Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions

Last Updated: November 19, 2009

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Accounting and Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Eddie Riedl

Sharon Katz		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Customer Intelligence Advantage F. Asis Martinez Jerez Winter 2010
Designing Organizations for Performance Robert Simons Winter 2010
Half-Course: Financial Reporting and Analysis for Managers Michael Kimbrough Early Winter 2010
Business, Government & the International Economy
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Agribusiness David Bell Fall 2009
Business and the Environment Forest Reinhardt, Michael Toffel Fall 2009
Creating the Modern Financial System David Moss Winter 2010
Doing Business in China in the 21st Century (also listed under General Management) Regina Abrami, William C. Kirby Winter 2010
The Energy Business and Geopolitics Noel Maurer Fall 2009
Field Study Seminar: Building Green Businesses (also listed under Technology and Operations Management and Entrepreneurial Management) Forest Reinhardt, Joseph Lassiter, Rebecca Henderson, and Lee Fleming Winter 2010
Half-Course: Global Capital and National Institutions-- Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture Laura Alfaro Early Winter 2010
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE) Rafael Di Tella Winter 2010
Managing International Trade and Investment Gunnar Trumbull Fall 2009
Entrepreneurial Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Building a Business in the Context of a Life Bhaskar Chakravorti Winter 2010
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) Clay Christensen , Raymond Gilmartin

Gary Pisano, Willy Shih		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States Richard Tedlow Fall 2009
Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Finance) William Sahlman, Joseph Lassiter Fall 2009
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment Paul Marshall, J. Bruce Harreld Fall 2009
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism Geoffrey Jones Fall 2009
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Healthcare Richard Hamermesh, Robert Higgins Fall 2009
Entrepreneurship in Education Reform Stacey Childress Winter 2010
Executing Strategy (also listed under Strategy) J. Bruce Harreld Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Building Green Businesses (also listed under Technology and Operations Management and Business, Government and the International Economy) Forest Reinhardt, Joseph Lassiter , Rebecca Henderson , and Lee Fleming Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Shaped by Crises Bhaskar Chakravorti Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Michael Roberts Fall 2009
Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms (also listed under Finance) Belen Villalonga Winter 2010
Founders' Dilemmas: Money and Power in Entrepreneurial Ventures Noam Wasserman , Ginger Graham Winter 2010
Half-Course: Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Michael Roberts Early Fall 2009
Half-Course:  Law and the Life Cycle of a Business -- Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management) Lena G. Goldberg Late Fall 2009
International Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management) Mukti Khaire Winter 2010
Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science (also listed underTechnology & Operations Management) Vicki Sato Fall 2009
Leading Innovative Ventures (also listed under Organizational Behavior and Technology and Operations Management) Mary Tripsas Winter 2010
Managing Innovation Stefan Thomke, Karim Lakhani Winter 2010
Managing Networked Businesses (also listed under Negotiation, Organizations and Markets) Peter Coles, Ben Edelman Winter 2010
Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction (also listed under Finance) John D. Macomber, Gene Kohn, Christopher Gordon Winter 2010
Real Property (also listed under Finance) Arthur Segel Fall 2009
Research Seminar: Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) Clay Christensen, Woodward Yang Fall 2009
Venture Capital and Private Equity (also listed under Finance) Paul Gompers, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Winter 2010
Finance
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Behavioral and Value Investing Robin Greenwood Winter 2010
Consumer Finance (Joint with Harvard Law School) Peter Tufano, Howell Jackson Winter 2010
Corporate Financial Management Timothy Luehrman, Yuhai Xuan Fall 2009
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring Stuart Gilson Winter 2010
Dynamic Markets Erik Stafford Fall 2009
Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) William Sahlman, Joseph Lassiter Fall 2009
Field Study Seminar: Affordable Housing in the United States Nicolas Retsinas Winter 2010
Financial Markets, Institutions, and Instruments (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Daniel Bergstresser Winter 2010
Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Belen Villalonga Winter 2010
Functional and Strategic Finance Robert C. Merton Winter 2010
Half-Course: Private Equity Finance David Scharfstein Late Winter 2010
International Financial Management Li Jin , Fritz Foley Fall 2009
Investment Management Kenneth Froot Fall 2009
Private Equity Finance; see Half-Course: Private Equity Finance
Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) John D. Macomber, Gene Kohn, Christopher Gordon Winter 2010
Real Estate Options in Emerging Markets Nicolas Retsinas Winter 2010
Real Property (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Arthur Segel Fall 2009
Tax Factors in Business Decisions Henry Reiling Fall 2009
Venture Capital and Private Equity (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Paul Gompers, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Winter 2010
General Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) Clay Christensen , Raymond Gilmartin

