
MicroMasters® Program in Business Management
Master the essentials of managing a successful business
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MS Narasimhan
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Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
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Marijn Janssen

Claudia Werker

Scott Cunningham
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Daniel Wolfenzon
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Douglas Arner

Janos Barberis

Huy Nguyen Trieu

Ross Buckley
About this course
This course is part of the Healthcare Administration MicroMasters program which consists of 7 courses and a capstone exam. After completing the program, you can also apply to Doane University to complete your MBA online for approximately $10,500 (learn more about the program here).
In order to be a leader/administrator in the healthcare industry, you must have a basic understanding of healthcare finance, risk, legal and regulatory issues in order to navigate and change the system. Managing risk is one of the primary responsibilities of a leader. This requires a basic understanding of the financial health and regulatory constraints one operates within to anticipate and address changing dynamics.
This course will focus on healthcare economics and finance to help you articulate new approaches to managing costs and improving access, quality and safety. You will learn how to assess the fiscal status of a healthcare organization. Strategic planning, marketing, quality assurance and risk management initiatives for healthcare organizations will also be explored.
What you’ll learn
- How to evaluate the relevance of economics in all aspects of healthcare.
- How to analyze economic concepts and models as they apply to healthcare.
- How to identify the diverse aspects of healthcare financing.
- How to assess economic problems in order to develop and implement economic policy.
- How to evaluate the economic advantages and policy options of healthcare market reform.

MicroMasters® in Healthcare Administration
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
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Jody Woodworth
About this course
This economics and finance course is an introductory survey of risk management concepts and techniques. Learners will review the role of risk regulation in financial markets, and learn how to identify and describe the various types of financial risk and their sources.
Upon completion of this course, participants will receive a certificate bearing the New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) name. A NYIF certificate is a valuable addition to your credentials, proving that you have acquired the work-ready skills that employer’s value.
For those who wish to go further, students can enroll in the other four modules to earn the complete Risk Management Professional Certificate, backed by the New York Institute of Finance’s 93-year history. As a final option, students may also opt to sit for the NYIF Certificate of Mastery Exam, resulting in the Risk Management Certificate of Mastery upon successful completion.
What you’ll learn
- Differentiate between financial risks and business risks.
- Identify and describe the various types of financial risk and their sources.
- Identity the real-world violations of the ‘standard model’ assumptions that make risk management value enhancing to the firm.
- Differentiate between risk measurement and risk management.
- Describe systemic risk as a negative externality.
- Describe the US regulatory structure.
Prerequisites
- Basic MS Excel skills
- Basic probability and statistics
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Anton Theunissen
About this course
This course begins with an understanding of the various ways a project can originate and then dives deep into the concept of feasibility studies. You’ll review a few financing models and then look at the participants in a project finance deal and understand their motivations.
You’ll learn about lenders, who are one of the most important participants in any deal, and get familiarized with their areas of concerns.
This course is part of the New York Institute of Finance’s popular Project Finance and the Public Private Partnership Professional Certificate program.
What you’ll learn
- Recognize how certain business needs and objectives can be efficiently satisfied with a particular type of project structure.
- Identify the role of various project participants in constructing financial models.
- List key design features and required projections of robust and credible financial models.
- Recognize the concerns of different types of lenders during each project phase.
- Identify the different hedging products available for managing common project risks in developed and emerging markets.
- Lesson 1: The Beginning of Project Finance
- Lesson 2: Feasibility Study
- Lesson 3: Financing Models
- Lesson 4: Participants and Motivations
- Lesson 5: Lenders
- Lesson 6: Hedging of Risks
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Jeff Hooke
About this course
The Alaska Oil Pipeline is one example of a massive public private partnership. Learn how project finance principles and concepts are used in this deal and others, as well as how the legal and operating environment and customer segments impact these partnerships.
In addition to the Alaska Oil Pipeline, we’ll review other major PPPs including Eurotunnel, San Roque Hydroelectric Dam, Euro Disneyland, Albania Cell Phone, and Emirates Aluminum. You’ll also learn about the lender checklist and go over a case study in the United States before wrapping up this course.
This course is part of the New York Institute of Finance’s popular Project Finance and the Public Private Partnerships Professional Certificate program.
What you’ll learn
- Recognize the different ways to classify projects by deal structure and customer type.
- Recognize the distinct legal and operating environments that determine project structures in different countries.
- Identify the key operational and contractual risks that affect a project’s financial feasibility.
- Recognize the safeguards that go into a Lender’s checklist for the financing of a project.

