Business Analytics helps demystify data and strengthens students' analytical skills. Beginning with basic descriptive statistics and progressing to regression analysis, participants will implement analytical techniques in Excel and apply fundamental quantitative methods to real business problems - from performing A/B testing on a website to using sampling to check warehouse inventory.
Benefits
Prepare for the next opportunity by learning how to apply basic statistics to real business problems
Strengthen analytical skills before pursuing an MBA or other graduate program
Gain data literacy and hands-on practice interpreting data and implementing analyses in Excel
The HBS Online Edge
World-class faculty
Edge-of-your-seat online learning
Global peer collaboration and networking
Real world, case-based learning
Key Learnings
Interpreting data to take informed business decisions
Recognising trends, detecting outliers and summarising data sets
Analysing relationships between variables
Developing and testing hypotheses
Crafting sound survey questions and drawing conclusions from population samples
Implementing regression analysis and other analytical techniques in Excel