Business Plan Courses

Introduction to the Music Business

10 ratings

Learn the latest about the rapidly changing music industry from recording, publishing, and distribution to legal issues confronting music commerce.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Science and Business of Biotechnology

16 ratings at edX

Explore the latest scientific innovations in biotechnology, and novel business and financing models for commercializing them.

• edX
• 16 weeks, 10-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Business and Impact Planning for Social Enterprises

Are you a social entrepreneur looking to refine your mission and scale your impact? Learn how to articulate your impact goals, theory of change, and plans to scale with a global community through this

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Dynamic Leadership: Using Improvisation in Business

Practice introductory and advanced improvisation exercises, then apply improv techniques to business situations to sharpen leadership skills.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans

Learn to prepare and pitch a new venture plan, covering venture idea refinement, marketing and sales, business models, financing sources, financial projections, and legal issues.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Inferential and Predictive Statistics for Business

880 ratings at Coursera

Test business claims with hypothesis testing, compare two populations, and build simple and multiple linear regression models in Excel to predict outcomes and interpret results.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making

1037 ratings at Coursera

Summarize data in graphical, tabular, and numerical forms, then apply sampling, the Central Limit Theorem, normal distributions, and confidence intervals to business data in Excel.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Music Business Foundations

6 ratings

Learn how the music business works: industry history and trends, recording agreements, royalties and 360 deals, copyright registration and infringement, and contracts with managers, agents, and attorneys.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The business of football

7 ratings

This free course, The business of football, was produced by The Open University working in partnership with The English Football League Trust. If you are fascinated by men's and women's football ...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Biotech — From Science to Business

8 ratings

Bridge the lab and the market: assess the commercial potential of biotech discoveries, define a business model, and take the first steps toward founding a startup.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Lesson | Business English Skills: How to Navigate Tone, Formality, and Directness in Emails

274 ratings at Coursera

Distinguish formal from informal and direct from indirect English, and choose the right email tone for your recipient, context, and request.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Business English: Meetings

1128 ratings at Coursera

This course will teach you vocabulary and skills related to participating in meetings.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Infonomics I: Business Information Economics and Data Monetization

121 ratings at Coursera

Treat information as a business asset, not an IT byproduct: apply micro-economic concepts, monetization methods, and analytics styles through cases from Walmart, Trulia, and DBS Bank.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Federal Taxation II: Property Transactions of Business Owners and Shareholders

200 ratings at Coursera

Calculate depreciation, amortization, and depletion under MACRS, determine realized versus recognized gains and losses, and apply like-kind exchange, recapture, and Section 1231 netting rules.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Accounting for Business Decision Making: Measurement and Operational Decisions

190 ratings at Coursera

Learn how cost information is created and organized for operational decisions: cost concepts, cost-volume-profit analysis, product profitability, pricing, and managing operations and sales.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course