This course will immerse you in the world of experiments and confront you with the managerial challenges involved in drawing economically meaningful causal conclusions from real-world data. This course is relevant to students going into technology, consulting, health care, and venture capital, as well as those taking general management roles or joining early-stage firms.

This course focuses on disruption as a source of transformational change within a firm, an industry, or society. Disruptions generally require organizations to significantly change their operations, resource allocation, or business model. Examining disruption through three different lenses--customer (including technology), societal, and political--the course teaches students how to harness disturbances to drive positive change at their organizations.

The purpose of this course is two-fold 1) to provide students knowledge and skills needed to understand the mechanisms driving many innovations in FinTech, 2) to prepare students for careers in the technology space, particularly those focused on financial services. Examples of topics that would be covered in the course include blockchain, cryptocurrency, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending, digital payment & banking, robo-advising, & microfinance.

This course analyzes the challenges and opportunities in Emerging and Frontier Markets. The superlative performance of EFMs has been the growth story of the past two decades. Understanding the functioning of these economies is a critical factor for the successful operation of a global enterprise.

In spite of the saying, financial numbers rarely speak for themselves. Telling Financial Stories will help future consultants, bankers and general managers interpret financial data in a number of challenging settings in which strategic company and leadership objectives are on the line. Students will learn frameworks for messaging to inform and influence, with topics ranging from reporting corporate earnings to pitching a startup.

In this class students will explore the theory & practice of sustainability, with focus on ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) principles in practice, as well as exploring more traditional corporate social responsibility & the ecosystems involved in both (corporate & private foundations, NGO's, UN agencies, governments).

Working insight into the economic, strategic, and socio-political factors underpinning social impact. Students will learn to assess organizational capacity and the structures, processes and human capital necessary to effectively manage an enterprise. A deeper understanding of non profits and the environmental and social problems they address.Learn to adapt and fine tune their professional skills in a different sector.

Develop in students an understanding of the process view of innovation and how it is executed. Equip students with the tools to structure the "right" innovation processes for their own organization and to link innovation to the organization's business strategy. Enable students to view innovation management from the lenses of different individuals/functions in the organization.

Institutional investors increasingly rank serving a social purpose as a factor garnering high regard. How people define serving a social purpose varies widely however. Corporations have a unique value add in terms of expertise, human resources, public influence, and unrestricted funds. But do corporations embrace a social purpose in ways that deliver quantifiable outcomes for a range of stakeholders, as well as economic performance? This course provides an expanded vision of competitive strategy and ethics by incorporating social purpose as a source of new business opportunities, improved productivity, and competitive differentiation and at the same time minds the gap between policy and practice.

The course approaches digital product and technology creation through the lens of user experience (UX) design: the practice of placing people and their needs in the center of research and design work. Such work includes everything from creating enjoyable user experiences to ethical and safe interactions between the user and the product. Students learn to apply the insights from their quantitative and qualitative user research to design.