Business fundamentals courses can help you learn financial analysis, marketing strategies, operations management, and organizational behavior. You can build skills in effective communication, critical thinking, and strategic planning. Many courses introduce tools like Excel for data analysis, CRM software for customer management, and project management platforms to streamline workflows, showing how these skills apply in real business environments.

Duke University
Skills you'll gain: Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG), Sustainable Business, Corporate Sustainability, Business Ethics, Sustainable Development, Governance, Advocacy, Sustainability Reporting, Environmental Resource Management, Corporate Strategy, Diversity and Inclusion, Climate Change Adaptation
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Michigan
Skills you'll gain: Management Training And Development, Employee Engagement, Workforce Management, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Organizational Effectiveness, Workplace inclusivity, Employee Training, Business Research, Research Methodologies, Case Studies, Program Evaluation
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Business Process Automation, Generative AI Agents, Generative AI, Automation, Performance Measurement, No-Code Development, Responsible AI, Process Optimization, Business Workflow Analysis, MLOps (Machine Learning Operations), System Monitoring, Scalability, Performance Analysis, Performance Management
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Management Accounting, Fund Accounting, Operations Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Statement Analysis, Credit Risk, Marketing, Risk Management, Machine Learning Algorithms, Business Strategy, Revenue Recognition, Financial Auditing, Variance Analysis, Entrepreneurship, Data Governance, Generative AI, Financial Market, Supply And Demand, Sustainable Business
Earn a degree
Degree · 1 - 4 Years

University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Application Security, Data Security, Firewall, Cyber Attacks, Data Encryption Standard, Penetration Testing, Network Security, Information Assurance, Encryption, Risk Management Framework, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Vulnerability Scanning, Information Systems Security, Secure Coding, Security Controls, Exploitation techniques
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

University of Glasgow
Skills you'll gain: Organizational Change
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Unsupervised Learning, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Supervised Learning, Machine Learning, Data Processing, Feature Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Cleansing, Deep Learning, Statistical Analysis, Predictive Modeling, Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Regression Analysis
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: File Management, Control Panels, Productivity Software, Software Installation, Microsoft Windows, Organizational Skills, Office Procedures, Microsoft Office, Computer Literacy, Operational Efficiency
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Excel Macros, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Prompt Engineering, Data Storytelling, Performance Measurement, Regression Analysis, Business Metrics, Continuous Improvement Process, Performance Analysis, Business Process Improvement, Performance Improvement, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Responsible AI, ChatGPT, Microsoft Excel, Generative AI, Data Visualization, Business Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Business Intelligence
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Product Roadmaps, Agile Project Management, Business Analysis, Stakeholder Engagement, Requirements Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Communications, Project Scoping, Project Management, Project Planning, Kanban Principles, Continuous Improvement Process
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Amazon Web Services
Skills you'll gain: Data-Driven Decision-Making, Data Lakes, Analytics, Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data Management, Data Analysis, Big Data, Business Analytics, Data Storage, Amazon Web Services, Machine Learning, Data Strategy
Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Large Language Modeling, LLM Application, Trend Analysis, Real Time Data, Analytics, OpenAI, Business Marketing, Program Development, Business Strategy, Generative AI, ChatGPT, Technology Roadmaps, Market Trend, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), MarTech, Artificial Neural Networks, Content Marketing, Customer experience improvement
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks