Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions
Last Updated: June 25, 2008
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Accounting and Management
| Course Title | Faculty Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting & Financial Communication | Michael Kimbrough | Winter 2009 |
| Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements | Eddie Riedl Sharon Katz, Suraj Srinivasan |
Fall 2008 Winter 2009 |
| Competing and Winning through Customer Information | F. Asis Martinez Jerez | Winter 2009 |
Business, Government & the International Economy
| Course Title | Faculty Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Capitalism, Democracy and Development formerly Economic Strategies of Nations | Bruce Scott | Winter 2009 |
| Creating the Modern Financial System | David Moss | Winter 2009 |
| Doing Business in China in the Early 21st Century (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and General Management) | Regina Abrami, William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Köll , and F. Warren McFarlan | Winter 2009 |
| Half-Course: Agribusiness | David Bell | Winter 2009 |
| Half-Course: Business & the Environment | Forest Reinhardt | Late Fall 2008 |
| Half-Course: Energy | Forest Reinhardt | Early Fall 2008 |
| Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE) | Rafael Di Tella, Laura Alfaro | Winter 2009 |
| Managing International Trade and Investment | Gunnar Trumbull | Fall 2008 |
Entrepreneurial Management
Finance
General Management
Marketing
| Course Title | Faculty Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) | V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu | Winter 2009 |
| Business Marketing and Sales | David Godes | Fall 2008 |
| Consumer Marketing | Youngme Moon | Fall 2008 |
| Customers, Commerce and Society (also listed under General Management) | Dutch Leonard, V. Kasturi Rangan | Fall 2008 |
| HC: Agribusiness (also listed under Business, Government and the International Economy) | David Bell | Early Winter 2009 |
| HC: Retailing | Rajiv Lal | Late Winter 2009 |
| Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries | Anita Elberse | Winter 2009 |
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets
| Course Title | Faculty Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Complex Negotiation | Michael Wheeler | Winter 2009 |
| Half-Course: Advanced Negotiation | James Sebenius | Early Winter 2009 |
| Half-Course: Great Negotiators | James Sebenius | Early Winter 2009 |
| Managing, Organizing & Negotiating for Value | Brian Hall, Andrew Wasynczuk | Winter 2009 |
| Managing Networked Businesses (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Peter Coles, Ben Edelman | Winter 2009 |
Organizational Behavior
| Course Title | Faculty Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Authentic Leadership Development | William George | Fall 2008 |
| The Board of Directors and Corporate Governance | Jay
Lorsch Rakesh Khurana |
Fall 2008 Winter 2009 |
| Great Business Leaders--The Importance of Contextual Intelligence | Anthony Mayo | Winter 2009 |
| Leading Innovative Ventures (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and Technology & Operations Management) | Mary Tripsas | Winter 2009 |
| Leading Professional Service Firms | Robert G. Eccles | Winter 2009 |
| Leading Teams | Jeff
Polzer Robin Ely |
Fall 2008 Winter 2009 |
| Managing Change (also listed under General Management) | Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Winter 2009 |
| Managing Human Capital | Boris Groysberg | Fall 2008 |
| Power and Influence | David
Thomas, Erika
James David Thomas | Fall 2008 Winter 2009 |
Strategy
| Course Title | Faculty Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Competing through Business Models | Ramon Casadesus-Masanell | Fall 2008 |
| Competing with Social Networks | Mikolaj Piskorski | Winter 2009 |
| Competitive Dynamics | Dennis Yao | Winter 2009 |
| Corporate Strategy | Julie Wulf | Winter 2009 |
| Field Study Seminar: Managing and Investing in Emerging Markets | Tarun Khanna | Fall 2008 |
| Games of Chance and Games of Strategy | Elon Kohlberg | Fall 2008 |
| Global Strategic Management | Jordan Siegel | Winter 2009 |
| Half-Course: Strategic Reasoning Laboratory | Giovanni Gavetti | Early Winter 2009 |
| Microeconomics of Competitiveness | Michael Porter | Winter 2009 |
| Strategy and Technology | Andrei Hagiu | Fall 2008 |
Technology & Operations Management
| Course Title | Faculty Name | Term |
|---|---|---|
| Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) | Stephen
Kaufman, Raymond
Gilmartin and Willy
Shih Clay Christensen |
Fall 2008 Winter 2009 |
| Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains | Zeynep Ton , Noel Watson | Winter 2009 |
| FSS: Managing Product & Service Development | Stefan Thomke | Winter 2009 |
| HC: Managing Product & Service Development | Stefan Thomke | Early Winter 2009 |
| Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science | Lee Fleming, Vicki Sato | Fall 2008 |
| Leading Innovative Ventures (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and Organizational Behavior) | Mary Tripsas | Winter 2009 |
| Managing in an Information Age | Andrew McAfee | Winter 2009 |
| Managing Medicine | Richard Bohmer | Fall 2008 |
| Managing Service Operations | Ananth Raman, Dennis Campbell | Fall 2008 |
| Operations Strategy | Robert Huckman, Dan Snow | Fall 2008 |