What free open courses should one take for a "personal MBA"?

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Richard Ludlow

I'm not aware of a full curriculum worth of MBA-type courses, but these open courses will cover several of the key topics for you:

Finance

• Valuation, by Aswath Damodaran of NYU (http://academicearth.org/courses...)
• Financial Markets, by Robert Shiller of Yale (http://academicearth.org/courses...)
• Valuation and Investing, by Sal Khan (http://academicearth.org/courses...)
• Financial Theory, by Jon Geanakoplos of Yale (http://academicearth.org/courses...)

*If you only have time for one lecture, I would recommend "Investing for the Long Run" by David Swensen of Yale, one of the most successful institutional investors of the last three decades (http://academicearth.org/lecture...).

Strategy

• Game Theory, by Ben Polak of Yale (http://academicearth.org/courses...)

Economics

• Current Economics, by Sal Khan (http://academicearth.org/courses...)

Entrepreneurship (talks and interviews)

• Ron Conway on angel investing (http://academicearth.org/courses...)
• Guy Kawasaki on pitching and other topics (http://academicearth.org/courses...)
• Reid Hoffman on entrepreneurship and risk-taking (http://academicearth.org/courses...)
• Barry Nalebuff on creativity and innovation (http://academicearth.org/lecture...)

[Disclosure: I'm the founder of Academic Earth, which I link to in the courses listed above.]

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