Executive Education: Online Offerings

Executive Education: Online Offerings

Now more than ever, the world needs options for high-quality online learning. Through University of Utah Executive Education’s online offerings, you have the opportunity to gain crucial business knowledge and skills from wherever you are – an internet connection is all you need. Learn from our world-renowned Eccles School of Business faculty and see immediate results as you apply what you learn to your career and organization.

Online Certificates

This online certificate has been designed to challenge you and help you grow as a leader and individual. Explore your leadership potential, understand the essentials to create a more ethical environment in your organization, and foster more innovation and growth.

This online certificate has been designed to challenge you and help you grow as a leader and individual. Understand the essentials to foster diversity and inclusion, which will lead to better business outcomes, innovation, and increased efficiency.

This online certificate will teach you to increase productivity and boost the bottom line by applying principles of Lean Six Sigma to your organization. In this online program, you will learn the foundational principles of Six Sigma and earn a Green Belt Certification.

This course is the capstone in a series of three Lean Six Sigma courses offered by the David Eccles School of Business Executive Education. Graduates will be able to lead strategic-level continuous improvement projects, analyze complex business scenarios, develop leaders in the Lean Six Sigma methodology, and deliver substantial results for any organization.

MBA Foundations focuses on the fundamentals of business management. Develop your business management skills and receive a certificate that gives you a glimpse of what an MBA from the University of Utah would look like. As the workplace continues to shift and change over time, this program will give you tools to be prepared for the future. Grow your career by learning concepts in finance, accounting, statistics, and economics. These notions will build your confidence in discussing financial decisions, inspiring and leading a productive team, and developing a strategy that will change your business’s trajectory. This program will provide you with the skillset to grow and develop as a leader and be more confident when making decisions.

The digital revolution is reshaping how technology, people, and processes are combined to create value for organizations. This online certificate is designed for leaders looking to lead their organizations, departments, or teams into a digital transformation.

Online Classes

Taught by: JB Henriksen, CPA, MBA

This online course is designed for leaders and decision-makers who do not have a strong background in finance. This approach will give you an understanding of how money works within organizations, how to implement strategies in decision-making processes to drive business results, and how to achieve competitive financial performance. This course emphasizes the practical application of accounting principles and provides a framework for interpreting and leveraging information in a variety of business settings.

Taught by: Dr. Abe Bakhsheshy

This class will cover multiple topics on the nature of social systems. This includes individual, group, and organization level of analysis. These topics are frameworks that you can use to understand activities of managers and other leaders in organizations. The objective of the class is to provide you with theoretical frameworks and a common vocabulary to understand and interpret things that happen in organizations.

Taught by: Robert Valentino

During this certificate course, participants will shift their focus from managing separate processes, technologies, departments, and assets to optimizing the flow of materials, products, or services and information through the entire value stream. Eliminating waste from a value stream rather than at isolated points increases the speed of delivery, improves quality, reduces costs, and enables an organization to be agile in its reaction to customer and market changes.

Learning Online

The online learning experience comes with its own set of challenges and opportunities. Our MBA Online students understand the online learning platform most and we asked them to provide their expertise on how to make the most of your virtual learning experience. Download our guide with their advice below.