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LSE: MBA Essentials

Build a toolkit of key strategic, managerial, and leadership skills for business.

Build a toolkit of key strategic, managerial, and leadership skills for business.

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10 weeks
8–12 hours per week
Starts Apr 24, 2024
Enroll by Apr 30, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
10 weeks
8–12 hours per week
Starts Apr 24, 2024
Enroll by Apr 30, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

While an MBA trains you to see the business world differently, financial expertise and business acumen, although vital, are not enough to influence your organization’s leadership. These core skills must be paired with strong leadership techniques and an understanding of your strategic environment to be truly effective.

The MBA Essentials online certificate course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is designed to help you understand your strategic environment, master financial details, and drive business success by influencing colleagues and consumers. You’ll be equipped with an essential MBA toolkit as you navigate the contemporary business environment, guided by esteemed LSE faculty.

The LSE MBA Essentials online certificate course arms you with hard and soft business skills to maximize your competitive advantage and lead with influence.

This course is ideal for any professional interested in improving their MBA skills in order to be successful in business. Managers, entrepreneurs, and specialists, including consultants and analysts, will benefit from the interactive, guided approach to learning and the opportunity to grow their global network online. The focus on the mechanics of leadership, influence, and strategy, combined with technical business and finance skills, provides a comprehensive learning experience for professionals in a range of roles and industries. The ability to apply MBA-derived skills to current and future roles will benefit those pursuing career growth, as well as those interested in undertaking a full MBA in the future.

Course curriculum

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Gain MBA-based skills for your contemporary business environment as you follow your learning path through the weekly modules of this online course.

Orientation module : Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Leading with influence

Section I: The Strategic Environment - Module 2: Economics for managers

Module 3: Competitive strategy

Module 4: Corporate strategy

Section II: The Financial Toolkit - Module 5: Financial accounting

Module 6: Management accounting

Module 7: Analysing financial statements

Section III: The Human Element - Module 8: In the mind of the manager

Module 9: Nudging behaviour

Module 10: Organisational culture as a leadership tool

About the certificate

Gain valuable critical-thinking skills and deepen managerial abilities and earn an official certificate of competence from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

Relevancy in 2024

An MBA remains a cornerstone for developing leadership acumen and enhancing professional visibility, equipping graduates with superior communication skills, access to wider career opportunities, valuable networking, elevated earning potential, and advanced business knowledge.

New York Times Magazine (Feb, 2024).

Future-focused

Leaders set to excel in 2024 are those who understand the future isn't just for preparing but for creating.

The Fast Company (Mar, 2024).

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