Stanford University Bulletin

Code	Name	Description
ACCT152	Introduction to Financial Accounting	Financial accounting is the measurement of economic activity for decision-making. The objective of this course is not to train you to become an accountant but rather to help you develop into an informed user of financial statement information. Thro...
ACCT210	Financial Accounting	Financial accounting is the measurement of economic activity for decision-making. Financial statements are a key product of this measurement process and an important component of firms' financial reporting activities. The objective of this course is...
ACCT212	Managerial Accounting: Strategic Performance Management	This course provides an introduction to the concepts and tools of managerial accounting. The first part of the course covers alternative costing methods and illustrates how the resulting cost information can be used to analyze the profitability of in...
ACCT213	Financial Accounting - Accelerated	This course develops students' ability to read, understand and critically evaluate corporate financial statements. The course is oriented toward the user of financial accounting data (rather than the preparer) and it emphasizes the reconstruction an...
ACCT219	MSx: Accounting	A characteristic of business is the extensive use of accounting data. The financial accounting course has the general objective of developing students' understanding of the nature, scope, and limitations of accounting information. To achieve this obj...
ACCT220	Compensating Talent: A Managerial Accounting Perspective	Designing efficient compensation schemes is important for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent over time. Through cases, homework assignments, and classroom discussion, this course provides an overview of efficient compensation schemes across...
ACCT311	Global Financial Reporting	This course is designed to enhance students' understanding of current financial reporting issues through a detailed analysis and comparison of U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards. The course will cover the development of account...
ACCT313	Financial Statement Analysis	This course is designed to develop students' ability to interpret and use financial accounting information across various economic decision contexts. The perspective taken is that of an outsider relying on publicly-available financial information for...
ACCT317	Managerial Accounting: Performance Measurement, Compensation, and Governance	The course will examine the academic and professional controversies surrounding corporate governance and executive compensation. A basic framework will be developed to integrate the many important dimensions of corporate governance in the U.S. and in...
ACCT332	Mergers and Acquisitions	This course provides a comprehensive overview of strategic, economic and financial issues related to mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, we review the market for corporate control, discuss strategic issues related to firms' decision to acquire o...
ACCT333	Taxes and Business Strategy	Taxes have a direct impact on cash flow and often divert 20% to 40% of the firm's pretax cash flow to the government, making the government one of the largest stakeholders. Taxes also affect a wide variety of business decisions, including the efficie...
ACCT340	Alphanomics: Informational Arbitrage in Equity Markets	This is an advanced elective course on the economics of active investing in public equity markets. We will cover a set of foundational skills needed to select, and manage, a portfolio of public stocks. Specifically, the course material is designed t...
ACCT516	Analysis and Valuation of Emerging Market Firms	This course examines the unique institutional, governance and transparency issues affecting corporate valuations in emerging markets. Through lectures, case discussions and the students' real-time analysis of an emerging market firm, this condensed...
ACCT523	Board Governance	This course is focused on helping students understand the role boards and board members play in corporate governance and the lives of businesses large and small. This case-driven course is designed to help students who plan to serve on boards as priv...
ACCT524	Individual Taxes and Financial Planning	The goal of this course is to provide a fundamental understanding of the principles of taxation and tax planning as they relate to personal income taxes and considering an individuals financial position. Traditional business courses analyze an array...
ACCT533	Taxes and Business Strategy	Taxes have a direct impact on cash flow and often divert 20% to 40% of the firm's pretax cash flow to the government, making the government one of the largest stakeholders. Taxes also affect a wide variety of business decisions, including the efficie...
ACCT542	Corporate Taxes and Business Strategy	The goal of this course is to provide a fundamental understanding of the principles of business taxation and tax planning, which will be relevant and valuable even as tax laws change - over time, across borders, and by taxpayer type. The role that ta...
ACCT609	Financial Reporting and Management Control	This course is aimed at doctoral students in accounting and neighboring fields including economics, finance, political economics and operations management. The course seeks to provide an introduction to the role of accounting information in (i) measu...
ACCT610	Seminar in Empirical Accounting Research	Empirical Research on Financial Reporting: This doctoral-level course covers research on the role of accounting information in capital and labor markets. The focus is on introducing students to key themes in empirical accounting and capital markets r...
ACCT611	Disclosure and Financial Markets	This course provides a broad overview of the economic theories of corporate disclosure, with a focus on the effects that these disclosures have on financial markets. The range of topics we will study includes: voluntary disclosure, earnings managemen...
ACCT612	Financial Reporting Seminar	The purpose of this PhD seminar is to facilitate your conception and execution of substantive individual research in financial reporting. It provides a vehicle for supplementing and integrating your knowledge of basic research tools and methods, as w...
ACCT615	Selected Topics in Empirical Accounting Research	This course examines selected topics in accounting research. The course features three faculty who will each give a focused look at a given area, introduce students to important questions in that area, key papers in the related literature, and criti...
ACCT617	Applications of Contract Theory in Accounting Research	This course develops tools from information economics to study the strategic interactions between different agents inside a firm. Common to these studies is that agents acquire private information that is valuable to other parties. The range of appli...
ACCT618	Market Efficiency and Informational Arbitrage	The informational efficiency of stock markets has been a central theme in financial economic research in the past 50 years. Over this period, the focus of academic research has gradually shifted from the general to the more specific. While earlier st...
ACCT691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
ACCT692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
ACCT698	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching
ACCT699	Doctoral Practicum in Research	Doctoral Practicum in Research
ACCT802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
ALP300	The Founder's Right Hand: From Inspiration to Launch	In this experiential course, you will work in teams to help turn the inspirations of high-potential founders into actual ventures. You will work closely with a founder to understand their inspiration, knowledge, and vision, and then you will work to...
ALP301	Data-Driven Impact	This is a team-based course where students will work on a project to improve a product using data and experimentation. We will cover key considerations for designing and executing high-quality research for product innovation to drive business outcome...
ALP302	Designing Solutions for Wicked Problems	The thrust of this course is on designing innovative solutions for wicked problems-problems requiring large-scale sustainable transformations in environments that tend to deeply favor the status-quo. The palette on which the course will anchor on is...
ALP303	Analysis and Measurement of Impact	This team-based course, part of the GSB's Action Learning Program, provides students the opportunity to work with organizations that are focused on achieving impact, including impact for-profits, investment funds, and evaluators. Topics include curre...
ALP304	Crossing the Chasm	In this course, students work with founders, domain experts, and industry professionals to develop strategies for growth for entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds. Students address elements of the marketing mix, including product, promotio...
ALP305	Product Management	In this experiential course, you will develop skills and experience required to be a Product Manager. The course covers important facets of the PM role at different stages in the product life cycle. You will learn and apply tools and methodologies fo...
ALP306	Marketing for Measurable Change	Companies and organizations increasingly use tools such as product, price or communication strategies to improve metrics that directly relate to financial performance or progress toward a mission based objective. In this class, students will particip...
ALP307	Public Policy Lab: Financial Challenges Facing US Cities	Cities in the United States are tasked with providing a great variety of services to citizens, including public safety, education, and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure. Across the country, governments at the local level spent more t...
ALP308	Designing Experiments for Impact	This is a team-based course where students will work on a project to design and carry out an experiment intended to drive social impact in collaboration with a partner organization. The first few weeks will include lectures, hands-on tutorials, and l...
FINANCE121	Undergraduate Finance Research and Discussion Seminar	This seminar is designed to provide some experience with research methods and topics in finance, and to assist undergraduates with career interests in financial research, whether academic or not, with preparation for those careers. The seminar meetin...
FINANCE201	Finance	This course covers the foundations of finance with an emphasis on applications that are vital for corporate managers. We will discuss many of the major financial decisions made by corporate managers, both within the firm and in their interactions wit...
FINANCE205	Accelerated Managerial Finance	This course covers the foundations of finance with an emphasis on applications that are vital for corporate managers. We will discuss many of the major financial decisions made by corporate managers, both within the firm and in their interactions wit...
FINANCE207	Corporations, Finance, and Governance in the Global Economy	As entrepreneurs, global leaders, and change agents tasked with developing transformative solutions of tomorrow, you will need certain skills and tools to interact with and navigate the complex and ever-changing financial landscape. This course focus...
FINANCE211	Corporate Finance: Applications, Techniques, and Models	This course will develop and apply the basic tools and models of corporate finance to real-world corporate decisions. This course is designed to be the second course in the standard finance sequence; that is, it is designed to be the natural follow-u...
FINANCE229	MSx: Finance	This course covers the foundations of finance with an emphasis on applications that are vital for corporate managers. We will consider many important financial decisions made by corporate managers, both within the firm and in their interactions with...
FINANCE305	Capital Markets and Institutional Investing	This course takes a look at institutional investing from the asset owner or limited partner¿s perspective (sovereign wealth funds, endowments, pension funds, life insurance companies, etc.) The course is co-taught by Ana Marshall, the CIO of the Hewl...
FINANCE306	International Finance and Macroeconomics	An introduction to the global economy. We will cover a number of important topics for firms, banks, and policy makers: global capital flows, international financial markets, the role of the U.S. and US dollar in the international monetary system, res...
FINANCE315	FinTech for Social Impact & Climate Finance	This MBA elective explores innovative ways in which financial technology (FinTech) is transforming the financial sector. What are the financial and technological frictions that FinTech companies are addressing? What are the current trends in key FinT...
FINANCE320	Debt Markets	This course is intended for those who plan careers that may involve debt financing for their businesses or other investments, or involve trading or investing in debt instruments and their derivatives, including money-market instruments, government bo...
FINANCE321	Investment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance	The Investments course comprises an intensive overview of active fundamental investing in both the public and private equity markets. It is relevant for students who intend to pursue careers in private or public equity investing, as well as those who...
FINANCE325	Building a Money Management Business	This course will cover how to start and build a money management business. It will have three components: (1) Prescriptive --- introduction to the money management sector and exposition of strategies that increase the likelihood of success, (2) Pract...
FINANCE333	Financial Restructuring	This course provides an intensive overview of financial restructuring transactions and processes from the perspective of distressed firms and their key stakeholders. It is intended for those who plan careers in general management, private equity, cre...
FINANCE334	Economics of the Private Equity Industry	This course covers the in depth the private equity (PE) industry, including venture funds, buyouts, funds of funds, and other investments vehicles investing in private assets. Our viewpoint is that of an investor, whether a general partner of a manag...
FINANCE341	Modeling for Investment Management	This course will combine practical and up-to-date investment theory with modeling applications. Understanding beautiful theory, without the ability to apply it, is essentially useless. Conversely, creating state-of-the-art spreadsheets that apply inc...
FINANCE345	History of Financial Crises	Financial crises are as old as financial markets themselves. There are many similarities between historical events. The crisis of 2008, for example, is far from unique. More often than not financial crises are the result of bubbles in certain asset c...
FINANCE346	Institutional Money Management	The object of this course is to study the money management industry from the perspective of the user --- an investor who wants to invest money. This course will study the main components of the money management industry: mutual funds, hedge funds, pr...
FINANCE347	Money and Banking	This course is designed to help students understand the connections between money (the Federal Reserve), financial markets, and the macroeconomy. How are interest rates determined, and how does the Federal Reserve conduct monetary policy? How do Fede...
FINANCE350	Corporate Financial Modeling	This course will expose students to the fundamentals, best practices, and advanced techniques of corporate financial modeling. We begin with basic operating and integrated financial statement models, and ultimately develop financial models to analyze...
FINANCE351	Advanced Corporate Financial Modeling	Students will engage in the development of corporate financial modeling cases and solutions. Students will also develop materials to aid others in building financial models, and serve as case leaders during lab workshops. Extensive background in fina...
FINANCE362	Financial Trading Strategies	The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the different types of trading strategies employed by hedge funds. Throughout the sessions, students will be challenged to understand and explore the application and implementation of these d...
FINANCE373	Entrepreneurial Finance	This is a course about the financial decision-making process largely from the point of view of the CEO of an entrepreneurial venture, ranging from very early to very late stages. The course takes a two-pronged approach: First, we develop tools and co...
FINANCE377	China's Financial System	This course is a survey of China's financial system, including its banking industry, monetary policy structure, and financial markets (bonds, derivatives, equities, foreign exchange, alternative asset management, and related markets). The goal is an...
FINANCE385	Angel and Venture Capital Financing for Entrepreneurs and Investors	This course covers all the stages of funding for early stage high-growth companies, from seed funding to venture capital rounds to a successful exit. We will concentrate on how entrepreneurs and investors make and should make important decisions. Exa...
FINANCE555	Private Wealth Management and Personal Investing	The Private Wealth Management and Personal Investing course will address issues that relate to the management of personal assets as opposed to institutional investing. Many investment courses at the GSB emphasize large institutional portfolios but t...
FINANCE582	Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Leadership	In this course, you will learn the key principles of CFO leadership. Taught by experienced CFOs, the class will put students in the shoes of CFOs navigating complex, high-stakes situations. The teaching team will guide interactive classroom discussio...
FINANCE587	Private Equity - An Overview of the Industry	This 2-unit elective at the GSB is an "Overview" of the private equity industry including its reason for being, its growth and the various strategies for success that private equity firms employ. The course looks at all aspects of private equity part...
FINANCE620	Financial Markets I	This course is an introductory PhD level course in financial economics. We begin with individual choice under uncertainty, then move on to equilibrium models, the stochastic discount factor methodology, and no-arbitrage pricing. We will also address...
FINANCE621	Financial Markets II	This course continues F620 and covers a number of main concepts in market microstructure. Among the topics that are covered are (i) Rational Expectations models and their foundations (ii) strategic trading models (iii) models of market and funding li...
FINANCE622	Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory	This course is an introduction to multiperiod models in finance, mainly pertaining to optimal portfolio choice and asset pricing. The course begins with discrete-time models for portfolio choice and security prices, and then moves to a continuous-tim...
FINANCE624	Corporate Finance Theory	This course considers a wide range of topics in theoretical corporate finance (broadly interpreted). Topics include capital structure decisions, agency conflicts in the firm, dividend policy, security design, optimal financial contracting, the theory...
FINANCE625	Empirical Asset Pricing	This course is an introduction to empirical research in asset pricing. The focus of the course is on the interplay between financial economic theory, econometric method, and that analysis of financial market data. Topics include tests of asset pricin...
FINANCE626	Advanced Corporate Finance	This is a course on contemporary theoretical and empirical issues in corporate finance. Building upon the first-year courses in corporate finance theory and empirical methods in finance, we will examine issues in asset pricing applications to corpora...
FINANCE627	Venture Capital and Finance of Innovation	In this course we will study the theory and empirics of venture capital (VC) and, more broadly, finance of innovation. We will start by reviewing the way the VC and related markets function and then will dive into such topics as VC contracting, valua...
FINANCE630	Empirical Corporate Finance	This course provides an introduction to empirical research in corporate finance, with an emphasis on the application of cross-sectional and panel data econometric techniques for causal inference. Topics include investment policy, entrepreneurship and...
FINANCE632	International Finance and Macroeconomics	This is an advanced graduate-level course in international finance and macroeconomics. The course focuses on empirical methods, stylized facts, new advances in large-scale empirical work, and applied theory. This course is targeted to advanced second...
FINANCE633	Advanced Empirical Corporate, Banking and Household Finance	This course discusses empirical aspects of major topics in corporate finance, household and consumer finance, housing, banking, financial regulation as well as political economy. The course is designed for students doing their PhD in finance, econom...
FINANCE634	Advanced Corporate Finance Theory	A selection of advanced topics in corporate finance theory, including financing of innovation, theory of the firm, incomplete contracting, dynamic contracting, dynamic capital structure choice.
FINANCE637	Macroeconomics and Financial Markets	This PhD course will cover research topics at the boundary between macroeconomics and finance. Topics will include the study of macroeconomic models with financial frictions, the term structure of interest rates, conventional and unconventional monet...
FINANCE691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
FINANCE692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
FINANCE698	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching
FINANCE699	Doctoral Practicum in Research	Doctoral Practicum in Research
FINANCE802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
GSBGEN208	Leading with Values	With leadership comes responsibility. This course explores the numerous ethical issues faced by managers and organizations and provides analytical frameworks as well as the latest findings on human behavior to inform ethical decisions and strategies....
GSBGEN259	MSx: Leading with Values	With leadership comes responsibility. This course explores the numerous ethical issues faced by managers and organizations and provides analytical frameworks as well as the latest findings on human behavior to inform ethical decisions and strategies....
GSBGEN299	The Core Curriculum in the Workplace	GSB students are eligible to report on work experience that is relevant to their core studies under the direction of the Senior Associate Dean responsible for the MBA Program. Registration for this work must be approved by the Assistant Dean of the...
GSBGEN305	Impact: Investing for Good	Investing for Good will introduce students to the entire spectrum of purposeful, values-driven, and impact investing. We examine the field from the perspective of an institutional investor (i.e. fund manager, investment advisor, endowment manager, he...
GSBGEN306	Real Estate Investment	The major objective of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of the fundamentals of real estate investment. The course covers land economics, market analysis, finance, taxation, investment analysis, investment vehicles, real est...
GSBGEN307	Policy Time	Policy Time is about the policy choices faced by senior American policymakers. Our main perspective is American and executive: decisions faced by the U.S. President, Governors, and their advisors. The lessons can extend to certain international setti...
GSBGEN309	Housing and the Mortgage Market	Political gamesmanship, financial crises, and financial innovation come hand-in-hand with real estate finance, which has played a central role in the rise and fall of economies, financial institutions, and the lives of ordinary Americans. This course...
GSBGEN310	Business and AI: Lessons from Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Investors	There is no denying that we are in the AI-era: around 90% of tech executives today embrace AI and want to expand its use. Firms will be newly created to focus on AI products, or large firms will find new capabilities in AI products or processes. How...
GSBGEN312	I'm Just a Bill	This is a course about the American legislative process. You will learn how the United States Congress and President enact a law by role-playing as Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, or as senior advisors to the President. You...
GSBGEN315	Strategic Communication	Business leaders have marketing strategies, expansion strategies, finance strategies, even exit strategies. Successful leaders, however, also have communication strategies. This course will explore how individuals and organizations can develop and ex...
GSBGEN316	Civic Workshop	Small teams of students will propose and implement projects to provide immediate volunteer civic assistance to a group or community dealing with the effects of coronavirus. We assume most or all of this assistance will be online or otherwise virtual....
GSBGEN317	Reputation Management: Strategies for Successful Communicators	Successful leaders have to conceive, author, rebuild, pivot, differentiate, and finally maintain a personal reputation to make a lasting, recognizable and powerful identity. Reputation Management will explore how you can effectively communicate to cr...
GSBGEN319	Strategic Philanthropy and Impact Investing	The course will be structured around the perspective of a foundation or a high net worth individual who has decided to devote substantial resources to philanthropy and wishes to decide which philanthropic goals to pursue and how best to achieve them....
GSBGEN320	Neuroscience and the Connection to Sustained Excellence	Sustained excellence requires not only deep passion and dedication but also the mental resiliency and vibrancy to deal with negative shocks and to discover and exploit potentially upside opportunities. Performing at one's peak mental resiliency and v...
GSBGEN323	Blockchain Governance	This course offers an overview of blockchain governance and DAOs, including the governance of layer-1 blockchains, DAO tooling, on-chain and off-chain voting, delegation and constitutional design, identity, and privacy. We will cover these topics bot...
GSBGEN326	Resource Allocation in Education	This course covers economic principles and tools for informing resource allocation decisions in education. Students will review concepts related to educational goods and values; the costs and benefits of different levels and types of schooling; publi...
GSBGEN332	Climate Tech for Rapid Decarbonization	This course examines alternative pathways for economies around the world to achieve deep decarbonization within a couple of decades. The overall perspective is to analyze the global decarbonization process at the intersection of technological improve...
GSBGEN333	Technology Licensing: Strategy and Negotiation	Licensing of technology and its corresponding intellectual property is big business, and integral to the business plans and competitive strategies of start-ups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Because licenses are complex agreements with important le...
GSBGEN334	Family Business	Believe it or not, the "Silicon Valley model" is irrelevant to most businesses. Most companies are not started by MBAs; most startups are not funded by VCs; most employees don't work for tech firms; and most firms don't sell out to other businesses o...
GSBGEN336	Energy Markets and Policy	This is a course on how energy and environmental markets work, and the regulatory mechanisms that have been and can be used to achieve desired policy goals. The course uses a electricity market game as a central teaching tool. In the game, students p...
GSBGEN339	Negotiation Dynamics in Sports, Entertainment and Media	Negotiation is a central part of business in the worlds of sports and entertainment. This course will examine negotiation dynamics and key takeaways for general management from multiple different settings where negotiations had an important role--the...
GSBGEN341	Climate Change, Economics, Technology	This course covers (1) the causes and consequences of climate change, (2) the predicted economic impacts, policy modeling, and ethical concerns, and (3) the technological pathways that the world is likely to follow. The first part focuses on both ba...
GSBGEN345	Disruptions in Education	The recent pandemic disrupted higher education significantly, surfacing novel needs, while at the same putting decades long trends into sharper focus. This course explores the contemporary higher education industry, focusing especially on the places...
GSBGEN346	Freedom, Democracy, and Capitalism	This is a civics course about the ideas that comprise a modern implementation of liberal democracy: freedom, democracy, capitalism, and a rules-based international order. Our principal focus will be on the post-WWII American implementation of these i...
GSBGEN347	Education Policy in the United States	The course will provide students from different disciplines with an understanding of the broad educational policy context. The course will cover topics including a) school finance systems; b) an overview of policies defining and shaping the sectors a...
GSBGEN348	The Economics of Higher Education	(Same as EDUC 347) Topics: the worth of college and graduate degrees, and the utilization of highly educated graduates; faculty labor markets, careers, and workload; costs and pricing; discounting, merit aid, and access to higher education; sponsored...
GSBGEN350	International Internship	No Description Set
GSBGEN352	Winning Writing	This once-a-week full-quarter workshop will offer techniques and practical in-class exercises for writing better -- better memos, emails, cold-call letters, speeches, feedback for colleagues, news releases, responses to questions from the media and f...
GSBGEN356	Dynamics of the Global Wine Industry	This course will examine the world of wine with a fresh and contemporary lens. It will explore the market dynamics of this fascinating global industry. The goal of the course is to provide insight into the branding, marketing, and distribution dynami...
