Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions

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Accounting & Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements
Jonas Heese
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management)
Robert Simons
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Executing Strategy
Robert Simons
Susanna Gallani
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Managing Risk and Uncertainty
Eugene Soltes
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under General Management and Strategy)
George Serafeim
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Business, Government & the International Economy
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
Capitalism and the State (CATS)
Debora L. Spar
Fall
2020
Q2 1.5
Creating the Modern Financial System
David Moss
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Geoffrey Jones
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Food and Agribusiness
Forest Reinhardt
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Globalization and Emerging Markets
Kristin Fabbe
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy
Vincent Pons
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Macro Risk, Economics and Markets
Huw Pill
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Managing International Trade and Investment
Dante Roscini
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Meg Rithmire
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
The Role of Government in Market Economies
Matthew Weinzierl
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Matthew Weinzierl
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Entrepreneurial Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States
Tom Nicholas
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems (University-wide Course) (also listed under Strategy)
Tarun Khanna
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
The Entrepreneur's Playbook: A How-To Guide for Start-Up Strategy
Abhishek Nagaraj
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Entrepreneurial Failure
Thomas Eisenmann
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Finance)
Shai Bernstein
Jim Matheson
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Paul Gompers
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (also listed under Organizational Behavior)
Ranjay Gulati
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Entrepreneurial Sales
Mark Roberge
Lou Shipley
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Entrepreneurial Solutions to the World's Problems
William Sahlman
Fall
2020
Q2 1.5
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy)
Geoffrey Jones
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Field Course: Decoding "Growth" in Silicon Valley
Mark Roberge
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Entrepreneurial Marketing (also listed under Marketing)
Frank Cespedes
Christina Wallace
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition Application Only (also listed under Finance)
Richard Ruback
Royce Yudkoff
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Field X (also listed under Finance)
Randolph Cohen
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management (also listed under Finance)
Randolph Cohen
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Product Management 101 Application Only
Melissa Perri
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Field Course: Product Management 102 Application Only
Melissa Perri
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses (also listed under General Management)
Archie L. Jones
Jeffrey Bussgang
Henry McGee
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Finance)
Richard Ruback
Royce Yudkoff
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Founders' Journey (also listed under Organizational Behavior)
Shikhar Ghosh
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Laura Huang
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (also listed under Strategy)
Tarun Khanna
Fall
2020
Q2 1.5
Investing - Risk, Return, and Impact (also listed under Finance)
Shawn Cole
Vikram Gandhi
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Launch Lab/Thesis 2
Thomas Eisenmann
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Launching Technology Ventures
Jeffrey Bussgang
Sam Clemens
Donna Levin
Reza Satchu
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management)
John Batter
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
John Batter
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Making Markets
Scott Duke Kominers
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Managing the Future of Work
Christopher Stanton
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management)
Mitchell Weiss
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Road to the White House
Robert F. White
Fall
2020
Q1 1.5
Sales Management & Strategy (also listed under Marketing)
Doug Chung
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Scaling Technology Ventures
Jeffrey Rayport
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Tough Tech Ventures
Joshua Lev Krieger
Jim Matheson
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Venture Capital and Private Equity
Nori Gerardo Lietz
Jo Tango
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Finance
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management and Marketing)
Michael Chu
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Corporate Finance: Strategies for Value Creation
Benjamin Esty
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Corporate Finance: Strategies for Value Creation (SVC)
C. Fritz Foley
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring
Kristin Williams Mugford
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Shai Bernstein
Jim Matheson
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Paul Gompers
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition Application Only (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Richard Ruback
Royce Yudkoff
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Field X (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Randolph Cohen
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Randolph Cohen
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems
John Dionne
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Projects in Investing Application Only
Sara Fleiss
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Enterprises
Jason Pananos
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Finance and Capitalism
Joshua Coval
Richard Ruback
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Richard Ruback
Royce Yudkoff
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Investing - Risk, Return, and Impact (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Shawn Cole
Vikram Gandhi
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Investment Management for Professional and Personal Investors
Emil Siriwardane
Luis Viceira
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Investment Strategies
Robin Greenwood
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Managing and Innovating in Financial Services
David Scharfstein
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Private Equity Finance
Victoria Ivashina
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Real Estate and Today's Leader
Arthur Segel
Charles Wu
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Real Estate Private Equity
Nori Gerardo Lietz
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Real Property
Marco Di Maggio
Boris Vallee
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Research Seminar on Private Equity and Venture
Paul Gompers
Fall
2020
Q1 1.5
Research Seminar on Private Equity and Venture Capital - Paper
Paul Gompers
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Sustainable Cities and Resilient Infrastructure
John Macomber
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
General Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
The Arts of Communication
Timothy McCarthy
Fall
2020
Q2 1.5
Timothy McCarthy
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Becoming a General Manager (also listed under Technology & Operations Management)
Amy Edmondson
Joseph Fuller
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under Strategy and Technology & Operations Management)
Chet Huber
Rory McDonald
Derek van Bever
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Allison Mnookin
Derek van Bever
Chet Huber
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under Marketing and Finance)
Michael Chu
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Kash Rangan
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (also listed under Marketing)
Anita Elberse
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry
Michael S. Kaufman
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under Accounting & Management)
Robert Simons
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy
University Course
Daniel Schrag
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Conversations on Leadership
Nitin Nohria
Leonard A. Schlesinger
Kristin Williams Mugford
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 1.5
