Business plan courses can help you learn market analysis, financial forecasting, operational planning, and effective pitching techniques. You can build skills in identifying target audiences, crafting value propositions, and developing marketing strategies. Many courses introduce tools like SWOT analysis, business model canvases, and financial modeling software, which can enhance your ability to create comprehensive and persuasive business plans.

Duke University
Skills you'll gain: Blockchain, Payment Systems, Cyber Risk, FinTech, Operational Risk, Scalability, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Financial Regulation, Legal Risk, Financial Regulations, Risk Analysis, Application Security, Vulnerability Assessments, Exploitation techniques, Financial Industry Regulatory Authorities, Regulatory Requirements, Asset Protection, Governance, Key Management
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Stakeholder Engagement, Journey Mapping, Stakeholder Management, Customer Engagement, Consultative Approaches, Stakeholder Communications, Agile Methodology, Stakeholder Analysis, Requirements Elicitation, SAP Applications, Customer Analysis, Technical Consulting, Customer Insights, Consulting, Process Analysis, Business Analysis, Analysis, Project Management, Verbal Strategic Communication, Business Requirements
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Market Data, Google Sheets, Data Import/Export, Equities, Financial Modeling, Financial Analysis, Financial Market
Advanced · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Fundação Instituto de Administração
Skills you'll gain: Big Data, Internet Of Things, Social Network Analysis, Text Mining, Apache Hadoop, Business Intelligence, Social Media Analytics, Unstructured Data, Analytics, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Data-Driven Marketing, Data Science, Fraud detection, Customer Retention, Marketing Strategies
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of California, Davis
Skills you'll gain: Social Network Analysis, Network Analysis, Data Wrangling, Social Sciences, Graph Theory, Data Cleansing, Statistical Visualization, Data Manipulation, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Software, Predictive Analytics
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Tecnológico de Monterrey
Skills you'll gain: Value Propositions, Product Development, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Ideation, Market Opportunities, Business Solutions, Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Business Leadership, Business Strategies, Business Modeling, Business Architecture, Leadership and Management, Governance, Strategic Leadership, Corporate Strategy, Leadership Development, Succession Planning, Lean Methodologies
Advanced · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Generative AI, Agentic systems, Generative AI Agents, Prompt Patterns, Agentic Workflows, Generative Model Architectures, Multimodal Prompts, AI literacy, LLM Application, ChatGPT, AI Workflows, AI Product Strategy, Large Language Modeling, Model Evaluation, Responsible AI, Decision Making
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Financial Reporting, Inventory Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Depreciation, Cash Control, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Fixed Asset, Balance Sheet, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Accounting, Cost Accounting, Inventory Control Systems, Accounts Receivable, Internal Controls, Cash Management, Capital Expenditure, Equities, Investments
Build toward a degree
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Skills you'll gain: Language Competency, Language Learning, Vocabulary, Oral Comprehension, Culture, Grammar, Business
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

University of New Mexico
Skills you'll gain: Strategic Decision-Making, Strategic Thinking, Business Strategy, Decision Making, Business Metrics, Organizational Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Competitive Intelligence, Competitive Analysis, Performance Measurement, Performance Metric, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Market Dynamics, Performance Analysis
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Test Tools, Learning Strategies, Test Planning, Goal Setting, Registration, Planning
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Skills you'll gain: Real Estate, Property and Real Estate, Real Estate Sales, Real Estate Transactions, Return On Investment, Capital Budgeting, Market Dynamics, Financial Analysis, Financial Market, Economics, Investments, Finance, Supply And Demand, Depreciation, Cost Benefit Analysis, Lease Contracts, Competitive Analysis, Decision Making
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months