Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions

Last Updated: August 28, 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
FSS: Building Green Businesses ( also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and Technology and Operations Management) Joseph Lassiter , Forest Reinhardt, and Lee Fleming 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
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Building a Business in the Context of a Life John Davis Winter 2009
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
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States Richard Tedlow Fall 2008
Doing Business in China in the Early 21st Century (also listed under General Management and BGIE) Regina Abrami, William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Köll , and F. Warren McFarlan Winter 2009
Entrepreneurial Leadership: Past, Present and Future Nancy Koehn Winter 2009
Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Finance) William Sahlman, Joseph Lassiter, Das Narayandas Fall 2008
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment Paul Marshall

Nick Lazaris		 Fall 2008

Winter 2009
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism Geoffrey Jones Fall 2008
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Healthcare Richard Hamermesh, Robert Higgins Winter 2009
Entrepreneurship in Education Reform Stacey Childress Winter 2009
Field Study Seminar: Building Green Businesses (also listed under BGIE and Technology and Operations Management) Joseph Lassiter , Forest Reinhardt, and Lee Fleming Winter 2009
Field Study Seminar: Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Michael Roberts Fall 2008
Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms (also listed under Finance) Belen Villalonga Winter 2009
Half-Course:  Law and the Life Cycle of a Business –Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management) Lena G. Goldberg Early Winter 2009
Half-Course: Law and the Life Cycle of a Business-Operating as a Public Company (also listed under General Management) Lena G. Goldberg Late Winter 2009
International Entrepreneurship (also listed under Finance) Daniel Isenberg Winter 2009
Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science (also listed underTechnology & Operations Management) Lee Fleming, Vicki Sato Fall 2008
Leading Innovative Ventures (also listed under Organizational Behavior and Technology and Operations Management) Mary Tripsas Winter 2009
Managing Networked Businesses (also listed under Negotiation, Organizations and Markets) Peter Coles, Ben Edelman Winter 2009
Money and Power in Entrepreneurial Ventures Noam Wasserman Winter 2009
Real Property (also listed under Finance) Arthur Segel

John D. Macomber		 Fall 2008

Winter 2009
Venture Capital and Private Equity (also listed under Finance) Josh Lerner, Paul Gompers and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Winter 2009
Finance
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Behavioral Finance and Value Investing Robin Greenwood, TBA Winter 2009
Consumer Finance Peter Tufano Winter 2009
Corporate Financial Engineering Timothy Luehrman and Peter Tufano Winter 2009
Corporate Financial Management Timothy Luehrman Fall 2008
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring Ronald Moore

Stuart Gilson		 Fall 2008

Winter 2009
Dynamic Markets Erik Stafford Fall 2008
Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) William Sahlman, Joseph Lassiter, Das Narayandas Fall 2008
Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Belen Villalonga Winter 2009
Functional and Strategic Finance Robert C. Merton Winter 2009
International Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Dan Isenberg Winter 2009
International Financial Management Mihir Desai

Fritz Foley		 Fall 2008

Winter 2009
Investment Management Randy Cohen

Kenneth Froot		 Fall 2008

Winter 2009
Private Equity Finance Rick Ruback, David Scharfstein, Nabil El-Hage Fall 2008
Real Estate Development, Design & Construction Gene Kohn Winter 2009
Real Estate in Emerging Markets Nicolas Retsinas Winter 2009
Real Property (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Arthur Segel

John D. Macomber		 Fall 2008

Winter 2009
Tax Factors in Business Decisions Henry Reiling Fall 2008
Venture Capital and Private Equity (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Josh Lerner, Paul Gompers, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Winter 2009
General 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
Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under Marketing) V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu Winter 2009
Customers, Commerce and Society (also listed under Marketing) Herman Leonard, V. Kasturi Rangan Fall 2008
Cross-Cultural Work Experiences Rajiv Lal Summer/Fall 2008
Doing Business in China in the Early 21st Century (also listed in BGIE and Entrepreneurial Management) Regina Abrami, William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Köll , and F. Warren McFarlan Winter 2009
Entrepreneurship in Education Reform (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Stacey Childress Winter 2009
Field Study Seminar: Innovating in Health Care Regina Herzlinger Winter 2009
Field Study Seminar: Intellectual Property for Executives Robert Pozen Fall 2008
Field Study Seminar: Managing and Investing in Emerging Markets Tarun Khanna Fall 2008
Half-Course:  Law and the Life Cycle of a Business –Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Lena G. Goldberg Early Winter 2009
Half-Course: Law and the Life Cycle of a Business-Operating as a Public Company (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Lena G. Goldberg Late Winter 2009
Half-Course: Persuading Business Audiences Bill Ellet Winter 2009
Innovating in Health Care Regina Herzlinger Fall 2008
Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Allen Grossman

Alnoor Ebrahim		 Fall 2008

Winter 2009
Managing Change (also listed under Organizational Behavior) Rosabeth Moss Kanter Winter 2009
The Moral Leader Clayton Rose ,

Sandra Sucher

Michael Wheeler		 Fall 2008

Winter 2009
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 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 Fall 2008
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 Winter 2009
FSS: Building Green Businesses (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and BGIE) Joseph Lassiter , Forest Reinhardt, and Lee Fleming Winter 2009
FSS: Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor Ananth Raman Fall 2008
FSS: Managing Product & Service Innovation Stefan Thomke Winter 2009
HC: Managing Product & Service Innovation 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