January Executive Electives

A complete list of course offerings available to alumni is listed below. Please select the course title to access a downloadable version of the syllabus. 

Registration has closed as of Monday, December 15, at 5:00 p.m. ET.
If you have any inquiries, please email mitsloanelectives@mit.edu

Wednesday-Thursday, January 7-8, 2026 

  • 15.709 Key Decisions for Corporate Boards - Bob Pozen
  • 15.718 Introduction to Disciplined Entrepreneurship - Bill Aulet, Jenny Larios Berlin
  • 15.726 Pricing - Catherine Tucker
  • 15.737 Advanced System Dynamics - Hazhir Rahmandad, Rob Nachtrieb
  • 15.S22 Mergers and Acquisitions - Egor Matveyev
  • 15.S52 AI in Finance - Hui Chen
  • 15.S58 Optimization Edge - Alexandre Jacquillat
  • 15.S59 AI Ethics and Governance - Jeffrey Saviano
  • 15.S55 Crossing the Line: The Thin Boundaries of Entrepreneurial Ethics - Fiona Murray, Alon Shklarek
  • 15.S63 Discovering Your Leadership Signature - Deborah Ancona

Friday-Saturday, January 9-10, 2026 

  • 15.729 LQ2 Leadership: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches - Dimitris Bertsimas, Mostafa Terrab
  • 15.711 Executing Strategy for Results - Don Sull
  • 15.715 Entrepreneurial Strategy - Erin Scott, Scott Stern
  • 15.721 Communication and Persuasion Through Data for Executives - Miro Kazakoff, Arathi Mehrotra
  • 15.731 Risk Management - Retsef Levi
  • 15.738 Corporate Finance for Turbulence and Innovation - Christopher Palmer
  • 15.S25 AI and Money - Gary Gensler
  • 15.S56 Sustainability Investment, Measurement, and Impact - Rodrigo Verdi, Florian Berg
  • 15.S57 The Future of Work: Lead with People Analytics - Emilio J. Castilla
  • 15.S61 Data-Driven Teams: The Art and Science of Winning - Ben Shields
  • 15.S64 Distributed Leadership in Teams and Organizations - Kate Isaacs
  • 15.S65 Deploying AI in the Corporation: Frontiers and Foundations of Generative AI, LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, Agentic Workflows, and Cognitive Cartography - Manolis Kellis