Finance & Business Acumen

Financial Data Analysis for Leaders is a distinctive business finance course geared towards non-finance professionals who aspire to understand and leverage financial analysis, cost management, and profitability ratios to create more value for their organizations. This enlightening program provides enormous benefits to anyone looking to acquire fluency in corporate finance or to deepen their knowledge and expertise in the area of financial analysis.

Through this powerful financial analysis course, your financial literacy will go well beyond the basic understanding of financial statements. You’ll also acquire a broad range of financial tools and skills that elevate you as a highly sought-after—and multi-dimensional—business leader. The robust and intensive curriculum of this unique training is designed to help you expand your leadership capabilities by applying critical analysis of financial data.


Key Takeaways

Master the Language of Finance: Understand the building blocks of corporate financial reporting, how to interpret and analyze financial statements, and how data mining is used in business settings.

Identify and Create New Value for Your Company: Learn how to leverage financial data to identify and capture key drivers of value creation for your business and link performance measures to corporate and business unit strategy.

Build Credibility & Contribute as a Non-Finance Professional: Confidently apply your newfound financial analysis proficiency to measure and manage costs, gain key financial insights like profitability and growth potential, and inform operational and strategic decision-making.

Our Corporate Business Model Innovation program is focused on helping forward-thinking leaders like you discover and launch new business model innovations that capture and drive differentiated competitive value for their organizations. Through an in-depth exploration of modern innovation frameworks and models, you will acquire new techniques to transform your innovation challenges into opportunities to design, evaluate, and scale new business models.

Transcending generalities, this future-focused corporate innovation program goes deep to fundamentally change how you regard and approach innovation. By embracing a Lean Startup mindset, acquiring new skills and perspectives in idea and innovation management, and sharpening your ability to think creatively and critically, you’ll advance your skills as a modern innovator and increase confidence in your ability to successfully deploy innovative business ideas despite any inevitable barriers.


Key Takeaways

Understand and Master New Innovation Concepts: Explore emerging concepts in business model innovation including corporate innovation strategies, Open Innovation, innovative technology, and employing Lean Startup models in the corporate environment.

Discover and Deploy Innovative Business Models: Capitalize on your new innovation mindset by identifying your current business model’s strengths and weaknesses, exposing new opportunities, and validating potentially successful new innovations.

Overcome Common Roadblocks of Complex Change Management: Align company strategy and lean methodologies, restructure your teams, make new powerful connections, overcome internal “innovation killers”, and transform your innovation incubators to get breakthrough products to market faster.

Whether you’re an executive leading corporate M&A or business development, an entrepreneur looking for funding, an asset manager, an economic development official, or an aspiring Venture Capitalist—the Venture Capital Executive Program gives you unprecedented access to Silicon Valley, the world of global venture capital, and an extraordinary opportunity to gain an inside perspective.

As a participant of this venture capital course, you’ll learn exactly what investors are looking for as well as how to build a foundation of investing principles, select and secure VC deals, create a comprehensive investment strategy, uncover pathways for angel investing and crowdfunding, master the VC deal structure, and capture greater value. No matter your background or goal, this comprehensive venture capital training will provide you with the knowledge to skillfully navigate the venture capital world so

Key Takeaways

Discover the Inside Dynamics of VC Funds: Understand what motivates VCs, learn how venture capital reward systems work, and explore investing perspectives advantageous to fast-changing industries and recognizing emerging opportunities.

Master the Art and Science of a VC-Quality Deal: Learn how to identify Startups with a high probability of success, what entrepreneurs can do to optimize their returns, and the ins and outs of the VC investing cycle—from valuation and deal structuring to corporate governance and harvesting investments.

Gain Access to a Powerful Industry Network: Take advantage of an extraordinary opportunity to join and network with a distinctive cohort of professionals who are the connectors and innovators within the VC investing and private equity industry.