you reach, and resolve differences before they escalate into costly conflicts. This program emphasizes an understanding of both analytical tools and interpersonal techniques for dealing effectively with different bargaining styles and tactics.
What you'll LEARN
- Understand negotiation dynamics and how to prepare for uncertainty
- Learn to craft agile strategy and be quick on your feet in changing circumstances
- Resolve small differences before they escalate
- Secure maximum value for your organization and yourself
- Reflect on personal behaviors and refine your approach to be more effective
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Negotiation Mastery Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Apply fundamental data analysis to real business problems.
Business Analytics introduces quantitative methods used to analyze data and make better management decisions. This course is not based on rote memorization of equations or facts, but focuses on honing your understanding of key concepts, your managerial judgment, and your ability to apply course concepts to real business problems.
What you'll LEARN
- Interpret data to inform business decisions
- Recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets
- Analyze relationships between variables
- Develop and test hypotheses
- Craft sound survey questions and draw conclusions from population samples
- Implement regression analysis and other analytical techniques in Excel
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Uncover innovative solutions to your most challenging business problems.
Design Thinking and Innovation equips current and aspiring innovation managers with the design thinking principles and innovative problem-solving tools to solve business challenges and guide their organization’s strategy. The course features five weeks of course content and two weeks of cohort project work, enabling the opportunity to put learning into practice. Participants will walk away with an innovation toolkit of frameworks and exercises for identifying business opportunities and generating possible solutions for their organization’s initiatives.
What you'll LEARN
- Approach problems using structured methods of gathering observations, breaking cognitive fixedness, and generating creative ideas for solutions
- Apply creative solutions and behavior-change analysis to innovation development and internal team processes
- Develop a strategic innovation toolkit and learn when and how to apply design thinking and innovative problem-solving tools and exercises
- Practice empathy in applying a human-centered approach to design techniques, such as user research, user experience, prototyping, and journey mapping
- Assess group dynamics and improve team performance through tools and processes designed to enhance collaboration and iteration in development
- Guide teams to draw from a wide range of professional experiences and backgrounds and create stronger collaboration dynamics to heighten their approach to innovation
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
See the world through the lens of economics and gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy.
Economics for Managers applies fundamental economic principles to real-world business challenges. You will dive into topics like customer demand, supplier cost, markets, and competition. You will learn how businesses think about pricing, production, and differentiation. In the process, you will learn how to develop the beginnings of a competitive strategy that will lead to a business thriving over time.
What you'll LEARN
- Develop effective pricing strategies
- Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis
- Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most
- Understand the power of network effects to drive demand
- Identify sources of competitive advantage through differentiation
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Economics for Managers Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Discover what's behind the numbers in financial statements.
This course will teach you the fundamentals of financial accounting from the ground up. You will learn how to prepare a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, analyze financial statements, and calculate and interpret critical ratios. You will also learn the role of managerial judgment in choosing accounting estimates and methods. The course concludes with an introduction to forecasting and valuation.
What you'll LEARN
- Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed and how each interact
- Evaluate the financial health of a business using financial statements
- Understand GAAP and IFRS standards
- Prepare and evaluate financial forecasts to make strategic decisions
- Value a venture, project, or investment opportunity and perform a sensitivity analysis
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Financial Accounting Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Elevate Your Managerial Approach
Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
What you'll LEARN
- Identify a business opportunity
- Evaluate an idea and assess the market
- Explore the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship
- Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy
- Discover the key financial decisions entrepreneurs must make in the early stages of a startup
- Understand the process of raising capital and how to speak to investors
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Entrepreneurship Essentials Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Gain the knowledge you need to thrive in today's interconnected, global economy.
Global Business will help participants assess opportunities, mitigate risk, and create and capture value for their organization. The course explores the economic, political, and social factors driving change, and participants will learn how decisions affect global markets and their business.
What you'll LEARN
- Build a foundation in macroeconomics to make more informed business decisions
- Identify the challenges and opportunities that government and politics can create for you and your business from a strategic standpoint
- Assess the impact of macroeconomic, political, and social indicators on business decisions
- Discover the short- and long-term impact of interest rates, inflation, trade, and investment
- Learn distinctive approaches and frameworks that help you think about the world and organize information
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Global Business Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Develop digital marketing strategies that reach and retain customers.
Digital Marketing Strategy is an online course that equips professionals with the tools, mindset, and trends to make decisions about digital marketing strategy and tactics, including how to position a product or service for success, acquire and engage customers, and measure both performance of near-term campaigns and longer-term customer value.
