Advanced Business Strategy (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-advanced-business-strategy

Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, you'll learn the tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics), industries (corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy), and institutions (non-market strategy). Top-ranked faculty will introduce the tools you need to complete a comprehensive evaluation and understand the strategy dynami

Age of Jefferson (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ageofjefferson

This course provides an overview of Thomas Jefferson's work and perspectives presented by the University of Virginia in partnership with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Together, UVA and Monticello are recognized internationally as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Agile Development (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/agile-development

Offered by University of Virginia. Drive to Value with Agile Methods . Master an adaptive approach to product development

Agile Meets Design Thinking (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-getting-started-agile

Despite everyone's good intentions, hard work and solid ideas, too many teams end up creating products that no one wants, no one can use, and no one buys. But it doesn't have to be this way. Agile and design thinking offer a different--and effective--approach to product development, one that results in valuable solutions to meaningful problems. In this course, you’ll learn how to determine what's valuable to a user early in the process--to frontload value--by focusing your team on testable narra

Artificial Intelligence in Marketing (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-artificial-intelligence-marketing

AI is everywhere! By harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence, businesses and marketers have amazing growth potential, and the opportunities to enhance marketing with AI are always expanding. But how can businesses use AI tools to drive their success and gain sustainable competitive advantages? What are the challenges faced by businesses as they implement AI into their marketing strategies? In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and deli

Aspectos básicos de la planificación y la gestión de proyectos (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-project-management-es

Vivimos rodeados de proyectos. Prácticamente todas las organizaciones dirigen proyectos, ya sea de manera formal o informal.Los tenemos en casa y en el trabajo. A través de determinados parámetros, principios de planificación y metodologías de ejecución, los proyectos se pueden gestionar de forma eficiente y efectiva. La gestión de proyectos ofrece a las organizaciones (y las personas) el lenguaje y los marcos para organizar proyectos, programar actividades, utilizar recursos y minimizar riesgos

Bacterial Bioinformatics (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/informatics

This course provides demonstrations and exercises for performing common genomics-based analysis tasks of bacterial sequence data. It uses BV-BRC, the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (merger of PATRIC, IRD and ViPR, the three former resources), as the platform for analysis. BV-BRC is the NIH/NIAID-funded bacterial Bioinformatics Resource Center, providing comprehensive bacterial genomic data with integrated analysis tools and visualizations. BV-BRC also provides a private work

Bases de la planification et de la gestion de projet (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-project-management-fr

Les projets nous entourent. Pratiquement toutes les organisations gèrent des projets, que ce soit de manière formelle ou informelle. Nous sommes impliqués dans des projets autant chez nous qu’au travail. Les principes de planification et les méthodologies d’exécution de tous les environnements peuvent offrir des moyens permettant d’exécuter les projets plus efficacement. La gestion de projet fournit aux organisations (et aux particuliers) le langage et les cadres nécessaires à la définition de l

Business Growth Strategy (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-business-growth-strategy

Get the tools you need to analyze, evaluate and recommend specific actions organizations can take to grow their value and avoid common growth pitfalls. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, you will learn to determine how best to build value, whether by scaling existing markets, entering established markets or creating new markets through innovation and acquisitions.

Business Strategy (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/business-strategy

Offered by University of Virginia. Steer Your Business to Success. Generate value and demonstrate global impact in four courses.

Business Strategy in Practice (Project-centered Course) (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-business-strategy-capstone

A Capstone Project is an assignment designed specifically to apply and showcase the skills you learned in the Specialization. To this end, the Business Strategy Capstone Project, a comprehensive Strategic Analysis, provides an opportunity for you to synthesize concepts and knowledge from the four prerequisite courses in the specialization. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, you will be guided through your project by top-ranked faculty. You m

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs I (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-coding-for-design-managers-1

Do you want to experience what it is to go from idea to code? If so, this is the place for you! This is the first course in the Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization, which is specifically designed for you, if you’re a hands-on collaborator with developers. In this course, we’re going to focus on going from design to code with HTML & CSS, two core building blocks for pretty much everything on the web. You'll build creative confidence and competence that will make you a

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs II (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-coding-for-design-managers-2

Do you want to experience what it is to go from idea to code? If so, this is the place for you! This is the second course in the Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization. If you’re a hands-on collaborator with developers, this course is specifically designed for you. In this course, we’re going to focus on creating interactive user interfaces (UI’s) with Javascript, building creative confidence and competence that will make you an even better collaborator on digital proje

Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/coding-for-managers

Offered by University of Virginia. Learn coding basics to create digital products.