GSBGEN357	U.S.-China: Strategic Competition and Cooperation	This is a course to help future business leaders understand the policy risks that result from the changing relationship between the United States and China. Driven in part by policy decisions over the past decade in Washington and Beijing, the world...
GSBGEN360	Sports Business Management	This course will examine the diverse management challenges facing the sports industry. The course will cover issues at the league level, the team level, the athlete/agent level, and the college level. The diverse constituencies with interests in spor...
GSBGEN363	Fiscal Policy	This is a class about American economic policy, with an emphasis on the U.S. federal budget: government spending, taxes, deficits, and debt. We will examine decisions faced by elected officials and their advisors in the real world. These decisions ar...
GSBGEN367	Problem Solving for Social Change	Stanford graduates will play important roles in solving many of today's and tomorrow's major societal problems-in areas such as education, health, energy, and domestic and global poverty-that call for actions by nonprofit, business, and hybrid organi...
GSBGEN368	Managing Difficult Conversations	This elective 3- unit course is offered with Pass-Fail grading to MBA students who aspire to improve their ability to deal effectively with difficult professional and personal interpersonal situations. Class is held Tuesday, 3:10-6:10 PM. The cours...
GSBGEN370	Power of You: Women in Leadership	All leaders face a host of challenges, but women leaders encounter an additional set of obstacles and considerations-institutional, economic, cultural-that their men counterparts most likely never will. Women from underrepresented groups experience t...
GSBGEN373	Mission and Money in Education	Educational institutions are defined by their academic missions and their financial structures. When we refer to public/private or nonprofit/profit sectors, these are shorthand descriptions of the different capital structures that underlie educationa...
GSBGEN377	Diverse Leadership as an Imperative for Impact	Our society implicitly prizes a particular approach to leadership - but today's cross-sectoral, impact-oriented leader cannot afford to be restricted to a single approach. If we aspire to address challenges across social, economic, and political aren...
GSBGEN381	Individual Philanthropy: Giving Models, Purpose & Practicum	A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything- time, expertise, networks, credibility, dollars, experience- in any amount to create a better world. Philanthropy is resource, background, age, profession, and industry agnostic, and "Individual Philanth...
GSBGEN382	Social Innovation Practicum: Designing New Interventions and Social Ventures	Social Innovation Practicum is an experiential learning course. Through the format of an interactive workshop, students will learn about the social sector by researching a problem or unmet need in society and then developing, testing, and refining a...
GSBGEN383	Practical Policy and Politics	This is a skills / toolbox class, designed for beginners. It is a practical course about policy-making in the U.S. federal government. It will cover three broad subject areas: (1) an assortment of current policy topics; (2) governing processes - how...
GSBGEN386	Public Policy for Climate Innovation	This course considers the form and content that climate innovation policies should take as well as implementation strategies to help climate tech companies cross the proverbial 'valley of death'. The course begins with an evaluation of the advantages...
GSBGEN390	Individual Research	Need approval from sponsoring faculty member and GSB Registrar. There is a limit on the number of units in courses of independent study that may be applied toward degree requirements.
GSBGEN391	Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Education Technology Seminar	The last few years we have created significant challenges and opportunities in education; there has never been a more pressing and urgent need in our history to foster entrepreneurship in education by leveraging new technologies. This course will hel...
GSBGEN392	Financial Management for Entrepreneurs	Course formerly known as FINANCE 373 Entrepreneurial Finance. The course provides future CEOs and CFOs with the necessary tools for successfully managing financial aspects of entrepreneurial ventures. We cover topics related to both fundraising and o...
GSBGEN394	Leadership for Society: Big Arguments, Courageous Leadership	More and more, CEOs and other business leaders are asked to engage in dialogue on large-scale issues of societal importance. This class is designed to help students build the ability to foster open and productive conversation on these issues, particu...
GSBGEN490	Leadership for Society: Reflections on History in the Making	Reflections on History in the Making (GSBGEN 490) provides students the opportunity to reflect on, and create an account of their experience of the historic transformations societies around the world are undergoing in the wake of the COVID pandemic,...
GSBGEN494	Leadership for Society: Creating Daring Dialogs	What does it take to engage with people on issues of societal importance? How can you, as leader, spark this engagement? In this course, Leadership for Society Scholars will learn the skills necessary to create an environment that supports honest and...
GSBGEN495	Leadership for Society: Daring Dialogues	The rapid explosion of information in our world presents both immense opportunity and critical challenges for society. Instant and ubiquitous information is a powerful driver for innovation and holds the promise of technological advances that can pro...
GSBGEN496	Leadership for Society: Making Sense of Complex Social Systems	In this class, Leadership for Society Scholars develop a course of inquiry on a chosen societal issue. All projects will include a review of relevant literature and primary research as Scholars explore the historical and social context for their chos...
GSBGEN498	Faculty Lecture & Discussion Series	This class features GSB instructors discussing their research and its applications to the business world. Each session will present one speaker. To earn the 1 unit credit, students must commit to attend at least 6 out of the 8 talks. This is done on...
GSBGEN499	The Last Lecture Series	This class is an opportunity to hear a Last Lecture from esteemed GSB instructors. Each session will present one speaker. To earn the 1 unit credit, students must commit to attend at least 7 out of the 9 talks. This is done on the honor system. If yo...
GSBGEN501	Principles of Effective Decision Making for Sustainability	The overall goal of this short course is to develop students ability to (i) decide which issues around sustainability and the environment are worth spending time and energy on in their careers and personal lives, and (ii) effectively promote such cha...
GSBGEN503	The Business of Healthcare	Healthcare spending is now nearly 18% of the entire GDP of the U.S. economy. The S&P healthcare sector has been one of the best producing segments of the market for the last decade, and growth of healthcare expenditures continue to escalate at a rapi...
GSBGEN505	Impact: Investing for Good	Investing for Good will introduce students to the entire spectrum of purposeful, values-driven, and impact investing. We examine the field from the perspective of an institutional investor (i.e. fund manager, investment advisor, endowment manager, he...
GSBGEN508	Strategic Pivoting for your Next Chapter	Many students come to the GSB with the intent to pivot upon leaving the institution. Some students feel they have outgrown their position or business, or they feel drawn to a new area that better suits their values and interests, where they can make...
GSBGEN511	Making Social Ventures Happen by Attracting Financial and Human Capital	Social ventures require leadership, funding, expertise, skills and networks to get off the ground, grow and scale. This course will focus on the key strategies for building and leveraging a network of champions to capitalize a social venture at early...
GSBGEN514	Creating and Scaling High Potential Ventures in Developing Economies (Cases)	GSBGEN 514 - Creating High Potential Ventures in Developing Economies (2 Units) This course addresses the distinctive challenges and opportunities of launching and growing high-potential new ventures in developing economies. Developing economies are...
GSBGEN515	Essentials of Strategic Communication	Successful leaders understand the power of authentic, memorable communication.This course uses the lens of oral communication and presentations, to introduce the essential elements of the strategic communication strategies that make authentic, memora...
GSBGEN520	Designing Solutions by Leveraging the Frinky Science of the Human Mind	The thrust of this course is on leveraging deep insights into brain-body systems for peak performance in highly demanding environments. These insights will enable you to perform at your peak day in and day out by unraveling the workings of the human...
GSBGEN527	Global eCommerce	Global eCommerce represents a vast market, driven by advances in internet and smartphone penetration, improving supply chains, lower online prices and variety and a growing, aspirational middle class with increasing demand for branded goods. This cla...
GSBGEN531	Global Trip Leadership Skills	This course is open only to leaders of the Global Study Trips. This course is experiential and designed to support the leadership learning and development of students leading Global Study Trips. Lectures, role plays, cases, and exercises will be used...
GSBGEN532	Clean Energy Opportunities: Business Models and Innovations	This course examines business models and opportunities related to an emerging industry that is now commonly referred to as 'Climate Tech'. We examine emerging trends for this sector in the context of technological change, business opportunities and t...
GSBGEN534	Creating a New Venture in a Developing Economy	This course addresses the distinctive challenges and opportunities of launching high-potential new ventures in developing economies. Developing economies are attractive targets for entrepreneurs because many are just starting to move up the growth cu...
GSBGEN535	Global Trip Leadership Skills (B)	This course is open only to leaders of Global Study Trips. It is designed to support GST leaders as they design and deliver a new version of GSTs that accommodate current pandemic limitations on travel. The course will support leaders in emergent des...
GSBGEN537	Sustainable Human Behavior	We will discuss pioneering research on the three key pillars that make human behaviors sustainable: health, wellbeing, and a sense of responsibility for the world we share. The class is designed to facilitate dialogue, knowledge exchange, and the dev...
GSBGEN538	Power in Finance	There is a growing sense that both capitalism and democracy are in crisis. Is the focus on financial metrics and markets to blame for the eroding trust in corporations and governments? How do power dynamics shape the financial system and determine ec...
GSBGEN542	Engineering a Remarkable Life	The skills and attitudes learned as a graduate business student can (with a bit of coaching) be applied to managing one's life. This course will help students think through the 'brand' they want to have, how to modify a personal 'operating system,' h...
GSBGEN543	Family Business	Believe it or not, the "Silicon Valley model" is irrelevant to most businesses. Most companies are not started by MBAs; most startups are not funded by VCs; most employees don't work for tech firms; and most firms don't sell out to other businesses o...
GSBGEN544	How Software Ate Finance	Software is eating the world, with radical consequences for financial services. This course will give you a foundation for understanding the future of financial services, and guide you in creating fintech businesses in the 2020s and beyond. The cour...
GSBGEN546	Freedom, Democracy, and Capitalism	This is an American civics course for future business leaders, intended to briefly (re-)introduce students to a few of the ideas that form the foundation of the American implementation of "the Western model" of freedom, liberal democracy, capitalism,...
GSBGEN550	Leadership Demystified	This seminar will explore the nature and role of leadership in organizations. We will examine such questions as (1) What is leadership? (2) Why is it important? (3) What is it that leaders actually do? (4) How do they do it? (5) How are leaders devel...
GSBGEN551	Innovation and Management in Health Care	The health care system accounts for almost 20% US GDP and is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. This two-unit class focuses on the interplay and tension between the main players in the health care field - providers of health care ser...
GSBGEN552	Winning Writing	This twice-a-week, half-quarter workshop will offer techniques and practical in-class exercises for writing better -- better memos, emails, feedback for colleagues, news releases, responses to questions from the media and from interviewers, and opini...
GSBGEN553	Corporate Dilemmas	The neoliberal orthodoxy that corporate managers' sole duty is to maximize shareholders' financial value (shareholder primacy) has never been entirely adhered to in practice and has been increasingly challenged in recent decades. While acknowledging...
GSBGEN559	The Technology, Politics, and Finance for Solving Global Warming	There is increasing scientific consensus that global warming threatens our world. This course explores how the next generation of leaders can use a combination of forward-looking public policy, political power, and financing new technologies to solve...
GSBGEN564	The Entertainment Industry - An Intersection of Art and Commerce	In this seminar we will explore the intersection of art and commerce in the entertainment industry. We will look at creating films and television programing that are artistically meaningful and/or have the potential for commercial success. The class...
GSBGEN565	Political Communication: How Leaders Become Leaders	This year -- 2022 -- will be a fascinating backdrop for national as well as state and local politics. Implications of the recent pandemic, its dramatic economic impacts and an uneven but recovering economy, Inflation fears, a war in Ukraine, and loom...
GSBGEN566	Dilemmas and Decisions	GSBGEN 566 is an elective course offered to 2nd-year MBA and MSx students. The goal of this course is to improve students' judgment in confronting challenging, real business situations encountered in the normal progression of corporate activities. Th...
GSBGEN568	Managing Difficult Conversations	This elective 2-unit course is designed for those who aspire to improve their ability to deal effectively with difficult professional and interpersonal conversations. The course is taught by William F. Meehan III, the Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Str...
GSBGEN569	The Open Road: Innovation in Cars, Driving, and Mobility	This course will look at ongoing and upcoming innovation in cars, driving, and mobility from three perspectives: (1) technology, (2) economics & business models, and (3) policy. We'll survey changes in powering vehicles (e.g. electrification and biof...
GSBGEN570	Power of You: Women in Leadership	All leaders face a host of challenges, but women leaders encounter an additional set of obstacles and considerations-institutional, social, economic, cultural-that their men counterparts most likely never will. Women from underrepresented groups expe...
GSBGEN576	The Africa Story	This course is designed to introduce GSB students to the peculiar challenges of doing business in a continent, Africa , that shows tremendous promise and at the same time exhibits apparently great perils. How is it to be understood and analyzed? Wha...
GSBGEN580	IMPACT: Philanthropic Institutions & Justice	This is a three week compressed course, and Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, will co-teach week three. Many of today's philanthropic institutions operate with unprecedented innovation and influence and lead in a way that rapidly adapt...
GSBGEN581	Philanthropy, Inclusivity and Leadership	A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything-time, expertise, networks, credibility, influence, dollars, experience-in any amount to create a better world. Regardless of one's age, background or profession, everyone has the potential to lead in a wa...
GSBGEN585	Project You: Building and Extending your Personal Brand	GSB Graduates will be entering and re-entering the workforce needing to know and understand how to build, broadcast, maintain and protect their personal brand. Project You will help each student realize: What is a personal brand and how can it be unl...
GSBGEN587	Policy Practicum: Alabama Innovation	Client: Innovate Alabama, https://innovatealabama.org/. The newly established Alabama Innovation Commission, known as Innovate Alabama, has sought policy recommendations from a group of faculty at Stanford University, including representatives from...
GSBGEN591	Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Education Technology Seminar	The last few years we have created significant challenges and opportunities in education; there has never been a more pressing and urgent need in our history to foster entrepreneurship in education by leveraging new technologies. This course will hel...
GSBGEN593	Businesses and Governments: Power and Engagement in the 21st Century World	Complex interactions among governments, businesses, and other institutions such as media, non-governmental, and international organizations, shape our world and our lives. In this course we will explore the workings of these interactions and the chal...
GSBGEN595	High-Stakes Decision Making	Effective decision making is a critical skill for political and business leaders. Decisions must be made under pressure and often with incomplete information. George Osborne was Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom in the aftermath of th...
GSBGEN596	Designing AI to Cultivate Human Well-Being	Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to drive us towards a better future for all of humanity, but it also comes with significant risks and challenges. At its best, AI can help humans mitigate climate change, diagnose and treat diseases more...
GSBGEN597	Growth in the Developing Countries, Emerging Economies and the Global Economy	This course deals with growth, or slightly more broadly with growth patterns. It starts with developing country growth, a distinctive features of the post WWII global order. The economics, the policies and the political economy for growth and develop...
GSBGEN598	Stanford-Tsinghua Exchange Program (A)	This course is open only to students participating in the Stanford-Tsinghua Exchange Program and is required of those students. Requirements include researching and reporting on companies to be visited, planning the business meetings during the Beiji...
GSBGEN599	Stanford-Tsinghua Exchange Program (B)	This course is open only to students participating in the Stanford-Tsinghua Exchange Program and is required of those students. Requirements include researching and reporting on companies to be visited, planning the business meetings during the Beiji...
GSBGEN622	Presentation and Communication Skills for Academics	Academics must effectively communicate the importance of their research to a wide range of audiences, including colleagues, students, stakeholders, and the general public, as well as in a variety of contexts, from academic conferences and job talks t...
GSBGEN623	Altruism: Theories and Practice	Humans are remarkably generous. Americans, for instance, donate roughly 3% of GDP to charity and volunteer over 4% of hours worked. Yet, our generosity is replete with quirks. We are highly sensitive to whether a gift originates with us--and espec...
GSBGEN641	Introduction to Structural Econometrics	This course introduces students to the role of theory-based structural econometric models in i) estimating determinants of behavior from revealed preference data, ii) evaluating counterfactual decisions or policies by firms, organizations and/or the...
GSBGEN646	Behavioral Economics and the Psychology of Decision Making	This seminar examines research on the psychology of judgment and choice. Although the normative issue of how decisions should be made is relevant, the descriptive issue of how decisions are made is the main focus of the course. Topics of discussion i...
GSBGEN675	Microeconomic Theory	This course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory designed to meet the needs of students in the GSB non-Economics PhD programs. The course will cover the standard economic models of individual decision-making, models of consumer behavior a...
GSBGEN691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
GSBGEN692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
GSBGEN693	The Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability	The purpose of the course is to (a) introduce graduate students to questions and methods in the rapidly evolving fields of climate/sustainable finance; (b) connect researchers from across the globe interested in this topic to stimulate more rigorous,...
GSBGEN697	Research Fellows Practicum	No Description Set
GSBGEN802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
HRMGT203	People Analytics	How can we use big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to inform design, hiring, promotion and human resource management processes in organizations? We will discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that these issues present, an...
HRMGT210	Organizational Analytics	This course will bring you to the cutting edge of how organizations are (re)-designed using analytics. You will learn about a variety of tools which allow you to (1) better understand understanding what is happening in an organization, (2) forecast w...
HRMGT286	Managing People in the Global Context	The world of work has changed fundamentally - firms are now integrally linked to the global economy and many of you will manage teams of people located in different countries. What are the typical "people" challenges that arise when working across bo...
HRMGT302	Incentives and Productivity	This course is designed to teach the student how to use economics to solve practical personnel problems that affect worker productivity. Topics include: selecting the best workers to hire, training workers, turnover, setting compensation strategicall...
HRMGT382	People Operations: From Startup to Scaleup	This course focuses attention on human resource strategies for startups. It discusses recruitment, incentives, design of jobs, development of talent, leadership and empowerment challenges in startups. We will deal with questions ranging from equity s...
HRMGT384	Understanding the Trends Transforming the World of Work: Lab for HR Startups	The purpose of the course is to review the key trends transforming the world of work in a post-covid environment, and then get students to define and sharpen their definition of entrepreneurial opportunities to improve the world of work. It will be...
HRMGT503	People Analytics	How can we use big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to inform design, hiring, promotion and human resource management processes in organizations? We will discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that these issues present, an...
HRMGT691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
HRMGT692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
HRMGT802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
MGTECON200	Managerial Economics	MGTECON 200 is a base-level course in microeconomics. It covers microeconomic concepts relevant to management, including the economics of relationships, pricing decisions, perfect competition and the "invisible hand," risk aversion and risk sharing,...
MGTECON203	Managerial Economics - Accelerated	MGTECON 203 is the more quantitative version of MGTECON 200. It uses math tools such as derivatives and algebra to explain economics concepts. No previous knowledge of economics is assumed. The class covers key ideas in economics relating to topics s...
MGTECON209	MSx: Microeconomics	The core microeconomics course is challenging and covers microeconomic concepts, including the economics of relationships, pricing decisions, perfect competition and the 'invisible hand,' risk aversion and risk sharing, and moral hazard and adverse s...
MGTECON300	Growth and Stabilization in the Global Economy	This course gives students the background they need to understand the broad movements in the global economy. Key topics include long-run economic growth, technological change, wage inequality, international trade, interest rates, inflation, exchange...
MGTECON327	U.S. Inequality: What Can Business and Policy Do?	This class will analyze the growth in inequality in the US over the last several decades and how that trend is likely to continue or change in the future. We will ask if and how public policy can affect inequality. We will also focus on business's ro...
MGTECON328	Economics of the Media, Entertainment, and Communications Sector	This course analyzes business decisions in current and historical cases from the media, entertainment, and communications sector. Topics include (1) pricing, bundling and tiering of media products, (2) horizontal and vertical integration of content,...
MGTECON331	Health Law: Finance and Insurance	This course provides the legal, institutional, and economic background necessary to understand the financing and production of health services in the US. Potential topics include: health reform, health insurance (Medicare and Medicaid, employer-spons...
MGTECON349	Smart Pricing and Market Design	This course is an Advanced Applications option in the Economics menu. The focus of the course is on pricing mechanisms and the design of marketplaces. The pricing component of the course will handle both traditional topics, such as price differentiat...
MGTECON350	Economics of Labor: Strategy, Policy, and the Future of Work	This Advanced Application of Microeconomics course will study the labor market. The initial section, focused on organizations' personnel strategies will consider how labor markets differ from other goods and how to adopt classic supply/demand analysi...
MGTECON383	Impact: Measuring Impact in Business and Social	This class provides students with practical skills for measuring impact in business and social enterprise. How large is the impact of raising prices on sales? Is an advertising campaign working? Does a non-profit actually improve people's lives? Stud...
MGTECON526	Inclusive Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries	Poverty rates have fallen markedly in countries around the world, as more households have joined the lower middle-class. Indeed, though U.S. income inequality has increased, inequality has fallen around the world. However, by developed country standa...
MGTECON533	Economics of Strategy and Organization	The goal of this class is to combine economic theory and business practice to develop insights for business strategy and organization design. We will discuss strategies and organizations of companies, identify potential problems and explore potential...
MGTECON540	Data Science and Experimentation for Decision Making	In this course we will discuss statistical and econometric methods for assisting in decision making. We will discuss experimental designs, ranging from classical A/B tests to modern designs in use at leading tech companies. We will also discuss metho...
MGTECON583	Measuring Impact in Business and Social Enterprise	Businesses are increasingly expected to have a positive social impact, as evidenced by the rapid growth of impact investing. Yet, even as the impact investing market has taken off, impact measurement has lagged, undermining the credibility of the se...
MGTECON600	Microeconomic Analysis I	This course provides an introduction to the foundations of modern microeconomic theory. Topics include choice theory, with and without uncertainty, consumer and producer theory, dynamic choice and dynamic programming, social choice and efficiency, an...
MGTECON601	Microeconomic Analysis II	This course studies the roles of information, incentives and strategic behavior in markets. The rudiments of game theory are developed and applied to selected topics regarding auctions, bargaining, and firms' competitive strategies; information econo...
MGTECON602	Auctions, Bargaining, and Pricing	This course covers mostly auction theory, bargaining theory and related parts of the literature on pricing. Key classic papers covered in the course are Myerson and Satterthwaite on dynamic bargaining, Myerson on optimal auctions, and Milgrom and Web...
MGTECON603	Econometric Methods I	This is the first course in the sequence in graduate econometrics. The course covers some of the probabilistic and statistical underpinnings of econometrics, and explores the large-sample properties of maximum likelihood estimators. You are assumed t...
MGTECON604	Econometric Methods II	Second course in the PhD sequence in econometrics at the Economics Department (as Econ 271) and at the GSB (as MGTECON 604). This course presents modern econometric methods with a focus on regression. Among the topics covered are: linear regression a...
MGTECON605	Econometric Methods III	This course completes the first-year sequence in econometrics. It covers conventional parametric methods that MGTECON 604 did not have time to cover in any detail. This includes GMM, simulated GMM, nonlinear least squares problems generally, and an i...
MGTECON607	Methods for Applied Econometrics	The course provides an introduction to modern econometric methods for causal inference. We discuss classical randomized experiments as well as modern methods for experimentation. We als discuss observational methods for cross section settings, includ...
