Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions

Last Updated: November 19, 2009

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A Area Faculty Name Term
Active Investing - Management and Governance; see Half-Course: Active Investing - Mangement and Governance  
Advanced Negotiation: Setup, Deal Design, and Tactics Negotiation, Organization & Markets James Sebenius Fall 2009
Agribusiness Marketing (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy) David Bell Fall 2009
Authentic Leadership Development Organizational Behavior William George, Nitin Nohria, Robert Steven Kaplan, Peter Olson Fall 2009
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B Area Faculty Name Term
Behavioral and Value Investing Finance Robin Greenwood Winter 2010
The Board of Directors and Corporate Governance Organizational Behavior Jay Lorsch

Rakesh Khurana 		Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Technology and Operations Management (also listed under General Management and Entrepreneurial Management) Clay Christensen, Raymond Gilmartin

Gary Pisano ,Willy Shih		 Fall 2009





Winter 2010
Building Business in the Context of a Life Entreprenurial Management Bhaskar Chakravorti Winter 2010
Building Green Businesses; see Field Study Seminar: Building Green Businesses      
Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Accounting & Management Eddie Riedl

Sharon Katz		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Business and the Environment Business, Government & the International Economy (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Forest Reinhardt, Michael Toffel Fall 2009
Business at the Base of the Pyramid Marketing (also listed under General Management) V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu Fall 2009
Business Marketing Marketing Thomas Steenburgh Winter 2010
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C Area Faculty Name Term
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States Entrepreneurial Management Richard Tedlow Fall 2009
Commerce and Society: Business and Creation of Social Value Organizational Behavior (also listed under General Management) Christopher Marquis Fall 2009
Competing through Business Models Strategy Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Fall 2009
Competing with Social Networks Strategy Mikolaj Piskorski Winter 2010
Competitive Dynamics: Strategy and Tactics Strategy Dennis Yao Winter 2010
Complex Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Michael Wheeler Winter 2010
Consumer Finance Finance Peter Tufano, Howell Jackson Winter 2010
Consumer Marketing Marketing Youngme Moon Fall 2009
Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains Technology & Operations Management Zeynep Ton Winter 2010
Corporate Financial Management Finance Timothy Luehrman, Yuhai Xuan Fall 2009
Corporate Strategy Strategy Julie Wulf Winter 2010
Creating the Modern Financial System Business, Government and the International Economy David Moss Winter 2010
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring Finance Stuart Gilson Winter 2010
Cross-Cultural Work Experiences General Management TBD Summer/Fall 2009
Customer Intelligence Advantage Accounting & Management F. Asis Martinez Jerez Winter 2010
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D Area Faculty Name Term
Designing Organizations for Performance Accounting & Management Robert Simons Winter 2010
Digital Marketing Strategy; see HC: Digital Marketing Strategy      
Doing Business in China in the 21st Century Business, Government & the International Economy (also listed under General Management) Regina Abrami, William C. Kirby Winter 2010
Dynamic Markets Finance Erik Stafford Fall 2009
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E Area Faculty Name Term
The Energy Business and Geopolitics Business, Government & the International Economy Noel Maurer Fall 2009
Entrepreneurial Finance Entrepreneurial Management (also listed under Finance) William Sahlman, Joseph Lassiter Fall 2009
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment Entrepreneurial Management Paul Marshall, J. Bruce Harreld Fall 2009
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism Entrepreneurial Management Geoffrey Jones

 Fall 2009
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Healthcare Entrepreneurial Management Richard Hamermesh, Robert Higgins Fall 2009
Entrepreneurship in Education Reform General Management Stacey Childress Winter 2010
Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity; see HC: Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity and Field Study Seminar: Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity      
Executing Strategy Strategy (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) J. Bruce Harreld Winter 2010
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F Area Faculty Name Term
Field Study Seminar: Affordable Housing in the United States Finance Nicolas Retsinas Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Building Green Businesses Entrepreneurial Management (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Lee Fleming, Rebecca Henderson, Joseph Lassiter, Forest Reinhardt Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Shaped by Crises Entrepreneurial Management Bhaskar Chakravorti Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Entrepreneurial Management Mike Roberts Fall 2009
Field Study Seminar: Innovating in Health Care General Management Regina Herzlinger Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor Technology & Operations Management Ananth Raman Fall 2009
Financial Markets, Institutions, and Instruments Finance Daniel Bergstresser Winter 2010
Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms Finance (also listed under Entrepreneurial Marketing) Belen Villalonga Winter 2010
Financial Reporting and Analysis for Managers; see HC:Financial Reporting and Analysis for Managers

 

