A well-crafted business plan serves as a roadmap to sell your ideas and guide growth, while effective budgeting ensures those plans remain sustainable.
Boost Your Business Skills
Boost Your Business Skills
This course is part of Leadership for Everyone Specialization
Instructor: Harvard Business Review
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
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What you'll learn
Develop a clear, comprehensive business plan.
Describe a new opportunity, including plans related to marketing, operations, and financial projections.
Create operating budgets and capital outlay budgets that support organizational strategic objectives.
Analyze budget variances and perform sensitivity analysis to optimize financial planning an[1][2]d control.
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There are 3 modules in this course
A business plan takes the abstract goals of an organization or team and makes them concrete and actionable. Learn how to create a living document that will showcase an opportunity or idea and outline how your organization can make it a reality.
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11 videos32 readings1 assignment
Budgeting isn’t just for finance teams. Each decision a manager makes needs to take into account the resources that are available to them. Learning to budget ensures you can allocate resources wisely, communicate financial expectations, and keep teams on track with their budgets.
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12 videos34 readings1 assignment
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