Improve healthcare systems by effectively allocating resources with the help of cutting-edge decision-making tools.

Shrinking margins and rising costs are driving public and private health systems to improve operational efficiencies and reduce expenses. Rigorous financial management could help to improve care provision and combat unnecessary spending.

The Modelling Cost-Effectiveness in Healthcare online certificate course from LSE equips you with marketable skills in cost-effectiveness modelling. This technical course has been designed by faculty and experts from the Department of Health Policy at LSE who have a solid grounding in fundamental policy and economic skills, and the knowledge and expertise to apprehend global health challenges. Over eight weeks, you’ll explore cost-effectiveness modelling techniques and discover methods of sourcing quality data. Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to conceptualise a model, inform resource allocation decisions, and analyse a cost-effectiveness study.

Is this course for you?

This course is suited to both health and finance professionals who deal with modelling costs in the healthcare sector. Health administrators and medical workers will learn how to better budget, assign, and prioritise resources. They’ll also benefit from enhancing their decision-making and resource-allocation skills. Finance and insurance professionals will learn how to get the most out of their health products or services budgets, and will benefit from gaining insight into product pricing and R&D resource allocation.

Make informed managerial and investment decisions with a practical understanding of your organization’s financial health.

To effectively drive organizational success, business leaders and managers across functions require a firm grasp of finance. It’s a key component to understanding how an organization operates, and these professionals need to be commercially minded to participate in financial discussions and decision-making.

The Managerial Finance online certificate course from LSE equips you with a practical grounding in modern finance. Over the course of six short weeks, you’ll develop the tools to understand corporate finance, financial statements and reports, and fundamentals such as the time value of money. You’ll also learn how to apply these to your business context through forecasting methods, project evaluation, realistic performance plans, and the monitoring of financial outcomes. Increase your managerial impact with stronger financial insight, and make more informed contributions to organizational discussions and decisions.

Is this course for you?

As employees are promoted to more senior positions or management, these new roles often call for greater financial accountability. This online certificate course focuses on providing vital corporate finance knowledge and skills to non-financial managers and is geared towards anyone in a managerial or leadership position – as well as those aspiring towards one. You’ll develop your commercial acumen, as well as a practical understanding of the dynamic between a company's finances and its non-financial departments and projects.

This course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 65 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is upon you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Develop the tools to lead effectively through the disruptive innovations that are reshaping the fabric of business and society.

Disruptive technology has led to significant changes in the way we live and work, particularly over the past 20 years. For business, the large-scale adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and even social media demand a new focus on innovation and adaptability to rapidly evolving global markets.

The Technological Disruption: Managing the Impact on Business, Society and Politics online certificate course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is designed to provide you with the tools to develop a strategic response to disruptive innovation. On the course, you’ll engage with a network of like-minded professionals, as you investigate the impact of rapid technological change in modern economies and societies. Through a broad lens, you’ll discover the impact of technology on economics and competitive policy, business models, and the fundamental processes which drive society, including the democratic process itself. Drawing on insights from leading LSE faculty representing a diverse range of disciplines, you’ll learn to identify disruptive technologies, and their organizational implications, and deploy a strategic response.

Is this course for you?

This online certificate course is designed for leaders and professionals seeking to understand the role of technological disruption in their sector. It offers insights into innovation and disruption for managers interested in developing a strategic response to new technologies. Policy professionals and public sector workers will have the opportunity to explore how legislation and policy are used to address disruption, while consultants will benefit from an expanded understanding of technologies such as AI, automation, and robotics, and the impact of these technologies on their industries. Finance and marketing professionals will learn how technology is already changing their industries and will gain strategies for response. Executives will be able to examine the risks associated with global technology competition, and how these can be navigated. IT professionals will learn how to spot the vulnerabilities of innovation, and how they lead to negative outcomes including fraud and cybercrime.

This Technological Disruption: Managing the Impact on Business, Society and Politics online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 70 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Gain the insight to understand and effectively navigate regulation in your industry, and beyond.

Regulation can have a significant impact on the way organizations function, which is why decision-makers must have a sound understanding of the evolving regulatory environment and the role it plays in their industry.

The Regulation Strategy online certificate course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is designed to provide both regulators and those in regulated industries with a firm grounding in the key features and processes of regulatory strategy and offers the tools to help you think critically about how regulation should be designed and evaluated.

With this LSE online certificate course, you’ll learn to identify risks affecting regulatory compliance and understand how to perform risk management. Over eight weeks, participants will consider law and policy regulation from a practical and multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on expertise from LSE Law School. Using cross-sectoral and cross-national examples, this course allows participants from a range of backgrounds to gain highly transferable skills and remain up to date-in an increasingly dynamic field.

Is this course for you?

This course will be of value to the business professional impacted by regulation, whether in risk, legal, or compliance departments or to the business leader whose company is subject to significant law and policy regulations.

If you are an entrepreneur beginning a new venture or a consultant with a client portfolio that is subject to regulation, the course will provide you with a firm foundation for managing a regulatory strategy.