Professional Certificate in Project Finance and Public Private Partnerships
Gain a set of job-ready skills from Wall Street professionals
Prerequisites
Knowledge of corporate finance and basic credit analysis.
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Jeff Hooke
Program overview
Business knowledge is in high demand in every area of work. From high-tech start-ups to non-profits, organizations are looking to leverage best practices from the business world to achieve their objectives. That’s why the MBA is widely recognized as a career accelerator, regardless of the industry you’re in.
With the MicroMasters program in MBA Core Curriculum, you will develop business insights and learn to lead others to achieve strategic goals. You’ll learn the different functional areas of a firm, how each area defines success, and how the functions work together to create success in the marketplace. You will be able to build and lead successful teams, influence others, and deliver high-quality outcomes on time and within budget.
The MicroMasters program in MBA Core Curriculum has also been designed to grow your professional and social networks. We will help you find people like yourself, both in your region and around the world, who are looking to advance their careers. In addition to facilitated discussions in your classes, you will be encouraged to interact with colleagues in real time by forming small study groups, holding virtual coffee hours, and discussing current articles and trends in business.
Are you ready? Turbocharge your career with the MicroMasters program in MBA Core Curriculum from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
What you will learn
- Devise the right marketing strategy for your idea or firm
- Use the vast information available in the world today to gain insight, create a competitive edge, and avoid being tomorrow’s data breach headline
- Evaluate corporate investment opportunities to drive shareholder value
- Use the language of business to communicate financial information to investors, shareholders, creditors, and regulators
- Interact with those in the “C” suite, speaking their language and making your case for your ideas
- Lead a team of people and use your influence to achieve strategic goals
- Create the right strategy for your firm to gain a competitive advantage over others in your market space, domestically and globally
Program Class List
1Marketing Management
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2Leadership and Influence
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3Financial Accounting
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4Data Analysis for Decision Making
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5Global Business Strategy
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6Digital Transformation in Business
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7Corporate Finance
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Ritu Agarwal

Kathryn Bartol

Progyan Basu

Margrét Bjarnadóttir

Gilad Chen

Nicole Coomber

Michael Faulkender

Trevor Foulk

Judy Frels

David Godes

Anandasivam Gopal

Anil Gupta

Rebecca Hann

P.K. Kannan

Michael Kimbrough

Henry Lucas

Wendy Moe

Neta Moye

Myeong-Gu Seo

Nick Seybert

Subra Tangirala

Susan White
About this course
Firms such as Apple, Alibaba, Facebook, SalesForce, Uber and Yelp operate platform ecosystems that match buyers and sellers, gain value and market share from network effects, and harness their users to innovate.
This course teaches you how to convert products to platforms and how to innovate in a platform environment. You will learn how to negotiate platform startup, convert existing products to platforms, and make vital decisions on issues of openness, cannibalization, and competition.
Learners in this course will solve real-life problems using concepts from two sided networks, information asymmetry, pricing, intellectual property, and game theory.
The instructor for this course literally wrote the book on the topic: “Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—and How to Make Them Work for You.”
This course is part of both the Digital Leadership and Product Management MicroMasters® programs.
What you’ll learn
- How to successfully launch and design a business platform
- Why platform firms beat product firms and how the structure of platform firms is fundamentally different
- Why traditional platform pricing models fail and how to choose a successful pricing model
- How to compete in winner-take-all network markets.
Prerequisites
- Secondary school (high school) algebra; basic mathematics concepts
- A willingness to explore economics
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
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