MGTECON608	Multiperson Decision Theory	Students and faculty review and present recent research papers on basic theories and economic applications of decision theory, game theory and mechanism design. Applications include market design and analyses of incentives and strategic behavior in m...
MGTECON610	Macroeconomics	This course covers various topics in macroeconomics and is designed to expose students to macroeconomic methods, classic papers in the field, and the latest research at the frontier. The current focus is on economic growth. Using theoretical and empi...
MGTECON612	Advanced Macroeconomics II	This is an advanced class on monetary economics. We cover empirical evidence, neoclassical models, recent advances in New Keynesian models, monetary policy with heterogeneous agents and financial frictions, alternative models of price setting and oth...
MGTECON616	Topics in Microeconomic Theory	This course covers foundational topics in microeconomic theory and is suitable for students who have completed the first year of their PhD studies and have taken a game theory or an advanced applied theory course. Sample topics include the notions of...
MGTECON617	Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics	The goal of this course is to introduce students to frontier research in quantitative macroeconomics and finance with heterogeneous agents. We study models with imperfect financial markets and/or search frictions. We emphasize theory and numerical me...
MGTECON618	Social Insurance and Urban Economics	The course covers various topics relating to social insurance and urban economics. The first half of the course covers the rationale for government interventions into private insurance markets, adverse selection, social insurance design and the inter...
MGTECON626	Continuous-time Methods in Economics and Finance	Continuous-time methods can, in many cases, lead to more powerful models to understand economic phenomena. The Black-Scholes option-pricing formula is significantly more tractable than discrete- time methods of option pricing based on binomial trees....
MGTECON628	Reading Group in Industrial Organization	This course meets weekly on Fridays at Noon. The primary purpose of the course is to read and discuss current working papers in Industrial Organization and related fields (e.g., Econometrics, Marketing, and Labor). Students are required to present...
MGTECON629	Faculty Research Workshop	Each week, a different economics faculty member will discuss his or her important and /or current research. The course is an important introduction to PhD level research topics and techniques. Attendance is mandatory.
MGTECON630	Industrial Organization	This is an introductory course in Industrial Organization. The goal is to provide broad general training in the field, introducing you to the central questions around imperfect competition, market structure, innovation and regulation, as well as the...
MGTECON634	Machine Learning and Causal Inference	This course will cover statistical methods based on the machine learning literature that can be used for causal inference. In economics and the social sciences more broadly, empirical analyses typically estimate the effects of counterfactual policies...
MGTECON640	Quantitative Methods for Empirical Research	This is an advanced course on quantitative methods for empirical research. Students are expected to have taken a course in linear models before. In this course I will discuss modern econometric methods for nonlinear models, including maximum likeliho...
MGTECON652	Personnel Economics	This seminar will examine applications of labor economics to business issues and firms' practices. Material will include both theoretical and empirical work, and the syllabus will range from classics in Personnel Economics to current (unpublished) re...
MGTECON691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
MGTECON692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
MGTECON698	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching
MGTECON699	Doctoral Practicum in Research	Doctoral Practicum in Research
MGTECON802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
MKTG240	Marketing Management	The objectives of this course are to introduce students to the substantive and procedural aspects of marketing management and to sharpen skills for critical analytical thinking and effective communication. Specifically, the goals are to introduce stu...
MKTG243	Marketing Management, Accelerated	The objective of this course is to introduce you to modern marketing practice at an accelerated level. Marketing is key to the success of an organization and requires an ability to design and execute a coherent strategy across a number of different d...
MKTG249	MSx: Marketing	Our focus is on the question, "When launching a product, what are the framing issues that will help determine success?" In particular, we will provide you with tools to analyze market situations and determine whether it makes sense to launch a produc...
MKTG326	Customer Acquisition for New Ventures	The focus of this course is on the strategies and methods used by early-stage companies to acquire customers (through outbound or inbound marketing) and to activate and retain them (i.e., to encourage repeat behavior and/or increase the frequency of...
MKTG332	Persuasion: Principles and Practice	Understanding persuasion is essential to having influence in virtually any environment; at work, in a sales pitch, in the marketplace, and even at home. Whether you want to get colleagues on board with your idea, clients or investors interested in yo...
MKTG337	Applied Behavioral Economics	The field of behavioral economics couples scientific research on the psychology of decision making with economic theory to better understand what motivates economic agents, including consumers, managers, public policymakers, investors, and employees....
MKTG344	Marketing Research	How large is the market for a product, what is important for the target segment? How does change in the product design affect profitability? This course aims to help students ask such business questions and find data-driven answers to them. The main...
MKTG346	Humor: Serious Business	There exists a mistaken belief in today's corporate world that we need to be serious all the time to be taken seriously. But the research tells a different story. In this course, we delve into the behavioral science of humor, and why it is a secret...
MKTG373	Monetization	This course examines the fundamental issues of creating a strategy for monetization and revenue growth within an organization. Students learn about setting an organization's business model design, aligning various functional areas within the company...
MKTG532	Persuasion: Principles and Practice	Understanding persuasion is essential to having influence in virtually any environment - at work, in a sales pitch, in the marketplace, and even at home. Whether you want to get colleagues on board with your idea, clients or investors interested in y...
MKTG534	The Travel and Airline Industry	This class provides an overview of the travel and airline industry focusing on strategy, business models, operations and trends. Topics we will cover include competition, service delivery, distribution, pricing, planning and the use of analytics with...
MKTG535	Product Launch	Our focus is on the question, "When launching a product, what are the framing issues that will help determine success?" In particular, we will provide you with tools to analyze market situations and determine whether it makes sense to launch a produc...
MKTG539	Algorithmic and Digital Marketing	Leveraging digital technologies to drive customer acquisition, engagement, and long-term value is an important factor for success of firms operating in the current environment. The ability to collect consumer-level behavioral data, rapid evolution of...
MKTG546	Humor: Serious Business	YOU, oh fearless leader of the future (and maybe present). Are very important. You will make critical and far-reaching economic, political, and social decisions in your quest beyond Stanford to change lives, change organizations, and change the world...
MKTG574	Rethinking Purpose	We assume happiness is stable, an endpoint to achieve our goal to chase. It's not. Recent behavioral research suggests that the meaning of happiness changes every 5-10 years, raising the question: how might we build organizations and lives that culti...
MKTG575	Consumer Behavior	Contemporary approaches to marketing emphasize the importance of adopting a consumer focus, from determining consumers' wants and needs, understanding their motivation, to shaping their attitudes and ensuring their loyalty. This course provides insig...
MKTG577	Creativity in the Business Ecosystem	This course explores where creativity occurs in the value chain or business ecosystem more broadly. The concepts of both creativity and the business ecosystem are independently developed, but the primary insights derive from how the ecosystem can pr...
MKTG611	Motivation Science	The purpose of this seminar is to provide PhD level coverage of the major research work carried out in the field of motivation science. For each topic considered, a range of articles from social psychology, consumer behavior, and marketing journals...
MKTG622	Behavioral Research in Marketing III: Consumer Behavior Classics	The purpose of this seminar is to provide PhD level coverage of the major research work carried out in consumer behavior. For each topic considered, a selection of articles with a specific focus on "early classics" will be distributed and discussed....
MKTG641	Behavioral Research in Marketing I	This course prepares the student to do empirical behavioral research. It will cover all aspects of the research process, from hypothesis generation to experimental design to data analysis to writing up your results and submitting them for publication...
MKTG642	Behavioral Research in Marketing II: Consumer Behavior	This PhD seminar provides coverage of the major research carried out in consumer research both in marketing and psychology. A vast set of topic will be covered including conscious and non-conscious consumer goals, motivations, emotions, attention and...
MKTG644	Quantitative Research in Marketing	The goal of this seminar is to familiarize students with the quantitative marketing literature and develop the process of generating research ideas and topics. Sessions will involve a mix of: i) a discussion of papers in a particular area in quantita...
MKTG645	Empirical Analysis of Dynamic Decision Contexts	This course will focus on empirical tools for analyzing dynamic decision contexts, wherein current actions of firms or consumers have effects on future payoffs, profits and/or competitive conduct. The course will build the relevant material generally...
MKTG646	Bayesian Inference: Methods and Applications	The course aims to develop a thorough understanding of Bayesian inference, with a special focus on empirical applications in marketing. The course will start with a brief theoretical foundation to Bayesian inference and will subsequently focus on emp...
MKTG661	Attitudes and Persuasion	The goal of this course - geared toward graduate students in behavioral marketing, psychology, and related disciplines - is to explore the issues and questions that currently engage researchers in the domain of attitudes and persuasion. We will cover...
MKTG691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
MKTG692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
MKTG698	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching
MKTG699	Doctoral Practicum in Research	Doctoral Practicum in Research
MKTG802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
OB110N	Savvy: Learning How to Communicate with Purpose	Our seminar is designed for students interested in improving their communication skills. Right now, you probably don't spend much time thinking about the way you communicate, nor are you likely, in the academic setting, to get much feedback on the me...
OB118N	Us and Them: The Psychology of Intergroup Relations	Why do individuals participate in intergroup conflict? Should we celebrate differences or de-emphasize them to improve intergroup interactions? What roles do gender, race, and culture play in everyday workplace interactions, such as networking and ne...
OB205	Managing Groups and Teams	This course introduces you to the science of teams. Particularly, the class focuses on the structures and processes that affect team performance, highlighting common pitfalls associated with working in teams and introducing strategies to maximize tea...
OB206	Organizational Behavior	Building on the discipline of social psychology, this course helps you cultivate mindsets and build skills to understand the ways in which organizations and their members affect one another. You will learn frameworks for diagnosing and resolving prob...
OB209	Leadership Laboratory	In the Leadership Labs class we ask you to consider the question, "Why would someone follow YOU?" This is a course in which you consider what kind of leader you want to be, what kind of leader you are, and how to align your leadership behavior with y...
OB219	MSx: Organizational Design	This course examines fundamental issues of general management and leadership within an organization. You will learn about setting an organization's strategic direction, aligning structure to implement strategy, and leading individuals within the firm...
OB278	MSx: Organizational Behavior	Building on the discipline of social psychology, this course helps you cultivate mindsets and build skills to understand the ways in which organizations and their members affect one another. You will learn frameworks for diagnosing and resolving prob...
OB289	MSx: Negotiations	Effective managers and leaders should be familiar with the strategy and psychology of conflict and negotiate effectively with other persons, departments, organizations, and stakeholders. Hence, the first aim of the course is to develop your ability t...
OB313	Beyond Disruption: Entrepreneurial Leadership Within Existing Organizations	Why do large, successful companies often have such difficulty in disrupting themselves (e.g., Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders)? How do you maintain an entrepreneurial edge within an existing enterprise? How do you sustain core businesses while simultaneo...
OB330	Leadership Fellows I	The Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program plays an integral role in the GSB leadership curriculum by bringing together a group of talented second years to support the leadership development of the first-year class. OB330, an 8 unit two-quarter MBA2 ele...
OB331	Leadership Fellows II	This course is the continuation of Leadership Fellows I, an 8-unit course that begins in Autumn Quarter. During this quarter Fellows will continue to deepen their coaching and mentoring skills, and will focus exclusively on in-depth 1:1 coaching with...
OB333	Acting with Power	The ability to function effectively within a hierarchy is a crucial determinant of managerial success, yet many people struggle with "authority issues" that make certain hierarchical roles and positions difficult for them. This course draws on the cr...
OB345	Leadership Coaching	The ability to coach others is an often over-looked core competency for leaders. This course will give students an opportunity to learn the fundamental skills of coaching, so they can become coaching leaders. This course is designed to be very exper...
OB348	Leading and Managing Health Care Organizations: Innovation and Collaboration in High Stakes Settings	Leading and managing in complex, high stakes settings, like health care, where lives and livelihoods are on the line, presents distinctive challenges and constraints. This course challenges you to apply seminal and contemporary theories in organizati...
OB363	Leadership Perspectives	What does it mean to be a principled leader? What role do values play in an organization, and how do successful leaders apply their values in their daily business lives? This course examines the concept of principled leadership and the various ways t...
OB372	High-Performance Leadership	This course asks the question: "What does it take to build high-performance?" The focus is on middle and upper-middle management in contemporary organizations that have complex tasks, exist in a rapidly changing environment, and have highly skilled s...
OB374	Interpersonal Dynamics	PRE-QUALIFICATION IS REQUIRED BY THE DEADLINE (APPROXIMATELY FIVE WEEKS BEFORE THE QUARTER BEGINS). The focus of this course is to increase one's competencies in building more effective relationships. Learning is primarily through interactions with o...
OB377	The Paths to Power	Power and influence processes are ubiquitous and important in organizations, so leaders need to be able both to understand power and to act on that knowledge. This course has three objectives: 1) increasing students' ability to diagnose and analyze p...
OB381	Conflict Management and Negotiation	Conflict is unavoidable in every organization. The key question is how it will be handled: will it escalate to dysfunctional levels or will it be effectively managed? Hence, a first aim of the course is to develop your ability to analyze conflicts, t...
OB383	Lives of Consequence: How Individuals Create Happy, Meaningful and Successful Lives	This Bass Seminar and Experiential Workshop will examine what it means to live a life of consequence. Using theories and evidence from the latest and best research on happiness, meaning and success, we will collectively develop a conceptual framework...
OB388	Leadership in the Entertainment Industry	The entertainment industry is of enormous importance - both from a business and cultural standpoint and has influence on virtually every spare of our society. It is characterized by tremendous opportunities and great uncertainties. The industry is co...
OB502	Global Leadership	In order to be effective in the emerging global economy, managers need to be able to interact effectively across cultures. This course will provide you with critical knowledge and skills that will enable you to become an effective global leader. We...
OB512	Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures	Thinking about starting a company that might change the world? In this compressed course, we go beyond the standard texts of how to build a startup. We provide budding entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn from the real-world experiences of a rema...
OB513	Beyond Disruption: Entrepreneurial Leadership Within Existing Organizations	Why do large, successful companies often have such difficulty in disrupting themselves (e.g., Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders)? How do you maintain an entrepreneurial edge within an existing enterprise? How do you sustain core businesses while simultaneo...
OB518	Leading Through Culture	This course examines organization culture, how and why managers can use culture to maximize results within an organization, and how culture can undermine results. The course begins by situating cultural leadership and management within a culture-shap...
OB527	The Art of Self-Coaching	In 2009 a student who was about to graduate said to me, "Being coached at the GSB helped me grow over the last two years, but after I leave school and no longer have access to these resources, how will I continue to coach myself?" This course is an a...
OB528	Racial Bias and Structural Inequality	How do we address racial bias and inequities? What role do institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? In this elective, we examine racial bias and inequality in our criminal justice system and i...
OB533	Acting with Power	This course combines insights from psychological research and theater practice to explore how power and status play a role in most social and professional interactions. Exercises drawn from actor training will illustrate how power is decoded and perf...
OB536	Insight to Outcome	Getting from "strategic insight" to "desired outcome" (achieving the right result) continues to be a core challenge for many organizations and leaders. In this course, we develop a framework and approach for the "insight to outcome" sequence, study s...
OB581	Negotiations	This course is designed to improve students' skills in all phases of a negotiation: understanding prescriptive and descriptive negotiation theory as it applies to dyadic and multiparty negotiations, to buyer-seller transactions and the resolution of...
OB602	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academe: Confronting Bias	This seminar will explore the ways in which conscious and unconscious bias impacts the careers of underrepresented minority, LGBTQ, and women academics. We will study topics such as unconscious bias, stereotype threat, ambient belonging, microaggress...
OB612	Careers and Organizations	The careers of individuals are shaped by their movement within and between organizations, whether those be established employers or entrepreneurial ventures. Conversely, organizations of all sizes are shaped by the flows of individuals through them a...
OB616	Social Networks: From Graph Theory to Relational Sociology	Thinking in terms of networks is a powerful way to bridge the theoretical and empirical gap between micro-contexts and macro-patterns, in both directions. For example, an organizational culture emerges through interactions of individuals within the f...
OB621	Organizations and Sustainability	This course reviews social science research on the role of organizations in environmental sustainability. Modern human activity is known to be dramatically changing the earth's ecosystem with far-reaching consequences: altering the climate, reducing...
OB626	Strategy and Organizations	Why are some organizations more competitive than others? This is the defining questions of the interdisciplinary research field known as 'strategic management.' In this PhD seminar, we will survey the field of strategic management as seen from the...
OB630	Social Norms	This course covers research and theory on the origins and function of social norms. Topics include the estimation of public opinion, the function of norms as ideals and standards of judgment, and the impact of norms on collective and individual behav...
OB632	Social Movements	Social movement activists frequently target organizations (e.g., corporations, universities) in order to bring about political and social change. Because most organizations are not democracies, movements must find ways to penetrate their closed boun...
OB636	Economic Sociology of Markets and Organizations	This PhD course provides an overview of economic sociology as it pertains to the behavior of individuals as atomistic agents and collective actors, in the context of markets and organizations. Students will study foundational texts as well as recent...
OB637	Modeling Culture	What is culture, and how can we model it? This course will survey theoretical frameworks for studying culture from a multidisciplinary perspective, ranging from evolutionary biology through sociology to economics. We will explore various methods for...
OB654	Organizational Behavior Pro Seminar	This pro-seminar is primarily for OB PhD students who are developing dissertation ideas. The pro-seminar covers the main research areas of OB faculty and aims to help students develop their theoretical ideas for their dissertation research. OB PhD st...
OB660	Topics in Organizational Behavior: Individual Processes	This course will focus on psychological processes that occur within individuals that cannot be seen but whose existence can be inferred on the basis of people's behavior. Such processes, referred to as individual processes, include personality, emoti...
OB662	Topics in Organizational Behavior: Intergroup Processes	The primary objective of this course is to provide an overview and organizing framework of the micro-organizational behavior literature. This entails reading many foundational pieces that will cover the classic areas of research in the field. We will...
OB670	Designing Social Research	This is a course in the design of social research, with a particular emphasis on research field (i.e., non-laboratory) settings. As such, the course is a forum for discussing and developing an understanding of the different strategies social theorist...
OB672	Organization and Environment	This seminar considers the leading sociological approaches to analyzing relations of organizations and environments, with a special emphasis on dynamics. Attention is given to theoretical formulations, research designs, and results of empirical studi...
OB673	Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Organizations	Dawn of the Machines: Behavioral Approaches to Artificial Intelligence. In Spring 2022, this seminar will explore how psychologists and micro-OB scholars can engage with the emergence of AI. Noting that the treatment of AI varies widely in behavioral...
OB675	Micro Research Methods	This course helps students gain foundational knowledge on several different methods used in micro-OB research, including surveys, experiments (field and lab), longitudinal studies, content analysis, qualitative interviews, ethnography, cases, and arc...
OB678	The Design and Process of Experimental Research	This year-long course takes a hands-on approach to learning about experimental research. It will cover the entire process of experimental research from idea and hypothesis generation to study design, analysis, and publication. The topical content wi...
OB680	Introduction to the Behavioral Theory of the Firm and its Contemporary Applications	The course will focus on the Behavioral Theory of the Firm and the contemporary research areas it influences, especially research on organization design. The course will introduce students to an active research area whose scholars have largely been i...
OB681	Creativity Research	This course covers theories and methods used in research on individual and group creativity. Several different approaches to studying creativity will be discussed, ranging from small-scale experiments to large-scale datasets. The goal is for students...
OB684	Full-Cycle Research Design	In this class, you will learn how to effectively combine qualitative research methods, including ethnographic observation and interviews, with experimental methods, including lab, natural and field experiments, to investigate questions of interest in...
OB687	Race and Natural Language Processing	The goal of this practicum is to integrate methods from natural language processing with social psychological perspectives on race to build practical systems that address significant societal issues. Readings will be drawn broadly from across the soc...
OB691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
OB692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
OB698	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching
OB699	Doctoral Practicum in Research	Doctoral Practicum in Research
OB802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
OIT245	Optimization and Simulation Modeling	This course provides basic skills in quantitative modeling. The objective is to familiarize students with the main steps in an analytical approach to business decision making: constructing an abstract model for a relevant business problem, formulatin...
OIT247	Optimization and Simulation Modeling - Accelerated	The course is aimed at students who already have a background or demonstrated aptitude for quantitative analysis, and thus are comfortable with a more rapid coverage of the topics, in more depth and breadth, than in OIT 245.
OIT248	Optimization And Simulation Modeling - Advanced	This course constitutes an advanced option in the menu of classes satisfying the Core requirement in Optimization and Simulation Modeling (OSM). The course is an advanced version of OIT 245 and OIT 247, covering a similar set of basic concepts of OSM...
OIT249	MSx: Data and Decisions	Data and Decisions teaches you how to use data and quantitative reasoning to make sound decisions in complex and uncertain environments. The course draws on probability, statistics, and decision theory. Probabilities provide a foundation for understa...
OIT256	Digital Business	This course focuses on the way information technology affects the structure of business models. It considers the impact of information technology on industries ranging from retail to transportation and finance. It considers how you can take advantage...
OIT262	Operations	Operations is the design and management of processes for production and delivery of services or goods. This course covers fundamental concepts and tools for excellent operations: Process Analysis - analysis, improvement, and design of operational pro...
OIT269	MSx: Operations and Strategies	Operations refer to the processes through which businesses produce and deliver products or services. Managing operations well is necessary in order for these processes to be completed in a timely manner, consume minimal resources and costs, and achie...
OIT271	Operations and Strategies	Operations refer to the processes through which businesses produce and deliver products or services. The objectives of the course are to introduce operational problems and challenges faced by managers, and effective methods for confronting such probl...
OIT272	Online Marketplaces	How does Uber match drivers to passengers? How does Airbnb select the set of listings to show to a guest in a search? How does eBay manage trust and reputation between buyers and sellers? How does Google optimize auctions for billions of dollars' wor...
OIT274	Data and Decisions - Base (Flipped Classroom)	Base Data and Decisions is a first-year MBA course in statistics and regression analysis. The course is taught using a flipped classroom model that combines extensive online materials with a lab-based classroom approach. Traditional lecture content w...
OIT275	Online Marketplaces, Accelerated	How does Uber match drivers to passengers? How does Airbnb select the set of listings to show to a guest in a search? How does eBay manage trust and reputation between buyers and sellers? How does Google optimize auctions for billions of dollars' wor...
OIT276	Data and Decisions - Accelerated (Flipped Classroom)	Accelerated Data and Decisions is a first-year MBA course in statistics and regression analysis. The course is taught using a flipped classroom model that combines extensive online materials with a more lab-based classroom approach. Traditional lectu...
