Which HBS Online Business Essentials

Program Is Right for You?

Start by selecting your career level, then use the prompts on the left to progress through the chart.

College Student
I aspire to explore the world of business and launch my career
I want to learn about business broadly and validate my learning with a final exam
My goal is to achieve fluency in the language of business and gain a strong foundation in analytics, financial accounting, and economics
Your ideal course or program is Business Essentials
I want to build a specific business skill to lay the groundwork for my career
Senior
College Early
My goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals to business decisions

management
Your ideal course or program is Business Analytics

Mid-career
My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential

career
student
Your ideal course or program is Financial Accounting
My goal is to understand how firms compete in the market to craft successful business strategy
Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers or executive


I aspire to prepare for an MBA program level
I want to learn about business broadly and validate my learning with a final exam
My goal is to achieve fluency in the language of business and gain a strong foundation in analytics, financial accounting, and economics
Your ideal course or program is Business Essentials
I want to hone my business skill set by focusing on a specific topic
My goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals to business decisions
Your ideal course or program is Business Analytics
My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential
Your ideal course or program is Financial Accounting
My goal is to understand how firms compete in the market to craft successful business strategy
I aspire to... Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers

Early Career
I aspire to explore the world of business and launch my career
Level up or refresh my
Explore the world of
I want to learn about business broadly and validate my learning with a final exam
Prepare for an
My goal is to achieve fluency in the language of business and gain a strong foundation in analytics, financial accounting, and economics analytics, financial
business and launch

Your ideal course or program is Business Essentials
I want to build a specific business skill to lay the groundwork for my careerMBA program accounting, or
my careerMy goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals to business decisions
economics skills
Your ideal course or program is Business Analytics
My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential
Your ideal course or program is Financial Accounting
My goal is to understand how firms compete in the market to craft successful business strategy
Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers

I aspire to prepare for an MBA program

I want to learn about business broadly and validate my learning with a final exam

I want to...
My goal is to achieve fluency in the language of business and gain a strong foundation in analytics, financial accounting, and economics
Your ideal course or program is Business Essentials
I want to hone my business skill set by focusing on a specific topic
My goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals to business decisions
Your ideal course or program is Business Analytics
My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential
Your ideal course or program is Financial Accounting
My goal is to understand how firms compete in the market to craft successful business strategy
Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers
Learn about business Build a specific business Hone my business skill
myskill set by focusing on a specific topic skill to lay the groundwork
I aspire to level up or refresh my analytics, financial accounting, or economics skills
broadly and
I want validate
to hone my business set by focusing on a
My goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals tofor my career specific topic
learning with a final exam
Your ideal course or program is Business Analytics
business decisions

My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential
Your ideal course or program is Financial Accounting
My goal is to understand how firms compete in the market to craft successful business strategy
Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers

Mid-Career
I aspire to prepare for an MBA program

My goal is to...
I want to learn about business broadly and validate my learning with a final exam
My goal is to achieve fluency in the language of business and gain a strong foundation in analytics, financial accounting, and economics
Your ideal course or program is Business Essentials
I want to hone my business skill set by focusing on a specific topic
My goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals to business decisions
Your ideal course or program is Business Analytics
My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential
Your ideal course or program is Financial Accounting
Achieve fluency in the My goal is to understand how firms compete in the market to craft successful business strategy
Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers Interpret financial
language of business and
I aspire to level up or refresh my analytics, financial accounting, or economics skills statements to unlock
gain a strong foundation inbusiness skill set by focusing on a specific topic
My goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals to business decisionscritical insights into
I want to hone my
analytics, financial Your ideal course or program is Business Analytics
business performance
accounting, and economics My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential
Your ideal course or program is Financial Accounting and potential
My goal is to understand how firms compete in the market to craft successful business strategy
Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers

Senior Management or executive level

I aspire to level up or refresh my analytics, financial accounting, or economics skills
I want to hone my business skill set by focusing on a specific topic
My goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals to business decisions
Your ideal course or program is Business Analytics
My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential
Become data-literate by
Your ideal course or program is Financial Accounting Understand how firms
applying statistics
My goal is to understand how firms compete in the market to craft successful business strategy
Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers
compete in the market to
fundamentals to business craft successful business
decisions strategies

Your ideal program is...

Business Economics for

Analytics Managers

Credential
Financial
of Readiness
Accounting
(CORe)

HBS Online’s Credential of Readiness (CORe) program consists of three courses—Business Analytics, Economics for
Managers, and Financial Accounting—taken together at a bundled, cost-effective price. CORe is available over 10-17 weeks
and can be taken for undergraduate credit in some cohorts. Please note that if you take an individual business essentials
course, you may not enroll in CORe. See our CORe flowchart to determine which version of CORe is right for you.

To explore all of HBS Online’s business essentials courses and learn more
about CORe, visit online.hbs.edu/subjects/business-essentials/.