Critical Business Skills for Success: Launching a Lean Start-Up

Professor Michael A. Roberto concludes this course with a fascinating lecture on the challenges of launching your own business. You’ll learn what makes entrepreneurship different from leading a complex, large organization; how the simple “marshmallow challenge” reveals different approaches to start-up strategies; and key questions any entrepreneur must answer before starting. What does it take to succeed in business? Critical Business Skills for Success is a comprehensive guide to the five disciplines—strategy, operations, finance and accounting, organizational behavior, and marketing—that everyone needs to master in today’s marketplace. Bringing the MBA experience to you, this authoritative course demystifies the secrets of business and provides insights to help you achieve your goals.