OIT280	Operations, Innovation, and Technology I	This course is the first part of a new two quarter course series (OIT 280 & OIT 281) that offers students a holistic perspective on the rapidly evolving and integrated world of operations, technology and innovation. OIT 280 covers fundamental concept...
OIT281	Operations, Innovation, and Technology II	This course is the second part of the two-quarter course series (OIT 280 & OIT 281) and expands on the learnings developed in Part 1: OIT 280. Graduate students from business and Doerr School of Sustainability will learn about different forms of inno...
OIT333	Design for Extreme Affordability	Design for Extreme Affordability (¿Extreme¿) is for students who have a passion for social impact, and want to experience designing products and services that address issues of global poverty, through tackling real world challenges in collaboration w...
OIT334	Design for Extreme Affordability	Design for Extreme Affordability (¿Extreme¿) is for students who have a passion for social impact, and want to experience designing products and services that address issues of global poverty, through tackling real world challenges in collaboration w...
OIT349	Business Analytics	This course aims to develop students' skills in analytics and quantitative modeling for managerial decision-making: 1) Constructing a model that can be used to address a relevant business question, 2) Implementing the model in a spreadsheet environme...
OIT356	Digital Business	The course focuses on the analysis and design of business models that are enabled by Information Technology (IT). It considers the impact of IT on multiple industries and ways to take advantage of new opportunities that are enabled by new technologie...
OIT364	Global Operations	Globalization of businesses has resulted in companies having to manage global networks of suppliers, integrators, contract manufacturers, logistics service providers, distributors, and service support operators in geographically dispersed locations....
OIT367	Business Intelligence from Big Data	The objective of this course is to analyze real-world situations where significant competitive advantage can be obtained through large-scale data analysis, with special attention to what can be done with the data and where the potential pitfalls lie....
OIT368	Design for Disruption	"Disruption" is a widely used and frequently misunderstood term. Understanding it better can help you think about your organization or team's strategy whether you're trying to disrupt, avoid being disrupted, or simply scanning the horizon for new tre...
OIT384	Biodesign Innovation: Needs Finding and Concept Creation	In this two-quarter course series (OIT 384/5), multidisciplinary student teams from medicine, business, and engineering work together to identify real-world unmet healthcare needs, invent new health technologies to address them, and plan for their de...
OIT385	Biodesign Innovation: Concept Development and Implementation	In this two-quarter course series (OIT 384/5), multidisciplinary student teams from medicine, business, and engineering work together to identify real-world unmet healthcare needs, invent new health technologies to address them, and plan for their de...
OIT521	Data Science for Platforms	This is an MBA compressed course that covers analytic and data science tools that are currently being used to operate some of the most exciting online platforms and marketplaces in the world. This course will consist of guest lectures from industry l...
OIT551	Data Science: Management, Strategy and Innovation	How can one best put data science and AI to work in a modern company and manage data science teams effectively? Leaning on the emerging theory and best practices, we will examine companies at various sizes and stages, from seed through IPO, and study...
OIT604	Data, Learning, and Decision-Making	This aim of this course is to cover modern tools for data-driven decision making. Most decision making tasks involve uncertainty that is directly impacted by the amount and complexity of data at hand. Classical decision models rely on strong distribu...
OIT611	The Drift Method: from Stochastic Networks to Machine Learning	This course is an exploration of the drift method: a family of simple, yet surprisingly powerful, meta-algorithms that in each step the greedily and incrementally minimizes a certain potential function. Manifested in different forms, MaxWeight, c-mu...
OIT644	Research in Operations, Information and Technology	This year-long course takes a hands-on approach to learning about conducting research in Operations, Information and Technology. It will cover a broad spectrum of cutting-edge research in OIT from conceiving an idea to formulating a research problem,...
OIT648	Empirics of Online Markets	In this course we cover current research on data-driven approaches to the market design of online platforms. We cover diverse topics such as search, matching, demand estimation, learning under strategic behavior, and pricing. We will do so in the con...
OIT652	OIT Modeling	This course is designed for OIT students of all cohorts. It will focus on alternative approaches to modeling the types of problems that arise in OIT research, based on the analysis of papers in the area.
OIT664	Asymptotics in Operations Management	This course provides an overview of asymptotic models and methods used in various areas of operations management. It includes traditional heavy traffic asymptotics for queueing networks, the Halfin-Whitt regime, the supermarket model, inventory theor...
OIT666	Engineering Online Markets	This class will explore topics the intersection of operations, engineering, and economics relevant to modern internet marketplaces, including those for dating, labor, accommodation, services, and rides. The objective of the class is to introduce and...
OIT668	Networks and Markets	In recent years network models have been used in different application domains, ranging from social networks to supply chains and from financial networks to transportation networks. Examples of existing work in networks include exploring how to lever...
OIT671	Operational, Economic, and Statistical Modeling in the COVID-19 Crisis	The COVID-19 crisis revealed many fundamental structural, cultural, and operational challenges in the world. Many of these challenges, for example managing patient care in a limited resource environment, were well-known before COVID-19 and the crisis...
OIT691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
OIT692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
OIT698	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching
OIT699	Doctoral Practicum in Research	Doctoral Practicum in Research
OIT802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
POLECON230	Strategy Beyond Markets: Condensed	This course focuses on the firm's strategic interactions with nonmarket players, like politicians, regulators and bureaucrats. These players work within the public institutions that determine the "rules of the game" for market activity. Their inter...
POLECON231	Strategy Beyond Markets	This course focuses on the firm's strategic interactions with nonmarket players, like politicians, regulators and bureaucrats. These players work within the public institutions that determine the "rules of the game" for market activity. Their inter...
POLECON239	MSx: Strategy Beyond Markets	This course addresses managerial issues in the social, political and legal environments of business. Cases and readings emphasize strategies to improve the performance of companies in light of their multiple constituencies, both within the US and int...
POLECON342	Finding Religious and Spiritual Meaning at Work: Business Exemplars	This course explores the experience of respected business leaders who have been able to integrate their spiritual and business lives successfully. It also provides an explicit opportunity for students to discuss their own intentions to find deep mea...
POLECON349	The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry through Literature	This course uses novels and plays as a basis for examining the moral and spiritual aspects of business leadership and of the environment in which business is done. On the one hand literature is used as the basis for examining the character of busines...
POLECON351	Global Business, Religion, and National Culture	What does one need to know about Islam to do business effectively in an Arab country? How can understanding the Protestant ethic help Mexican managers deal with U.S. partners? How does Confucianism influence Chinese business ethics? What are the b...
POLECON383	Managing Politically Conflictual Environments	We live increasingly in a world of political polarization and conflict. Disagreements, often violent, dramatically shape the challenges and opportunities that leaders face, whether it be while managing diverse teams to addressing the future of the pl...
POLECON515	Energy: Innovation, Policy & Business Strategy	The future of the energy industry is deeply intertwined with politics and the formation of policy. In this class we'll take a deeper dive into the market and beyond-market (policy) strategies in the energy industry. Our focus will be on new clean ene...
POLECON531	The Future of Cities: Entrepreneurship, Policy & Business Strategy	Cities are where billions of people live and they are the engine for innovation and economic growth. They are also going through enormous change and battling with fundamental problems, like housing, transportation, urban planning, the environment, sa...
POLECON549	The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry through Literature	This capstone course uses novels and plays as a basis for examining the moral and spiritual aspects of business leadership and of the environment in which business is done. On the one hand literature is used as the basis for examining the character o...
POLECON660	Behavioral Political Economy	This course studies the cognitive scientific foundations of political economy. It builds on the explosion of research in cognitive psychology, evolutionary anthropology, and allied fields over the last few decades to provide perspectives on political...
POLECON680	Foundations of Political Economy	This course provides an introduction to political economy with an emphasis on formal models of collective choice, public institutions, and political competition. Topics considered include voting theory, social choice, institutional equilibria, agenda...
POLECON681	Economic Analysis of Politics	This course extends the foundations developed in P680 by applying techniques of microeconomic analysis and game theory to the study of political behavior and institutions. The techniques include information economics, games of incomplete information,...
POLECON682	Workshop on Institutional Theories and Empirical Tests in Political Economy	This course critically surveys empirical applications of formal models of collective-choice institutions. It is explicitly grounded in philosophy of science (e.g., Popperian positivism and Kuhn's notions of paradigms and normal science). Initial sess...
POLECON683	Political Development Economics	There is a growing awareness that many of the key challenges in fostering development in poor societies are political challenges. What can we do to encourage trade, cooperation and peace in environments riven with social and ethnic divisions? How do...
POLECON691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
POLECON692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
POLECON698	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching	Doctoral Practicum in Teaching
POLECON699	Doctoral Practicum in Research	Doctoral Practicum in Research
POLECON802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set
STRAMGT110Q	Making Sense of Strategy	Get the strategy right, and the chance for success is great. Nowhere is this more evident than in today's world of major challenges. Strategy is at the heart of problem solving and achieving objectives, yet few people can define strategy, much less u...
STRAMGT202	Strategic Leadership: Crafting and Leading Strategy	This course is about the process of crafting, assessing and implementing strategies to win in the market. It is designed to help you understand, shape, and lead your organization's strategy by providing you with a framework for thinking about the iss...
STRAMGT205	Strategic Leadership: Creating and Sustaining Growth	Many organizations are fundamentally committed to growth. This course examines how leaders and their organizations can create and sustain growth. Initially, entrepreneurial companies grow by discovering product-market fit, and then capitalize on that...
STRAMGT210	Managerial Skills	In the Managerial Skills Labs we examine several common managerial challenges faced by executives. Together with Faculty, students explore these topics using five case examples, each asking students to evaluate a series of situations, develop alterna...
STRAMGT258	MSx: Strategic Management	This course deals with the overall general management of the business enterprise. Extensive case studies of a variety of companies of differing size, industry, and current conditions provide the basis for the comprehensive analysis and establishment...
STRAMGT259	MSx: Generative Leadership	There are three major sections to this course - Design Thinking, The Improvisational Mindset, and High Performance Communication. \|\| Design Thinking \|\| Outcome: Participants learn to employ User Centered Design as promoted by the Stanford d.school. T...
STRAMGT302	Systems Leadership	Leaders of today live in an increasingly uncertain world, and the challenges of the times are drastic. At some level, all leadership right now is crisis leadership - getting one's team and organization through unprecedented times. Sometimes the abili...
STRAMGT308	Entrepreneurship from Diverse Perspectives	This seminar showcases the diversity of entrepreneurs and the range of entrepreneurial paths they pursue. Thirty-five entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, primarily from historically underestimated groups (HUGs), will share their personal and prof...
STRAMGT309	Strategies of Effective Product Management	This is a course about exploring the methods and processes for product management, largely in technology companies, and a look at what can lead to the most effective ways to coordinate customer needs, ensure accurate product development, and how to d...
STRAMGT319	Equity By Design: Building Diverse and Inclusive Organizations	This course equips you to create and build equitable organizations. We will discuss the power of inclusion as it relates to the employee and customer experience. We will study effective strategies for building diverse and inclusive companies, and wi...
STRAMGT321	Create a New Venture: From Idea to Launch I	S321/S322 is an integrated lab course in Entrepreneurship designed to teach students the process of creating a new viable venture - from Idea to Launch. It is a dynamic and interactive course organized around projects undertaken by teams of 3 to 4...
STRAMGT322	Create a New Venture: From Idea to Launch II	S321/S322 is an integrated lab course in Entrepreneurship designed to teach students the process of creating a new viable venture - from Idea to Launch. It is a dynamic and interactive course organized around projects undertaken by teams of 3 to 4...
STRAMGT325	Impact: From Idea to Enterprise	This class is for students who want start or work at an impact venture, or to invest in or grant to such an enterprise. The class deals with situations from the perspective of the entrepreneur/manager, and the funder.Students will: - Learn to evalu...
STRAMGT329	The Grand Bazaar on Clouds: Strategy for Marketplaces	In this class, we will analyze the economics and strategy of marketplaces for goods and services. We will consider the forces that have led to the proliferation of these marketplaces, as well as the strategic choices that determine which ones succeed...
STRAMGT330	Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Partnership for Growth	This 3 unit course is designed for students interested in entrepreneurship, early-stage investing, and/or venture capital. With US venture capital investment doubling from 2020 to 2021, it is an exciting time to get the insiders' view of the entrepre...
STRAMGT335	Entrepreneurial Approaches to Education Reform	In this course, students will investigate opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurial ventures trying to make a positive impact in public education in their countries or globally. Sessions will explore challenges in increasing efficacy, ensuring...
STRAMGT340	POWer: Building the Entrepreneurial Mindset from the Perspective of Women	This seminar will showcase women entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. We will explore the challenges and opportunities they encountered in starting and growing their ventures, and the personal and professional choices they have made. The sessions w...
STRAMGT345	Impact: Taking Social Innovation to Scale	Fortunately, the world is full of great ideas and breakthrough product and process innovations, many of which might make enormous positive impact on many people around the world. Unfortunately, it takes more than just a great innovation for that impa...
STRAMGT351	Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations	The focus of this class is on the challenges and key issues associated with the creation and management of a professional sales organization. Our emphasis is developing and managing the selling effort of business-to-business and business-to-consumer...
STRAMGT353	Entrepreneurship: Formation of New Ventures	This course is offered for students who at some time may want to undertake an entrepreneurial career by pursuing opportunities leading to partial or full ownership and control of a business. The course deals with case situations from the point of vie...
STRAMGT354	Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital	Many of America's most successful entrepreneurial companies have been substantially influenced by professionally managed venture capital. This relationship is examined from both the entrepreneur's and the venture capitalist's perspective. From the po...
STRAMGT355	Managing Growing Enterprises	This course is offered for students who aspire to lead growing businesses. The seminar, which is limited to 40-45 students, has a strong implementation focus, and deals in some depth with certain selected, entrepreneurial issues, viewed from the pers...
STRAMGT356	Startup Garage: Design	(Same as BIOE 376) Startup Garage is an intensive, hands-on, project-based course where students apply design thinking, lean startup methodology, and the Business Model Canvas to conceive, design, and field-test new business concepts that address rea...
STRAMGT364	Health Information Technology and Strategy	Health Information technology was intended to help reduce cost and improve the quality of health care services. To date, this is little evidence that this goal has been achieved. This course is designed to explore economic frameworks that can help us...
STRAMGT366	Startup Garage: Testing and Launch	(Same as BIOE 377) In this intensive, hands-on, project-based course, teams continue to develop their ventures based on a user need that they validated in advance of the course. They build out more elaborate versions of their prototypes and Business...
STRAMGT368	Impact: Strategic Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations and Social Ventures	Our primary objective in this course is to prepare and equip you to play a high-impact leadership role in the social sector, as a founder, executive, board member, and/or donor/philanthropist. This course seeks to provide a survey of the strategic, g...
STRAMGT371	Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation	This course focuses on the strategic management of technology-based innovation in the firm. The purpose is to provide students with concepts, frameworks, and experiences that are useful for taking part in the management of innovation processes in bot...
STRAMGT381	Leading Strategic Change in the Health Care Industry	In this seminar we will study the structure and dynamics of the U.S. health care industry, especially in the face of ongoing regulatory change, and ways it intersects with the global health care industry. The seminar's aim is to develop participants'...
STRAMGT502	Systems Leadership	Leaders of today live in an increasingly uncertain world, and the challenges of the times are drastic. At some level, all leadership right now is crisis leadership ¿ getting one¿s team and organization through unprecedented times. Sometimes the abili...
STRAMGT503	Spontaneous Management	In this class, you will learn techniques for improving your spontaneity, creativity, presence, and collaboration skills, all of which contribute to your becoming a more effective and inspirational leader. This class combines research on social psycho...
STRAMGT507	From Invention to Innovation: The Process of Translation	The class intends to address specific challenges: 1) The challenges facing businesses are strongly rate-limited by the translation problems of new ideas, and inventions often do not make it into the market place or are disrupted at multiple levels in...
STRAMGT510	Conversations in Management	This case-based course is offered for students who want to refine their ability to manage challenging professional conversations. The class will focus on the preparation for and execution of role-played dialogue as well as on postmortem analysis. M...
STRAMGT511	Protecting Ideas	Today, the assets of many businesses are largely intangible, such as brands, data, software and trade secrets. More and more we live in an economy based on intangibles and much of business involves creating, exploiting and managing those intangible a...
STRAMGT512	The Yin and Yang of Family Business Transitions	This seminar provides students with practical solutions to some of the challenges faced in family business transitions.Family businesses are by far the dominant form of commerce world-wide, albeit the majority are small "mom and pop shops." Some rese...
STRAMGT514	Product/Market Fit	The premise of this course is the success of a startup (and even a large company launching a new product) is most dependent on finding a market that is desperate for its product. Focusing on product/market fit conflicts with the conventional view tha...
STRAMGT516	Fundamentals of Effective Selling	The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the fundamentals of how to sell. The course is appropriate for anyone who wants to understand and show proficiency with the skills required in different selling situations, both tradit...
STRAMGT519	Equity By Design: Building Diverse and Inclusive Organizations	This course equips you to create, build and lead equitable organizations. We will learn the power of iD&I - that is, how we can be change agents by involving key stakeholders, casting the right vision, and constructing the right interactions to unlo...
STRAMGT520	The Industrialist's Dilemma	This course explores how digital disruptions are having tectonic shifts on large, successful and established companies, whether they have a digital foundation or not. Both new and existing high technology firms such as Google, Amazon, Stripe, Airbnb...
STRAMGT524	Longevity: Business Implications and Opportunities	People age 50 and over account for over 50% of consumer spending in the US and 83% of household wealth, with both number expected to increase significantly due to a combination of increased longevity and the aging of the baby boomer generation. It i...
STRAMGT529	Marketplaces for Goods and Services	In this class we will analyze the economics and strategy of marketplaces and platforms for goods and services. We will consider the forces that have led to the proliferation of these marketplaces, as well as the economics behind which ones are likel...
STRAMGT532	Intellectual Property: Financial and Strategic Management	In today's competitive marketplace, companies -- from Fortune 500 firms to early stage start-ups -- rely on intellectual property (IP) to keep them one step ahead of the game. Yet, critical IP decisions are usually made by lawyers with very little in...
STRAMGT537	Leading Change in Public Education	Public education in America is at a crossroads. Does our education system have what it takes to produce graduates who are prepared for college, career, and citizenship in our increasingly digital and pluralistic world? Will income and ethnic achiev...
STRAMGT541	Insight to Outcome	Getting from "strategic insight" to "desired outcome" (achieving the right result) continues to be a core challenge for many organizations and leaders. In this course, we develop a framework and approach for the "insight to outcome" sequence, study s...
STRAMGT542	Marketplaces for Goods and Services: Trust, Branding, and Regulation	This course is the second course in the sequence of marketplaces for goods and services (the first course is STRAMGT 529). The course will dig deep into issues of building trust and marketplace branding, as well as regulatory challenges of online mar...
STRAMGT543	Entrepreneurial Acquisition	For aspiring entrepreneurs who don't have a burning idea or desire to start a company from scratch, acquiring a small business can provide a direct route to running and growing a business. This class will explore entrepreneurial acquisition (EA). As...
STRAMGT545	Taking Social Innovation to Scale	How do you get the best new social innovations to reach the hundreds of millions of people who need it the most? And how do ensure that they are developed, deployed and scaled in a way that is relevant, appropriate and sustainable? Innovators tacklin...
STRAMGT547	Riding The Next Wave in Developing Economies	Today, innovative ventures in developing economies are providing compelling new products and services to a growing middle-class as well as to the lower part of the economic pyramid. These offerings provide consumers ways to better their lives and com...
STRAMGT549	Search Fund Garage	Search Fund Garage is an intensive, hands-on, project-based course for students planning to pursue a search fund directly after or within a few years of graduation. Students will learn from the instructors, course peers, and class visitors, particula...
STRAMGT555	Managing Growing Enterprises	This seminar is offered for students who, in the near term, aspire to the management and full or partial ownership of a new or newly acquired business. The seminar will deal in some depth with certain selected, generic entrepreneurial issues, viewed...
STRAMGT571	Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (A)	This first part of the course focuses on technology-based entrepreneurial start-up and mid-sized firms. We will study the development stages of such firms and examine how top and senior leaders integrate knowledge about the key issues relating to the...
STRAMGT572	Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation in Established Firms	This course focuses on entrepreneurship in large established companies: "corporate entrepreneurship" aka "intrapreneurship." It examines the role of corporate entrepreneurs and how to manage project champions/venture managers, and what some of the or...
STRAMGT573	Moore's Law and the Convergence of Computing and Communications; Strategic Thinking in Action	This six-session (2-unit) Bass seminar focuses on strategic leadership and builds on core strategic leadership coursework in the MBA and MSx programs. The course uses the seminar format with expectations of extensive contributions from all students t...
STRAMGT574	Strategic Thinking in Action - In Business and Beyond II (Automotive Industry Disruption)	This six-session Bass seminar is about strategic leadership driving the transformation of the advanced automotive industry. It will build on what students have learned in their MBA core strategic leadership course but will also provide additional con...
STRAMGT577	Creativity in the Business Ecosystem	This course teaches core strategy fundamentals such as Industry Analysis, Organization of the Firm, and Innovation in a Multi-Business Firm by focusing on the question of where creativity occurs in the business ecosystem. A cross-disciplinary perspec...
STRAMGT579	The Political Economy of China	The evolving organization of the Chinese economy, with special emphasis on the following topics: the integration of the Communist Party organization with government entities and enterprises; the evolution of ownership; corporate restructuring and cor...
STRAMGT581	Leading Strategic Change in the Health Care Industry	In this seminar we will study the structure and dynamics of the U.S. health care industry, especially in the face of ongoing regulatory change, and ways it intersects with the global health care industry. The seminar's aim is to develop participants'...
STRAMGT582	Building Strategic Competence: Observations from Battlegrounds Overseas and in Washington, D.C.	This course addresses the issues faced in assuming executive responsibility, developing clear visions and missions, understanding complex problem sets, building teams, and developing strategies to overcome obstacles and take advantage of opportunitie...
STRAMGT583	The Challenges in/with China	The general objective of the course is to develop a better understanding of the changing socio-economic and political situation in China (with its challenges both for China and for the rest of the world) in order to make less difficult to define and...
STRAMGT584	Impact: Assessing High Impact Business Models in Emerging Markets	In recent years, we've seen an explosion of innovative business models blazing new trails in emerging markets. Many of these models are achieving commercial success while transforming the lives of low-income populations. Using nine cases of both earl...
STRAMGT691	PhD Directed Reading	This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.
STRAMGT692	PhD Dissertation Research	This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.
STRAMGT802	TGR Dissertation	No Description Set

