I recently completed Advanced Business Analytics: Excel Optimization & Simulation offered by Johns Hopkins University, and it was an outstanding learning experience. The course provides a comprehensive introduction to modeling real-world optimization problems using Excel, making complex decision-making more structured and data-driven. It offers hands-on training with Excel’s Solver tool, covering everything from formulating linear programming problems to interpreting Solver results effectively. One of the highlights of this course was its practical approach—breaking down optimization problems into objective functions, decision variables, and constraints. The step-by-step guidance made it easy to grasp advanced analytical techniques and apply them to business scenarios. Whether you’re a beginner looking to understand optimization or a professional seeking to refine your skills, this course is a fantastic resource. Highly recommended for anyone interested in data-driven decision-making and business analytics!

An in depth coverage of the study material by the instructor. Revise the first course as you progress to this course. The fist course is integrated within this course itself.

The complicated material presented was explained exceptionally well and will permit the students to gain many valuable skills in Excel.

This course has been very educative and well articulated. Credits to the professor for the very good job in the well articulated explanations.

I feel like I learned some very useful skills in this course. The professor did a great job explaining the course material clearly.

Great instructor - very knowledgeable and well organized. I look forward to participating in more related courses he conducts.

Perfect, however, some parts of the courses were the same as another course available on Coursera with the same instructor.

I would highly recommend anyone to take this course if you want to make a career in Finance and Business Analysis !!

I liked the course very much! I used to work closely with Excel, but nevertheless, I found a lot of new information.

I learned many advanced skills of Excel in Business Analytics. Thank you!

Great course to improve our Excel optimization and simulation skills.

I really appreciate some practical and useful examples. Thank You

Excellent analytics tools and practical business problem solution

very helpful, new points of view when simulating demand.

Mathematics aspect is sometimes hard to understand

Best course for Advance Business Analytics

Great course , very helpful and unique

Very good teacher! Congratulations :)

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