General Electives
The MFin program offers you unparalleled opportunities to explore. In addition to the fundamental courses, you select graduate-level electives in finance or in other departments across MIT, including electrical engineering, computer science, economics, and mathematics. 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. You will personalize your curriculum with a variety of electives, tailoring the experience to the specific area of finance that matches your goals.
Course listings are intended to provide a window into MIT Sloan course offerings. Course names, numbers, and descriptions are subject to change. The course listing below is not a complete list. For the most up-to-date course information, please see the MIT Sloan course catalog.
Select a category below to view course descriptions.
- 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 # |
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| Functional and Strategic Finance | 15.466 |
| Taxes and Business Strategy | 15.518 |
| Management Accounting and Control | 15.521 |
| Mergers and Acquisitions: The Market for Corporate Control | 15.445 |
| 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 # |
|---|---|
| Doctoral Seminar: Communication Skills for Academics | 15.289 |
| Communication for Managers | 15.280 |
| Advanced Managerial Communication | 15.281 |
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| TITLE | COURSE # |
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| 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 # |
|---|---|
| Finance Theory I | 15.401 |
| Finance Theory II | 15.402 |
| Financial Management | 15.414 |
| Intro to Practice of Finance | 15.403 |
| Finance Theory (M.Fin.) | 15.415 |
| Introduction to Financial Economics | 15.416 |
| Entrepreneurial Finance | 15.431 |
| Investments | 15.433 |
| Options and Futures | 15.437 |
| Advanced Corporate Finance | 15.434 |
| Investment Management | 15.439 |
| Fixed Income | 15.438 |
| Advanced Financial Economics I | 15.440 |
| Advanced Financial Economics III | 15.442 |
| Advanced Financial Economics II | 15.441 |
| International Finance – Corporate Finance | 15.444 |
| Mergers and Acquisitions | 15.445 |
| 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 |
| Practice of Finance: Alternative Investments – Private Equity & Hedge Funds | 15.490 |
| Retirement Finance, Lifecycle Investing, and Asset Management | 15.467 |
| 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 |
| Practice of Finance: Applied Fixed Income Strategies | 15.S04 |
| 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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| Literature, Ethics, and Authority | 15.269 |
| Choice Points: Readings on the Exercise of Power & Responsibility | 15.268 |
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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 |