Introduction to Financial Accounting

Financial accounting is the measurement of economic activity for decision-making. The objective of this course is not to train you to become an accountant but rather to help you develop into an informed user of financial statement information. Thro...

ACCT210

Financial Accounting

Financial accounting is the measurement of economic activity for decision-making. Financial statements are a key product of this measurement process and an important component of firms' financial reporting activities. The objective of this course is...

ACCT212

Managerial Accounting: Strategic Performance Management

This course provides an introduction to the concepts and tools of managerial accounting. The first part of the course covers alternative costing methods and illustrates how the resulting cost information can be used to analyze the profitability of in...

ACCT213

Financial Accounting - Accelerated

This course develops students' ability to read, understand and critically evaluate corporate financial statements. The course is oriented toward the user of financial accounting data (rather than the preparer) and it emphasizes the reconstruction an...

ACCT219

MSx: Accounting

A characteristic of business is the extensive use of accounting data. The financial accounting course has the general objective of developing students' understanding of the nature, scope, and limitations of accounting information. To achieve this obj...

ACCT220

Compensating Talent: A Managerial Accounting Perspective

Designing efficient compensation schemes is important for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent over time. Through cases, homework assignments, and classroom discussion, this course provides an overview of efficient compensation schemes across...

ACCT311

Global Financial Reporting

This course is designed to enhance students' understanding of current financial reporting issues through a detailed analysis and comparison of U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards. The course will cover the development of account...

ACCT313

Financial Statement Analysis

This course is designed to develop students' ability to interpret and use financial accounting information across various economic decision contexts. The perspective taken is that of an outsider relying on publicly-available financial information for...

ACCT317

Managerial Accounting: Performance Measurement, Compensation, and Governance

The course will examine the academic and professional controversies surrounding corporate governance and executive compensation. A basic framework will be developed to integrate the many important dimensions of corporate governance in the U.S. and in...

ACCT332

Mergers and Acquisitions

This course provides a comprehensive overview of strategic, economic and financial issues related to mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, we review the market for corporate control, discuss strategic issues related to firms' decision to acquire o...

ACCT333

Taxes and Business Strategy

Taxes have a direct impact on cash flow and often divert 20% to 40% of the firm's pretax cash flow to the government, making the government one of the largest stakeholders. Taxes also affect a wide variety of business decisions, including the efficie...

ACCT340

Alphanomics: Informational Arbitrage in Equity Markets

This is an advanced elective course on the economics of active investing in public equity markets. We will cover a set of foundational skills needed to select, and manage, a portfolio of public stocks. Specifically, the course material is designed t...

ACCT516

Analysis and Valuation of Emerging Market Firms

This course examines the unique institutional, governance and transparency issues affecting corporate valuations in emerging markets. Through lectures, case discussions and the students' real-time analysis of an emerging market firm, this condensed...

ACCT523

Board Governance

This course is focused on helping students understand the role boards and board members play in corporate governance and the lives of businesses large and small. This case-driven course is designed to help students who plan to serve on boards as priv...

ACCT524

Individual Taxes and Financial Planning

The goal of this course is to provide a fundamental understanding of the principles of taxation and tax planning as they relate to personal income taxes and considering an individuals financial position. Traditional business courses analyze an array...

ACCT533

Taxes and Business Strategy

Taxes have a direct impact on cash flow and often divert 20% to 40% of the firm's pretax cash flow to the government, making the government one of the largest stakeholders. Taxes also affect a wide variety of business decisions, including the efficie...

ACCT542

Corporate Taxes and Business Strategy

The goal of this course is to provide a fundamental understanding of the principles of business taxation and tax planning, which will be relevant and valuable even as tax laws change - over time, across borders, and by taxpayer type. The role that ta...

ACCT609

Financial Reporting and Management Control

This course is aimed at doctoral students in accounting and neighboring fields including economics, finance, political economics and operations management. The course seeks to provide an introduction to the role of accounting information in (i) measu...

ACCT610

Seminar in Empirical Accounting Research

Empirical Research on Financial Reporting: This doctoral-level course covers research on the role of accounting information in capital and labor markets. The focus is on introducing students to key themes in empirical accounting and capital markets r...

ACCT611

Disclosure and Financial Markets

This course provides a broad overview of the economic theories of corporate disclosure, with a focus on the effects that these disclosures have on financial markets. The range of topics we will study includes: voluntary disclosure, earnings managemen...

ACCT612

Financial Reporting Seminar

The purpose of this PhD seminar is to facilitate your conception and execution of substantive individual research in financial reporting. It provides a vehicle for supplementing and integrating your knowledge of basic research tools and methods, as w...

ACCT615

Selected Topics in Empirical Accounting Research

This course examines selected topics in accounting research. The course features three faculty who will each give a focused look at a given area, introduce students to important questions in that area, key papers in the related literature, and criti...

ACCT617

Applications of Contract Theory in Accounting Research

This course develops tools from information economics to study the strategic interactions between different agents inside a firm. Common to these studies is that agents acquire private information that is valuable to other parties. The range of appli...

ACCT618

Market Efficiency and Informational Arbitrage

The informational efficiency of stock markets has been a central theme in financial economic research in the past 50 years. Over this period, the focus of academic research has gradually shifted from the general to the more specific. While earlier st...

ACCT691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

ACCT692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

ACCT698

Doctoral Practicum in Teaching

ACCT699

Doctoral Practicum in Research

ACCT802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

ALP300

The Founder's Right Hand: From Inspiration to Launch

In this experiential course, you will work in teams to help turn the inspirations of high-potential founders into actual ventures. You will work closely with a founder to understand their inspiration, knowledge, and vision, and then you will work to...

ALP301

Data-Driven Impact

This is a team-based course where students will work on a project to improve a product using data and experimentation. We will cover key considerations for designing and executing high-quality research for product innovation to drive business outcome...

ALP302

Designing Solutions for Wicked Problems

The thrust of this course is on designing innovative solutions for wicked problems-problems requiring large-scale sustainable transformations in environments that tend to deeply favor the status-quo. The palette on which the course will anchor on is...

ALP303

Analysis and Measurement of Impact

This team-based course, part of the GSB's Action Learning Program, provides students the opportunity to work with organizations that are focused on achieving impact, including impact for-profits, investment funds, and evaluators. Topics include curre...

ALP304

Crossing the Chasm

In this course, students work with founders, domain experts, and industry professionals to develop strategies for growth for entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds. Students address elements of the marketing mix, including product, promotio...

ALP305

Product Management

In this experiential course, you will develop skills and experience required to be a Product Manager. The course covers important facets of the PM role at different stages in the product life cycle. You will learn and apply tools and methodologies fo...

ALP306

Marketing for Measurable Change

Companies and organizations increasingly use tools such as product, price or communication strategies to improve metrics that directly relate to financial performance or progress toward a mission based objective. In this class, students will particip...

ALP307

Public Policy Lab: Financial Challenges Facing US Cities

Cities in the United States are tasked with providing a great variety of services to citizens, including public safety, education, and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure. Across the country, governments at the local level spent more t...

ALP308

Designing Experiments for Impact

This is a team-based course where students will work on a project to design and carry out an experiment intended to drive social impact in collaboration with a partner organization. The first few weeks will include lectures, hands-on tutorials, and l...

FINANCE121

Undergraduate Finance Research and Discussion Seminar

This seminar is designed to provide some experience with research methods and topics in finance, and to assist undergraduates with career interests in financial research, whether academic or not, with preparation for those careers. The seminar meetin...

FINANCE201

Finance

This course covers the foundations of finance with an emphasis on applications that are vital for corporate managers. We will discuss many of the major financial decisions made by corporate managers, both within the firm and in their interactions wit...

FINANCE205

Accelerated Managerial Finance

This course covers the foundations of finance with an emphasis on applications that are vital for corporate managers. We will discuss many of the major financial decisions made by corporate managers, both within the firm and in their interactions wit...

FINANCE207

Corporations, Finance, and Governance in the Global Economy

As entrepreneurs, global leaders, and change agents tasked with developing transformative solutions of tomorrow, you will need certain skills and tools to interact with and navigate the complex and ever-changing financial landscape. This course focus...

FINANCE211

Corporate Finance: Applications, Techniques, and Models

This course will develop and apply the basic tools and models of corporate finance to real-world corporate decisions. This course is designed to be the second course in the standard finance sequence; that is, it is designed to be the natural follow-u...

FINANCE229

MSx: Finance

This course covers the foundations of finance with an emphasis on applications that are vital for corporate managers. We will consider many important financial decisions made by corporate managers, both within the firm and in their interactions with...

FINANCE305

Capital Markets and Institutional Investing

This course takes a look at institutional investing from the asset owner or limited partner¿s perspective (sovereign wealth funds, endowments, pension funds, life insurance companies, etc.) The course is co-taught by Ana Marshall, the CIO of the Hewl...

FINANCE306

International Finance and Macroeconomics

An introduction to the global economy. We will cover a number of important topics for firms, banks, and policy makers: global capital flows, international financial markets, the role of the U.S. and US dollar in the international monetary system, res...

FINANCE315

FinTech for Social Impact & Climate Finance

This MBA elective explores innovative ways in which financial technology (FinTech) is transforming the financial sector. What are the financial and technological frictions that FinTech companies are addressing? What are the current trends in key FinT...

FINANCE320

Debt Markets

This course is intended for those who plan careers that may involve debt financing for their businesses or other investments, or involve trading or investing in debt instruments and their derivatives, including money-market instruments, government bo...

FINANCE321

Investment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance

The Investments course comprises an intensive overview of active fundamental investing in both the public and private equity markets. It is relevant for students who intend to pursue careers in private or public equity investing, as well as those who...

FINANCE325

Building a Money Management Business

This course will cover how to start and build a money management business. It will have three components: (1) Prescriptive --- introduction to the money management sector and exposition of strategies that increase the likelihood of success, (2) Pract...

FINANCE333

Financial Restructuring

This course provides an intensive overview of financial restructuring transactions and processes from the perspective of distressed firms and their key stakeholders. It is intended for those who plan careers in general management, private equity, cre...

FINANCE334

Economics of the Private Equity Industry

This course covers the in depth the private equity (PE) industry, including venture funds, buyouts, funds of funds, and other investments vehicles investing in private assets. Our viewpoint is that of an investor, whether a general partner of a manag...

FINANCE341

Modeling for Investment Management

This course will combine practical and up-to-date investment theory with modeling applications. Understanding beautiful theory, without the ability to apply it, is essentially useless. Conversely, creating state-of-the-art spreadsheets that apply inc...

FINANCE345

History of Financial Crises

Financial crises are as old as financial markets themselves. There are many similarities between historical events. The crisis of 2008, for example, is far from unique. More often than not financial crises are the result of bubbles in certain asset c...

FINANCE346

Institutional Money Management

The object of this course is to study the money management industry from the perspective of the user --- an investor who wants to invest money. This course will study the main components of the money management industry: mutual funds, hedge funds, pr...

FINANCE347

Money and Banking

This course is designed to help students understand the connections between money (the Federal Reserve), financial markets, and the macroeconomy. How are interest rates determined, and how does the Federal Reserve conduct monetary policy? How do Fede...

FINANCE350

Corporate Financial Modeling

This course will expose students to the fundamentals, best practices, and advanced techniques of corporate financial modeling. We begin with basic operating and integrated financial statement models, and ultimately develop financial models to analyze...

FINANCE351

Advanced Corporate Financial Modeling

Students will engage in the development of corporate financial modeling cases and solutions. Students will also develop materials to aid others in building financial models, and serve as case leaders during lab workshops. Extensive background in fina...

FINANCE362

Financial Trading Strategies

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the different types of trading strategies employed by hedge funds. Throughout the sessions, students will be challenged to understand and explore the application and implementation of these d...

FINANCE373

Entrepreneurial Finance

This is a course about the financial decision-making process largely from the point of view of the CEO of an entrepreneurial venture, ranging from very early to very late stages. The course takes a two-pronged approach: First, we develop tools and co...

FINANCE377

China's Financial System

This course is a survey of China's financial system, including its banking industry, monetary policy structure, and financial markets (bonds, derivatives, equities, foreign exchange, alternative asset management, and related markets). The goal is an...

FINANCE385

Angel and Venture Capital Financing for Entrepreneurs and Investors

This course covers all the stages of funding for early stage high-growth companies, from seed funding to venture capital rounds to a successful exit. We will concentrate on how entrepreneurs and investors make and should make important decisions. Exa...

FINANCE555

Private Wealth Management and Personal Investing

The Private Wealth Management and Personal Investing course will address issues that relate to the management of personal assets as opposed to institutional investing. Many investment courses at the GSB emphasize large institutional portfolios but t...

FINANCE582

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Leadership

In this course, you will learn the key principles of CFO leadership. Taught by experienced CFOs, the class will put students in the shoes of CFOs navigating complex, high-stakes situations. The teaching team will guide interactive classroom discussio...

FINANCE587

Private Equity - An Overview of the Industry

This 2-unit elective at the GSB is an "Overview" of the private equity industry including its reason for being, its growth and the various strategies for success that private equity firms employ. The course looks at all aspects of private equity part...

FINANCE620

Financial Markets I

This course is an introductory PhD level course in financial economics. We begin with individual choice under uncertainty, then move on to equilibrium models, the stochastic discount factor methodology, and no-arbitrage pricing. We will also address...

FINANCE621

Financial Markets II

This course continues F620 and covers a number of main concepts in market microstructure. Among the topics that are covered are (i) Rational Expectations models and their foundations (ii) strategic trading models (iii) models of market and funding li...

FINANCE622

Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory

This course is an introduction to multiperiod models in finance, mainly pertaining to optimal portfolio choice and asset pricing. The course begins with discrete-time models for portfolio choice and security prices, and then moves to a continuous-tim...

FINANCE624

Corporate Finance Theory

This course considers a wide range of topics in theoretical corporate finance (broadly interpreted). Topics include capital structure decisions, agency conflicts in the firm, dividend policy, security design, optimal financial contracting, the theory...

FINANCE625

Empirical Asset Pricing

This course is an introduction to empirical research in asset pricing. The focus of the course is on the interplay between financial economic theory, econometric method, and that analysis of financial market data. Topics include tests of asset pricin...

FINANCE626

Advanced Corporate Finance

This is a course on contemporary theoretical and empirical issues in corporate finance. Building upon the first-year courses in corporate finance theory and empirical methods in finance, we will examine issues in asset pricing applications to corpora...

FINANCE627

Venture Capital and Finance of Innovation

In this course we will study the theory and empirics of venture capital (VC) and, more broadly, finance of innovation. We will start by reviewing the way the VC and related markets function and then will dive into such topics as VC contracting, valua...

FINANCE630

Empirical Corporate Finance

This course provides an introduction to empirical research in corporate finance, with an emphasis on the application of cross-sectional and panel data econometric techniques for causal inference. Topics include investment policy, entrepreneurship and...

FINANCE632

International Finance and Macroeconomics

This is an advanced graduate-level course in international finance and macroeconomics. The course focuses on empirical methods, stylized facts, new advances in large-scale empirical work, and applied theory. This course is targeted to advanced second...

FINANCE633

Advanced Empirical Corporate, Banking and Household Finance

This course discusses empirical aspects of major topics in corporate finance, household and consumer finance, housing, banking, financial regulation as well as political economy. The course is designed for students doing their PhD in finance, econom...

FINANCE634

Advanced Corporate Finance Theory

A selection of advanced topics in corporate finance theory, including financing of innovation, theory of the firm, incomplete contracting, dynamic contracting, dynamic capital structure choice.

FINANCE637

Macroeconomics and Financial Markets

This PhD course will cover research topics at the boundary between macroeconomics and finance. Topics will include the study of macroeconomic models with financial frictions, the term structure of interest rates, conventional and unconventional monet...

FINANCE691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

FINANCE692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

FINANCE698

Doctoral Practicum in Teaching

FINANCE699

Doctoral Practicum in Research

FINANCE802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

GSBGEN208

Leading with Values

With leadership comes responsibility. This course explores the numerous ethical issues faced by managers and organizations and provides analytical frameworks as well as the latest findings on human behavior to inform ethical decisions and strategies....

GSBGEN259

MSx: Leading with Values

With leadership comes responsibility. This course explores the numerous ethical issues faced by managers and organizations and provides analytical frameworks as well as the latest findings on human behavior to inform ethical decisions and strategies....

GSBGEN299

The Core Curriculum in the Workplace

GSB students are eligible to report on work experience that is relevant to their core studies under the direction of the Senior Associate Dean responsible for the MBA Program. Registration for this work must be approved by the Assistant Dean of the...

GSBGEN305

Impact: Investing for Good

Investing for Good will introduce students to the entire spectrum of purposeful, values-driven, and impact investing. We examine the field from the perspective of an institutional investor (i.e. fund manager, investment advisor, endowment manager, he...

GSBGEN306

Real Estate Investment

The major objective of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of the fundamentals of real estate investment. The course covers land economics, market analysis, finance, taxation, investment analysis, investment vehicles, real est...

GSBGEN307

Policy Time

Policy Time is about the policy choices faced by senior American policymakers. Our main perspective is American and executive: decisions faced by the U.S. President, Governors, and their advisors. The lessons can extend to certain international setti...

GSBGEN309

Housing and the Mortgage Market

Political gamesmanship, financial crises, and financial innovation come hand-in-hand with real estate finance, which has played a central role in the rise and fall of economies, financial institutions, and the lives of ordinary Americans. This course...

GSBGEN310

Business and AI: Lessons from Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Investors

There is no denying that we are in the AI-era: around 90% of tech executives today embrace AI and want to expand its use. Firms will be newly created to focus on AI products, or large firms will find new capabilities in AI products or processes. How...

GSBGEN312

I'm Just a Bill

This is a course about the American legislative process. You will learn how the United States Congress and President enact a law by role-playing as Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, or as senior advisors to the President. You...

GSBGEN315

Strategic Communication

Business leaders have marketing strategies, expansion strategies, finance strategies, even exit strategies. Successful leaders, however, also have communication strategies. This course will explore how individuals and organizations can develop and ex...

GSBGEN316

Civic Workshop

Small teams of students will propose and implement projects to provide immediate volunteer civic assistance to a group or community dealing with the effects of coronavirus. We assume most or all of this assistance will be online or otherwise virtual....

GSBGEN317

Reputation Management: Strategies for Successful Communicators

Successful leaders have to conceive, author, rebuild, pivot, differentiate, and finally maintain a personal reputation to make a lasting, recognizable and powerful identity. Reputation Management will explore how you can effectively communicate to cr...

GSBGEN319

Strategic Philanthropy and Impact Investing

The course will be structured around the perspective of a foundation or a high net worth individual who has decided to devote substantial resources to philanthropy and wishes to decide which philanthropic goals to pursue and how best to achieve them....

GSBGEN320

Neuroscience and the Connection to Sustained Excellence

Sustained excellence requires not only deep passion and dedication but also the mental resiliency and vibrancy to deal with negative shocks and to discover and exploit potentially upside opportunities. Performing at one's peak mental resiliency and v...

GSBGEN323

Blockchain Governance

This course offers an overview of blockchain governance and DAOs, including the governance of layer-1 blockchains, DAO tooling, on-chain and off-chain voting, delegation and constitutional design, identity, and privacy. We will cover these topics bot...

GSBGEN326

Resource Allocation in Education

This course covers economic principles and tools for informing resource allocation decisions in education. Students will review concepts related to educational goods and values; the costs and benefits of different levels and types of schooling; publi...

GSBGEN332

Climate Tech for Rapid Decarbonization

This course examines alternative pathways for economies around the world to achieve deep decarbonization within a couple of decades. The overall perspective is to analyze the global decarbonization process at the intersection of technological improve...

GSBGEN333

Technology Licensing: Strategy and Negotiation

Licensing of technology and its corresponding intellectual property is big business, and integral to the business plans and competitive strategies of start-ups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Because licenses are complex agreements with important le...

GSBGEN334

Family Business

Believe it or not, the "Silicon Valley model" is irrelevant to most businesses. Most companies are not started by MBAs; most startups are not funded by VCs; most employees don't work for tech firms; and most firms don't sell out to other businesses o...

GSBGEN336

Energy Markets and Policy

This is a course on how energy and environmental markets work, and the regulatory mechanisms that have been and can be used to achieve desired policy goals. The course uses a electricity market game as a central teaching tool. In the game, students p...

GSBGEN339

Negotiation Dynamics in Sports, Entertainment and Media

Negotiation is a central part of business in the worlds of sports and entertainment. This course will examine negotiation dynamics and key takeaways for general management from multiple different settings where negotiations had an important role--the...

GSBGEN341

Climate Change, Economics, Technology

This course covers (1) the causes and consequences of climate change, (2) the predicted economic impacts, policy modeling, and ethical concerns, and (3) the technological pathways that the world is likely to follow. The first part focuses on both ba...

GSBGEN345

Disruptions in Education

The recent pandemic disrupted higher education significantly, surfacing novel needs, while at the same putting decades long trends into sharper focus. This course explores the contemporary higher education industry, focusing especially on the places...

GSBGEN346

Freedom, Democracy, and Capitalism

This is a civics course about the ideas that comprise a modern implementation of liberal democracy: freedom, democracy, capitalism, and a rules-based international order. Our principal focus will be on the post-WWII American implementation of these i...

GSBGEN347

Education Policy in the United States

The course will provide students from different disciplines with an understanding of the broad educational policy context. The course will cover topics including a) school finance systems; b) an overview of policies defining and shaping the sectors a...

GSBGEN348

The Economics of Higher Education

(Same as EDUC 347) Topics: the worth of college and graduate degrees, and the utilization of highly educated graduates; faculty labor markets, careers, and workload; costs and pricing; discounting, merit aid, and access to higher education; sponsored...

GSBGEN350

International Internship

No Description Set

GSBGEN352

Winning Writing

This once-a-week full-quarter workshop will offer techniques and practical in-class exercises for writing better -- better memos, emails, cold-call letters, speeches, feedback for colleagues, news releases, responses to questions from the media and f...

GSBGEN356

Dynamics of the Global Wine Industry

This course will examine the world of wine with a fresh and contemporary lens. It will explore the market dynamics of this fascinating global industry. The goal of the course is to provide insight into the branding, marketing, and distribution dynami...

GSBGEN357

U.S.-China: Strategic Competition and Cooperation

This is a course to help future business leaders understand the policy risks that result from the changing relationship between the United States and China. Driven in part by policy decisions over the past decade in Washington and Beijing, the world...

GSBGEN360

Sports Business Management

This course will examine the diverse management challenges facing the sports industry. The course will cover issues at the league level, the team level, the athlete/agent level, and the college level. The diverse constituencies with interests in spor...

GSBGEN363

Fiscal Policy

This is a class about American economic policy, with an emphasis on the U.S. federal budget: government spending, taxes, deficits, and debt. We will examine decisions faced by elected officials and their advisors in the real world. These decisions ar...

GSBGEN367

Problem Solving for Social Change

Stanford graduates will play important roles in solving many of today's and tomorrow's major societal problems-in areas such as education, health, energy, and domestic and global poverty-that call for actions by nonprofit, business, and hybrid organi...

GSBGEN368

Managing Difficult Conversations

This elective 3- unit course is offered with Pass-Fail grading to MBA students who aspire to improve their ability to deal effectively with difficult professional and personal interpersonal situations. Class is held Tuesday, 3:10-6:10 PM. The cours...

GSBGEN370

Power of You: Women in Leadership

All leaders face a host of challenges, but women leaders encounter an additional set of obstacles and considerations-institutional, economic, cultural-that their men counterparts most likely never will. Women from underrepresented groups experience t...

GSBGEN373

Mission and Money in Education

Educational institutions are defined by their academic missions and their financial structures. When we refer to public/private or nonprofit/profit sectors, these are shorthand descriptions of the different capital structures that underlie educationa...

GSBGEN377

Diverse Leadership as an Imperative for Impact

Our society implicitly prizes a particular approach to leadership - but today's cross-sectoral, impact-oriented leader cannot afford to be restricted to a single approach. If we aspire to address challenges across social, economic, and political aren...

GSBGEN381

Individual Philanthropy: Giving Models, Purpose & Practicum

A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything- time, expertise, networks, credibility, dollars, experience- in any amount to create a better world. Philanthropy is resource, background, age, profession, and industry agnostic, and "Individual Philanth...

GSBGEN382

Social Innovation Practicum: Designing New Interventions and Social Ventures

Social Innovation Practicum is an experiential learning course. Through the format of an interactive workshop, students will learn about the social sector by researching a problem or unmet need in society and then developing, testing, and refining a...

GSBGEN383

Practical Policy and Politics

This is a skills / toolbox class, designed for beginners. It is a practical course about policy-making in the U.S. federal government. It will cover three broad subject areas: (1) an assortment of current policy topics; (2) governing processes - how...

GSBGEN386

Public Policy for Climate Innovation

This course considers the form and content that climate innovation policies should take as well as implementation strategies to help climate tech companies cross the proverbial 'valley of death'. The course begins with an evaluation of the advantages...

GSBGEN390

Individual Research

Need approval from sponsoring faculty member and GSB Registrar. There is a limit on the number of units in courses of independent study that may be applied toward degree requirements.

GSBGEN391

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Education Technology Seminar

The last few years we have created significant challenges and opportunities in education; there has never been a more pressing and urgent need in our history to foster entrepreneurship in education by leveraging new technologies. This course will hel...

GSBGEN392

Financial Management for Entrepreneurs

Course formerly known as FINANCE 373 Entrepreneurial Finance. The course provides future CEOs and CFOs with the necessary tools for successfully managing financial aspects of entrepreneurial ventures. We cover topics related to both fundraising and o...

GSBGEN394

Leadership for Society: Big Arguments, Courageous Leadership

More and more, CEOs and other business leaders are asked to engage in dialogue on large-scale issues of societal importance. This class is designed to help students build the ability to foster open and productive conversation on these issues, particu...

GSBGEN490

Leadership for Society: Reflections on History in the Making

Reflections on History in the Making (GSBGEN 490) provides students the opportunity to reflect on, and create an account of their experience of the historic transformations societies around the world are undergoing in the wake of the COVID pandemic,...

GSBGEN494

Leadership for Society: Creating Daring Dialogs

What does it take to engage with people on issues of societal importance? How can you, as leader, spark this engagement? In this course, Leadership for Society Scholars will learn the skills necessary to create an environment that supports honest and...

GSBGEN495

Leadership for Society: Daring Dialogues

The rapid explosion of information in our world presents both immense opportunity and critical challenges for society. Instant and ubiquitous information is a powerful driver for innovation and holds the promise of technological advances that can pro...

GSBGEN496

Leadership for Society: Making Sense of Complex Social Systems

In this class, Leadership for Society Scholars develop a course of inquiry on a chosen societal issue. All projects will include a review of relevant literature and primary research as Scholars explore the historical and social context for their chos...

GSBGEN498

Faculty Lecture & Discussion Series

This class features GSB instructors discussing their research and its applications to the business world. Each session will present one speaker. To earn the 1 unit credit, students must commit to attend at least 6 out of the 8 talks. This is done on...

GSBGEN499

The Last Lecture Series

This class is an opportunity to hear a Last Lecture from esteemed GSB instructors. Each session will present one speaker. To earn the 1 unit credit, students must commit to attend at least 7 out of the 9 talks. This is done on the honor system. If yo...

GSBGEN501

Principles of Effective Decision Making for Sustainability

The overall goal of this short course is to develop students ability to (i) decide which issues around sustainability and the environment are worth spending time and energy on in their careers and personal lives, and (ii) effectively promote such cha...

GSBGEN503

The Business of Healthcare

Healthcare spending is now nearly 18% of the entire GDP of the U.S. economy. The S&P healthcare sector has been one of the best producing segments of the market for the last decade, and growth of healthcare expenditures continue to escalate at a rapi...

GSBGEN505

Impact: Investing for Good

Investing for Good will introduce students to the entire spectrum of purposeful, values-driven, and impact investing. We examine the field from the perspective of an institutional investor (i.e. fund manager, investment advisor, endowment manager, he...

GSBGEN508

Strategic Pivoting for your Next Chapter

Many students come to the GSB with the intent to pivot upon leaving the institution. Some students feel they have outgrown their position or business, or they feel drawn to a new area that better suits their values and interests, where they can make...

GSBGEN511

Making Social Ventures Happen by Attracting Financial and Human Capital

Social ventures require leadership, funding, expertise, skills and networks to get off the ground, grow and scale. This course will focus on the key strategies for building and leveraging a network of champions to capitalize a social venture at early...

GSBGEN514

Creating and Scaling High Potential Ventures in Developing Economies (Cases)

GSBGEN 514 - Creating High Potential Ventures in Developing Economies (2 Units) This course addresses the distinctive challenges and opportunities of launching and growing high-potential new ventures in developing economies. Developing economies are...

GSBGEN515

Essentials of Strategic Communication

Successful leaders understand the power of authentic, memorable communication.This course uses the lens of oral communication and presentations, to introduce the essential elements of the strategic communication strategies that make authentic, memora...

GSBGEN520

Designing Solutions by Leveraging the Frinky Science of the Human Mind

The thrust of this course is on leveraging deep insights into brain-body systems for peak performance in highly demanding environments. These insights will enable you to perform at your peak day in and day out by unraveling the workings of the human...

GSBGEN527

Global eCommerce

Global eCommerce represents a vast market, driven by advances in internet and smartphone penetration, improving supply chains, lower online prices and variety and a growing, aspirational middle class with increasing demand for branded goods. This cla...

GSBGEN531

Global Trip Leadership Skills

This course is open only to leaders of the Global Study Trips. This course is experiential and designed to support the leadership learning and development of students leading Global Study Trips. Lectures, role plays, cases, and exercises will be used...

GSBGEN532

Clean Energy Opportunities: Business Models and Innovations

This course examines business models and opportunities related to an emerging industry that is now commonly referred to as 'Climate Tech'. We examine emerging trends for this sector in the context of technological change, business opportunities and t...

GSBGEN534

Creating a New Venture in a Developing Economy

This course addresses the distinctive challenges and opportunities of launching high-potential new ventures in developing economies. Developing economies are attractive targets for entrepreneurs because many are just starting to move up the growth cu...

GSBGEN535

Global Trip Leadership Skills (B)

This course is open only to leaders of Global Study Trips. It is designed to support GST leaders as they design and deliver a new version of GSTs that accommodate current pandemic limitations on travel. The course will support leaders in emergent des...

GSBGEN537

Sustainable Human Behavior

We will discuss pioneering research on the three key pillars that make human behaviors sustainable: health, wellbeing, and a sense of responsibility for the world we share. The class is designed to facilitate dialogue, knowledge exchange, and the dev...

GSBGEN538

Power in Finance

There is a growing sense that both capitalism and democracy are in crisis. Is the focus on financial metrics and markets to blame for the eroding trust in corporations and governments? How do power dynamics shape the financial system and determine ec...

GSBGEN542

Engineering a Remarkable Life

The skills and attitudes learned as a graduate business student can (with a bit of coaching) be applied to managing one's life. This course will help students think through the 'brand' they want to have, how to modify a personal 'operating system,' h...

GSBGEN543

Family Business

Believe it or not, the "Silicon Valley model" is irrelevant to most businesses. Most companies are not started by MBAs; most startups are not funded by VCs; most employees don't work for tech firms; and most firms don't sell out to other businesses o...

GSBGEN544

How Software Ate Finance

Software is eating the world, with radical consequences for financial services. This course will give you a foundation for understanding the future of financial services, and guide you in creating fintech businesses in the 2020s and beyond. The cour...

GSBGEN546

Freedom, Democracy, and Capitalism

This is an American civics course for future business leaders, intended to briefly (re-)introduce students to a few of the ideas that form the foundation of the American implementation of "the Western model" of freedom, liberal democracy, capitalism,...

GSBGEN550

Leadership Demystified

This seminar will explore the nature and role of leadership in organizations. We will examine such questions as (1) What is leadership? (2) Why is it important? (3) What is it that leaders actually do? (4) How do they do it? (5) How are leaders devel...

GSBGEN551

Innovation and Management in Health Care

The health care system accounts for almost 20% US GDP and is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. This two-unit class focuses on the interplay and tension between the main players in the health care field - providers of health care ser...

GSBGEN552

Winning Writing

This twice-a-week, half-quarter workshop will offer techniques and practical in-class exercises for writing better -- better memos, emails, feedback for colleagues, news releases, responses to questions from the media and from interviewers, and opini...

GSBGEN553

Corporate Dilemmas

The neoliberal orthodoxy that corporate managers' sole duty is to maximize shareholders' financial value (shareholder primacy) has never been entirely adhered to in practice and has been increasingly challenged in recent decades. While acknowledging...

GSBGEN559

The Technology, Politics, and Finance for Solving Global Warming

There is increasing scientific consensus that global warming threatens our world. This course explores how the next generation of leaders can use a combination of forward-looking public policy, political power, and financing new technologies to solve...

GSBGEN564

The Entertainment Industry - An Intersection of Art and Commerce

In this seminar we will explore the intersection of art and commerce in the entertainment industry. We will look at creating films and television programing that are artistically meaningful and/or have the potential for commercial success. The class...

GSBGEN565

Political Communication: How Leaders Become Leaders

This year -- 2022 -- will be a fascinating backdrop for national as well as state and local politics. Implications of the recent pandemic, its dramatic economic impacts and an uneven but recovering economy, Inflation fears, a war in Ukraine, and loom...

GSBGEN566

Dilemmas and Decisions

GSBGEN 566 is an elective course offered to 2nd-year MBA and MSx students. The goal of this course is to improve students' judgment in confronting challenging, real business situations encountered in the normal progression of corporate activities. Th...

GSBGEN568

Managing Difficult Conversations

This elective 2-unit course is designed for those who aspire to improve their ability to deal effectively with difficult professional and interpersonal conversations. The course is taught by William F. Meehan III, the Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Str...

GSBGEN569

The Open Road: Innovation in Cars, Driving, and Mobility

This course will look at ongoing and upcoming innovation in cars, driving, and mobility from three perspectives: (1) technology, (2) economics & business models, and (3) policy. We'll survey changes in powering vehicles (e.g. electrification and biof...

GSBGEN570

Power of You: Women in Leadership

All leaders face a host of challenges, but women leaders encounter an additional set of obstacles and considerations-institutional, social, economic, cultural-that their men counterparts most likely never will. Women from underrepresented groups expe...

GSBGEN576

The Africa Story

This course is designed to introduce GSB students to the peculiar challenges of doing business in a continent, Africa , that shows tremendous promise and at the same time exhibits apparently great perils. How is it to be understood and analyzed? Wha...

GSBGEN580

IMPACT: Philanthropic Institutions & Justice

This is a three week compressed course, and Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, will co-teach week three. Many of today's philanthropic institutions operate with unprecedented innovation and influence and lead in a way that rapidly adapt...

GSBGEN581

Philanthropy, Inclusivity and Leadership

A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything-time, expertise, networks, credibility, influence, dollars, experience-in any amount to create a better world. Regardless of one's age, background or profession, everyone has the potential to lead in a wa...

GSBGEN585

Project You: Building and Extending your Personal Brand

GSB Graduates will be entering and re-entering the workforce needing to know and understand how to build, broadcast, maintain and protect their personal brand. Project You will help each student realize: What is a personal brand and how can it be unl...

GSBGEN587

Policy Practicum: Alabama Innovation

Client: Innovate Alabama, https://innovatealabama.org/. The newly established Alabama Innovation Commission, known as Innovate Alabama, has sought policy recommendations from a group of faculty at Stanford University, including representatives from...

GSBGEN591

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Education Technology Seminar

The last few years we have created significant challenges and opportunities in education; there has never been a more pressing and urgent need in our history to foster entrepreneurship in education by leveraging new technologies. This course will hel...

GSBGEN593

Businesses and Governments: Power and Engagement in the 21st Century World

Complex interactions among governments, businesses, and other institutions such as media, non-governmental, and international organizations, shape our world and our lives. In this course we will explore the workings of these interactions and the chal...

GSBGEN595

High-Stakes Decision Making

Effective decision making is a critical skill for political and business leaders. Decisions must be made under pressure and often with incomplete information. George Osborne was Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom in the aftermath of th...

GSBGEN596

Designing AI to Cultivate Human Well-Being

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to drive us towards a better future for all of humanity, but it also comes with significant risks and challenges. At its best, AI can help humans mitigate climate change, diagnose and treat diseases more...

GSBGEN597

Growth in the Developing Countries, Emerging Economies and the Global Economy

This course deals with growth, or slightly more broadly with growth patterns. It starts with developing country growth, a distinctive features of the post WWII global order. The economics, the policies and the political economy for growth and develop...

GSBGEN598

Stanford-Tsinghua Exchange Program (A)

This course is open only to students participating in the Stanford-Tsinghua Exchange Program and is required of those students. Requirements include researching and reporting on companies to be visited, planning the business meetings during the Beiji...

GSBGEN599

Stanford-Tsinghua Exchange Program (B)

This course is open only to students participating in the Stanford-Tsinghua Exchange Program and is required of those students. Requirements include researching and reporting on companies to be visited, planning the business meetings during the Beiji...

GSBGEN622

Presentation and Communication Skills for Academics

Academics must effectively communicate the importance of their research to a wide range of audiences, including colleagues, students, stakeholders, and the general public, as well as in a variety of contexts, from academic conferences and job talks t...

GSBGEN623

Altruism: Theories and Practice

Humans are remarkably generous. Americans, for instance, donate roughly 3% of GDP to charity and volunteer over 4% of hours worked. Yet, our generosity is replete with quirks. We are highly sensitive to whether a gift originates with us--and espec...

GSBGEN641

Introduction to Structural Econometrics

This course introduces students to the role of theory-based structural econometric models in i) estimating determinants of behavior from revealed preference data, ii) evaluating counterfactual decisions or policies by firms, organizations and/or the...

GSBGEN646

Behavioral Economics and the Psychology of Decision Making

This seminar examines research on the psychology of judgment and choice. Although the normative issue of how decisions should be made is relevant, the descriptive issue of how decisions are made is the main focus of the course. Topics of discussion i...

GSBGEN675

Microeconomic Theory

This course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory designed to meet the needs of students in the GSB non-Economics PhD programs. The course will cover the standard economic models of individual decision-making, models of consumer behavior a...

GSBGEN691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

GSBGEN692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

GSBGEN693

The Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability

The purpose of the course is to (a) introduce graduate students to questions and methods in the rapidly evolving fields of climate/sustainable finance; (b) connect researchers from across the globe interested in this topic to stimulate more rigorous,...

GSBGEN697

Research Fellows Practicum

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GSBGEN802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

HRMGT203

People Analytics

How can we use big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to inform design, hiring, promotion and human resource management processes in organizations? We will discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that these issues present, an...

HRMGT210

Organizational Analytics

This course will bring you to the cutting edge of how organizations are (re)-designed using analytics. You will learn about a variety of tools which allow you to (1) better understand understanding what is happening in an organization, (2) forecast w...

HRMGT286

Managing People in the Global Context

The world of work has changed fundamentally - firms are now integrally linked to the global economy and many of you will manage teams of people located in different countries. What are the typical "people" challenges that arise when working across bo...

HRMGT302

Incentives and Productivity

This course is designed to teach the student how to use economics to solve practical personnel problems that affect worker productivity. Topics include: selecting the best workers to hire, training workers, turnover, setting compensation strategicall...

HRMGT382

People Operations: From Startup to Scaleup

This course focuses attention on human resource strategies for startups. It discusses recruitment, incentives, design of jobs, development of talent, leadership and empowerment challenges in startups. We will deal with questions ranging from equity s...

HRMGT384

Understanding the Trends Transforming the World of Work: Lab for HR Startups

The purpose of the course is to review the key trends transforming the world of work in a post-covid environment, and then get students to define and sharpen their definition of entrepreneurial opportunities to improve the world of work. It will be...

HRMGT503

People Analytics

How can we use big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to inform design, hiring, promotion and human resource management processes in organizations? We will discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that these issues present, an...

HRMGT691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

HRMGT692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

HRMGT802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

MGTECON200

Managerial Economics

MGTECON 200 is a base-level course in microeconomics. It covers microeconomic concepts relevant to management, including the economics of relationships, pricing decisions, perfect competition and the "invisible hand," risk aversion and risk sharing,...

MGTECON203

Managerial Economics - Accelerated

MGTECON 203 is the more quantitative version of MGTECON 200. It uses math tools such as derivatives and algebra to explain economics concepts. No previous knowledge of economics is assumed. The class covers key ideas in economics relating to topics s...

MGTECON209

MSx: Microeconomics

The core microeconomics course is challenging and covers microeconomic concepts, including the economics of relationships, pricing decisions, perfect competition and the 'invisible hand,' risk aversion and risk sharing, and moral hazard and adverse s...

MGTECON300

Growth and Stabilization in the Global Economy

This course gives students the background they need to understand the broad movements in the global economy. Key topics include long-run economic growth, technological change, wage inequality, international trade, interest rates, inflation, exchange...

MGTECON327

U.S. Inequality: What Can Business and Policy Do?

This class will analyze the growth in inequality in the US over the last several decades and how that trend is likely to continue or change in the future. We will ask if and how public policy can affect inequality. We will also focus on business's ro...

MGTECON328

Economics of the Media, Entertainment, and Communications Sector

This course analyzes business decisions in current and historical cases from the media, entertainment, and communications sector. Topics include (1) pricing, bundling and tiering of media products, (2) horizontal and vertical integration of content,...

MGTECON331

Health Law: Finance and Insurance

This course provides the legal, institutional, and economic background necessary to understand the financing and production of health services in the US. Potential topics include: health reform, health insurance (Medicare and Medicaid, employer-spons...

MGTECON349

Smart Pricing and Market Design

This course is an Advanced Applications option in the Economics menu. The focus of the course is on pricing mechanisms and the design of marketplaces. The pricing component of the course will handle both traditional topics, such as price differentiat...

MGTECON350

Economics of Labor: Strategy, Policy, and the Future of Work

This Advanced Application of Microeconomics course will study the labor market. The initial section, focused on organizations' personnel strategies will consider how labor markets differ from other goods and how to adopt classic supply/demand analysi...

MGTECON383

Impact: Measuring Impact in Business and Social

This class provides students with practical skills for measuring impact in business and social enterprise. How large is the impact of raising prices on sales? Is an advertising campaign working? Does a non-profit actually improve people's lives? Stud...

MGTECON526

Inclusive Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Poverty rates have fallen markedly in countries around the world, as more households have joined the lower middle-class. Indeed, though U.S. income inequality has increased, inequality has fallen around the world. However, by developed country standa...

MGTECON533

Economics of Strategy and Organization

The goal of this class is to combine economic theory and business practice to develop insights for business strategy and organization design. We will discuss strategies and organizations of companies, identify potential problems and explore potential...

MGTECON540

Data Science and Experimentation for Decision Making

In this course we will discuss statistical and econometric methods for assisting in decision making. We will discuss experimental designs, ranging from classical A/B tests to modern designs in use at leading tech companies. We will also discuss metho...

MGTECON583

Measuring Impact in Business and Social Enterprise

Businesses are increasingly expected to have a positive social impact, as evidenced by the rapid growth of impact investing. Yet, even as the impact investing market has taken off, impact measurement has lagged, undermining the credibility of the se...

MGTECON600

Microeconomic Analysis I

This course provides an introduction to the foundations of modern microeconomic theory. Topics include choice theory, with and without uncertainty, consumer and producer theory, dynamic choice and dynamic programming, social choice and efficiency, an...

MGTECON601

Microeconomic Analysis II

This course studies the roles of information, incentives and strategic behavior in markets. The rudiments of game theory are developed and applied to selected topics regarding auctions, bargaining, and firms' competitive strategies; information econo...

MGTECON602

Auctions, Bargaining, and Pricing

This course covers mostly auction theory, bargaining theory and related parts of the literature on pricing. Key classic papers covered in the course are Myerson and Satterthwaite on dynamic bargaining, Myerson on optimal auctions, and Milgrom and Web...

MGTECON603

Econometric Methods I

This is the first course in the sequence in graduate econometrics. The course covers some of the probabilistic and statistical underpinnings of econometrics, and explores the large-sample properties of maximum likelihood estimators. You are assumed t...

MGTECON604

Econometric Methods II

Second course in the PhD sequence in econometrics at the Economics Department (as Econ 271) and at the GSB (as MGTECON 604). This course presents modern econometric methods with a focus on regression. Among the topics covered are: linear regression a...

MGTECON605

Econometric Methods III

This course completes the first-year sequence in econometrics. It covers conventional parametric methods that MGTECON 604 did not have time to cover in any detail. This includes GMM, simulated GMM, nonlinear least squares problems generally, and an i...

MGTECON607

Methods for Applied Econometrics

The course provides an introduction to modern econometric methods for causal inference. We discuss classical randomized experiments as well as modern methods for experimentation. We als discuss observational methods for cross section settings, includ...

MGTECON608

Multiperson Decision Theory

Students and faculty review and present recent research papers on basic theories and economic applications of decision theory, game theory and mechanism design. Applications include market design and analyses of incentives and strategic behavior in m...

MGTECON610

Macroeconomics

This course covers various topics in macroeconomics and is designed to expose students to macroeconomic methods, classic papers in the field, and the latest research at the frontier. The current focus is on economic growth. Using theoretical and empi...

MGTECON612

Advanced Macroeconomics II

This is an advanced class on monetary economics. We cover empirical evidence, neoclassical models, recent advances in New Keynesian models, monetary policy with heterogeneous agents and financial frictions, alternative models of price setting and oth...

MGTECON616

Topics in Microeconomic Theory

This course covers foundational topics in microeconomic theory and is suitable for students who have completed the first year of their PhD studies and have taken a game theory or an advanced applied theory course. Sample topics include the notions of...

MGTECON617

Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics

The goal of this course is to introduce students to frontier research in quantitative macroeconomics and finance with heterogeneous agents. We study models with imperfect financial markets and/or search frictions. We emphasize theory and numerical me...

MGTECON618

Social Insurance and Urban Economics

The course covers various topics relating to social insurance and urban economics. The first half of the course covers the rationale for government interventions into private insurance markets, adverse selection, social insurance design and the inter...

MGTECON626

Continuous-time Methods in Economics and Finance

Continuous-time methods can, in many cases, lead to more powerful models to understand economic phenomena. The Black-Scholes option-pricing formula is significantly more tractable than discrete- time methods of option pricing based on binomial trees....

MGTECON628

Reading Group in Industrial Organization

This course meets weekly on Fridays at Noon. The primary purpose of the course is to read and discuss current working papers in Industrial Organization and related fields (e.g., Econometrics, Marketing, and Labor). Students are required to present...

MGTECON629

Faculty Research Workshop

Each week, a different economics faculty member will discuss his or her important and /or current research. The course is an important introduction to PhD level research topics and techniques. Attendance is mandatory.

MGTECON630

Industrial Organization

This is an introductory course in Industrial Organization. The goal is to provide broad general training in the field, introducing you to the central questions around imperfect competition, market structure, innovation and regulation, as well as the...

MGTECON634

Machine Learning and Causal Inference

This course will cover statistical methods based on the machine learning literature that can be used for causal inference. In economics and the social sciences more broadly, empirical analyses typically estimate the effects of counterfactual policies...

MGTECON640

Quantitative Methods for Empirical Research

This is an advanced course on quantitative methods for empirical research. Students are expected to have taken a course in linear models before. In this course I will discuss modern econometric methods for nonlinear models, including maximum likeliho...

MGTECON652

Personnel Economics

This seminar will examine applications of labor economics to business issues and firms' practices. Material will include both theoretical and empirical work, and the syllabus will range from classics in Personnel Economics to current (unpublished) re...

MGTECON691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

MGTECON692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

MGTECON698

Doctoral Practicum in Teaching

MGTECON699

Doctoral Practicum in Research

MGTECON802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

MKTG240

Marketing Management

The objectives of this course are to introduce students to the substantive and procedural aspects of marketing management and to sharpen skills for critical analytical thinking and effective communication. Specifically, the goals are to introduce stu...

MKTG243

Marketing Management, Accelerated

The objective of this course is to introduce you to modern marketing practice at an accelerated level. Marketing is key to the success of an organization and requires an ability to design and execute a coherent strategy across a number of different d...

MKTG249

MSx: Marketing

Our focus is on the question, "When launching a product, what are the framing issues that will help determine success?" In particular, we will provide you with tools to analyze market situations and determine whether it makes sense to launch a produc...

MKTG326

Customer Acquisition for New Ventures

The focus of this course is on the strategies and methods used by early-stage companies to acquire customers (through outbound or inbound marketing) and to activate and retain them (i.e., to encourage repeat behavior and/or increase the frequency of...

MKTG332

Persuasion: Principles and Practice

Understanding persuasion is essential to having influence in virtually any environment; at work, in a sales pitch, in the marketplace, and even at home. Whether you want to get colleagues on board with your idea, clients or investors interested in yo...

MKTG337

Applied Behavioral Economics

The field of behavioral economics couples scientific research on the psychology of decision making with economic theory to better understand what motivates economic agents, including consumers, managers, public policymakers, investors, and employees....

MKTG344

Marketing Research

How large is the market for a product, what is important for the target segment? How does change in the product design affect profitability? This course aims to help students ask such business questions and find data-driven answers to them. The main...

MKTG346

Humor: Serious Business

There exists a mistaken belief in today's corporate world that we need to be serious all the time to be taken seriously. But the research tells a different story. In this course, we delve into the behavioral science of humor, and why it is a secret...

MKTG373

Monetization

This course examines the fundamental issues of creating a strategy for monetization and revenue growth within an organization. Students learn about setting an organization's business model design, aligning various functional areas within the company...

MKTG532

Persuasion: Principles and Practice

Understanding persuasion is essential to having influence in virtually any environment - at work, in a sales pitch, in the marketplace, and even at home. Whether you want to get colleagues on board with your idea, clients or investors interested in y...

MKTG534

The Travel and Airline Industry

This class provides an overview of the travel and airline industry focusing on strategy, business models, operations and trends. Topics we will cover include competition, service delivery, distribution, pricing, planning and the use of analytics with...

MKTG535

Product Launch

Our focus is on the question, "When launching a product, what are the framing issues that will help determine success?" In particular, we will provide you with tools to analyze market situations and determine whether it makes sense to launch a produc...

MKTG539

Algorithmic and Digital Marketing

Leveraging digital technologies to drive customer acquisition, engagement, and long-term value is an important factor for success of firms operating in the current environment. The ability to collect consumer-level behavioral data, rapid evolution of...

MKTG546

Humor: Serious Business

YOU, oh fearless leader of the future (and maybe present). Are very important. You will make critical and far-reaching economic, political, and social decisions in your quest beyond Stanford to change lives, change organizations, and change the world...

MKTG574

Rethinking Purpose

We assume happiness is stable, an endpoint to achieve our goal to chase. It's not. Recent behavioral research suggests that the meaning of happiness changes every 5-10 years, raising the question: how might we build organizations and lives that culti...

MKTG575

Consumer Behavior

Contemporary approaches to marketing emphasize the importance of adopting a consumer focus, from determining consumers' wants and needs, understanding their motivation, to shaping their attitudes and ensuring their loyalty. This course provides insig...

MKTG577

Creativity in the Business Ecosystem

This course explores where creativity occurs in the value chain or business ecosystem more broadly. The concepts of both creativity and the business ecosystem are independently developed, but the primary insights derive from how the ecosystem can pr...

MKTG611

Motivation Science

The purpose of this seminar is to provide PhD level coverage of the major research work carried out in the field of motivation science. For each topic considered, a range of articles from social psychology, consumer behavior, and marketing journals...

MKTG622

Behavioral Research in Marketing III: Consumer Behavior Classics

The purpose of this seminar is to provide PhD level coverage of the major research work carried out in consumer behavior. For each topic considered, a selection of articles with a specific focus on "early classics" will be distributed and discussed....

MKTG641

Behavioral Research in Marketing I

This course prepares the student to do empirical behavioral research. It will cover all aspects of the research process, from hypothesis generation to experimental design to data analysis to writing up your results and submitting them for publication...

MKTG642

Behavioral Research in Marketing II: Consumer Behavior

This PhD seminar provides coverage of the major research carried out in consumer research both in marketing and psychology. A vast set of topic will be covered including conscious and non-conscious consumer goals, motivations, emotions, attention and...

MKTG644

Quantitative Research in Marketing

The goal of this seminar is to familiarize students with the quantitative marketing literature and develop the process of generating research ideas and topics. Sessions will involve a mix of: i) a discussion of papers in a particular area in quantita...

MKTG645

Empirical Analysis of Dynamic Decision Contexts

This course will focus on empirical tools for analyzing dynamic decision contexts, wherein current actions of firms or consumers have effects on future payoffs, profits and/or competitive conduct. The course will build the relevant material generally...

MKTG646

Bayesian Inference: Methods and Applications

The course aims to develop a thorough understanding of Bayesian inference, with a special focus on empirical applications in marketing. The course will start with a brief theoretical foundation to Bayesian inference and will subsequently focus on emp...

MKTG661

Attitudes and Persuasion

The goal of this course - geared toward graduate students in behavioral marketing, psychology, and related disciplines - is to explore the issues and questions that currently engage researchers in the domain of attitudes and persuasion. We will cover...

MKTG691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

MKTG692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

MKTG698

Doctoral Practicum in Teaching

MKTG699

Doctoral Practicum in Research

MKTG802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

OB110N

Savvy: Learning How to Communicate with Purpose

Our seminar is designed for students interested in improving their communication skills. Right now, you probably don't spend much time thinking about the way you communicate, nor are you likely, in the academic setting, to get much feedback on the me...

OB118N

Us and Them: The Psychology of Intergroup Relations

Why do individuals participate in intergroup conflict? Should we celebrate differences or de-emphasize them to improve intergroup interactions? What roles do gender, race, and culture play in everyday workplace interactions, such as networking and ne...

OB205

Managing Groups and Teams

This course introduces you to the science of teams. Particularly, the class focuses on the structures and processes that affect team performance, highlighting common pitfalls associated with working in teams and introducing strategies to maximize tea...

OB206

Organizational Behavior

Building on the discipline of social psychology, this course helps you cultivate mindsets and build skills to understand the ways in which organizations and their members affect one another. You will learn frameworks for diagnosing and resolving prob...

OB209

Leadership Laboratory

In the Leadership Labs class we ask you to consider the question, "Why would someone follow YOU?" This is a course in which you consider what kind of leader you want to be, what kind of leader you are, and how to align your leadership behavior with y...

OB219

MSx: Organizational Design

This course examines fundamental issues of general management and leadership within an organization. You will learn about setting an organization's strategic direction, aligning structure to implement strategy, and leading individuals within the firm...

OB278

MSx: Organizational Behavior

Building on the discipline of social psychology, this course helps you cultivate mindsets and build skills to understand the ways in which organizations and their members affect one another. You will learn frameworks for diagnosing and resolving prob...

OB289

MSx: Negotiations

Effective managers and leaders should be familiar with the strategy and psychology of conflict and negotiate effectively with other persons, departments, organizations, and stakeholders. Hence, the first aim of the course is to develop your ability t...

OB313

Beyond Disruption: Entrepreneurial Leadership Within Existing Organizations

Why do large, successful companies often have such difficulty in disrupting themselves (e.g., Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders)? How do you maintain an entrepreneurial edge within an existing enterprise? How do you sustain core businesses while simultaneo...

OB330

Leadership Fellows I

The Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program plays an integral role in the GSB leadership curriculum by bringing together a group of talented second years to support the leadership development of the first-year class. OB330, an 8 unit two-quarter MBA2 ele...

OB331

Leadership Fellows II

This course is the continuation of Leadership Fellows I, an 8-unit course that begins in Autumn Quarter. During this quarter Fellows will continue to deepen their coaching and mentoring skills, and will focus exclusively on in-depth 1:1 coaching with...

OB333

Acting with Power

The ability to function effectively within a hierarchy is a crucial determinant of managerial success, yet many people struggle with "authority issues" that make certain hierarchical roles and positions difficult for them. This course draws on the cr...

OB345

Leadership Coaching

The ability to coach others is an often over-looked core competency for leaders. This course will give students an opportunity to learn the fundamental skills of coaching, so they can become coaching leaders. This course is designed to be very exper...

OB348

Leading and Managing Health Care Organizations: Innovation and Collaboration in High Stakes Settings

Leading and managing in complex, high stakes settings, like health care, where lives and livelihoods are on the line, presents distinctive challenges and constraints. This course challenges you to apply seminal and contemporary theories in organizati...

OB363

Leadership Perspectives

What does it mean to be a principled leader? What role do values play in an organization, and how do successful leaders apply their values in their daily business lives? This course examines the concept of principled leadership and the various ways t...

OB372

High-Performance Leadership

This course asks the question: "What does it take to build high-performance?" The focus is on middle and upper-middle management in contemporary organizations that have complex tasks, exist in a rapidly changing environment, and have highly skilled s...

OB374

Interpersonal Dynamics

PRE-QUALIFICATION IS REQUIRED BY THE DEADLINE (APPROXIMATELY FIVE WEEKS BEFORE THE QUARTER BEGINS). The focus of this course is to increase one's competencies in building more effective relationships. Learning is primarily through interactions with o...

OB377

The Paths to Power

Power and influence processes are ubiquitous and important in organizations, so leaders need to be able both to understand power and to act on that knowledge. This course has three objectives: 1) increasing students' ability to diagnose and analyze p...

OB381

Conflict Management and Negotiation

Conflict is unavoidable in every organization. The key question is how it will be handled: will it escalate to dysfunctional levels or will it be effectively managed? Hence, a first aim of the course is to develop your ability to analyze conflicts, t...

OB383

Lives of Consequence: How Individuals Create Happy, Meaningful and Successful Lives

This Bass Seminar and Experiential Workshop will examine what it means to live a life of consequence. Using theories and evidence from the latest and best research on happiness, meaning and success, we will collectively develop a conceptual framework...

OB388

Leadership in the Entertainment Industry

The entertainment industry is of enormous importance - both from a business and cultural standpoint and has influence on virtually every spare of our society. It is characterized by tremendous opportunities and great uncertainties. The industry is co...

OB502

Global Leadership

In order to be effective in the emerging global economy, managers need to be able to interact effectively across cultures. This course will provide you with critical knowledge and skills that will enable you to become an effective global leader. We...

OB512

Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures

Thinking about starting a company that might change the world? In this compressed course, we go beyond the standard texts of how to build a startup. We provide budding entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn from the real-world experiences of a rema...

OB513

Beyond Disruption: Entrepreneurial Leadership Within Existing Organizations

Why do large, successful companies often have such difficulty in disrupting themselves (e.g., Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders)? How do you maintain an entrepreneurial edge within an existing enterprise? How do you sustain core businesses while simultaneo...

OB518

Leading Through Culture

This course examines organization culture, how and why managers can use culture to maximize results within an organization, and how culture can undermine results. The course begins by situating cultural leadership and management within a culture-shap...

OB527

The Art of Self-Coaching

In 2009 a student who was about to graduate said to me, "Being coached at the GSB helped me grow over the last two years, but after I leave school and no longer have access to these resources, how will I continue to coach myself?" This course is an a...

OB528

Racial Bias and Structural Inequality

How do we address racial bias and inequities? What role do institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? In this elective, we examine racial bias and inequality in our criminal justice system and i...

OB533

Acting with Power

This course combines insights from psychological research and theater practice to explore how power and status play a role in most social and professional interactions. Exercises drawn from actor training will illustrate how power is decoded and perf...

OB536

Insight to Outcome

Getting from "strategic insight" to "desired outcome" (achieving the right result) continues to be a core challenge for many organizations and leaders. In this course, we develop a framework and approach for the "insight to outcome" sequence, study s...

OB581

Negotiations

This course is designed to improve students' skills in all phases of a negotiation: understanding prescriptive and descriptive negotiation theory as it applies to dyadic and multiparty negotiations, to buyer-seller transactions and the resolution of...

OB602

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academe: Confronting Bias

This seminar will explore the ways in which conscious and unconscious bias impacts the careers of underrepresented minority, LGBTQ, and women academics. We will study topics such as unconscious bias, stereotype threat, ambient belonging, microaggress...

OB612

Careers and Organizations

The careers of individuals are shaped by their movement within and between organizations, whether those be established employers or entrepreneurial ventures. Conversely, organizations of all sizes are shaped by the flows of individuals through them a...

OB616

Social Networks: From Graph Theory to Relational Sociology

Thinking in terms of networks is a powerful way to bridge the theoretical and empirical gap between micro-contexts and macro-patterns, in both directions. For example, an organizational culture emerges through interactions of individuals within the f...

OB621

Organizations and Sustainability

This course reviews social science research on the role of organizations in environmental sustainability. Modern human activity is known to be dramatically changing the earth's ecosystem with far-reaching consequences: altering the climate, reducing...

OB626

Strategy and Organizations

Why are some organizations more competitive than others? This is the defining questions of the interdisciplinary research field known as 'strategic management.' In this PhD seminar, we will survey the field of strategic management as seen from the...

OB630

Social Norms

This course covers research and theory on the origins and function of social norms. Topics include the estimation of public opinion, the function of norms as ideals and standards of judgment, and the impact of norms on collective and individual behav...

OB632

Social Movements

Social movement activists frequently target organizations (e.g., corporations, universities) in order to bring about political and social change. Because most organizations are not democracies, movements must find ways to penetrate their closed boun...

OB636

Economic Sociology of Markets and Organizations

This PhD course provides an overview of economic sociology as it pertains to the behavior of individuals as atomistic agents and collective actors, in the context of markets and organizations. Students will study foundational texts as well as recent...

OB637

Modeling Culture

What is culture, and how can we model it? This course will survey theoretical frameworks for studying culture from a multidisciplinary perspective, ranging from evolutionary biology through sociology to economics. We will explore various methods for...

OB654

Organizational Behavior Pro Seminar

This pro-seminar is primarily for OB PhD students who are developing dissertation ideas. The pro-seminar covers the main research areas of OB faculty and aims to help students develop their theoretical ideas for their dissertation research. OB PhD st...

OB660

Topics in Organizational Behavior: Individual Processes

This course will focus on psychological processes that occur within individuals that cannot be seen but whose existence can be inferred on the basis of people's behavior. Such processes, referred to as individual processes, include personality, emoti...

OB662

Topics in Organizational Behavior: Intergroup Processes

The primary objective of this course is to provide an overview and organizing framework of the micro-organizational behavior literature. This entails reading many foundational pieces that will cover the classic areas of research in the field. We will...

OB670

Designing Social Research

This is a course in the design of social research, with a particular emphasis on research field (i.e., non-laboratory) settings. As such, the course is a forum for discussing and developing an understanding of the different strategies social theorist...

OB672

Organization and Environment

This seminar considers the leading sociological approaches to analyzing relations of organizations and environments, with a special emphasis on dynamics. Attention is given to theoretical formulations, research designs, and results of empirical studi...

OB673

Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Organizations

Dawn of the Machines: Behavioral Approaches to Artificial Intelligence. In Spring 2022, this seminar will explore how psychologists and micro-OB scholars can engage with the emergence of AI. Noting that the treatment of AI varies widely in behavioral...

OB675

Micro Research Methods

This course helps students gain foundational knowledge on several different methods used in micro-OB research, including surveys, experiments (field and lab), longitudinal studies, content analysis, qualitative interviews, ethnography, cases, and arc...

OB678

The Design and Process of Experimental Research

This year-long course takes a hands-on approach to learning about experimental research. It will cover the entire process of experimental research from idea and hypothesis generation to study design, analysis, and publication. The topical content wi...

OB680

Introduction to the Behavioral Theory of the Firm and its Contemporary Applications

The course will focus on the Behavioral Theory of the Firm and the contemporary research areas it influences, especially research on organization design. The course will introduce students to an active research area whose scholars have largely been i...

OB681

Creativity Research

This course covers theories and methods used in research on individual and group creativity. Several different approaches to studying creativity will be discussed, ranging from small-scale experiments to large-scale datasets. The goal is for students...

OB684

Full-Cycle Research Design

In this class, you will learn how to effectively combine qualitative research methods, including ethnographic observation and interviews, with experimental methods, including lab, natural and field experiments, to investigate questions of interest in...

OB687

Race and Natural Language Processing

The goal of this practicum is to integrate methods from natural language processing with social psychological perspectives on race to build practical systems that address significant societal issues. Readings will be drawn broadly from across the soc...

OB691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

OB692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

OB698

Doctoral Practicum in Teaching

OB699

Doctoral Practicum in Research

OB802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

OIT245

Optimization and Simulation Modeling

This course provides basic skills in quantitative modeling. The objective is to familiarize students with the main steps in an analytical approach to business decision making: constructing an abstract model for a relevant business problem, formulatin...

OIT247

Optimization and Simulation Modeling - Accelerated

The course is aimed at students who already have a background or demonstrated aptitude for quantitative analysis, and thus are comfortable with a more rapid coverage of the topics, in more depth and breadth, than in OIT 245.

OIT248

Optimization And Simulation Modeling - Advanced

This course constitutes an advanced option in the menu of classes satisfying the Core requirement in Optimization and Simulation Modeling (OSM). The course is an advanced version of OIT 245 and OIT 247, covering a similar set of basic concepts of OSM...

OIT249

MSx: Data and Decisions

Data and Decisions teaches you how to use data and quantitative reasoning to make sound decisions in complex and uncertain environments. The course draws on probability, statistics, and decision theory. Probabilities provide a foundation for understa...

OIT256

Digital Business

This course focuses on the way information technology affects the structure of business models. It considers the impact of information technology on industries ranging from retail to transportation and finance. It considers how you can take advantage...

OIT262

Operations

Operations is the design and management of processes for production and delivery of services or goods. This course covers fundamental concepts and tools for excellent operations: Process Analysis - analysis, improvement, and design of operational pro...

OIT269

MSx: Operations and Strategies

Operations refer to the processes through which businesses produce and deliver products or services. Managing operations well is necessary in order for these processes to be completed in a timely manner, consume minimal resources and costs, and achie...

OIT271

Operations and Strategies

Operations refer to the processes through which businesses produce and deliver products or services. The objectives of the course are to introduce operational problems and challenges faced by managers, and effective methods for confronting such probl...

OIT272

Online Marketplaces

How does Uber match drivers to passengers? How does Airbnb select the set of listings to show to a guest in a search? How does eBay manage trust and reputation between buyers and sellers? How does Google optimize auctions for billions of dollars' wor...

OIT274

Data and Decisions - Base (Flipped Classroom)

Base Data and Decisions is a first-year MBA course in statistics and regression analysis. The course is taught using a flipped classroom model that combines extensive online materials with a lab-based classroom approach. Traditional lecture content w...

OIT275

Online Marketplaces, Accelerated

How does Uber match drivers to passengers? How does Airbnb select the set of listings to show to a guest in a search? How does eBay manage trust and reputation between buyers and sellers? How does Google optimize auctions for billions of dollars' wor...

OIT276

Data and Decisions - Accelerated (Flipped Classroom)

Accelerated Data and Decisions is a first-year MBA course in statistics and regression analysis. The course is taught using a flipped classroom model that combines extensive online materials with a more lab-based classroom approach. Traditional lectu...

OIT280

Operations, Innovation, and Technology I

This course is the first part of a new two quarter course series (OIT 280 & OIT 281) that offers students a holistic perspective on the rapidly evolving and integrated world of operations, technology and innovation. OIT 280 covers fundamental concept...

