100 Free Ivy-League Courses for Aspiring CEOs

1. Communication for Managers: Take this course to polish your methods of communicating as a leader. [MIT]
2. Practical Leadership: Get insight into your leadership abilities with this course. [MIT]
3. Operations Management: Check out this course, and you’ll learn about planning, operations, control, project management, and more. [MIT]
4. Special Seminar in Management: Follow this course, and you’ll learn the basics of management. [MIT]
5. Leadership Lab: Take this course to promote leadership and business success. [MIT]
6. Management of Supply Networks for Products and Services: Find out how to manage supply networks in this course. [MIT]
7. Special Seminar in Management: The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans: You can learn about business plans from this course. [MIT]
8. People and Organizations: This course will help you learn about the way professionals work in organizations. [MIT]
9. Theory of Operations Management: Find out how to create effective management operations by taking this course. [MIT]
10. Strategic Management: Find out how to manage strategically by following this course. [MIT]
11. Dynamic Leadership: Using Improvisation in Business: This course will help you learn how to improvise as a leader. [MIT]
12. Management Communications for Undergraduates: Undergrads can learn more about communication in management from this course. [MIT]
13. Introduction to Operations Management: This course offers learning in the problems and analysis of operations management. [MIT]
14. Game Theory for Managers: This course will help you understand game theory in terms of business applications. [MIT]
15. Managerial Psychology: Use behavioral science to better understand employees, and you can learn all about it with this course. [MIT]
16. Building and Leading Effective Teams: In this course, you’ll learn how to build skills to effectively lead teams. [MIT]
17. Strategic HR Management: This course will help you learn how to best manage your HR department. [MIT]
18. Cross-Cultural Leadership: Find out about effective leadership across different cultures in this course. [MIT]
19. Leading Organizations: This course will help you better understand organizational behavior. [MIT]
20. Strategic Management and Consulting Proseminar: Theoretical Foundations: In this course, you’ll learn about important issues in strategic management. [MIT]
21. Ethical Practice: Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and the Purpose of the Corporation: Follow this course to learn about applied theories in business ethics. [MIT]
22. Literature, Ethics and Authority: Follow this course to learn about ethics and authority through literature. [MIT]
23. Competitive Decision-Making and Negotiation: Check out this course in order to learn about business negotiation. [MIT]
24. Applied Statistics: In this course, you’ll learn how to collect and explore data. [MIT]
25. Communicating with Data: Check out this course to learn how managers can use data to make informed business decisions. [MIT]
26. Advanced Corporate Risk Management: In this course, you can learn about managing risk. [MIT]
27. Individuals, Groups, and Organizations: In this course, you’ll learn how to manage teams and understand groups. [MIT]
28. Managing the Innovation Process: This course will help you learn how to manage innovation in your business. [MIT]
29. Leadership Tools and Teams: A Product Development Lab: Develop tools that will help with leadership in this course. [MIT]
30. Competitive Decision-Making and Negotiation: Learn and practice the art of negotiation through this course. [MIT]
31. Management Communication: Check out this course to develop your skills in management writing, speaking, teamwork, and more. [MIT]
32. Seminar in Operations Management: If you’re interested in operations management, be sure to check out this course. [MIT]

Finance & Economics

These courses will teach you what you need to know about money and finance as a CEO.

33. Applied Economics for Managers: This course will teach you how to deal with economics as a manager. [MIT]
34. Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization: Find out how to create a business through this course. [MIT]
35. Risky Business: Find out how to diversify your interests for safer investments through this course. [Columbia]
36. Individuals, Groups, and Organizations: Follow this course, and you’ll learn about the basic concepts in individual, group, and organizational behavior. [MIT]
37. Applied Macro and International Economics: In this course, you’ll learn about the macroeconomics of business. [MIT]
38. Pricing: You can get an understanding of pricing strategies and more from this course. [MIT]
39. Game Theory: Check out this course to learn about game theory and strategic thinking in business and economics. [Yale]
40. Introduction to the Art of Venture Valuation: Check out this seminar to learn about investing in potential companies. [Columbia]
41. Economic Applications of Game Theory: Find out how game theory applies to economics in this course. [MIT]
42. Early Stage Capital: This course will teach you about startups and early stage capital. [MIT]
43. Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting: Learn how to make smart investment decisions with the help of this course. [MIT]
44. Management Accounting and Control: This course will show you how to make your business finances function.
45. Business Analysis Using Financial Statements: This course will help you learn how to valuate business with the help of financial statements. [MIT]
46. Financial Markets: See how today’s financial markets function by checking out this course. [Yale]
47. Investments: In this course, you’ll cover financial theory and investment decisions. [MIT]
48. Entrepreneurial Finance: You can learn about raising money for company development from this course. [MIT]
49. Economic Analysis for Business Decisions: This course will teach you about making financial business decisions. [MIT]
50. Taxes and Business Strategy: This course will help you make better sense of business taxes. [MIT]
51. Mathematics of Finance: In this course, you’ll learn about the elements of finance including derivatives, hedging, and more. [Columbia]
52. Behavioral Economics and Finance: You’ll learn about the intersection of psychology and economics in this course. [MIT]
53. Financial Management: Through this course, you can learn about corporate finance and capital markets. [MIT]

Marketing & Branding

Follow these courses, and you’ll learn the essentials of marketing.