The course is also relevant if you are an employee working within a regulatory organization and would like to validate or enhance your skill set. If you are a public policy professional in a non-governmental and non-profit organization, a government employee, or if you’re working in a regulatory agency in a government department tasked with risk management, this course will be of equal benefit.

This Regulation Strategy online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 70 hours of learning.

Note: should participants wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is upon them. LSE and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Discover how behavioral science can be leveraged to create and lead a more inclusive organization.

Increased movement and mobility of people have accelerated cultural diversity in the workforce. Organizations and leaders are positioned to ensure that employees – no matter their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion – are treated fairly. But in reality, ideas, intent, and action are often disconnected.

Inclusion in today’s workplace is an important measure that directly impacts not only the balance sheet but talent retention. If, and when, employees don’t feel heard, accepted, or truly valued, they’re far less likely to remain at a company. In one study, employees who identified as ‘different’ were shown to experience greater burnout and felt a lesser sense of belonging.¹ With trends like the great resignation in full swing, employers are in crisis mode trying to resolve the retention issues upending the job market.² But increased pay and elevated role titles aren’t enough, inclusion is the essential third factor, and it starts with leaders who build well-being and openness into their organization’s DNA.

This eight-week course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) provides you with insights from behavioral science that will enable you to create a more resilient and collaborative organization. Leveraging an inclusive approach to leadership, you’ll learn how to implement practical and effective solutions to problems caused by entrenched bias, heuristics, and groupthink. With insights from Dr. Grace Lordan, founder of The Inclusion Initiative (TII) at LSE, you’ll develop keen interpersonal and relational skills to improve search and hiring processes, mitigate poor conduct, and ensure career opportunities across the board.

Is this course for you?

This online certificate course is designed for managers who would like to better understand and lead their teams, and are interested in the behavioral science approach (which focuses on motivations, group dynamics, and attitudes) to overcoming barriers to inclusion. Leaders will gain the tools to create an inclusive organizational culture that promotes fair opportunities while driving meaningful conversations about DEI in the workplace. Human resources professionals and project and operations managers with the intention of becoming an expert on DEI will gain the knowledge to improve their professional and leadership skills to foster inclusion and well-being in their teams. In addition, anyone who would like to shift their career focus and transition into the DEI space may use this course as a stepping stone toward a new position in this crucial area.

This Inclusive Leadership Through Behavioural Science online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 70 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Explore leadership in the context of change and disruption, while developing the tools and techniques required to be an authentic, transformational leader.

The eight-week Leadership and Change online certificate course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is designed to equip business leaders with the tools and expertise to survive, grow, and thrive in times of transformation. Whether it’s caused by disruptive technology or shifting market conditions, or as the result of internal organizational initiatives, leadership transitions, or mergers and acquisitions, change is a business constant, and the ability to manage it is key to corporate resilience.

Explore and develop your own authentic leadership strengths, while gaining the expertise to create coaching plans that apply widely accepted principles and models for professional development. With a comprehensive understanding of ethics in business and decision-making, as well the importance of psychological safety and diversity, you’ll have access to the techniques and frameworks needed to use change as an opportunity for enhanced competitive advantage.

Is this course for you?

This course is designed to empower leaders and equip them with the tools to excel in times of external and internal change. Business leaders in both the private and public sectors will develop the skills and insights to anticipate, facilitate, and sustain change in their context. Entrepreneurs, managers of teams, heads of departments, and those aspiring to be in these positions, will learn how to plan and navigate for change as well as prove their readiness for promotion. HR professionals who are responsible for organizational development and change management will learn how to hire and train employees, while consultants will enhance their abilities to advise and support companies going through a transformation.

This Leadership and Change online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 70 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Develop technical machine learning competencies to solve business problems and inform decision-making.

Combining the fields of statistics, optimisation, data mining and computing, machine learning is being adopted across industries due to its ability to solve problems in the presence of big data sets. Recent successes of machine learning include its application in commercial tasks such as search engines, recommendation systems (for example Netflix and Amazon), and marketing. Machine learning methods are also increasingly being used in financial institutions for algorithmic trading, predicting customer behaviour, compliance and risk.

This eight-week online technical course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) covers a wide range of machine learning methods, following a practical approach to machine learning in modern business analytics. Throughout the course, you’ll engage with real-world problems as you apply machine learning models to data sets in R, interpret the predictions, and evaluate these predictions to inform business decisions.

Is this course for you?

This online certificate course is designed for professionals looking to improve the data analytics of an organisation through the integration of machine learning techniques. Mid to senior managers, data specialists, consultants, analysts, IT, and business professionals who are interested in the practical applications of machine learning will benefit from the in-depth exploration of core principles and methods. If you are interested in upskilling, transitioning into a data science role, or wanting to improve your understanding of the business applications of data science in any industry or business area, this course will assist you in developing and validating your practical machine learning skills and knowledge.

