Why Advanced Business Analytics?

Technological innovation has created a surplus of data availability. Terms like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data are becoming the norm in corporate decision making. As data keeps increasing, it also creates an asset from which you can extract crucial information. The question is no longer “do we need analytics?” Instead, the focus is on harnessing tools and capabilities to derive applicable insights.


Organizations are leaving no stone unturned to ensure advanced business analytics can help them drive growth and increase profits. Unlike before when analytics was considered as the domain of just data experts, the skill is now essential for several senior executive roles in any domain or industry. As data becomes essential to the growth of every business, the need for senior executives who know how to visualize analytics and take impactful decisions will keep rising.

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of businesses cite managing unstructured data as a problem.


Source: Accenture

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Why Wharton Executive Education’s
Advanced Business Analytics Program?

The Advanced Business Analytics Program (ABAP) is designed for executives who want to gain fluency in AI and analytics and how they shape decision outcomes — which includes both opportunities as well as challenges.


The core modules are designed to ensure you get adequate grounding in the nuances of business analytics before you head into in-depth electives. It tackles two important aspects of business analytics. The first part is descriptive analytics where you dig into the data to find its quality, relevance, and importance — this is where you get your hands dirty with data. Once that is established, you move on to the next aspect of prescriptive analytics, which is the art and science of making decisions from observational data — the fun part.


Learning about both these aspects will ensure you can take the right data-backed decisions on management or company policies that is required in most senior roles today.


Customized design for your success

The learning journey of 12 to 15 months has been structured with the needs of busy executives in mind. You will learn through online and interactive sessions, including fireside chats and guest lectures from leading researchers and global industry leaders. The flexible nature of ABAP allows you to customize your learning journey for maximum career and business impact.


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Flexible

Flexible
The self-paced modules provide the flexibility to accommodate learning around your busy work schedule. The program can be completed in 12 to 15 months as your schedule and program selections demand.

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Interactive

Interactive
A community learning experience with a limited cohort size facilitates weekly interactive discussions with peers, program coaches, faculty, industry speakers, and career advisors — allowing you to implement program learnings in real-world scenarios.

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Transformative

Transformative
The multimodular learning journey experience, including the capstone project, allows you to learn and grow as an executive while enabling you to develop business analytics strategies to improve your personal and organizational goals.

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Flexible
The self-paced modules provide the flexibility to accommodate learning around your busy work schedule. The program can be completed in 12 to 15 months as your schedule and program selections demand.

Image to accompany text - Interactive

Interactive
A community learning experience with a limited cohort size facilitates weekly interactive discussions with peers, program coaches, faculty, industry speakers, and career advisors — allowing you to implement program learnings in real-world scenarios.

Image to accompany text - Transformative

Transformative
The multimodular learning journey experience, including the capstone project, allows you to learn and grow as an executive while enabling you to develop business analytics strategies to improve your personal and organizational goals.

Why Wharton

Since the Wharton School’s establishment in 1881, it has consistently ranked among the world’s top business schools. The School’s identity was forged by its founder Joseph Wharton — to create responsible leaders who rely on rigorous analysis and evidence-based actionable knowledge and not opinion-driven decisions.


Wharton analytics is driven by diligent and relevant data analysis, ensuring executives transform into visionary and pragmatic leaders. With Wharton’s disciplined approach, you will learn to challenge concepts, created focused ideas, and accelerate your organization’s growth.


If you're someone who is looking to take the next step in a data-driven career,
we recommend that you explore the curriculum to learn how the program can help transform your organization.

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