Continuous Delivery & DevOps (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-continous-delivery-devops

Amazon famously delivers new code every 11.6 seconds. Just a few years ago, this was unthinkable: many ‘cutting edge’ firms would release software quarterly. When it comes to digital innovation, velocity is critical and many would say it’s the most reliable determinant of success. Bringing an organization to the state of the art (or even functional capability) in this area requires strong work in a combination of disciplines and a combination of both technical and managerial skills. There is n

Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-bcg-pricing-strategy-cost-economics

How much should you charge for your products and services? Traditionally, businesses have answered this question based on the cost to produce or provide their goods and services. This course shows you the economic factors behind pricing based on cost and the pros and cons of a cost-based pricing approach. Developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and led by top-ranked Darden faculty and Boston Consulting Group global pricing experts, the course provides the practi

Customer Value in Pricing Strategy (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-bcg-pricing-strategy-customer-value

The traditional approach to pricing based on costs works to pay the bills, but it leaves revenue on the table. You can, in fact, price your products in a way that increases sales--if you know what your customers are willing to pay and can leverage psychology to create better deal and discount plans. In this course, we'll show you how to price a product based on how your customers value it and the psychology behind their purchase decisions. Developed at the Darden School of Business at the Univer

Customer-Centric IT Strategy (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-customer-centric-it-strategy

Now more than ever, corporations are investing heavily in IT. The quality of these investments affect the daily work of millions, yet it’s not uncommon to see industry surveys where the failure rates for IT projects is over 50%. It’s possible to do better and it’s possible to do so consistently. In this two-week course, we’ll step through major challenges within corporate IT and how to address them with the disciplined use of design thinking, Lean Startup, and agile as a team framework. By the

Design Thinking (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/uva-darden-design-thinking

Offered by University of Virginia. Embark On Your Design Journey. Master core competencies and deepen your practice.

Design Thinking for Innovation (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-innovation

Today innovation is everyone's business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. And that is why we all need design thinking. At every level in every kind of organization, design thinking provides the tools you need to become an innovative thinker and uncover creative opportunities that are there – you're just not seeing them yet. In this

Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-social-sector

Do you work for a nonprofit or in the social sector? Are you struggling to solve the problems and meet the needs of the people you serve? Come learn more about how design thinking, a human-centered approach to problem solving, can help you truly understand an issue, generate ideas worth testing and iterate to find solutions that make a real difference. Through global stories from areas as diverse as government, health care, and education, we’ll show you the tools, techniques and mindset needed t

Design Thinking para Inovação (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-innovation-pt

Hoje em dia, a inovação é um negócio de todos. Se você for um gerente em uma corporação global, um empreendedor iniciando em uma função governamental ou um professor em uma escola primária, espera-se que todos sejam enxutos – para fazer melhor com menos. É por isso que todos nós precisamos de design thinking (pensamento criativo). Em todos os níveis em todos os tipos de organização, o design thinking fornece as ferramentas necessárias para se tornar um pensador inovador e descobrir as oportunida

Design Thinking: Discovery Tools (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-discovery-tools

Welcome Designers! In this course, you will learn to use the most important tools from the field of human-centered design to generate ideas: stakeholder mapping, journey mapping, personas, value-chain analysis, the job-to-be-done, ethnographic interviews, and more. Learn to connect with your customers on a human level, to get beyond what they say and observe what they do. Developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, the courses sees a team of design experts join Je

Design Thinking: Insights to Inspiration (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-insights-to-inspiration

Welcome Designers! In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, we will introduce you to the design thinking process. It is a project-based course in which you will identify a human-centered problem that you want to solve. We will focus our attention on the first seven steps of our 14-Step design thinking process. We’ll guide you through crafting and carrying out a research plan that helps you answer the question, “What is?” You will gather and iden

Digital Business Strategy (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-digital-business-strategy

Develop your ability to design and implement strategies that will help your company prosper in the digital age. In this course, developed by the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Professor Mike Lenox will help you understand the critical function of strategic thinking in the digital age, the role of data and analytics in creating value, the challenge of establishing a dominant platform, the impact of digital technologies on competition, and the importance of appropriating

Digital Product Management (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/uva-darden-digital-product-management

Offered by University of Virginia. Implement a modern approach to product management. Master the fundamentals that create great teams and ...

Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-digital-product-management

Not so long ago, the job of product manager was about assessing market data, creating requirements, and managing the hand-off to sales/marketing. Maybe you’d talk to a customer somewhere in there and they’d tell you what features they wanted. But companies that manage product that way are dying. Being a product person today is a new game, and product managers are at the center of it. Today, particularly if your product is mostly digital, you might update it several times a day. Massive troves o

Digital Transformation (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/bcg-uva-darden-digital-transformation

Digital transformation is a hot topic--but what exactly is it and what does it mean for companies? In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and led by top-ranked Darden faculty and Boston Consulting Group global management experts, we talk about digital transformation in two ways. First we discuss the pace of change and the imperative it creates for businesses. Next we provide the context for this transformation and what it takes to win in the dig

Entrepreneurship: Growing Your Business (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/entrepreneurship-growing-your-business

Offered by University of Virginia.

Ethical Leadership Through Giving Voice to Values (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-giving-voice-to-values

This course offers an action-oriented introduction to Giving Voice to Values (or GVV), an exciting new approach to values-driven leadership development in the workplace, in business education and in life. GVV is not about persuading people to be more ethical, but instead it starts from the premise that most of us already want to act on our values, but that we also want to feel that we have a reasonable chance of doing so effectively. Through positive, real life examples, pre-scripting, rehears

Experiencing Design: Deepening Your Design Thinking Practice (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-experiencing-design

How do we unlock the transformational power of design thinking? To do this, we must understand that this power lies not in what it encourages us to do, but in who it encourages us to become. We become design thinkers by experiencing design. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, we will guide you through six key phases of the design journey - Immersion, Sensemaking, Alignment, Emergence, Imagining, and Learning in Action. For each of these pha

Financial Accounting Fundamentals (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-financial-accounting

This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, will teach you the tools you'll need to understand the fundamentals of financial accounting. Concise videos, the financial records of a small business, and "your turn" activities guide you through the three most commonly used financial statements: the Balance Sheet, the Income Statement, and the Statement of Cash Flows. Beyond recording transactions, you'll learn how to prepare

Foundations of Business Strategy (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-foundations-business-strategy

Develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend firm positioning and value creation. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, top-ranked faculty will help you explore the underlying theory and frameworks that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy and provide the tools you need to understand that strategy: SWOT, Competitor, Environmental, Five Forces, and Capabilities Analyses, as

Foundations of Diversity and Inclusion at Work TeachOut (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/foundations-of-diversity-and-inclusion-at-work-teachout

The summer of 2020 has brought issues of equity and race to the forefront of society. How do we create tolerant and just climates at work? Changing the culture of an organization is challenging in the best of circumstances; today, it can seem impossible. Yet, it is more necessary and urgent than ever to address these issues thoughtfully and with effective practices that can produce real change. Six Darden professors have designed this teach-out to bring you the latest scholarship and best pract

Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-project-management

Projects are all around us. Virtually every organization runs projects, either formally or informally. We are engaged in projects at home and at work. Across settings, planning principles and execution methodologies can offer ways in which projects can be run more effectively and efficiently. Project management provides organizations (and individuals) with the language and the frameworks for scoping projects, sequencing activities, utilizing resources, and minimizing risks. This is an introduct

Gestão de produtos digitais: Princípios básicos modernos (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-digital-product-management-pt

Há pouco tempo, o trabalho do gerente de produto era avaliar dados de mercado, criar requisitos e gerenciar a transferência para vendas/marketing. Talvez você conversaria com um cliente em algum lugar e ele diria quais recursos ele quer. Mas as empresas que gerenciam produtos dessa maneira estão morrendo. Ser uma pessoa de produto hoje é um jogo novo, e os gerentes de produto estão no centro disso. Hoje, especialmente se o seu produto for principalmente digital, você pode atualizá-lo várias vez

Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part I (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-smart-growth-strategy-1

This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, focuses on challenges faced by existing private businesses when they attempt to grow substantially.

Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part II (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-smart-growth-strategy-2

This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, focuses on the common human resource ("people") challenges faced by existing private businesses when they attempt to grow substantially. PART 1 OF THE GROW TO GREATNESS COURSE IS NOT A PREREQUISITE FOR TAKING THIS COURSE.

