Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions
Last Updated: 05 Jan 2021
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Accounting & Management
Course Title | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
Executing Strategy | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Managing Risk and Uncertainty | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under General Management and Strategy) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Business, Government & the International Economy
Course Title | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Capitalism and the State (CATS) | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 | |
Creating the Modern Financial System | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Food and Agribusiness | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Globalization and Emerging Markets | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Macro Risk, Economics and Markets | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Managing International Trade and Investment | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
The Role of Government in Market Economies | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurial Management
Course Title | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems (University-wide Course) (also listed under Strategy) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
The Entrepreneur's Playbook: A How-To Guide for Start-Up Strategy | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Entrepreneurial Failure | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Finance) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (also listed under Organizational Behavior) | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
Entrepreneurial Sales | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Entrepreneurial Solutions to the World's Problems | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 | |
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Decoding "Growth" in Silicon Valley | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Entrepreneurial Marketing (also listed under Marketing) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition Application Only (also listed under Finance) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Field X (also listed under Finance) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management (also listed under Finance) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Product Management 101 Application Only | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Product Management 102 Application Only | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses (also listed under General Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Finance) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Founders' Journey (also listed under Organizational Behavior) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (also listed under Strategy) | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 | |
Investing - Risk, Return, and Impact (also listed under Finance) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Launch Lab/Thesis 2 | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Launching Technology Ventures | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Making Markets | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Managing the Future of Work | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Road to the White House | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 1.5 | |
Sales Management & Strategy (also listed under Marketing) | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Scaling Technology Ventures | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Tough Tech Ventures | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Venture Capital and Private Equity | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Finance
General Management
Course Title | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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The Arts of Communication | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | ||
Becoming a General Manager (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under Strategy and Technology & Operations Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under Marketing and Finance) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | ||
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (also listed under Marketing) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under Accounting & Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Conversations on Leadership | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 1.5 | |
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors (also listed under Organizational Behavior) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Creating Value in Business and Government (HKS-HBS Joint Degree Seminar) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Doing Business with China 2035 | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Field Course: Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship (also listed under Marketing) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Innovating in Health Care | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Planning Your Business with China | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
Field Course: Purpose & Profit (also listed under Strategy) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Innovating in Health Care | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Justice: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Leadership and Happiness | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Lessons from Transformational Medical Advances | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Managing Change and Transformation | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
The Moral Leader | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business (also listed under Marketing) | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Purpose & Profit (also listed under Strategy) | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 1.5 | |
Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under Strategy and Accounting & Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Seminar: Unpacking the US-China Rivalry | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 1.5 | |
Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Marketing
Course Title | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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AI in Market-facing Functions (AIM) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management and Finance) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | ||
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (also listed under General Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Decision Making Under Uncertainty | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
E-Commerce: Strategy, Growth, and Analytics | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Entrepreneurial Marketing (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business (also listed under General Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Retailing | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Sales Management & Strategy (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets
Course Title | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Deals | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 | ||
From Data to Decisions: Leveraging Experiments for Effective Strategy, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Inclusive Leadership (also listed under Organizational Behavior) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Motivation and Incentives | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Negotiation | 2021 |
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Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Negotiation Intensive Course 2241 | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 3.0 | |
TBD | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 3.0 | |
Negotiation Intensive Course 2242 | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 3.0 |
Organizational Behavior
Course Title | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Authentic Leader Development | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors (also listed under General Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Crafting Your Life: the Tactics and Practices of the First 10 Years Post MBA | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
Founders' Journey (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Inclusive Leadership (also listed under Negotiation, Organizations & Markets) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Leadership Execution and Action Planning | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Leading with People Analytics | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Managing Human Capital | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Power and Influence | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Seminar: How Star Women Succeed | Fall 2020 |
1.5 |
Strategy
Course Title | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Beyond Strategic Intuition: Game Theory and Choice | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems (University-wide Course) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Corporate Strategy: Creating Value Across Markets | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Field Course: Purpose & Profit (also listed under General Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Good Strategies in Flawed Markets (formerly titled Market Imperfections, Policy, and Strategy) | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 | |
Purpose & Profit (also listed under General Management) | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 1.5 | |
Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under General Management and Accounting & Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Strategy and Technology | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Strategy for Entrepreneurs Intensive: Critical Choices in Creating a Successful Enterprise | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 3.0 |
Technology & Operations Management
Course Title | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Applied Business Analytics | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Becoming a General Manager (also listed under General Management) | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Strategy) | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | ||
Demystifying Family Businesses | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Digital Innovation and Transformation | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Driving Profitable Growth | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 | |
Field Course: Lab to Market | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Integrated Design: MS/MBA Year Two | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Launch Lab/Thesis 1 | January 2021 |
J | 3.0 | |
Managing Global Operations | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 | |
Managing Service Operations | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 | |
Supply Chain Management | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 | |
Transforming Health Care Delivery | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |