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.

Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Business Modeling, Design Thinking, Innovation, Ideation, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Customer Insights, Market Opportunities, Product Management, Creativity, Product Strategy, Value Propositions, Fundraising
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Star Schema, Data Warehousing, Looker (Software), Database Design, Data Mart, Data Modeling, Business Intelligence, Extract, Transform, Load, Data Integrity, Data Transformation, Performance Tuning, Performance Analysis
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Pennsylvania
Skills you'll gain: Human Capital, Employee Retention, Workforce Development, Human Resource Strategy, Employee Training, Talent Management, Organizational Strategy, Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management and Planning, Management Training And Development, Job Evaluation, Workforce Management, Compensation Management, Employee Performance Management, Recruitment, Recruitment Strategies
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Presentations, User Flows, HTML and CSS, Application Deployment, Frontend Performance
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Tax Planning, Corporate Tax, Tax Management, Income Tax, Tax Laws, Sales Tax, Tax Compliance, Property and Real Estate, Case Law
Build toward a degree
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Skills you'll gain: Peer Review, Event Marketing, Brand Marketing, Brand Management, Business Development, Proposal Development, Event Management, Drive Engagement, Business Planning, Program Implementation, Case Studies, Advertising Sales, Stakeholder Management, Social Impact, Employee Engagement
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Web Analytics and SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Content Marketing, Web Analytics, Blogs, Search Engine Marketing, Content Creation, Marketing Strategy and Techniques, Digital Marketing, Growth Strategies, Content Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Market Research
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Mitigation, Risk Modeling, Analysis, Personally Identifiable Information, Accountability, Model Evaluation
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Facebook, Advertising Campaigns, Account Management, Advertising, Social Media Management, Digital Advertising, User Accounts, Social Media, Social Media Marketing
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Systems Thinking, Creative Thinking, Innovation, Systems Analysis, Complex Problem Solving, Analysis, Business Systems Analysis, Strategic Thinking, Critical Thinking, Organizational Change, Decision Making, Collaboration, Data Visualization
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Maryland, College Park
Skills you'll gain: Search Engine Marketing, Pay Per Click Advertising, Marketing Analytics, Search Engine Optimization, Web Analytics, Web Analytics and SEO, Online Advertising, Model Evaluation, Digital Marketing, Apache Hadoop, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Digital Advertising, Return On Investment, A/B Testing, Machine Learning Methods, Advertising, Analytics, Social Media Strategy, Marketing Automation, Predictive Modeling
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months