What you'll LEARN
- Understand how marketing has evolved and what’s ahead based on real-world insights from brands, agencies, expert practitioners, and faculty
- Define the right objectives, metrics, target audiences, and value proposition to position your product or service for success
- Discover how to acquire and retain customers through paid, owned, and earned media
- Gain frameworks and tools you can apply to your organization’s digital marketing strategy
- Develop approaches for attribution, budget allocation, and calculating customer lifetime value
- Explore customer engagement techniques, including personalization, storytelling, and community building
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
Start thinking like the top strategists.
Business Strategy equips current and aspiring managers and consultants with a simplified framework they can immediately apply to create value for customers, employees, and suppliers while maximizing returns and an organization’s competitive edge. The course features six weeks of content and weekly exercises enabling the opportunity to put learning into practice. Participants will learn how to evaluate trade-offs and align, prioritize, and formulate strategic initiatives for the greatest business impact.
What you'll LEARN
- Assess business opportunities through the lens of value creation
- Apply the value stick, a research-based framework for strategy formulation, to key strategic decisions that companies face today
- Master the language and tools of business strategy to contribute meaningfully to strategic conversations and your team’s success
- Create value for customers, employees, and suppliers, often in surprising ways, that rival companies will find hard to match
- Build sustainable success with the help of complements and network effects
Find out more about the course in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online: Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Enrollment for the course (english language) is possible @ KMU Akademie & Management AG (anmeldung@kmuakademie.ac.at) - please use the registration form.
IN GENERAL
The flexible, online programs are designed to bring the Harvard Business School classroom to you, and are built around three key characteristics:
- Active
- HBS Online courses are nothing like a typical sit-back-and-listen lecture. You’ll engage in a new activity every three to five minutes. Each element is designed to keep you interested, involved, and on your toes.
- Social
- Engaging with your peers is a big part of what makes HBS Online unique. You exchange ideas, offer input,
and seek out viewpoints from a community of learners gathered from around the globe. In the process, you learn from each other’s experiences and perspectives.
- Engaging with your peers is a big part of what makes HBS Online unique. You exchange ideas, offer input,
- Case-Based
- Immerse yourself in real-world learning. Lessons are brought to life through cases, which put you in the shoes of business leaders. Hear firsthand the challenges they faced, and wrestle with the same issues and imperfect information.
Erfahrungsberichte
„Als Masterstudentin der Wirtschaftspsychologie möchte ich Teamdynamiken verstehen und strebe eine Leitungsposition für meine berufliche Zukunft an. Der Kurs "Leadership Principles" hat mir wichtige theoretische Grundlagen zur Führung von Teams vermittelt, aber vor allem mein soziales Verständnis und mein Verantwortungsbewusstsein geschult. Ich möchte mit meinen Kolleginnen und Kollegen Lösungen finden, Ziele erreichen und die individuelle Entwicklung jedes Einzelnen vorantreiben. Durch die facettenreichen Aufgabenstellungen, Short-Clips, grafischen Elemente und den internationalen Austausch mit den anderen Kursteilnehmerinnen und Kursteilnehmern bin ich nicht nur als Führungspersönlichkeit gewachsen, sondern auch als Mensch.“
„Ich habe den von der KMU Akademie in Kooperation mit der Harvard Business School Online angebotenen Kurs "Leadership Principles" erfolgreich absolviert. Von Dezember bis Anfang Februar erhielt ich spannende Einblicke und interessante Sichtweisen auf Themen wie Leadership, Kommunikation und Teamarbeit - für ein starkes und motiviertes Miteinander im Berufsalltag, direkt aus dem internationalen Business. Dieser Online-Kurs hatte interessante Protagonisten, deren Entwicklung fantastisch dargestellt wurde. Der Inhalt des Kurses war in spannenden Videos verpackt, die Zuarbeit ging leicht von der Hand und fühlte sich intuitiv an. Gleichzeitig hatte man die Chance, seine eigene Wahrnehmung auf Situationen und Gefühle zu verbessern und zu intensivieren. Ich bin stolz, dass ich diesen Kurs erfolgreich abschließen konnte. "Leadership Principles" hat sich zielgerichtet und zukunftsorientiert angefühlt. Ich kann diesen Kurs jeder Führungsfachkraft nur ans Herz legen.“