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Entrepreneurial Management

Curriculum

MBA Required Curriculum (1st Year)

The Entrepreneurial Manager

This course addresses the issues faced by managers who wish to turn opportunity into viable organizations that create value, and empowers students to develop their own approaches, guidelines, and skills for being entrepreneurial managers.

The course teaches students how to:

  • Identify potentially valuable opportunities.
  • Obtain the resources necessary to pursue an opportunity and to create an entrepreneurial organization.
  • Manage the entrepreneurial organization once it has been established.
  • Grow the business into a sustainable enterprise.
  • Create and harvest value for the organization's stakeholders.

All first-year HBS MBA students have a series of required courses, as listed below:

Term I Courses
These five courses focus on the internal functional operations of business enterprise.

Term II Courses
These six courses cover the relationship of the organization to larger economic, governmental, and social environments.


MBA Elective Curriculum (2nd Year)

Entrepreneurial Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
Building a Business in the Context of a Life Janet Kraus Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise(also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) Clay Christensen, Ray Gilmartin, Chet Huber

Chet Huber 		Fall 2011


Winter 2012 		Q1, Q2


Q3, Q4		 3.0


3.0
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States Tom Nicholas Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Creating High-Impact Ventures: Entrepreneurs Who Changed The World Mukti Khaire Winter 2012 Q3 1.5
Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Finance)

William Sahlman, Joseph Lassiter, Ramana Nanda

 Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (also listed under Strategy) Paul Marshall, Jim Sharpe Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism Geoffrey Jones

 Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Healthcare Richard Hamermesh, Robert Higgins Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Entrepreneurship in Education Reform (also listed under Organizational Behavior) John Kim Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Entrepreneurship in the Private and Social Sectors Robert Higgins, Richard Cavanagh Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Field Course: Commercializing Science: Biomedical and Life Science Focus (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Vicki Sato Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Field Course: Commercializing Science: Clean Tech and Physical Science Focus (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Lee Fleming, Woodward Yang Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Field Course: Creating High-Impact Ventures: Entrepreneurs Who Changed The World Mukti Khaire Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (also listed under Finance) Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Field Course: Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Mike Roberts Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Field Course in Healthcare Richard Hamermesh, Ginger L. Graham Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Field Course: Launching Technology Ventures Thomas Eisenmann, Jeffrey Bussgang Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Field Course: Managing Innovation also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Karim Lakhani Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Field Course: Social Entrepreneurship in the Business Sector (also listed under Organizational Behavior) Christopher Marquis Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Field Project: Innovation in Business, Energy, and Environment (also listed under Technology & Operations Management and Finance) Lee Fleming, Rebecca Henderson, Forest Reinhardt, Joseph Lassiter, John Macomber Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0
Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Finance)Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Founders' Dilemmas Noam Wasserman, Janet Kraus Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Growing, Financing, and Managing Family and Closely Held Firms (also listed under Finance ) Belen Villalonga Winter 2012 Q4 3
I-LAB IXP Course: Entrepreneurial Ventures in Silicon Valley Thomas R. Eisenmann Winter 2012 J 1.5
Innovating in Health Care Intensive Course Regina E. Herzlinger Fall 2011 Q1 3
IXP Course: China; Understanding China's Business Environment Elisabeth Koll January J 1.5
Launching Technology Ventures Thomas Eisenmann, Jeffrey Bussgang Winter 2012 Q3 1.5
Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management) Lena Goldberg Fall 2011 Q2 1.5
Legal Aspects of Management (also listed under General Management) Lena Goldberg Fall 2011 Q1 1.5
Managing Innovation (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Karim Lakhani Winter 2012 Q3 1.5
The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship(also listed under Negotiation, Organizations & Markets) Peter Coles, Benjamin Edelman Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Real Property (also listed under Finance)

Arthur Segel

 Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Real Estate Development, Design, and Construction (also listed under Finance) John Macomber, Christopher Gordon, A. Eugene Kohn Winter 2012 Q4 1.5
Research Seminar: Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise(also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management)

Stephen P. Kaufman

 Fall 2011 Q1, Q2 3.0
Social Entrepreneurship in the Business Sector(also listed under Organizational Behavior ) Christopher Marquis Fall 2011 Q1 1.5
Sustainable Cities; Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance (also listed under Finance ) John D. Macomber Winter 2012 Q3 1.5
Venture Capital and Private Equity (also listed under Finance) Paul Gompers, Kristin Mugford Winter 2012 Q3, Q4 3.0

Doctoral Programs

Detailed curriculum information and requirements for each doctoral program associated with the Entrepreneurial Management unit can be found on the Doctoral Programs Web site, linked below.

Executive Education