OIT281

Operations, Innovation, and Technology II

This course is the second part of the two-quarter course series (OIT 280 & OIT 281) and expands on the learnings developed in Part 1: OIT 280. Graduate students from business and Doerr School of Sustainability will learn about different forms of inno...

OIT333

Design for Extreme Affordability

Design for Extreme Affordability (¿Extreme¿) is for students who have a passion for social impact, and want to experience designing products and services that address issues of global poverty, through tackling real world challenges in collaboration w...

OIT334

Design for Extreme Affordability

Design for Extreme Affordability (¿Extreme¿) is for students who have a passion for social impact, and want to experience designing products and services that address issues of global poverty, through tackling real world challenges in collaboration w...

OIT349

Business Analytics

This course aims to develop students' skills in analytics and quantitative modeling for managerial decision-making: 1) Constructing a model that can be used to address a relevant business question, 2) Implementing the model in a spreadsheet environme...

OIT356

Digital Business

The course focuses on the analysis and design of business models that are enabled by Information Technology (IT). It considers the impact of IT on multiple industries and ways to take advantage of new opportunities that are enabled by new technologie...

OIT364

Global Operations

Globalization of businesses has resulted in companies having to manage global networks of suppliers, integrators, contract manufacturers, logistics service providers, distributors, and service support operators in geographically dispersed locations....

OIT367

Business Intelligence from Big Data

The objective of this course is to analyze real-world situations where significant competitive advantage can be obtained through large-scale data analysis, with special attention to what can be done with the data and where the potential pitfalls lie....

OIT368

Design for Disruption

"Disruption" is a widely used and frequently misunderstood term. Understanding it better can help you think about your organization or team's strategy whether you're trying to disrupt, avoid being disrupted, or simply scanning the horizon for new tre...

OIT384

Biodesign Innovation: Needs Finding and Concept Creation

In this two-quarter course series (OIT 384/5), multidisciplinary student teams from medicine, business, and engineering work together to identify real-world unmet healthcare needs, invent new health technologies to address them, and plan for their de...

OIT385

Biodesign Innovation: Concept Development and Implementation

In this two-quarter course series (OIT 384/5), multidisciplinary student teams from medicine, business, and engineering work together to identify real-world unmet healthcare needs, invent new health technologies to address them, and plan for their de...

OIT521

Data Science for Platforms

This is an MBA compressed course that covers analytic and data science tools that are currently being used to operate some of the most exciting online platforms and marketplaces in the world. This course will consist of guest lectures from industry l...

OIT551

Data Science: Management, Strategy and Innovation

How can one best put data science and AI to work in a modern company and manage data science teams effectively? Leaning on the emerging theory and best practices, we will examine companies at various sizes and stages, from seed through IPO, and study...

OIT604

Data, Learning, and Decision-Making

This aim of this course is to cover modern tools for data-driven decision making. Most decision making tasks involve uncertainty that is directly impacted by the amount and complexity of data at hand. Classical decision models rely on strong distribu...

OIT611

The Drift Method: from Stochastic Networks to Machine Learning

This course is an exploration of the drift method: a family of simple, yet surprisingly powerful, meta-algorithms that in each step the greedily and incrementally minimizes a certain potential function. Manifested in different forms, MaxWeight, c-mu...

OIT644

Research in Operations, Information and Technology

This year-long course takes a hands-on approach to learning about conducting research in Operations, Information and Technology. It will cover a broad spectrum of cutting-edge research in OIT from conceiving an idea to formulating a research problem,...

OIT648

Empirics of Online Markets

In this course we cover current research on data-driven approaches to the market design of online platforms. We cover diverse topics such as search, matching, demand estimation, learning under strategic behavior, and pricing. We will do so in the con...

OIT652

OIT Modeling

This course is designed for OIT students of all cohorts. It will focus on alternative approaches to modeling the types of problems that arise in OIT research, based on the analysis of papers in the area.

OIT664

Asymptotics in Operations Management

This course provides an overview of asymptotic models and methods used in various areas of operations management. It includes traditional heavy traffic asymptotics for queueing networks, the Halfin-Whitt regime, the supermarket model, inventory theor...

OIT666

Engineering Online Markets

This class will explore topics the intersection of operations, engineering, and economics relevant to modern internet marketplaces, including those for dating, labor, accommodation, services, and rides. The objective of the class is to introduce and...

OIT668

Networks and Markets

In recent years network models have been used in different application domains, ranging from social networks to supply chains and from financial networks to transportation networks. Examples of existing work in networks include exploring how to lever...

OIT671

Operational, Economic, and Statistical Modeling in the COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 crisis revealed many fundamental structural, cultural, and operational challenges in the world. Many of these challenges, for example managing patient care in a limited resource environment, were well-known before COVID-19 and the crisis...

OIT691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

OIT692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

OIT698

Doctoral Practicum in Teaching

OIT699

Doctoral Practicum in Research

OIT802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

POLECON230

Strategy Beyond Markets: Condensed

This course focuses on the firm's strategic interactions with nonmarket players, like politicians, regulators and bureaucrats. These players work within the public institutions that determine the "rules of the game" for market activity. Their inter...

POLECON231

Strategy Beyond Markets

This course focuses on the firm's strategic interactions with nonmarket players, like politicians, regulators and bureaucrats. These players work within the public institutions that determine the "rules of the game" for market activity. Their inter...

POLECON239

MSx: Strategy Beyond Markets

This course addresses managerial issues in the social, political and legal environments of business. Cases and readings emphasize strategies to improve the performance of companies in light of their multiple constituencies, both within the US and int...

POLECON342

Finding Religious and Spiritual Meaning at Work: Business Exemplars

This course explores the experience of respected business leaders who have been able to integrate their spiritual and business lives successfully. It also provides an explicit opportunity for students to discuss their own intentions to find deep mea...

POLECON349

The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry through Literature

This course uses novels and plays as a basis for examining the moral and spiritual aspects of business leadership and of the environment in which business is done. On the one hand literature is used as the basis for examining the character of busines...

POLECON351

Global Business, Religion, and National Culture

What does one need to know about Islam to do business effectively in an Arab country? How can understanding the Protestant ethic help Mexican managers deal with U.S. partners? How does Confucianism influence Chinese business ethics? What are the b...

POLECON383

Managing Politically Conflictual Environments

We live increasingly in a world of political polarization and conflict. Disagreements, often violent, dramatically shape the challenges and opportunities that leaders face, whether it be while managing diverse teams to addressing the future of the pl...

POLECON515

Energy: Innovation, Policy & Business Strategy

The future of the energy industry is deeply intertwined with politics and the formation of policy. In this class we'll take a deeper dive into the market and beyond-market (policy) strategies in the energy industry. Our focus will be on new clean ene...

POLECON531

The Future of Cities: Entrepreneurship, Policy & Business Strategy

Cities are where billions of people live and they are the engine for innovation and economic growth. They are also going through enormous change and battling with fundamental problems, like housing, transportation, urban planning, the environment, sa...

POLECON549

The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry through Literature

This capstone course uses novels and plays as a basis for examining the moral and spiritual aspects of business leadership and of the environment in which business is done. On the one hand literature is used as the basis for examining the character o...

POLECON660

Behavioral Political Economy

This course studies the cognitive scientific foundations of political economy. It builds on the explosion of research in cognitive psychology, evolutionary anthropology, and allied fields over the last few decades to provide perspectives on political...

POLECON680

Foundations of Political Economy

This course provides an introduction to political economy with an emphasis on formal models of collective choice, public institutions, and political competition. Topics considered include voting theory, social choice, institutional equilibria, agenda...

POLECON681

Economic Analysis of Politics

This course extends the foundations developed in P680 by applying techniques of microeconomic analysis and game theory to the study of political behavior and institutions. The techniques include information economics, games of incomplete information,...

POLECON682

Workshop on Institutional Theories and Empirical Tests in Political Economy

This course critically surveys empirical applications of formal models of collective-choice institutions. It is explicitly grounded in philosophy of science (e.g., Popperian positivism and Kuhn's notions of paradigms and normal science). Initial sess...

POLECON683

Political Development Economics

There is a growing awareness that many of the key challenges in fostering development in poor societies are political challenges. What can we do to encourage trade, cooperation and peace in environments riven with social and ethnic divisions? How do...

POLECON691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

POLECON692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

POLECON698

Doctoral Practicum in Teaching

POLECON699

Doctoral Practicum in Research

POLECON802

TGR Dissertation

No Description Set

STRAMGT110Q

Making Sense of Strategy

Get the strategy right, and the chance for success is great. Nowhere is this more evident than in today's world of major challenges. Strategy is at the heart of problem solving and achieving objectives, yet few people can define strategy, much less u...

STRAMGT202

Strategic Leadership: Crafting and Leading Strategy

This course is about the process of crafting, assessing and implementing strategies to win in the market. It is designed to help you understand, shape, and lead your organization's strategy by providing you with a framework for thinking about the iss...

STRAMGT205

Strategic Leadership: Creating and Sustaining Growth

Many organizations are fundamentally committed to growth. This course examines how leaders and their organizations can create and sustain growth. Initially, entrepreneurial companies grow by discovering product-market fit, and then capitalize on that...

STRAMGT210

Managerial Skills

In the Managerial Skills Labs we examine several common managerial challenges faced by executives. Together with Faculty, students explore these topics using five case examples, each asking students to evaluate a series of situations, develop alterna...

STRAMGT258

MSx: Strategic Management

This course deals with the overall general management of the business enterprise. Extensive case studies of a variety of companies of differing size, industry, and current conditions provide the basis for the comprehensive analysis and establishment...

STRAMGT259

MSx: Generative Leadership

There are three major sections to this course - Design Thinking, The Improvisational Mindset, and High Performance Communication. || Design Thinking || Outcome: Participants learn to employ User Centered Design as promoted by the Stanford d.school. T...

STRAMGT302

Systems Leadership

Leaders of today live in an increasingly uncertain world, and the challenges of the times are drastic. At some level, all leadership right now is crisis leadership - getting one's team and organization through unprecedented times. Sometimes the abili...

STRAMGT308

Entrepreneurship from Diverse Perspectives

This seminar showcases the diversity of entrepreneurs and the range of entrepreneurial paths they pursue. Thirty-five entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, primarily from historically underestimated groups (HUGs), will share their personal and prof...

STRAMGT309

Strategies of Effective Product Management

This is a course about exploring the methods and processes for product management, largely in technology companies, and a look at what can lead to the most effective ways to coordinate customer needs, ensure accurate product development, and how to d...

STRAMGT319

Equity By Design: Building Diverse and Inclusive Organizations

This course equips you to create and build equitable organizations. We will discuss the power of inclusion as it relates to the employee and customer experience. We will study effective strategies for building diverse and inclusive companies, and wi...

STRAMGT321

Create a New Venture: From Idea to Launch I

S321/S322 is an integrated lab course in Entrepreneurship designed to teach students the process of creating a new viable venture - from Idea to Launch. It is a dynamic and interactive course organized around projects undertaken by teams of 3 to 4...

STRAMGT322

Create a New Venture: From Idea to Launch II

S321/S322 is an integrated lab course in Entrepreneurship designed to teach students the process of creating a new viable venture - from Idea to Launch. It is a dynamic and interactive course organized around projects undertaken by teams of 3 to 4...

STRAMGT325

Impact: From Idea to Enterprise

This class is for students who want start or work at an impact venture, or to invest in or grant to such an enterprise. The class deals with situations from the perspective of the entrepreneur/manager, and the funder.Students will: - Learn to evalu...

STRAMGT329

The Grand Bazaar on Clouds: Strategy for Marketplaces

In this class, we will analyze the economics and strategy of marketplaces for goods and services. We will consider the forces that have led to the proliferation of these marketplaces, as well as the strategic choices that determine which ones succeed...

STRAMGT330

Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Partnership for Growth

This 3 unit course is designed for students interested in entrepreneurship, early-stage investing, and/or venture capital. With US venture capital investment doubling from 2020 to 2021, it is an exciting time to get the insiders' view of the entrepre...

STRAMGT335

Entrepreneurial Approaches to Education Reform

In this course, students will investigate opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurial ventures trying to make a positive impact in public education in their countries or globally. Sessions will explore challenges in increasing efficacy, ensuring...

STRAMGT340

POWer: Building the Entrepreneurial Mindset from the Perspective of Women

This seminar will showcase women entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. We will explore the challenges and opportunities they encountered in starting and growing their ventures, and the personal and professional choices they have made. The sessions w...

STRAMGT345

Impact: Taking Social Innovation to Scale

Fortunately, the world is full of great ideas and breakthrough product and process innovations, many of which might make enormous positive impact on many people around the world. Unfortunately, it takes more than just a great innovation for that impa...

STRAMGT351

Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations

The focus of this class is on the challenges and key issues associated with the creation and management of a professional sales organization. Our emphasis is developing and managing the selling effort of business-to-business and business-to-consumer...

STRAMGT353

Entrepreneurship: Formation of New Ventures

This course is offered for students who at some time may want to undertake an entrepreneurial career by pursuing opportunities leading to partial or full ownership and control of a business. The course deals with case situations from the point of vie...

STRAMGT354

Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Many of America's most successful entrepreneurial companies have been substantially influenced by professionally managed venture capital. This relationship is examined from both the entrepreneur's and the venture capitalist's perspective. From the po...

STRAMGT355

Managing Growing Enterprises

This course is offered for students who aspire to lead growing businesses. The seminar, which is limited to 40-45 students, has a strong implementation focus, and deals in some depth with certain selected, entrepreneurial issues, viewed from the pers...

STRAMGT356

Startup Garage: Design

(Same as BIOE 376) Startup Garage is an intensive, hands-on, project-based course where students apply design thinking, lean startup methodology, and the Business Model Canvas to conceive, design, and field-test new business concepts that address rea...

STRAMGT364

Health Information Technology and Strategy

Health Information technology was intended to help reduce cost and improve the quality of health care services. To date, this is little evidence that this goal has been achieved. This course is designed to explore economic frameworks that can help us...

STRAMGT366

Startup Garage: Testing and Launch

(Same as BIOE 377) In this intensive, hands-on, project-based course, teams continue to develop their ventures based on a user need that they validated in advance of the course. They build out more elaborate versions of their prototypes and Business...

STRAMGT368

Impact: Strategic Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations and Social Ventures

Our primary objective in this course is to prepare and equip you to play a high-impact leadership role in the social sector, as a founder, executive, board member, and/or donor/philanthropist. This course seeks to provide a survey of the strategic, g...

STRAMGT371

Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

This course focuses on the strategic management of technology-based innovation in the firm. The purpose is to provide students with concepts, frameworks, and experiences that are useful for taking part in the management of innovation processes in bot...

STRAMGT381

Leading Strategic Change in the Health Care Industry

In this seminar we will study the structure and dynamics of the U.S. health care industry, especially in the face of ongoing regulatory change, and ways it intersects with the global health care industry. The seminar's aim is to develop participants'...

STRAMGT502

Systems Leadership

Leaders of today live in an increasingly uncertain world, and the challenges of the times are drastic. At some level, all leadership right now is crisis leadership ¿ getting one¿s team and organization through unprecedented times. Sometimes the abili...

STRAMGT503

Spontaneous Management

In this class, you will learn techniques for improving your spontaneity, creativity, presence, and collaboration skills, all of which contribute to your becoming a more effective and inspirational leader. This class combines research on social psycho...

STRAMGT507

From Invention to Innovation: The Process of Translation

The class intends to address specific challenges: 1) The challenges facing businesses are strongly rate-limited by the translation problems of new ideas, and inventions often do not make it into the market place or are disrupted at multiple levels in...

STRAMGT510

Conversations in Management

This case-based course is offered for students who want to refine their ability to manage challenging professional conversations. The class will focus on the preparation for and execution of role-played dialogue as well as on postmortem analysis. M...

STRAMGT511

Protecting Ideas

Today, the assets of many businesses are largely intangible, such as brands, data, software and trade secrets. More and more we live in an economy based on intangibles and much of business involves creating, exploiting and managing those intangible a...

STRAMGT512

The Yin and Yang of Family Business Transitions

This seminar provides students with practical solutions to some of the challenges faced in family business transitions.Family businesses are by far the dominant form of commerce world-wide, albeit the majority are small "mom and pop shops." Some rese...

STRAMGT514

Product/Market Fit

The premise of this course is the success of a startup (and even a large company launching a new product) is most dependent on finding a market that is desperate for its product. Focusing on product/market fit conflicts with the conventional view tha...

STRAMGT516

Fundamentals of Effective Selling

The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the fundamentals of how to sell. The course is appropriate for anyone who wants to understand and show proficiency with the skills required in different selling situations, both tradit...

STRAMGT519

Equity By Design: Building Diverse and Inclusive Organizations

This course equips you to create, build and lead equitable organizations. We will learn the power of iD&I - that is, how we can be change agents by involving key stakeholders, casting the right vision, and constructing the right interactions to unlo...

STRAMGT520

The Industrialist's Dilemma

This course explores how digital disruptions are having tectonic shifts on large, successful and established companies, whether they have a digital foundation or not. Both new and existing high technology firms such as Google, Amazon, Stripe, Airbnb...

STRAMGT524

Longevity: Business Implications and Opportunities

People age 50 and over account for over 50% of consumer spending in the US and 83% of household wealth, with both number expected to increase significantly due to a combination of increased longevity and the aging of the baby boomer generation. It i...

STRAMGT529

Marketplaces for Goods and Services

In this class we will analyze the economics and strategy of marketplaces and platforms for goods and services. We will consider the forces that have led to the proliferation of these marketplaces, as well as the economics behind which ones are likel...

STRAMGT532

Intellectual Property: Financial and Strategic Management

In today's competitive marketplace, companies -- from Fortune 500 firms to early stage start-ups -- rely on intellectual property (IP) to keep them one step ahead of the game. Yet, critical IP decisions are usually made by lawyers with very little in...

STRAMGT537

Leading Change in Public Education

Public education in America is at a crossroads. Does our education system have what it takes to produce graduates who are prepared for college, career, and citizenship in our increasingly digital and pluralistic world? Will income and ethnic achiev...

STRAMGT541

Insight to Outcome

Getting from "strategic insight" to "desired outcome" (achieving the right result) continues to be a core challenge for many organizations and leaders. In this course, we develop a framework and approach for the "insight to outcome" sequence, study s...

STRAMGT542

Marketplaces for Goods and Services: Trust, Branding, and Regulation

This course is the second course in the sequence of marketplaces for goods and services (the first course is STRAMGT 529). The course will dig deep into issues of building trust and marketplace branding, as well as regulatory challenges of online mar...

STRAMGT543

Entrepreneurial Acquisition

For aspiring entrepreneurs who don't have a burning idea or desire to start a company from scratch, acquiring a small business can provide a direct route to running and growing a business. This class will explore entrepreneurial acquisition (EA). As...

STRAMGT545

Taking Social Innovation to Scale

How do you get the best new social innovations to reach the hundreds of millions of people who need it the most? And how do ensure that they are developed, deployed and scaled in a way that is relevant, appropriate and sustainable? Innovators tacklin...

STRAMGT547

Riding The Next Wave in Developing Economies

Today, innovative ventures in developing economies are providing compelling new products and services to a growing middle-class as well as to the lower part of the economic pyramid. These offerings provide consumers ways to better their lives and com...

STRAMGT549

Search Fund Garage

Search Fund Garage is an intensive, hands-on, project-based course for students planning to pursue a search fund directly after or within a few years of graduation. Students will learn from the instructors, course peers, and class visitors, particula...

STRAMGT555

Managing Growing Enterprises

This seminar is offered for students who, in the near term, aspire to the management and full or partial ownership of a new or newly acquired business. The seminar will deal in some depth with certain selected, generic entrepreneurial issues, viewed...

STRAMGT571

Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (A)

This first part of the course focuses on technology-based entrepreneurial start-up and mid-sized firms. We will study the development stages of such firms and examine how top and senior leaders integrate knowledge about the key issues relating to the...

STRAMGT572

Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation in Established Firms

This course focuses on entrepreneurship in large established companies: "corporate entrepreneurship" aka "intrapreneurship." It examines the role of corporate entrepreneurs and how to manage project champions/venture managers, and what some of the or...

STRAMGT573

Moore's Law and the Convergence of Computing and Communications; Strategic Thinking in Action

This six-session (2-unit) Bass seminar focuses on strategic leadership and builds on core strategic leadership coursework in the MBA and MSx programs. The course uses the seminar format with expectations of extensive contributions from all students t...

STRAMGT574

Strategic Thinking in Action - In Business and Beyond II (Automotive Industry Disruption)

This six-session Bass seminar is about strategic leadership driving the transformation of the advanced automotive industry. It will build on what students have learned in their MBA core strategic leadership course but will also provide additional con...

STRAMGT577

Creativity in the Business Ecosystem

This course teaches core strategy fundamentals such as Industry Analysis, Organization of the Firm, and Innovation in a Multi-Business Firm by focusing on the question of where creativity occurs in the business ecosystem. A cross-disciplinary perspec...

STRAMGT579

The Political Economy of China

The evolving organization of the Chinese economy, with special emphasis on the following topics: the integration of the Communist Party organization with government entities and enterprises; the evolution of ownership; corporate restructuring and cor...

STRAMGT581

Leading Strategic Change in the Health Care Industry

In this seminar we will study the structure and dynamics of the U.S. health care industry, especially in the face of ongoing regulatory change, and ways it intersects with the global health care industry. The seminar's aim is to develop participants'...

STRAMGT582

Building Strategic Competence: Observations from Battlegrounds Overseas and in Washington, D.C.

This course addresses the issues faced in assuming executive responsibility, developing clear visions and missions, understanding complex problem sets, building teams, and developing strategies to overcome obstacles and take advantage of opportunitie...

STRAMGT583

The Challenges in/with China

The general objective of the course is to develop a better understanding of the changing socio-economic and political situation in China (with its challenges both for China and for the rest of the world) in order to make less difficult to define and...

STRAMGT584

Impact: Assessing High Impact Business Models in Emerging Markets

In recent years, we've seen an explosion of innovative business models blazing new trails in emerging markets. Many of these models are achieving commercial success while transforming the lives of low-income populations. Using nine cases of both earl...

STRAMGT691

PhD Directed Reading

This course is offered for students requiring specialized training in an area not covered by existing courses. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the reading.

STRAMGT692

PhD Dissertation Research

This course is elected as soon as a student is ready to begin research for the dissertation, usually shortly after admission to candidacy. To register, a student must obtain permission from the faculty member who is willing to supervise the research.

STRAMGT802

TGR Dissertation

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Department: Graduate School of Business