Gary Pisano, Willy Shih		 Fall 2009


Winter 2010
Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under Marketing) V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu Fall 2009
Commerce and Society: Business and Creation of Social Value (also listed under Marketing and Organizational Behavior) Christopher Marquis Fall 2009
Cross-Cultural Work Experiences TBD Summer/Fall 2009
Doing Business in China in the 21st Century (also listed under General Management) Regina Abrami, William C. Kirby Winter 2010
Entrepreneurship in Education Reform (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Stacey Childress Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Innovating in Health Care Regina Herzlinger Winter 2010
Half-Course: Active Investing - Management and Governance Nabil El-Hage Early Fall 2009
Half-Course:  Law and the Life Cycle of a Business -- Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Lena G. Goldberg Late Fall 2009
Half-Course: Maximizing the Value of Your Intellectual Property Robert Pozen Early Fall 2009
Half-Course: Persuading Business Audiences Bill Ellet Early Fall 2009
Innovating in Health Care Regina Herzlinger Winter 2010
International Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Mukti Khaire Winter 2010
Law and the Life Cycle of a Business-Operating as a Public Company Lena G. Goldberg Winter 2010
Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Allen Grossman

Alnoor Ebrahim		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Managing Innovation Stefan Thomke, Karim Lakhani Winter 2010
Managing the Financial Firm Clayton Rose Fall 2009
The Moral Leader Sandra Sucher

Michael Wheeler		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Research Seminar: Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under Technology & Operations Management and Entrepreneurial Management) Clay Christensen Fall 2009
Marketing
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Agribusiness David Bell Fall 2009
Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu Fall 2009
Business Marketing Thomas Steenburgh Winter 2010
Consumer Marketing Youngme Moon Fall 2009
Commerce and Society: Business and Creation of Social Value (also listed under General Management and Organizational Behavior) Christopher Marquis Fall 2009
Half-Course: Digital Marketing Strategy John Deighton, Sunil Gupta Early Winter 2010
Half-Course: Retailing Jose Alvarez Late Winter 2010
Marketing and Innovation Elie Ofek Winter 2010
Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries Anita Elberse Winter 2010
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Advanced Negotiation: Setup, Deal Design, and Tactics Jim Sebenius Fall 2009
Complex Negotiation Michael Wheeler Winter 2010
Managing Global Health: Design, Delivery and Evaluation of Global Health Programs Nava Ashraf Winter 2010
Managing Networked Businesses (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Peter Coles, Ben Edelman Winter 2010
Managing, Organizing & Negotiating for Value Brian Hall, Andrew Wasynczuk Winter 2010
Power and Influence (also listed under Organizational Behavior)

Amy Cuddy

David Thomas

 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Organizational Behavior
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Authentic Leadership Development William George, Nitin Nohria , Robert Steven Kaplan, Peter Olson Fall 2009
The Board of Directors and Corporate Governance Jay Lorsch

Rakesh Khurana 		Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Commerce and Society: Business and Creation of Social Value (also listed under General Management and Organizational Behavior) Christopher Marquis Fall 2009
Great Business Leaders--The Importance of Contextual Intelligence Anthony Mayo Winter 2010
Leading Innovative Ventures (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and Technology and Operations Management) Mary Tripsas Winter 2010
Leading Professional Service Firms Robert G. Eccles Winter 2010
Leading Teams Robin Ely Winter 2010
Managing Human Capital Boris Groysberg Fall 2009
Power and Influence (also listed under Negotiation, Organizations and Markets) Amy Cuddy

David Thomas		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Strategy
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Competing through Business Models Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Fall 2009
Competing with Social Networks Mikolaj Piskorski Winter 2010
Competitive Dynamics Dennis Yao Winter 2010
Corporate Strategy Julie Wulf Winter 2010
Executing Strategy J. Bruce Harreld Winter 2010
Games of Chance and Games of Strategy Elon Kohlberg Fall 2009
Global Strategic Management David Collis Fall 2009
Microeconomics of Competitiveness Michael Porter Winter 2010
Strategic Reasoning Laboratory: How to Think Like Great Strategists Giovanni Gavetti Winter 2010
Strategies Beyond the Market Felix Oberholzer-Gee Fall 2009
Strategy and Technology Andrei Hagiu Fall 2009
Technology & Operations Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Entrepreneurial Management) Clay Christensen, Raymond Gilmartin

Gary Pisano, Willy Shih		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Business and the Environment Forest Reinhardt, Michael Toffel Fall 2009
Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains Zeynep Ton Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Building Green Businesses (also listed under Business, Government and the International Economy and Entrepreneurial Management) Forest Reinhardt, Joseph Lassiter, Rebecca Henderson, and Lee Fleming Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor Ananth Raman Fall 2009
Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science Vicki Sato Fall 2009
Leading Innovative Ventures (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and Organizational Behavior) Mary Tripsas Winter 2010
Managing Innovation Stefan Thomke, Karim Lakhani Winter 2010
Managing Medicine Richard  Bohmer Fall 2009
Managing Service Operations Ananth Raman Fall 2009
Operations Strategy Robert Huckman, Dan Snow Fall 2009
Research Seminar: Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Entrepreneurial Management) Clay Christensen Fall 2009