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As a business leader, it is critical that you can understand and communicate the financial implications of your decisions. How will you generate value? How will your decisions impact shareholders?

Leading with Finance is an online course designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of the principles of finance – a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to key internal and external stakeholders.

This program also highlights the importance of incorporating subjective judgments into financial decision-making, empowering you to firmly grasp the bigger picture and become a more effective leader. 

Participating in Leading with Finance will allow you to:

• Understand key financial levers that drive financial performance
• Discover how and why finance is concerned with cash flow versus profits 
• Identify ways to create and measure value
• Examine how the capital markets work and how they affect your business
• Develop a deep financial intuition that will give you the tools and confidence to make better decisions in your career and life
• Engage with like-minded peers from around the globe and content developed by the best and brightest of Harvard Business School faculty

The HBX Learning Model centers around the Harvard Business School case method, featuring interviews with business leaders and executives from companies around the world who candidly discuss challenges they've faced or obstacles they've overcome. We ask you to step into their shoes and engage with your peers to work through these real-world business scenarios.