This course explores the ways firms overcome challenges when operating globally – a process characterized for its complexity and uncertainty. Corporations trying to succeed in the global economy need to develop different types of strategies depending on where they are conducting business or industry they are in. You will be able to: • -Determine the best strategy to follow when expanding globally • -Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of those strategies • -Develop appropriate responses to external pressures. This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.

By the end of this project, you will be able to leverage Gantt charts to plan, schedule, and graphically represent the progression of a project plan over time so that stakeholders and sponsors can quickly understand the status, dependencies, and future requirements. To do this, you will gain hands-on experience applying, planning and scheduling a project by creating a Gantt chart in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

Tableau is widely recognized as one of the premier data visualization software programs. For many years access to the program was limited to those who purchased licenses. Recently, Tableau launched a public version that grants the ability to create amazing data visualizations for free. Account members can also share and join projects to collaborate on projects that can change the world. Like many other areas of business, finance departments of all sizes are harnessing the power of data to make better more profitable decisions. With tools like Tableau, finance does not have to be confined to the columns and rows of a spreadsheet. But can now be visualized in dynamic almost life-like ways. In this project, we will learn how to create an account and how to create visualizations for common financial reports, including accounts receivables, profit and loss, and cash flow.

This industry project is designed to allow you to apply the knowledge you have gained throughout the specialization for advising a real company. Our partner company will approach you with two specific questions the company is currently facing and that relate to the content of the specialization. You are asked to choose one of these questions and conduct an in-depth research on the topic. You need to collect relevant information, analyze it and relate it to the content you have learned throughout the Specialization. Based on your findings you will write a final report summarizing your research and consult the company how to deal with the issues they are facing.

Adobe Portfolio offers you a range of options to showcase your work. You can create a multi-page site or a one page site. The program makes it user friendly so that if you do not know HTML or CSS, you can still present your work online. Adobe Portfolio allows you to develop a portfolio that speaks to your brand and style. Adobe Portfolio supplies you with resources to develop your bio, how to promote yourself online and much more. In this project you will get your portfolio developed to share.

In 2-hours long project-based course, you will learn how to create a project plan on Google Sheets using color coded conditional formatting, set up a dynamic stakeholder communication plan with formulas, automate emails with Google Apps Script, utilize Apps Script third party libraries. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

You can't understand the world today if you don't understand corruption. Every day, we see high-level government officials resigning, governments changing, hundreds of thousands of people standing in squares, holding up signs, and often risking their lives to protest the corruption in the world. It's critically important to the health of our societies to understand what people are protesting against. We want to understand corruption. This course is designed to teach you about what corruption is, what causes corruption, the effects of corruption, and how to control corruption. We'll be talking about this from a global perspective using examples from all over the world. We'll also be talking about corruption from the perspective of countries, governments, businesses, citizens, and the people within these entities. At the end of this course, you'll have a better understanding of why the world is changing according to the path of corruption. If you're in a position to make changes within your respective entity, to make decisions about corruption, you'll be able to make better decisions.

Corporate strategy is the strategy a firm uses to compete across multiple businesses. Many small firms want to grow by entering new businesses. Many large firms already are in multiple businesses, e.g. a photo camera producer selling also sunglasses. We developed this course to help you make good corporate strategy decisions. Of the many decisions a firm has to make, corporate strategy decisions are among the most consequential. We will look at these key corporate strategy decisions: - Diversification: How and which businesses should your firm enter? - Divestiture: How and from which businesses should your firm exit? - Corporate HQ: How should we organize corporate headquarters to create value across the different businesses?

By the end of this project, you will be fluent in identifying and analyzing customer journeys for new products and services and in deriving opportunities from your analysis, thus generating positive results for your business venture. This project is designed to engage and harness your visionary and exploratory abilities. You will use proven models in strategy and product development with the Miro platform to explore and analyze these customer journeys. This is an important step for individuals or companies wanting to explore new products or services. We will practice critically examining customer segments and products structures that affect the business. You will engage in evaluating, through examples and hands-on practice, making decisions on product orientation. Furthermore, you will assess whether to modify or keep the product structure when entering the market. You will be ready to take an entrepreneurial idea through a scientific and logical process, helping you validate your ideas for a new business or service.

In this project, you will learn how to create a budget using Microsoft Excel. This program is terrific for working with numbers and tables and creating budgets. It is a program that facilitates our work to keep everything in order. You will complete different tasks to understand and use the Microsoft Excel tool. Excel contains many hidden tools that we will discuss along with this project. You can learn about various available formula options. We'll talk about settings, formulas, income and expense entry, numbers, organization, colors, and letters. Excel creates organization calendars, inventories, daily, weekly, monthly expenses, etc. When the program first became known, it was more for people who worked with analytics in their jobs. Today, many people can use this app, from students to teachers, from content creators to scientific analysts. For this reason, knowing this tool and all the options it can offer you will help you continue climbing in the professional world.