      
Founders' Dilemmas: Money and Power in Entrepreneurial Ventures Entrepreneurial Management Noam Wasserman, Ginger Graham Winter 2010
Functional and Strategic Finance Finance Robert C. Merton Winter 2010
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G Area Faculty Name Term
Games of Chance and Games of Strategy Strategy Elon Kohlberg Fall 2009
Global Capital and National Institutions-- Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture; see Half-Course: Global Capital and National Institutions  
Global Strategic Management Strategy David Collis Fall 2008
Great Business Leaders--The Importance of Contextual Intelligence Organizational Behavior Anthony Mayo Winter 2010
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H Area Faculty Name Term
Half-Course: Active Investing - Management and Governance General Management Nabil El-Hage Early Fall 2009
Half-Course: Digital Marketing Strategy Marketing John Deighton, Sunil Gupta Early Winter 2010
Half-Course: Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Entrepreneurial Management Mike Roberts Early Fall 2009
Half-Course: Financial Reporting and Analysis for Managers Accounting & Management Michael Kimbrough Early Winter 2010
Half-Course: Global Capital and National Institutions-- Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture Business, Government & the International Economy Laura Alfaro Early Winter 2010
Half-Course: Law and the Life Cycle of a Business –Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship General Management (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Lena G. Goldberg Late Fall 2009
Half-Course: Maximizing the Value of Your Intellectual Property General Management Robert Pozen Early Fall 2009
Half-Course: Persuading Business Audiences General Management Bill Ellet Early Fall 2009
Half-Course: Private Equity Finance Finance David Scharfstein Late Winter 2010
Half-Course: Retailing Marketing Jose Alvarez Late Winter 2010
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I Area Faculty Name Term
Innovating in Health Care General Management Regina Herzlinger Winter 2010
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE) Business, Government & the International Economy Rafael Di Tella Winter 2010
International Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial Management (also listed under General Management) Mukti Khaire Winter 2010
International Financial Management Finance Fritz Foley, Li Jin Fall 2009
Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science Technology & Operations Management (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Vicki Sato Fall 2009
Investment Management Finance Kenneth Froot Fall 2009
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L Area Faculty Name Term
Law and the Life Cycle of a Business-Operating as a Public Company General Management Lena G. Goldberg Winter 2010
Leading And Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations General Mangement Allen Grossman

Alnoor Ebrahim		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Leading Innovative Ventures Entrepreneurial Management (also listed under Technology & Operations Management and Organizational Behavior) Mary Tripsas Winter 2010
Leading Professional Service Firms Organizational Behavior Robert G. Eccles Winter 2010
Leading Teams Organizational Behavior Robin Ely Winter 2010
Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship; see Half-Course: Law and the Life Cycle of a Business - Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship      
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M Area Faculty Name Term
Managing Global Health: Design, Delivery and Evaluation of Global Health Programs Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Nava Ashraf Winter 2010
Managing Human Capital Organizational Behavior Boris Groysberg Fall 2009
Managing Innovation Technology & Operations Management (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and General Management) Stefan Thomke, Karim Lakhani Winter 2010
Managing International Trade and Investment Business, Government & the International Economy Gunnar Trumbull Fall 2009
Managing Medicine Technology & Operations Management Richard Bohmer Fall 2009
Managing Networked Businesses Entrepreneurial Management (also listed under Negotiation, Organizations & Markets) Peter Coles, Ben Edelman Winter 2010
Managing Service Operations Technology & Operations Management Ananth Raman Fall 2009
Managing, Organizing & Negotiating for Value Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Brian Hall, Andrew Wasynczuk, Ian Larkin Winter 2010
Managing the Financial Firm General Management Clayton Rose Fall 2009
Marketing and Innovation Marketing Elie Ofek Winter 2010
Maximizing the Value of Y our Intellectual Property; see Half-Course: Maximizing the Value of Your Intellectual Property      
Microeconomics of Competitiveness Strategy Michael Porter Winter 2010
The Moral Leader General Management Sandra Sucher

Michael Wheeler		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
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O Area Faculty Name Term
Operations Strategy Technology & Operations Management Robert Huckman, Dan Snow Fall 2009
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P Area Faculty Name Term
Persuading Business Audiences; see Half-Course: Persuading Business Audiences    
Power and Influence Organizational Behavior Amy Cuddy

David Thomas		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Private Equity Finance; see Half-Course: Private Equity Finance    
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R Area Faculty Name Term
Real Estate Development, Design and Construction Finance John D. Macomber, Gene Kohn, Christopher Gordon Winter 2010
Real Estate in Emerging Markets Finance Nicolas Retsinas Winter 2010
Real Property Finance

Arthur Segel

 Fall 2009
Reseach Seminar: Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Technology & Operations Management (also listed under General Management and Entrepreneurial Management) Clayton Christensen Fall 2009
Retailing; see Half-Course: Retailing  

 

  
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S Area Faculty Name Term
Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries Marketing Anita Elberse Winter 2010
Strategic Resoning Lab: How to Think Like Great Strategists Strategy Giovanni Gavetti Winter 2010
Strategies Beyond the Market Strategy Felix Oberholzer-Gee Fall 2009
Strategy and Technology Strategy Andrei Hagiu Fall 2009
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T Area Faculty Name Term
Tax Factors in Business Decisions Finance Henry Reiling Fall 2009
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U Area Faculty Name Term
Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor; see Field Study Seminar: Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor      
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V Area Faculty Name Term
Venture Capital and Private Equity Entrepreneurial Management (also listed under Finance) Paul Gompers , Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Winter 2010
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