Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions
Last Updated: 21 Apr 2025
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# | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World | Entrepreneurial Management | Shikhar Ghosh | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
A | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | James Sebenius | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
The Anatomy of Fraud (TAF) | Accounting & Management | Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese |
Fall 2025 |
Q1 | 1.5 |
Authentic Leader Development | Organizational Behavior | Robin Ely, Monique Burns Thompson |
Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Avoiding Startup Failure | Entrepreneurial Management | DJ DiDonna | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
B | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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B2B Sales and Distribution | Marketing, Entrepreneurial Management | Lou Shipley | Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Building Trusted Organizations | General Management | Sandra Sucher | Fall 2025 |
Q2 | 1.5 |
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise | Technology & Operations Management, General Management | Willy Shih, Derek van Bever |
Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive | Technology & Operations Management, General Management | Willy Shih | Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive | General Management, Technology & Operations Management | Willy Shih | Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements | Accounting & Management | Joseph Pacelli | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements | Accounting & Management | Yuan Zou | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) | General Management, Marketing | Kash Rangan | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Business and Geopolitics | Business, Government & the International Economy | Jeremy Friedman | Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Business at the Base of the Pyramid | General Management, Entrepreneurial Management | Benjamin N. Roth, Natalia Rigol |
Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports | General Management, Marketing | Anita Elberse | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Business of Ideas | Business, Government & the International Economy | Caroline Elkins | Fall 2025 |
Q2 | 1.5 |
D | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Deals | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Guhan Subramanian | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Deals Q2 | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Guhan Subramanian | Fall 2025 |
Q2 | 1.5 |
Demystifying the Family Enterprise | Technology & Operations Management | Christina Wing | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Designing Tech Ventures | Technology & Operations Management | Robert Howe, Tom Clay |
Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Digital Marketing & AI Workshop | Marketing | Jacob Cook | Fall 2025 |
Q1 | 1.5 |
Digital Operations | Technology & Operations Management | Antonio Moreno | Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty | General Management | William Kirby | Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Driving Profitable Growth | Technology & Operations Management, Strategy | Juan Alcacer, Raffaella Sadun |
Fall 2025 |
Q2 | 1.5 |
E | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Energy | General Management | Dustin Tingley | Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurial Finance | Entrepreneurial Management, Finance | Raymond Kluender | Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling | Entrepreneurial Management | Mark Roberge, Lou Shipley |
Fall 2025 |
Q2 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling | Entrepreneurial Management | Mark Roberge, Lou Shipley |
Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team | Entrepreneurial Management | Lou Shipley | Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism | General Management, Business, Government & the International Economy, Entrepreneurial Management | Geoffrey Jones | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences | Entrepreneurial Management, General Management | Satish Tadikonda | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
G | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Generative AI for Business Leaders | Accounting & Management, Technology & Operations Management | Suraj Srinivasan | Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Ashley Whillans | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Global Climate Change | Business, Government & the International Economy, Strategy | Gunnar Trumbull | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Global Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurial Management, Finance | Paul Gompers | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Globalization and Emerging Markets | Business, Government & the International Economy | Reshmaan Hussam | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
L | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 | Entrepreneurial Management | Alan MacCormack, Russell J Wilcox |
January 2026 |
J | 3.0 |
Launch Lab/Capstone 2 | Entrepreneurial Management | Alan MacCormack, Russell J Wilcox |
Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Launching Global Ventures | Entrepreneurial Management | DJ DiDonna, Ebehi Iyoha |
Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Launching Tech Ventures | Entrepreneurial Management, Technology & Operations Management | Jeffrey Bussgang, Allison Mnookin |
Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship | General Management, Entrepreneurial Management | John Batter | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship | General Management, Entrepreneurial Management | John Batter | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) | Organizational Behavior | Ryan Raffaelli | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Leadership and Happiness | General Management | Arthur Brooks | Spring 2025 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Leading a Family Business | Strategy | Josh Baron | Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
N | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise | Entrepreneurial Management | Zoe Cullen, Shikhar Ghosh |
Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Negotiation | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Katherine Coffman, Kevin Mohan, Julian J. Zlatev, Max H. Bazerman, Michael Norton |
Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Negotiation | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Livia Alfonsi, Alex Chan, Jillian Jordan, Amit Goldenberg, Kadeem Noray |
Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Negotiation and Diplomacy | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | James Sebenius | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
O | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership | Strategy | Josh Baron | Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
P | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | Organizational Behavior | Julie Battilana | Fall 2025 |
Q1 | 1.5 |
Private Equity Finance | Finance | Ted Berk | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Product Management | Entrepreneurial Management | Sara McKinley Torti | Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Public Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurial Management, General Management | Mitchell Weiss | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
R | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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Real Estate Investing | Finance | Dwight Angelini, Matt Kelly |
Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Real Estate Private Equity | Finance, Entrepreneurial Management | Nori Gerardo Lietz | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Real Property | Finance | John Macomber | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies | Business, Government & the International Economy | Matthew Weinzierl | Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
S | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics | Business, Government & the International Economy | Matthew Weinzierl | Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Scaling Technology Ventures | Entrepreneurial Management | Jeffrey Rayport | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) | General Management | Gerald Chertavian, Brian Trelstad |
Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
The Spiritual Lives of Leaders | General Management | Nien-hê Hsieh, Derek van Bever |
Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) | Finance, Strategy | Scott Mayfield | Spring 2026 |
Q3 | 1.5 |
Strategy and Technology | Strategy | David Yoffie | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Strategy and Technology | Strategy | Andy Wu | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Strategy for Entrepreneurs | Strategy, Entrepreneurial Management | Rembrand Koning | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Supply Chain Management | Technology & Operations Management | Kris Ferreira | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Supply Chain Management | Technology & Operations Management | Ananth Raman | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Sustainable Investing | Finance | Vikram Gandhi, Shawn Cole |
Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) | Entrepreneurial Management, Accounting & Management | Tatiana Sandino | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
T | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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TALK | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Alison Wood Brooks | Spring 2026 |
Q4 | 1.5 |
Tough Tech Ventures | Entrepreneurial Management | Joshua Lev Krieger, Jim Matheson |
Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship | General Management | John Jong-Hyun Kim | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Transforming Health Care Delivery | Technology & Operations Management, Accounting & Management | Susanna Gallani, Robert Huckman |
Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
Turnarounds and Transformation | Entrepreneurial Management, Organizational Behavior | Ranjay Gulati | Spring 2026 |
Q3Q4 | 3.0 |
U | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
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U.S. Healthcare Strategy | General Management, Strategy | Leemore S. Dafny | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent | General Management, Business, Government & the International Economy | Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie | Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
V | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Venture Capital and Private Equity | Entrepreneurial Management | Jo Tango, Archie L. Jones |
Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
W | Area | Faculty Name | Term | Quarter | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity | Negotiation, Organizations & Markets | Deepak Malhotra, Kevin Mohan |
Fall 2025 |
Q1Q2 | 3.0 |
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