54. Introduction to Psychology: In this course, you will learn about the study of thought and behavior, including perception, communication, and decision making. [Yale]
55. Amazon.com: Customer Experience Matters: Find out why customer service and experience are so important to business from this course. [Princeton]
56. Special Seminar in Marketing: Marketing Management: Get the basics of marketing and ideas and phenomena from this course. [MIT]
57. Marketing Management: In this course, you’ll get an overview of marketing from a management standpoint. [MIT]
58. Introduction to Marketing: Learn about the theory and application of marketing in this course. [MIT]
59. How Your Brain Works-Or Not!: Get a look into human behavior with the help of this course. [Columbia]
60. Listening to the Customer: Using this course, you can get a look into strategic marketing management that focuses on listening to the customer. [MIT]
61. Entrepreneurial Marketing: Learn about marketing problems, new venture issues, and more. [MIT]
62. Brand Leadership-A Series of Three E-Seminars: Learn about the steps that you must take to successfully manage your brand through these e-seminars. [Columbia]
63. Improving Survey Research: Anchoring Vignettes: Learn how to conduct surveys and gather information with the help of this course. [Harvard]
64. Marketing Strategy: Check out whole-company strategies for marketing in this course. [MIT]

Communication

Learn how to best communicate as a CEO from these courses.

65. Anytime, Anywhere: The Recent Revolution in Wireless Communication: This course takes a look at the growth in the wireless industry and its implications. [Princeton]
66. Advanced Managerial Communication: Find out how to build in-depth communication skills from this course. [MIT]
67. Argumentation and Communication: This course will help you learn how to effectively argue. [MIT]
68. Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language: You can learn about what makes up language from this lecture. [Princeton]
69. Communicating in Cyberspace:This course will teach you how to use the Internet for communication. [MIT]
70. Columbia University DKV Editorial Style Guide: You can learn about traditional style, usage, and editorial issues from this course. [Columbia]
71. Power and Negotiation: Build your negotiation skills by taking this course. [MIT]
72. Planning, Communications, and Digital Media: In this course, you’ll learn about digital media and communication. [MIT]
73. Negotiation and Conflict Management: Learn how to deal with workplace conflict and more through this course. [MIT]
74. Seminar on Deep Engagement: In this course, you’ll learn about building interactive media that encourages deep engagement. [MIT]
75. The Future of English: See how the English language will affect the future of America’s economic and political power by studying this course. [Columbia]
76. Listening to the Customer: Make sure you’re listening to your customers by learning fundamental skills in this course. [MIT]
77. Architecture and Communication in Organizations: This course offers help in communication for your business performance. [MIT]
78. No Sweat Speaking: Follow this course to learn how to take the pain out of public speaking. [Columbia]

Future

Explore what awaits CEOs in the future through these courses.

79. Broadbanding America: What, Why, and How: You’ll find out about spreading broadband, and what makes it so important in this course. [Princeton]
80. Science on the Edge: Research Faculty Symposium: Take a look into the future of artificial intelligence through this course. [Harvard]
81. The Future of the Web: Sir Tim Berners-Lee take a look into what the future holds for the World Wide Web. [Princeton]
82. Digital Video: An Introduction: Find out more about video, a tool that can make your business more powerful, from this course. [Columbia]
83. Edwin Howard Armstrong: FM Inventor: Follow this e-seminar to get inspired by the inventor of FM broadcasting. [Columbia]
84. Einstein, Franklin, and the Role of Creativity in Today’s World: Check out these creatives from history to find inspiration. [Princeton]

Law

Learn about laws of concern to CEOs through this collection of courses.

85. Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Get a look into the fight to control digital media through this course. [Princeton]
86. Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager: This course offers an overview of business legal issues facing entrepreneurs and managers. [MIT]
87. The Creative Commons: Find out what creative commons means from this course. [Princeton]
88. Patents, Copyrights, and the Law of Intellectual Property: Take part in this seminar to learn about concepts in property law, including patents, trade secrets, and copyrights. [MIT]

Industries

These courses focus on specific industries.

89. Oil in the Arab-Persian Gulf: This professor explains the business of oil trade in the Arab-Persian Gulf. [Columbia]
90. Do Movies Have a Future: David Denby’s discussion shows the changing role of movies in the future. [Princeton]
91. The Software Business: If you’re getting in to the software business, be sure to check out this course. [MIT]
92. Real Estate Finance and Investment: Check out this course, and you’ll learn the basics of real estate and investment. [MIT]
93. Martin Scorsese Discusses Film-Making: Martin Scorsese discusses the business of film-making in this course. [Princeton]

International

Explore international business with these courses.

94. International Relations: New Approaches in a Complex World: Find out how changes in technology have changed international relations from this course. [Harvard]
95. New Global Agenda: Exploring 21st Century Challenges Through Innovations in Information Technologies: In this course, you’ll learn about information technology in international relations. [MIT]
96. International Multilateral Negotiation: Check out this course to learn about negotiating with businesses around the world. [Tufts]
97. Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Learn how to succeed in an international market with the help of this course. [MIT]
98. Topics in Culture and Globalization: Find out about the effects of global interconnectedness in this course. [MIT]
99. Global Markets, National Policies, and the Competitive Advantages of Firms: This course will help you get a global perspective as a CEO. [MIT]
100. Globalization: You can learn about international economy through this course. [MIT]