How Things Work: An Introduction to Physics (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/how-things-work

An introduction to physics in the context of everyday objects.

Hypothesis-Driven Development (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-agile-testing

To deliver agile outcomes, you have to do more than implement agile processes- you have to create focus around what matters to your user and constantly test your ideas. This is easier said than done, but most of today’s high-functioning innovators have a strong culture of experimentation. In this course, you’ll learn how to identify the right questions at the right time, and pair them with the right methods to do just enough testing to make sure you minimize waste and maximize the outcomes you

Innovating with the Business Model Canvas (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-innovation-business-model-canvas

Have you ever gotten really excited about reading or writing a business plan? You might have started out excited, but I’m going to bet you didn’t stay that way. Let’s be honest- business plans are boring and mostly ignored. The beauty of the one-page Business Model Canvas is that it drives meaningful focus. It helps us organize our ideas and have better discussions by forcing specificity and bringing linkages between key business drivers to the foreground. Innovation requires one hand being ve

Introduction to Personal Branding (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/personal-branding

Though the concept of personal branding isn't new, questions remain about how to create one and, more importantly, what it means to maintain and inhabit that brand. Learners will: o Understand both what personal branding means and what it means to inhabit their brand o Establish themselves on at least three social media platforms o Create a mission statement for their personal brand o Build a board of directors for their brand o Become familiar with the basics of digital security and reputat

Leading the Modern Day Business (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/leading-modern-day-business

Managerial Accounting Fundamentals (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-managerial-accounting

This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, will teach you the fundamentals of managerial accounting including how to navigate the financial and related information managers need to help them make decisions. You'll learn about cost behavior and cost allocation systems, how to conduct cost-volume-profit analysis, and how to determine if costs and benefits are relevant to your decisions. By the end of this course, you wi

Managing an Agile Team (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-agile-team-management

While agile has become the de facto standard for managing digital innovation teams, many wonder if they’re doing it ‘right’. Twitter is full of jokes about how teams say they do agile but don’t ‘really’ do it. The reality is that getting the most out of agile is less about observing specific procedures and more about how a team focuses and measures their progress. Rather than just boring you with an accounting of agile methodologies, this course focuses on helping you better charter your team’

Market and Competition in Pricing Strategy (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-bcg-pricing-strategy-market-competition

If you haven’t considered what the competition is charging, you may not be maximizing your revenue. Spend time analyzing the market and you can influence price and improve margins. In this course, we'll show you how to implement competitive pricing and avoid common legal pitfalls of market-based pricing. You will also learn how to predict, influence and respond to competitors’ pricing moves. Developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and led by top-ranked Darden fa

New Models of Business in Society (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-business-society

In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, we will be discussing the emergence of a new story about business. This new story locates business within a societal framework. Almost every business creates or destroys value for customers, suppliers, employees, communities and society, in addition to shareholders and other financiers. A number of new models of business can be built on this idea such as corporate responsibi

Patrick Henry: Forgotten Founder (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/henry

“Give me liberty, or give me death:” Remembering Patrick Henry, the Forgotten Founder Patrick Henry was enormously popular during the American Revolution. Even Thomas Jefferson, who over time developed a deep loathing of Henry (some would say jealousy), had to admit that “it is not now easy to say what we should have done without Patrick Henry.” Edmund Randolph, a patriot leader in his own right, explained that “It was Patrick Henry … awakening the genius of his country, and binding a band of

Pensamiento de diseño para la innovación (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-innovation-es

Hoy en día la innovación es el negocio de todos. Ya sea un gerente en una corporación global, un emprendedor que está comenzando, que esté en un puesto gubernamental o un maestro en una escuela primaria, se espera que todos se vuelvan austeros, para hacerlo mejor con menos. Y ese es el motivo por el que todos necesitamos el pensamiento de diseño. A cualquier nivel en todo tipo de organización, el pensamiento de diseño brinda las herramientas que usted necesita para transformarse en un pensador i

Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/historical-fiction

A unique and exciting introduction to the genre and craft of historical fiction, for curious students, aspiring authors--anyone with a passion for the past. Read classics of the genre, encounter bestselling writers of historical fiction, and discover your own historical archive while interacting with a global community of interested readers.