Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions
Last Updated: 05 Jan 2021
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A | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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AI in Market-facing Functions (AIM) | Marketing | Das Narayandas, Arijit Sengupta, Jonathan Wray |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Applied Business Analytics | Technology & Operations Management | Michael Parzen | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Applied Business Analytics | Technology & Operations Management | Michael Parzen | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
The Arts of Communication | General Management | Timothy McCarthy | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 |
The Arts of Communication | General Management | Timothy McCarthy | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Authentic Leader Development | Organizational Behavior | Scott Snook | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Authentic Leader Development | Organizational Behavior | Robin Ely, Tony Mayo |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
B | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Becoming a General Manager | General Management, Technology & Operations Management | Amy Edmondson, Joseph Fuller |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Joshua Schwartzstein | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Beyond Strategic Intuition: Game Theory and Choice | Strategy | Dennis Yao | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise | General Management, Strategy, Technology & Operations Management | Chet Huber, Rory McDonald, Derek van Bever |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise | General Management, Strategy, Technology & Operations Management | Allison Mnookin, Derek van Bever, Chet Huber |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements | Accounting & Management | Jonas Heese | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Business at the Base of the Pyramid | General Management, Marketing, Finance | Michael Chu | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Business at the Base of the Pyramid | General Management, Marketing | Kash Rangan | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports | General Management, Marketing | Anita Elberse | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
D | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Deals | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Guhan Subramanian | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Deals | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Guhan Subramanian | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 |
Decision Making Under Uncertainty | Marketing | David Bell | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Demystifying Family Businesses | Technology & Operations Management | Christina Wing | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Digital Innovation and Transformation | Technology & Operations Management | Shane Greenstein | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Doing Business with China 2035 | General Management | William Kirby | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Driving Profitable Growth | Technology & Operations Management | Gary Pisano | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
E | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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E-Commerce: Strategy, Growth, and Analytics | Marketing | Ayelet Israeli | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
The Entrepreneur's Playbook: A How-To Guide for Start-Up Strategy | Entrepreneurial Management | Abhishek Nagaraj | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurial Failure | Entrepreneurial Management | Thomas Eisenmann | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurial Finance | Entrepreneurial Management, Finance | Shai Bernstein, Jim Matheson |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Entrepreneurial Finance | Entrepreneurial Management, Finance | Paul Gompers | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment | Entrepreneurial Management, Organizational Behavior | Ranjay Gulati | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurial Sales | Entrepreneurial Management | Mark Roberge, Lou Shipley |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Entrepreneurial Solutions to the World's Problems | Entrepreneurial Management | William Sahlman | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism | Business, Government & the International Economy, Entrepreneurial Management | Geoffrey Jones | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Executing Strategy | Accounting & Management | Robert Simons, Susanna Gallani |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
G | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Globalization and Emerging Markets | Business, Government & the International Economy | Kristin Fabbe | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Good Strategies in Flawed Markets (formerly titled Market Imperfections, Policy, and Strategy) | Strategy | Hong Luo | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs | Strategy, Entrepreneurial Management | Tarun Khanna | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 1.5 |
H | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Alison Wood Brooks | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
I | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Inclusive Leadership | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets, Organizational Behavior | Frances Frei, Francesca Gino |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Innovating in Health Care | General Management | Regina Herzlinger | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy | Business, Government & the International Economy | Vincent Pons | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Integrated Design: MS/MBA Year Two | Technology & Operations Management | Beth Altringer, Roberto Verganti |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Investing - Risk, Return, and Impact | Finance, Entrepreneurial Management | Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Investment Management for Professional and Personal Investors | Finance | Emil Siriwardane, Luis Viceira |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Investment Strategies | Finance | Robin Greenwood | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
J | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Justice: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning | General Management | University Course, Michael Sandel |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
L | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Launch Lab/Thesis 1 | Technology & Operations Management | Alan MacCormack | January 2021 |
J | 3.0 |
Launch Lab/Thesis 2 | Entrepreneurial Management | Thomas Eisenmann | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Launching Technology Ventures | Entrepreneurial Management | Jeffrey Bussgang, Sam Clemens, Donna Levin, Reza Satchu |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship | General Management, Entrepreneurial Management | John Batter | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship | General Management, Entrepreneurial Management | John Batter | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Leadership Execution and Action Planning | Organizational Behavior | Ryan Raffaelli | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Leadership and Happiness | General Management | Arthur Brooks | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Leading with People Analytics | Organizational Behavior | Jeffrey Polzer | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Lessons from Transformational Medical Advances | General Management | Amar Bhide | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
M | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Macro Risk, Economics and Markets | Business, Government & the International Economy | Huw Pill | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Making Markets | Entrepreneurial Management | Scott Duke Kominers | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Managing Change and Transformation | General Management | Rosabeth Kanter | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Managing Global Operations | Technology & Operations Management | Prithwiraj Choudhury | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Managing Human Capital | Organizational Behavior | Ethan Bernstein | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Managing International Trade and Investment | Business, Government & the International Economy | Dante Roscini | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Managing International Trade and Investment | Business, Government & the International Economy | Meg Rithmire | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Managing Risk and Uncertainty | Accounting & Management | Eugene Soltes | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Managing Service Operations | Technology & Operations Management | Ryan Buell | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Managing and Innovating in Financial Services | Finance | David Scharfstein | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Managing the Future of Work | Entrepreneurial Management | Christopher Stanton | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
The Moral Leader | General Management | Joseph Badaracco | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
The Moral Leader | General Management | Sandra Sucher | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Motivation and Incentives | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | John Beshears, Brian Hall, Ashley Whillans |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
N | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Negotiation | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Edward Chang, Jillian Jordan, Katherine Coffman, Kevin Mohan, Thomas Graeber, Andrew Wasynczuk |
2021 |
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Negotiation | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Edward Chang, Katherine Coffman, Thomas Graeber, Jillian Jordan, Kevin Mohan, Andrew Wasynczuk |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Negotiation Intensive Course 2241 | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Max H. Bazerman | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 3.0 |
Negotiation Intensive Course 2241 | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | TBD | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 3.0 |
Negotiation Intensive Course 2242 | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | James Sebenius | Fall 2020 |
Q2 | 3.0 |
P | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Power and Influence | Organizational Behavior | Lakshmi Ramarajan | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business | Marketing, General Management | Marco Bertini | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Private Equity Finance | Finance | Victoria Ivashina | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Public Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurial Management, General Management | Mitchell Weiss | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Purpose & Profit | General Management, Strategy | Mark Kramer | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 1.5 |
R | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Real Estate Private Equity | Finance | Nori Gerardo Lietz | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Real Estate and Today's Leader | Finance | Arthur Segel, Charles Wu |
Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Real Property | Finance | Marco Di Maggio, Boris Vallee |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems | General Management, Strategy, Accounting & Management | George Serafeim | Spring 2021 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Research Seminar on Private Equity and Venture | Finance | Paul Gompers | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 1.5 |
Research Seminar on Private Equity and Venture Capital - Paper | Finance | Paul Gompers | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Retailing | Marketing | José Alvarez | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Road to the White House | Entrepreneurial Management | Robert F. White | Fall 2020 |
Q1 | 1.5 |
The Role of Government in Market Economies | Business, Government & the International Economy | Matthew Weinzierl | Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
The Role of Government in Market Economies | Business, Government & the International Economy | Matthew Weinzierl | Spring 2021 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
T | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Tough Tech Ventures | Entrepreneurial Management | Joshua Lev Krieger, Jim Matheson |
Spring 2021 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship | General Management | John Jong-Hyun Kim | Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Transforming Health Care Delivery | Technology & Operations Management | Amitabh Chandra, Robert Huckman |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
V | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Venture Capital and Private Equity | Entrepreneurial Management | Nori Gerardo Lietz, Jo Tango |
Fall 2020 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |