Applied Business Analytics

Deliver better business outcomes using big data

Garner In-Demand Skills

In this six-week program, you will be able to:

Apply analytics to a wide range of business applications.
Select and apply the appropriate algorithm for a given business scenario.
Lead teams and design deliverables using analytics problem-solving.
Establish workflows, identify interdependencies, and utilize human judgment while managing the analytics process.

Who Should Attend

This online program is ideal for managers and leaders who want to turn data into a competitive advantage by advancing their analytics skills. Participants will learn how to decide which is the best tool for their challenge, and how to apply different models. Participants come from a broad range of industries, job functions, and management levels. Past participants of this program include:

Senior executives who strive to leverage data for competitive advantage and build out analytics capabilities in their organizations.
Functional managers and business heads who want to advance their analytics skills and manage data analyst teams more effectively by asking better questions.
Data and Business Analysts who want to deepen their understanding of how to apply analytics tools to common business challenges, such as predicting customer preferences and trends.
Consultants who need to dig deeper into their client's data in order to make better recommendations and speak the same language as data analysts.

Your Learning Experience

Apply descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive tools to real-world case studies and examples.

Download a template for your team's business analytics project plan.

Learn from world-renowned MIT faculty.

Discuss learnings and industry trends with a cohort of peers at the top of their fields.

Bit-Sized Learning

Active support from program Learning Facilitators.

Weekly Q&A through live office hours with Learning Facilitators, and experts in this subject matter.

Program Modules

Module 1: Making Predictions Using Data

Module 2: Tools and Frameworks to Build Predictive Models

Module 3: Using Business Analytics to Interpret and Analyze Data

Module 4: Customer Analytics: Using Analytics to Serve Customers Better

Module 5: Understanding Machine Learning and Its Business Applications

Module 6: Managerial Decision Making with Business Analytics

Learn from the Best at MIT Sloan

DIMITRIS BERTSIMAS

Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, Professor of Operations Research, Associate Dean for the Master of Business Analytics

A faculty member since 1988, his research interests include optimization, stochastic systems, machine learning, and their application. In recent years, he has worked in robust...

Hear from our past learners

I loved that the program focused on how the models applied to leadership decisions. It allows the leader to sit in a meeting and process every word the data scientist might say. I also really enjoyed ...

Allison Silveus

Education Program Manager and Adjunct Faculty, at University of North Texas Health Science Center

This course offered me a window into the world of applied business analytics, which prior to this course, I had very little experience with. I’m very pleased to have taken it as the content and instru...

Tim Mccandlish

Procurement Agent, at Boeing

Case Studies

Netflix

How data analytics built a movies-you'll-love feature

Twitter

Mining Tweets to understand customer sentiment at Apple

Framingham Heart Study

How to save lives by predicting heart disease

Boston Real Estate

Leverage a historic Boston real estate data set to predict values

Corporate Strategy

Use an optimization model to maximize net present value and steer the corporate strategy

Inventory Management

Machine learning techniques work to improve operational performance

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Earn a Certificate from MIT Sloan

Receive a verified digital certificate of completion from MIT Sloan School of Management. This program also counts toward an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate.

After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you, at no additional cost, in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of MIT Sloan.

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