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 |
| 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 |