Prerequisites
This course is technical in nature. It makes use of coding in R and covers the application of machine learning in business. Some algebraic and calculus knowledge is strongly advised but is not required. Training in tertiary-level statistics and knowledge of a functional or object-oriented language is advantageous. HTML is not considered a programming language in this context. No specific software is required for this online certificate course.

This Machine Learning: Practical Applications online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies.

The course has an estimated 75 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is upon you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Gain an interdisciplinary toolkit to understand and navigate the laws, structures, and challenges of corporate transactions.

Mergers, acquisitions, public offerings, and corporate takeovers are all subject to the influence of an array of legal, economic, and social factors. This transactionary landscape is renowned for its complexity, so an understanding of these industry drivers, structures, and issues is not just useful, but critical to succeeding in this fiercely competitive space.

On The Law and Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions online certificate course, you’ll gain a toolkit for navigating the structures and legal issues of corporate transactions. Designed by experts from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Department of Law, the course gives you the knowledge, insight, and confidence to play an active role in managing deals. You’ll examine the different types of corporate transactions, including hedge fund attacks, private mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals, and hostile takeovers. Drawing on case studies and modern finance and economic contract theory, which has significant practical relevance, you’ll become equipped to approach corporate transactions holistically. You’ll also examine the jurisdictional discrepancies across the UK, US, and EU member states, and learn to navigate the drafting and negotiating requirements.

The Law and Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 50 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Gain key insights into the economic principles governing global healthcare, and explore how effective policy can be used to address contemporary challenges.

Global healthcare is in transition. Since 2015, when the United Nations’ member states officially adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, global spending on healthcare has grown significantly. Unfortunately, low-income countries have lagged, managing only $41 per capita spent on health, compared to $2,937 in high-income countries. At the same time, advancement in technology has introduced new financial pressures, and healthcare labour markets are increasingly under threat.

The Health Economics and Policy online certificate course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) investigates the challenges facing healthcare and the economic principles that underpin the sector, while exploring policy proposals that could reduce inequality in the system. It’s been designed with faculty and experts from the Department of Health Policy at LSE, which aims to influence and improve how health policy is designed, implemented, and evaluated through multidisciplinary research and teaching. Experts from the Department have made substantive contributions to health planning and delivery on the global stage.

On the course, you’ll gain insight into healthcare financing and universal health coverage, and the complexities of the healthcare labour market. Ultimately, you’ll develop a balanced view of health and social justice, allowing you to assess healthcare’s inequalities and social determinants.

This Health Economics and Policy online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 50 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Is this course for you?

This course is designed to provide you with the tools to understand the economics of the healthcare sector, and the policy solutions that can be used to address inequality. Professionals engaged in analysis, advocacy, and policy formulation will gain a contemporary understanding of healthcare economics, and its impact on topics including health funding and workforce dynamics. For those in the healthcare sector, this course will provide a global context on the state of the industry. The skills it teaches will prove beneficial to social scientists, public health specialists, and medical staff, whether working in health agencies, governments, or NGOs.

For finance and economics professionals, this course offers insight into the economic challenges facing the healthcare sector. Participants will gain new perspectives on the economics of health insurance financing systems and the healthcare workforce, and how these can impact outcomes across contexts.

Gain the skills to critically analyze and navigate the changing legal environment that is shaping data law and policy.

Rapid digitization and questions of data privacy have led to the development of data protection laws across the globe, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Designed to modernize laws that protect the personal information of individuals, these new data regulations impact how businesses and public sector organizations should handle the information of their customers and stakeholders. "The law and digital society are becoming more closely entwined, and as the processing of digital data becomes the bedrock of all areas of business, an understanding of how the law applies to digital decision-making is essential for business professionals and executives globally," says Andrew Murray, professor of law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

The Data: Law, Policy and Regulation online certificate course from LSE explores the role of law in the digital space by contextualising legal principles and concepts related to data and technology regulation. Ultimately, it empowers you with the skills to navigate the changing legal environment shaping data law and policy.

Through a socio-legal lens, you’ll engage critically with topical case studies and current data regulations, and gain insight into the legal challenges posed by digitization. Developed by leading academics from LSE's Law School, the content draws on the strengths of the school's innovative research and academic excellence to immerse you in pressing legal debates in data protection and algorithmic regulation. By the end of this online course, you’ll have gained the skills to think critically about the relationship between technology, policy, and the law, and a better understanding of the issues of digital data ownership and exploitation.

Is this course for you?

This course is aimed at professionals looking to explore the global data protection concerns driving new internet and technology regulations. It’s designed to be open and applicable to people from various geographical or jurisdictional contexts who are eager to understand the core legal concepts and debates around data law and regulation, as well as data-driven decision-making. Offering practical applications for both legal and business professionals, this course is relevant to business leaders, data analysts, and information technologists looking to gain expert perspectives on this current and critical issue. For legal consultants, public policy specialists, and law graduates, the course offers the opportunity to grow your knowledge in the field of tech-driven policymaking, data privacy and protection, and data regulation issues.

This Data: Law, Policy and Regulation online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 60 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.