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• Business

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  Corporate Finance: Leverage & Financing Decisions

  Learn how companies choose the right mix of debt and equity to maximize profitability and manage risk. Build practical skills in leverage analysis and EBIT–EPS decision-making used in corporate finance. This course provides a structured approach to analyzing and optimizing corporate financing strategies. You will begin by understanding business risk and break-even analysis, learning how operational decisions impact financial performance and profitability. You will then explore operating leverage, financial leverage, and combined leverage to understand how changes in sales affect earnings and shareholder returns. The course also covers key tools used in capital structure decision-making, helping you evaluate financing options using real-world financial logic. A major focus of the course is EBIT–EPS analysis, where you will compare different financing alternatives and determine the most effective strategy. You will also learn how to calculate the indifference point to identify the EBIT level at which financing options yield the same earnings per share. By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently analyze financing decisions, balance risk and return, and optimize capital structure strategies in real business scenarios.

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• Business

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  Effective Presentations

  The ability to deliver presentations is vital to achieving advancement for yourself and for your ideas. Few skills in life will contribute to your success as much as presentation skills. Without a dynamic and coherent presentation, even stellar ideas can fail to convince your audience. In this course, you will learn to organize your ideas to create coherent and convincing oral presentations, while also utilizing available visual aids and using public-speaking techniques to strengthen your delivery. This course is designed for individuals who may need to present information effectively in a professional environment. In this course, you will create and deliver effective presentations, both in-person and virtually. You will: • Define what makes a presentation effective. • Plan presentations. • Design a presentation framework. • Develop the presentation body. • Create supporting materials. • Prepare for your presentation. • Deliver presentations. • Conduct a question-and-answer session. • Deliver group presentations and virtual presentations. This course requires that you have Microsoft Office installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.

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• Business

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  Global Macro and Hedge Fund Strategy Analysis

  Learn how professional hedge funds analyze global markets, build diversified strategies, and capture opportunities across emerging markets, managed futures, credit, and event-driven investments. This course helps learners understand advanced hedge fund strategies used by institutional investors and portfolio managers. The course begins with emerging market and multi-strategy hedge fund approaches, showing how managers identify opportunities in developing economies, assess regional performance, and combine strategies to improve diversification and control portfolio risk. As the course progresses, learners explore specialized hedge fund trading approaches including managed futures, Commodity Trading Advisor strategies, credit investing, merger arbitrage, restructuring opportunities, and event-driven investing. These topics help learners understand how hedge funds respond to market mispricing, corporate events, and changing financial conditions. The course also introduces global macro investing, where managers use economic indicators, geopolitical developments, interest rate trends, currencies, and international market movements to guide investment decisions. Learners also examine fund of hedge funds structures and how diversified manager selection supports risk management. What makes this course unique is its practical coverage of advanced hedge fund strategies across multiple asset classes and market environments. By the end of the course, learners will be able to analyze hedge fund strategy models, interpret global macro opportunities, evaluate event-driven investments, and understand how professional hedge funds manage risk and diversification.

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• Technology

  Beginner

  Introdução à Ciência e Engenharia de Dados

  Neste curso, você aprenderá que os dados se tornaram o principal ativo de negócios nos dias de hoje. Com o aumento do Big Data e criação de novas tecnologias, as organizações em todo o mundo estão inovando e descobrindo novas formas para analisar o potencial dos dados à sua disposição, o que ajuda no crescimento, na lucratividade, no direcionamento das operações gerais e no aumento da satisfação do cliente. Mas para que tudo isso funcione corretamente e seja possível extrair todo o potencial de forma precisa e que seja viável para o negócio, criou-se a área de ciência de dados. Ao final deste curso, você será capaz de compreender todo o processo de ciência de dados e o uso da tecnologia em um mundo conectado, entender todo o escopo de ciência e engenharia de dados e conhecer as principais metodologias de projeto para ciência de dados. Este curso é composto por quatro módulos, disponibilizados em semanas de aprendizagem. Cada módulo é composto por vídeos, leituras e testes de verificação de aprendizagem. Ao final de cada módulo, temos uma avaliação de verificação dos conhecimentos. Estamos muito felizes com sua presença neste curso e esperamos que você tire o máximo de proveito dos conceitos aqui apresentados. Bons estudos!

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• Technology

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  Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

  To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level. We’ll address the important questions about Bitcoin, such as: How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold? After this course, you’ll know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have the conceptual foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. And you’ll be able to integrate ideas from Bitcoin in your own projects. Course Lecturers: Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.

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• Technology

  Beginner

  Introduction to Probability and Data with R

  This course introduces you to sampling and exploring data, as well as basic probability theory and Bayes' rule. You will examine various types of sampling methods, and discuss how such methods can impact the scope of inference. A variety of exploratory data analysis techniques will be covered, including numeric summary statistics and basic data visualization. You will be guided through installing and using R and RStudio (free statistical software), and will use this software for lab exercises and a final project. The concepts and techniques in this course will serve as building blocks for the inference and modeling courses in the Specialization.

