Electives
With the completion of the first-semester Core, students have the freedom and flexibility to pursue their personal goals and interests throughout the rest of their time at MIT Sloan. In total, students must complete 144 units of electives (most subjects range from 3 to 12 units, based on weekly classroom hours, lab or thesis units, and outside preparation time). Students may take up to three approved non-MIT Sloan graduate-level MIT or Harvard subjects while enrolled in the program toward completion of degree requirements. During the second year, students have the option of writing a thesis.
MIT Sloan offers a dynamic curriculum that prepares students in all programs for the real management challenges that lie ahead. Courses have been strategically designed to provide a framework of knowledge and thinking skills that alumni draw on for the duration of their professional lives.
Course listings are intended to provide a window onto MIT Sloan course offerings. Course names, numbers, and descriptions are subject to change. For the most up-to-date course information, please see the MIT Sloan course catalog.
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- Accounting
- Communication
- Corporate Strategy and Policy
- Finance
- Health Care Management
- History, Environment and Ethics
- Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management
- Information Technologies
- International Management
- Law
- Leadership
- Managerial Economics
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Operations Research/Statistics
- Organizational Studies
- System Dynamics
- Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
|---|---|
| Taxes and Business Strategy | 15.518 |
| Management Accounting and Control | 15.521 |
| Mergers and Acquisitions: The Market for Corporate Control | 15.545 |
| Corporate Financial Accounting | 15.516 |
| Corporate Financial Accounting | 15.501 |
| Financial Accounting | 15.515 |
| Doctoral Seminar in Accounting | 15.539 |
| Business Analysis Using Financial Statements | 15.535 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Management Communication for Undergraduates | 15.279 |
| Doctoral Seminar: Communication Skills for Academics | 15.289 |
| Communication for Leaders | 15.280 |
| Advanced Managerial Communication | 15.281 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
|---|---|
| The Economic and Strategic Analysis of Technology Intensive Industries | 15.944 |
| Technology Strategy for SDM | 15.905 |
| Technology Strategy | 15.912 |
| Strategy and Organization | 15.903 |
| Strategic Management II | 15.904 |
| Strategic Management | 15.902 |
| Strategic Management and Consulting Proseminar: Practical Applications | 15.929 |
| Strategic Management and Consulting Proseminar: Current Strategic Challenges for Global Enterprises | 15.928 |
| Strategic Management | 15.900 |
| Special Seminar in Strategy | 15.949 |
| Leadership in the Real Estate Industry | 15.941J |
| Explaining Heterogeneity in Firm Performance | 15.943 |
| Corporate Strategy and Extended Enterprises | 15.903 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
|---|---|
| Mergers and Acquisitions | 15.445 |
| International Finance – Corporate Finance | 15.444 |
| Finance Theory I | 15.401 |
| Finance Theory II | 15.402 |
| Intro to Practice of Finance | 15.403 |
| Financial Management | 15.414 |
| Finance Theory (MFin) | 15.415 |
| Introduction to Financial Economics | 15.416 |
| Entrepreneurial Finance | 15.431 |
| Investments | 15.433 |
| Advanced Corporate Finance | 15.434 |
| Options and Futures | 15.437 |
| Investment Management | 15.439 |
| Fixed Income | 15.438 |
| Advanced Financial Economics II | 15.441 |
| Advanced Financial Economics I | 15.440 |
| Advanced Financial Economics III | 15.442 |
| International Finance – Capital Markets | 15.447 |
| Analytics of Finance | 15.450 |
| Proseminar in Capital Markets/Investment Management | 15.451 |
| Proseminar in Corporate Finance/Investment Banking | 15.452 |
| Analytics of Finance II | 15.460 |
| Valuation | 15.464 |
| Retirement Finance, Lifecycle Investing, and Asset Management | 15.467 |
| Functional and Strategic Finance | 15.466 |
| Practice of Finance: Alternative Investments – Private Equity & Hedge Funds | 15.490 |
| Practice of Finance: Advanced Corporate Risk Management | 15.491 |
| Practice of Finance: Foundations of Institutional Portfolio Management | 15.492 |
| Practice of Finance: Perspectives on Investment Management | 15.493 |
| Practice of Finance: Multinational Business Finance | 15.494 |
| Practice of Finance: Quantitative Investment Management | 15.495 |
| Financial Theory (EMBA) | 15.724 |
| Practice of Finance: Applied Fixed Income Strategies | 15.S04 |
| Topics in Corporate Finance (EMBA) | 15.S06 |
