Microcredentials
Build skills fast.
Gain new capabilities through Simon’s micro-credentials, short courses for professionals and lifelong learners. In just three 90-minute sessions and 10 hours of self-paced study, you’ll explore timely business topics and immediately apply what you learn.
What is a Micro-credential?
Micro-credentials are short, focused mini-courses that build practical, in-demand skills in just three sessions. Each course earns 0.5 credits and explores current topics—such as AI, policy, or digital strategy—taught by Simon's expert faculty. Designed for busy learners, these online courses deliver hands-on knowledge you can put to work right away.
Why should you enroll?
Upskill in your current role or explore new career paths through Simon's targeted micro-credentials. Gain actionable insights, deepen your expertise in emerging business areas, and earn a credential that demonstrates your capabilities and helps you tackle real-world challenges.
Current Microcredential Offerings
Academic Credit | Modality | Cost | Alumni receive a |
- Generative AI in Practice: Using AI to Solve Challenges in Your Work
Professor: Dan Keating
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 12, 19
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. EST
Registration Deadline: October 22Learn to harness the practical power of generative AI and apply it directly to your role, no matter what field you’re in. Through hands-on practice, you’ll learn to use, design, and build generative AI tools to create immediate value, gaining practical strategies to integrate AI into your workflows to make smarter, faster decisions. You’ll explore the big questions surrounding AI—the moral, philosophical, and ethical challenges inherent in this new frontier. Whether you are new to Generative AI or looking to build a stronger foundation, this course will strengthen your GenAI skills and empower you to use AI tools confidently in your tasks.
- Politics, Policy, and Strategy
Professor: David Primo
Date: Thursday, November 6, 13, 20
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET
Registration Deadline: October 22In an era of political volatility, effective management means looking beyond markets. This mini-course introduces the concept of a nonmarket environment: a world of regulation, legislation, and public perception where firms and other interests compete. Across three interactive sessions, participants will explore how companies use lobbying, coalition building, and other tools to develop strategies for managing beyond markets—even turning it to their strategic advantage.
- Digital Transformation Strategy: Build your Organization’s Digital Roadmap
Professor: Marc K. Peter
Date: Thursday, November 20, December 4, 18
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET
Registration Deadline: November 12This course will provide a strategy framework centered around the seven action fields of digital transformation. It will enable participants to identify digital opportunities in their company through strategy workshops in a lean methodology and to build a digital roadmap. All participants will have access to a toolkit with templates, checklists and examples to fast-track their digital roadmap development.
With many practice examples provided throughout the course, participants will quickly gain an understanding of all relevant topics and components of a digital roadmap. Numerous established management frameworks will be adapted to the challenges and opportunities of the digital age. As part of the course, participants will be able to complete a draft digital transformation roadmap – and have a methodology and tools to immediately kick-start their own digital strategy workshop.
Upcoming Registration Deadlines
Registration deadlines are two weeks before the start of sessions.
Next Deadline:
October 22, 2025
Tuition & Benefits
Many employers offer tuition assistance. Check with your HR or benefits team to see if your Simon course may be fully or partially covered. University of Rochester employees may also be eligible for employee tuition benefits.