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Technology & Innovation
Individual Course
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Course Length
6 weeks
3-5 hours per week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Business School
Enroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 249
Enroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 249
Understand 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.
Self-Guided
edX
Global Learning Community
- 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.
- Learn from Harvard faculty
- Do it on your own time
- Get a certificate, add it to your resume
- Be part of the Harvard Community
Ways to take this course
Audit or Pursue a Verified Certificate
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.
[Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies] helped me think more broadly about leveraging technology and how I can take something that’s working elsewhere and bring that idea to create impact in my region of Africa.
Timothy N. M.
This may be just a certificate, but this is the most valuable achievement in my career so far for me, the one which forged my personality, and therefore the way I see the world and to solve every issue.
Faneva T. R. S.
Being part of the Harvard global community of learners means connection, inspiration, and responsibility. It shows me that learning goes beyond borders, and it motivates me to apply what I learned to create real impact in my country, especially in the agribusiness and social innovation sectors.
Sérgio P.
This course offered a deep dive into what it truly means to lead with purpose and innovate with intent. I explored topics that resonated directly with my current responsibilities—from entrepreneurial thinking and organizational transformation to strategic leadership and resilience. Each lesson brought clarity to the path I’ve chosen to take in my institution and beyond.
Abdulsalam A.
Pediatric Nephrology Consultant
I just finished the course Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and the insights on health and nutrition were very useful for my business operations in China and in Brazil.
Thais
CEO
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