Do you want to pursue a course from one of the most prestigious and privileged business schools in the world and that too by living in India? So, your wait is over and without doubt you have landed at the correct page, because NSHM Kolkata is giving a chance to all the ambitious students a wonderful chance to study the online course of Harvard Business School which they can pursue as part of the curriculum and from the comfort of their home. And because after completing the course of a Business School, you will have all the required and real world skills sets, you will be able to take strategic decisions when issues and challenges come and opportunities arise at the workplace. 

Also, if we see the curriculum of the program, it empowers and exposes an individual on a global level and they get tremendous opportunities to interact with international faculties, study about global companies and will be able to develop strong empathy and interpersonal skills to grow in their career. 

Apart from the above mentioned ones, another benefit of obtaining an MBA Degree is that it enhances job opportunities for you, inculcates demanding hard and soft skills in you, sets you apart from other potential candidates when you apply for the one and offers you lucrative profiles in reputed companies.

Advantages of pursuing the Harvard Business School Online Course

Harvard Business School (HBS) being an internationally popular and prestigious business school provides distance education and offers a broad range of online courses to help ambitious and passionate students to learn and grow on both professional as well as personal fronts. It was back in 2019 when HBS decided to reorganize their 5 year duration online course platform and renamed them to a totally new brand called Harvard Business School Online.

The online certification courses of HBS are accepted globally and not only help professionals to get a good job but also help them to strengthen and upgrade their knowledge of domains like Business Analytics, Financial Accounting, Economics and Entrepreneurship and last but not the least make them more empathetic by instilling soft and interpersonal skills. Also, teaching pedagogy of course is such that it enables students to solve real time complex business problems.

And what could be more great news than knowing that the MBA programme at NSHM has now been integrated with online courses of the Harvard Business School. Hence, NSHM Kolkata campus students are actually very fortunate as they will get a chance to finish the distance learning programs of HBS as part of their regular MBA curriculum. In addition to this, these online courses which are globally recognized will be accessible by students of all programs. 

Also, cited below are the specializations details of online courses offered by HBS:

Business Analytics- If you are someone who wishes to learn BA fundamentals and become competent in the quantitative techniques which are used to inspect data and upgrade management solutions, this specialization of HSBO is definitely for you. Apart from all this, the focal point of this program is that it improves student’s hold of important ideas and their managerial intellect, and makes them capable of applying the classroom learning into actual business scenarios. Regression analysis comes after basic descriptive statistics in business analytics. 

And if we talk with reference to doing A/B testing for a website, through this course, students will be able to validate accuracy of inventory, forecast sales and compute numbers. And they will actually receive detailed instructions about the use of analytical approaches in Excel while studying this course specialization. 

Entrepreneurship Essentials- Under this specialization, students will get to learn about the entire entrepreneurial process which starts conceptualization, goes through market research and acceptance and ends with capital raising to establish a venture. Also, this course teaches aspiring professionals how business owners actually carry out controlled experiments to evaluate concepts and refine operational efficiency. Lastly, students can scrutinize and play with numbers to determine how business owners and their investors use them for the purpose of adding value to their venture and expanding their operations.

Economics For Managers- The center of attraction of this HSBO course as its name suggests is that it educates students and professionals about the concept of supply and demand, why they both are important for someone to know who is planning to establish a business and how they are interlinked with each other. Additionally, they will get an understanding of crucial concepts such as market oscillation, power of competition, differentiation strategies. complements and network effects that businesses refer to generate product demand and their approach of defining price and manufacturing.

Financial Accounting- Under this specialization, students and working professionals will be taught about the core concepts of journal entry recording, posting transactions to T accounts, creation of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements. Apart from this, they will be able to examine, investigate and explore financial statements, calculate and explain the crucial ratios. The epilogue of this course covers prediction, costing and evaluation and educates students how to produce predicted financial statements and determine capital expenditures using techniques like calculating internal rates of return and net present value.

NSHM also provides- 

Case-Based Learning Pedagogy- At NSHM, the case studies based learning pedagogy help students to diligently focus on resolving real-time scenarios and issues by giving them knowledge in Indian and global reference. It also teaches them teamwork, helps them scrutinize business situations and connect with the outer business world. 

Value Added Curriculum- Another benefit of pursuing NSHM’s courses is that you will get knowledge, experience and exposure beyond your expectations, as along with MAKAUT curriculum, various value-added courses will be taught to them to enhance their knowledge horizon and learning abilities. Industrial training and internships are also part of this course as NSHM is focused and committed for overall development of students by strengthening their knowledge of communication, financial technical analysis, entrepreneurship and innovation.

Perks of pursuing the Harvard Business Online Course

After successfully finishing the HBS online courses along with NSHM 2 year MBA program, professionals will have amazing skills sets, wonderful job opportunities, real world work experience, empathetic mindset, crucial hard and soft communication skills and name of HBSO is itself enough as it carries a significant weightage not only in traditional but global market as well. So what are you waiting for, enroll yourself and enjoy learning.