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.

Senior
College Early
Mid-career management
student career
or executive
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 level
Your ideal course or program is Business Essentials
I want to build a specific business skill to lay the groundwork for my career
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

I aspire to...
I aspire to prepare for an MBA program
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 Level up or refresh my
Explore the world of
My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential Prepare for an analytics, financial
business and launch
Your ideal course or program is Financial Accounting
My goal is to understand how firms compete in the market to craft successful business strategy MBA program accounting, or
my career
Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers
economics skills

Early Career
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
My goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals to business decisions

I want to... 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

Learn about business
I want to learn about business broadly and validate my learning with a final exam Build a specific business Hone my business skill
My goal is to achieve fluency in the language of business and gain a strong foundation in analytics, financial accounting, and economics
broadly and validate my
Your ideal course or program is Business Essentials skill to lay the groundwork set by focusing on a
learning
I aspire to level up or refresh my analytics, financial with
accounting, a finalskills
or economics exam for my career specific topic
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

My goal is to...
Your ideal course or program is Economics for Managers

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

Senior Management or executive level Become data-literate by Understand how firms

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
applying statistics compete in the market to
fundamentals to business
My goal is to become data-literate by applying statistics fundamentals to business decisions craft successful business
Your ideal course or program is Business Analytics
decisions
My goal is to interpret financial statements to unlock critical insights to busines performance and potential strategies
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

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/.