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The start of a new school year may have you thinking about your own education, and whether you're lacking in any area suited to your career.
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Maybe you have entrepreneurial aspirations but are lacking a financial background. Or maybe you realize that after years as a professional you still don't know how to best manage your finances.
Whatever your situation, there are plenty of excellent free online courses available this fall. We've gathered some of the best below:
What you'll learn: How to analyze and improve business processes by studying approaches like lean operations, Six Sigma, and the Toyota production system.
What you'll learn: Wharton has one of the highest-ranked marketing departments in the world. This course is broken into three parts: branding, customer centricity, and fundamental marketing strategies.
Cyclists pass through Stanford's Main Quad.
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What you'll learn: The basics of starting a company that will give investors the essential "fear of missing out" that will make them want to invest in you.
What you'll learn: How businesses are finding ways to grow while limiting their effect on the environment and providing fair wages to outsourced labor.
What you'll learn: This is the course to take if you need to build up your financial vocabulary and basic understanding of the relationship between companies and investors in capital markets.
What you'll learn: This is a comprehensive look at how to dominate negotiations. Learn things like your reservation price and stretch goal, psychological techniques to avoid getting trapped, and the four essential contract law questions you need to ask.
A Google employee at the corporate offices.
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What you'll learn: Think of this as an extensive Google case study, learning how the media, politicians, marketers, and technologists work with the tech industry along the way.
What you'll learn: How to develop an onboarding plan that will allow you to quickly begin making an influence after transitioning to a new job. It also covers techniques that you can use to rise up the corporate hierarchy.