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors (also listed under Organizational Behavior)
Lynn Paine
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Creating Value in Business and Government (HKS-HBS Joint Degree Seminar)
Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Doing Business with China 2035
William Kirby
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Field Course: Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship (also listed under Marketing)
Rohit Deshpande
Henry McGee
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Innovating in Health Care
Regina Herzlinger
Gregory P Licholai
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Planning Your Business with China
William Kirby
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Field Course: Purpose & Profit (also listed under Strategy)
Mark Kramer
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Archie L. Jones
Jeffrey Bussgang
Henry McGee
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Innovating in Health Care
Regina Herzlinger
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Justice: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning
University Course
Michael Sandel
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
John Batter
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
John Batter
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Leadership and Happiness
Arthur Brooks
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Lessons from Transformational Medical Advances
Amar Bhide
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Managing Change and Transformation
Rosabeth Kanter
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
The Moral Leader
Joseph Badaracco
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Sandra Sucher
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business (also listed under Marketing)
Marco Bertini
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Mitchell Weiss
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Purpose & Profit (also listed under Strategy)
Mark Kramer
Fall
2020
Q1 1.5
Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under Strategy and Accounting & Management)
George Serafeim
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Seminar: Unpacking the US-China Rivalry
Andy Zelleke
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change
Brian Trelstad
Fall
2020
Q1 1.5
Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship
John Jong-Hyun Kim
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Marketing
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
AI in Market-facing Functions (AIM)
Das Narayandas
Arijit Sengupta
Jonathan Wray
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management and Finance)
Michael Chu
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Kash Rangan
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (also listed under General Management)
Anita Elberse
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
David Bell
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
E-Commerce: Strategy, Growth, and Analytics
Ayelet Israeli
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management)
Rohit Deshpande
Henry McGee
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Entrepreneurial Marketing (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Frank Cespedes
Christina Wallace
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business (also listed under General Management)
Marco Bertini
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Retailing
José Alvarez
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Sales Management & Strategy (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Doug Chung
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making
Joshua Schwartzstein
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Deals
Guhan Subramanian
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Guhan Subramanian
Fall
2020
Q2 1.5
From Data to Decisions: Leveraging Experiments for Effective Strategy, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship
Michael Luca
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life
Alison Wood Brooks
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Inclusive Leadership (also listed under Organizational Behavior)
Frances Frei
Francesca Gino
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Motivation and Incentives
John Beshears
Brian Hall
Ashley Whillans
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Negotiation
Edward Chang
Jillian Jordan
Katherine Coffman
Kevin Mohan
Thomas Graeber
Andrew Wasynczuk

2021
Edward Chang
Katherine Coffman
Thomas Graeber
Jillian Jordan
Kevin Mohan
Andrew Wasynczuk
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Negotiation Intensive Course 2241
Max H. Bazerman
Fall
2020
Q1 3.0
TBD Spring
2021
Q3 3.0
Negotiation Intensive Course 2242
James Sebenius
Fall
2020
Q2 3.0
Organizational Behavior
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
Authentic Leader Development
Scott Snook
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Robin Ely
Tony Mayo
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors (also listed under General Management)
Lynn Paine
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Crafting Your Life: the Tactics and Practices of the First 10 Years Post MBA
Leslie Perlow
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Ranjay Gulati
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Founders' Journey (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Shikhar Ghosh
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Laura Huang
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Inclusive Leadership (also listed under Negotiation, Organizations & Markets)
Frances Frei
Francesca Gino
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Leadership Execution and Action Planning
Ryan Raffaelli
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Leading with People Analytics
Jeffrey Polzer
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Managing Human Capital
Ethan Bernstein
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Power and Influence
Lakshmi Ramarajan
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Seminar: How Star Women Succeed
Boris Groysberg
Fall
2020
1.5
Strategy
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
Beyond Strategic Intuition: Game Theory and Choice
Dennis Yao
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management)
Chet Huber
Rory McDonald
Derek van Bever
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Allison Mnookin
Derek van Bever
Chet Huber
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems (University-wide Course) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Tarun Khanna
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Corporate Strategy: Creating Value Across Markets
David Collis
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Field Course: Purpose & Profit (also listed under General Management)
Mark Kramer
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Good Strategies in Flawed Markets (formerly titled Market Imperfections, Policy, and Strategy)
Hong Luo
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)
Tarun Khanna
Fall
2020
Q2 1.5
Purpose & Profit (also listed under General Management)
Mark Kramer
Fall
2020
Q1 1.5
Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under General Management and Accounting & Management)
George Serafeim
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Strategy and Technology
David Yoffie
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Andy Wu
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Strategy for Entrepreneurs Intensive: Critical Choices in Creating a Successful Enterprise
John Wells
Fall
2020
Q1 3.0
John Wells
Spring
2021
Q3 3.0
Technology & Operations Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits
Applied Business Analytics
Michael Parzen
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Michael Parzen
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Becoming a General Manager (also listed under General Management)
Amy Edmondson
Joseph Fuller
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Strategy)
Chet Huber
Rory McDonald
Derek van Bever
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Allison Mnookin
Derek van Bever
Chet Huber
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Demystifying Family Businesses
Christina Wing
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Digital Innovation and Transformation
Shane Greenstein
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Driving Profitable Growth
Gary Pisano
Spring
2021
Q4 1.5
Field Course: Lab to Market
Karim Lakhani
Peter Barrett
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Integrated Design: MS/MBA Year Two
Beth Altringer
Roberto Verganti
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Launch Lab/Thesis 1
Alan MacCormack
January
2021
J 3.0
Managing Global Operations
Prithwiraj Choudhury
Spring
2021
Q3 1.5
Managing Service Operations
Ryan Buell
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0
Supply Chain Management
Kris Ferreira
Spring
2021
Q3Q4 3.0
Transforming Health Care Delivery
Amitabh Chandra
Robert Huckman
Fall
2020
Q1Q2 3.0