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The BGIE Twenty (2024 version)

By: Alberto Cavallo, Kristin Fabbe, Mattias Fibiger, Jeremy Friedman, Reshmaan Hussam, Vincent Pons and Matthew Weinzierl
  • Format:Print
  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:9
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Abstract

The purpose of this technical note is to explain the BGIE Twenty, an “idea-kit” that serves as the intellectual backbone of the BGIE course. Each year, the BGIE professors decide on the twenty ideas that we believe are the most important for students to study in pursuit of the course’s objective. As scholars of economics, history, and political science, we bring an interdisciplinary approach to constructing and revising the BGIE Twenty, and we intend for it to have pedagogical and intellectual impact beyond our classrooms. The ideas in the BGIE Twenty provide starting points for analysis, not simple answers, and the BGIE Twenty is a living list that responds to changes in the world and our understanding of it. Each element of the BGIE Twenty is highlighted during at least one case discussion, and suggested supplemental readings (plus separate technical notes for all elements) are provided to facilitate deeper study by interested students. Thus, when students complete the BGIE course, they have engaged with a curated selection of ideas that their faculty have found most valuable in analyzing how the world works.

Keywords

Ideas; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Analysis

Citation

Cavallo, Alberto, Kristin Fabbe, Mattias Fibiger, Jeremy Friedman, Reshmaan Hussam, Vincent Pons, and Matthew Weinzierl. "The BGIE Twenty (2024 version)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 718-032, December 2017. (Revised November 2023.)
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Alberto F. Cavallo

Business, Government and the International Economy
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Mattias E. Fibiger

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Jeremy S. Friedman

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Reshmaan N. Hussam

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Vincent Pons

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Matthew C. Weinzierl

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