  1800 min

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• Business

  Beginner

  Decode Engagement Peaks

  Email timing can make or break your campaign performance. This Short Course was created to help Marketing professionals accomplish data-driven send time optimization that maximizes engagement rates. By completing this course, you'll master the analytical skills to decode when your audience is most likely to open and click through your emails. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Identify timeframes that typically show high email engagement Monitor daily email opens and clicks and report trends to inform timing strategies This course is unique because it combines real engagement data analysis with practical Excel-based reporting tools that you can immediately apply to your campaigns. To be successful in this course, you should have a background in basic email marketing fundamentals and Excel data visualization.

  90 min

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• Technology

  Beginner

  Business Analytics

  Nowadays data is essential in the business environment to be gain a global view of an organization's situation and to be able to make better decisions. Against this background, Big Data is a booming sector in multiple areas that opens up different job opportunities, such as the role of Data Analyst. This course is an introduction to data analytics from a business perspective, focusing on the relevance of basing strategic decision-making on the knowledge provided by data. You will discover the phases of the lifecycle of a data-based project, as well as the importance of ensuring its quality in organizations. You will learn the basics of descriptive and inferential statistics that every data analyst should know. Finally, you will learn some strategies to share information by getting the most out of data visualizations. Our overall goal will be to create an impact on organizations through the generation of more effective dashboards and the use of storytelling from data. Will you join us?

  630 min

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• Technology

  Intermediate

  Loops and Strings

  In this course, you'll explore loops, which repeat a portion of code until a process is complete. You’ll learn how to work with different kinds of iterative or repeating code, such as for loops and while loops. Then, you'll explore strings, which are sequences of characters like letters or punctuation marks. You’ll learn how to manipulate strings by indexing, slicing, and formatting them. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Describe how to manipulate strings using techniques such as concatenating, indexing, slicing, and formatting • Summarize the syntax of the range() function • Explain the purpose and logic of iterative statements such as for loops and while loops

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• Business

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  Professional Presentation Design and Delivery

  Learn how to create professional PowerPoint presentations, apply visual design techniques, and deliver impactful presentations with confidence. This course provides practical skills in slide creation, formatting, animations, multimedia integration, and presentation delivery using Microsoft PowerPoint. The course begins with PowerPoint foundations and interface mastery, helping learners understand essential menus, slide layouts, formatting tools, file operations, and content insertion techniques. Learners will build a strong foundation in creating and managing professional presentations efficiently. As the course progresses, learners focus on enhancing presentations using visual effects and delivery techniques. The course explains how to apply transitions, animations, slideshow settings, and presentation views to create engaging and dynamic slides that improve audience interaction and communication. Advanced modules provide hands-on experience through practical case studies and real-world presentation scenarios. Learners will integrate text, charts, visuals, tables, and multimedia while applying presentation design principles to build polished and visually appealing presentations for academic, business, and professional environments. What makes this course unique is its balanced focus on both technical PowerPoint functionality and practical presentation execution. By the end of the course, learners will be able to confidently design professional presentations, communicate ideas visually, engage audiences effectively, and deliver impactful presentations in real-world situations.

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• Technology

  Advanced

  Linux for AIX System Administrators

  This is course is designed to provide existing AIX admins with an introduction to and an understanding of the basics of Linux system administration. This course is a valuable tool for system administrators and other technical support personnel who are already well versed in AIX and must now deal with Linux operating systems running on IBM Power.

  960 min

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• Technology

  Intermediate

  商管統計資料分析二 (Analytics for Business and Management (II))

  本課程為三模組系列課程之第二模組。 此系列課程專門教授各種線性迴歸形式 (regression-type) 的統計分析模型與技術。此系列課程以大量多樣之商管實務案例進行解說，並以 R 統計語言進行建模分析，提供完整的命令稿 (script) 與資料集讓同學們實地操作演練，培養統計分析思維與實戰技能。 本第二模組是中階課程，講述更完整而全面的迴歸模型觀念與技法，包括共變數分析 (ANCOVA) 與變異數分析 (ANOVA) 之理論基礎與實務應用。 這兩個主題在傳統的統計教學上是各自分開處理的，以至於學生常有困惑不明、應用困難之感。本課程將這兩個主題納入線性迴歸模型的大架構之下進行解說，有效協助同學們建立大一統的線性迴歸形式 (regression-type) 的統計分析觀念。 學生學習完本模組之後，可以清楚了解不論解釋變數是數值變數或類別變數，皆可透過適當的組合來進行迴歸分析。而巧妙地運用變數之間的交​​互作用，可大幅提升迴歸模型的應用性與可解釋性，是為相當關鍵的建模技法。

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