Going Back to School for a Career Change
Technology & Innovation
Individual Course
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Course Length
6 weeks
3-5 hours per week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Business School
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Certificate Price:
$ 249
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Enroll on edXUnderstand previous attempts to solve social issues, learn to identify entrepreneurial opportunities, and develop their own solutions.
This business and management course, taught by Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna, takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and solving complex social problems. The focus of this course is on individual agency—what can you do to address a defined problem? While we will use the lens of health to explore entrepreneurial opportunities, you will learn how both problems and solutions are inevitably of a multi-disciplinary nature, and we will draw on a range of sectors and fields of study. The course will be delivered via edX and connect learners around the world.
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- Learning Outcome
Gain an awareness of the opportunities for entrepreneurship in fast-growing emerging markets.
- Learning Outcome
Gain an understanding of a conceptual framework for evaluating such opportunities.
- Learning Outcome
Gain an appreciation of the types of problems that lend themselves to entrepreneurial solutions.
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A Verified Certificate costs $249 and provides unlimited access to full course materials, activities, tests, and forums. At the end of the course, learners who earn a passing grade can receive a certificate.
Alternatively, learners can Audit the course for free and have access to select course material, activities, tests, and forums. Please note that this track does not offer a certificate for learners who earn a passing grade.
Faculty
Your Instructor
Tarun Khanna
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he has studied and worked with multinational and indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. He was named Harvard University's Director of the South Asia Institute in the fall of 2010. He joined the HBS faculty in 1993, after obtaining an engineering degree from Princeton University (1988) and a Ph.D. from Harvard (1993), and an interim stint on Wall Street. During this time, he has served as the head of several courses on strategy, corporate governance, and international business targeted to MBA students and senior executives at Harvard. He currently teaches in Harvard’s College's General Education core curriculum in a university wide elective course on entrepreneurship in South Asia. He is also the Faculty Chair for HBS activities in India.
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