10 Distance Learning Course Programs in Business in North America for 2024

The Credential of Readiness (CORe) is our primer on the fundamentals of business thinking—a three-course online program designed to prepare you to participate fully in the business world. CORe was developed by HBS faculty members to instill a deep understanding of essential business concepts and problem-solving skills. Mastering the three CORe courses—Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting—will give you fluency in the language of business.

Gain the tools to recognize and react to the economic forces shaping your business.

Develop a data mindset and the analytical skills to interpret and communicate data. Business Analytics is not based on rote memorization of equations or facts but focuses on honing your understanding of key concepts, your managerial judgment, and your ability to apply course concepts to real business problems.

Gain the knowledge and confidence to support the integration of AI into your organization.

You'll learn how to read and write complex queries to a database using one of the most in-demand skills - PostgreSQL. These skills are also applicable to any other major SQL database, such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Oracle, and much more.

Learn data visualization through Tableau 2020 and create opportunities for you or key decision-makers to discover data patterns such as customer purchase behavior, sales trends, or production bottlenecks. You'll learn all of the features in Tableau that allow you to explore, experiment with, fix, prepare, and present data easily, quickly, and beautifully.

Workforce Solutions offers credit and continuing education courses, seminars, workshops, and customized training. Workforce Solutions coordinates and administers workforce and professional development programs designed to meet the needs of industrial, business, governmental, and community organizations.

Architects are seldom trained in business, but often find themselves running small enterprises in a highly competitive environment. This webinar qualifies for a 2 hour certificate of completion, and is tailored to the new professional in architecture.

Build your business analytics skills and learn to manage, wrangle, and analyse data with Excel and SQLite.

The online program will cover the World Business Academy curriculum over two weeks and will be delivered on weekdays in (i) ten live and interactive online group classes and (ii) two one-to-one personalized academic tutorials led by Dr. Gerard Dericks.