| Data Technologies in Quantitative Finance | 15.S12 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Principles and Practice of Drug Development | 15.136 |
| Economics of the Health Care Industries | 15.141 |
| Dynamics of Biomedical Technologies | 15.123 |
| Critical Reading and Technical Assessment of Biomedical Information | 15.122 |
| Clinical Trials in Biomedical Enterprise | 15.121 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Literature, Ethics, and Authority | 15.269 |
| Choice Points: Readings on the Exercise of Power & Responsibility | 15.268 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Work, Employment, and Industrial Relations Theory | 15.676 |
| Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy | 15.677 |
| Strategic Human Resource Management | 15.660 |
| Research Seminar in Industrial Relations | 15.691 |
| Special Seminar in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management | 15.698 |
| Power and Negotiation | 15.665 |
| Political Economy I: Theories of the State and the Economy | 15.678 |
| People and Organizations | 15.667 |
| Negotiation and Conflict Management | 15.667 |
| Leadership and Change | 15.670 |
| Strategic Human Resource Management | 15.664 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Management Information Systems | 15.576 |
| Management Information Systems | 15.575 |
| Workshop in Information Technology | 15.599 |
| Management Information Systems | 15.568 |
| Management Information Systems | 15.569 |
| IT Essentials II: Advanced Technologies for Digital Business in the Knowledge Economy | 15.564 |
| Evolution Towards Web 3.0 and the Emergence of Management 3.0 | 15.565 |
| Information Technology Essentials | 15.561 |
| Information Technology as an Integrating Force in Manufacturing | 15.566 |
| Information Technology and Business Transformation Proseminar | 15.598 |
| Information Technology and Business Transformation Proseminar | 15.597 |
| Global Information Systems: Communications and Connectivity Among Information Systems | 15.578 |
| Management Information Systems | 15.571 |
| Fundamentals of Digital Business Strategy | 15.567 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Special Seminar in International Management | 15.249 |
| China and India: Opportunities and Issues | 15.229 |
| Special Seminar in International Management | 15.227 |
| International Management | 15.220 |
| Global Markets, National Policies and the Competitive Advantages of Firms | 15.223 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Sustainability, Trade, and the Environment | 15.657 |
| Special Seminar in Law: Law and the Commercialization of Cutting Edge Technologies | 15.648 |
| Special Seminar in Law: The Law of Mergers and Acquisitions | 15.649 |
| Special Seminar in Law | 15.647 |
| Patents, Copyrights, and the Law of Intellectual Property | 15.628 |
| Legal Issues in the Development Process | 15.658 |
| Law, Technology and Public Policy | 15.655 |
| Law and International Business | 15.635 |
| Basic Business Law & New Technologies | 15.615 |
| Basic Business Law & Finance | 15.616 |
| Basic Business Law | 15.615 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Tiger Teams | 15.994 |
| Spec Sem in Mgmt: Managing in Adversity | 15.966 |
| Practical Leadership | 15.974 |
| Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing, and Change | 15.569 |
| Leadership Lab for Corporate Social Innovation | 15.975 |
| Literature, Ethics, and Authority | 15.269 |
| Leadership in the Real Estate Industry | 15.941 |
| Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization | 15.394 |
| Cross Cultural Management | 15.996 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Special Seminar in Managerial Economics | 15.040 |
| Pricing Strategy | 15.035 |
| Applied Econometrics and Forecasting for Management | 15.034 |
| Game Theory for Strategic Advantage | 15.025 |
| Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy | 15.023 |
| Real Estate Economics | 15.021 |
| Competition in Telecommunications | 15.020 |
| Management and Policy in the International Economy | 15.018 |
| Macro and International Economics | 15.015 |
| Applied Macro- and International Economics | 15.012 |
| Industrial Economics for Strategic Decisions | 15.013 |
| Economic Analysis for Business Decisions | 15.010 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Workshop in Marketing | 15.839 |
| Strategic Market Measurement | 15.822 |
| Research Seminar in Marketing | 15.838 |
| Special Seminar in Marketing | 15.840 |
| Pricing | 15.818 |
| New Product and Venture Development Proseminar | 15.836 |
| Marketing Strategy | 15.834 |
| Marketing Models | 15.848 |
| Marketing Management | 15.810 |
| Listening to the Customer | 15.821 |
| Entrepreneurial Marketing | 15.835 |
| Foundations of Consumer Centric Technologies | 15.819 |
| Design and Marketing New Products | 15.828 |
| Consumer Behavior | 15.847 |
| Branding | 15.846 |
| Applied Individual Psychology | 15.844 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Workshop in Operations Management | 15.799 |
| The Theory of Operations Management | 15.764 |
| Supply Chain Planning | 15.762 |
| Research Project in Manufacturing | 15.794 |
| Seminar in Operations Management | 15.795 |
| Proseminar in Manufacturing | 15.792 |
| Product Design and Development | 15.783 |
| Operations Strategy | 15.769 |
| Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Design | 15.763 |
| Management of Supply Networks for Products and Services | 15.778 |
| Management of Services: Concepts, Design, and Delivery | 15.768 |
| Logistics Systems | 15.770 |
| Introduction to Operations Management | 15.760 |
| International Supply Chain Management | 15.765 |
| Case Studies in Logistics and Supply Chain Management | 15.771 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| The Airline Industry | 15.054 |
| System Optimization and Analysis for Manufacturing | 15.066 |
| Systems Optimization: Models and Computation | 15.094 |
| Systems Optimization | 15.057 |
| Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis | 15.075 |
| Statistical Theory and Data Analysis | 15.076 |
| Statistical Learning and Data Mining | 15.077 |
| Statistical Consulting | 15.068 |
| Special Seminar in Operations Research | 15.099 |
| Special Seminar in Operation Research | 15.097 |
| Special Seminar in Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes | 15.098 |
| Queues: Theory and Applications | 15.072 |
| Optimization Methods | 15.093 |
| Nonlinear Programming | 15.084 |
| Network Optimization | 15.082 |
| Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods | 15.073 |
| Introduction to Optimization | 15.053 |
| Introduction to Mathematical Programming | 15.081 |
| Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization | 15.083 |
| Fundamentals of Probability | 15.085 |
| Decision Methodologies for Managers | 15.071 |
| Engineering Probability and Statistics | 15.064 |
| Decision Analysis | 15.065 |
| Data, Models, and Decisions | 15.060 |
| Data Mining: Algorithms and Applications | 15.062 |
| Competitive Decision-Making and Negotiation | 15.067 |
| Communicating with Data | 15.063 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| Special Seminar in Organization Studies | 15.328 |
| Seminar in Social Science Research Methods | 15.340 |
| Seminar in Leadership II | 15.326 |
| Qualitative Research Methods | 15.349 |
| Seminar in Leadership I | 15.325 |
| Planning and Managing Change | 15.315 |
| Organizations and Environments | 15.342 |
| Organizational Processes | 15.311 |
| Organizational Leadership and Change | 15.317 |
| Managerial Psychology Laboratory | 15.301 |
| Managerial Psychology | 15.310 |
| Leading Organizations | 15.322 |
| Leading Organizations I | 15.321 |
| Leadership and Management | 15.305 |
| Leadership and Change in Organizations | 15.318 |
| Individuals, Groups, and Organizations | 15.341 |
| Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods II | 15.348 |
| Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods I | 15.347 |
| Doctoral Seminar in Behavioral and Policy Sciences | 15.345 |
| Building and Leading Effective Teams | 15.316 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| System Dynamics for Business Policy | 15.874 |
| Research Seminar in System Dynamics | 15.879 |
| Introduction to System Dynamics | 15.871 |
| Applications of System Dynamics | 15.875 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| The Software Business | 15.358 |
| Technology and Entrepreneurial Strategy | 15.393 |
| Strategic Decision Making in the Biomedical Business | 15.363 |
| Special Seminar in Entrepreneurship | 15.397 |
| Research Themes in Management of Technology | 15.353 |
| Special Seminar in Entrepreneurship | 15.396 |
| New Enterprises | 15.390 |
| Managing Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 15.350 |
| Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 15.351 |
| Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends | 15.352 |
| How to Develop “Breakthrough” Products and Services | 15.356 |
| J Innovation Teams | 15.371 |
| Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Emerging Markets | 15.389 |
| Entrepreneurship Without Borders | 15.395 |
| Entrepreneurship Lab | 15.399 |
| Entrepreneurs in Innovation: Information Technology, Energy, Biotechnology and Communications | 15.398 |
| Early Stage Capital | 15.391 |
| Disruptive Technologies: Predator or Prey? | 15.365 |
| Designing and Leading the Innovative Organization | 15.388 |
| Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization | 15.394 |
| Corporate Entrepreneurship: Strategies for Technology-Based New Business Development | 15.369 |
