Enterprise Management Certificate

Enterprise Management Certificate (EMC) MSMS curriculum requirements for AY 2025-26

Please note that some courses may not be offered this academic year and/or may experience scheduling or unit changes. Consult the Sloan Course Browser for the most current scheduling information about Sloan subjects (those numbered 15.xxx) and visit the MIT Subject Listing & Schedule for up-to-date information about courses taught in other departments.

For more information and to register for the EMC, visit Enterprise Management Certificate. 

Reach out to Ahmed Abusharkh ahmedabu@mit.edu (EMC Program Coordinator) with any inquiries and/or questions. 

1.) Required subjects

The four core subjects are foundational to the vision of EMC for the holistic, cross-functional expertise and mindset for decision-making. We understand that MSMS students may have taken coursework in their prior graduate programs in the listed core electives (Finance, Operations Management, Marketing, and Strategy). Please submit any relevant transcripts to the EMC Coordinator Ahmed Abusharkh ahmedabu@mit.edu so we can assess if your prior coursework can be accepted as substitutes. We may follow up to request additional documentation and/or information.

If any prior coursework is approved to replace any of the four core subjects in “1.) Required subjects,” then you will be required to take an additional elective from the “2.) Elective subjects” list of courses with the same topic. For example, if you are approved to waive “15.761 Introduction to Operations Management,” then you will need to take an additional course listed under “Operations/supply chain management.”

Please note that an elective course CANNOT be counted both as a substitution for one of the four core subjects AND for meeting the “2.) Elective subjects” requirement (no ‘double dipping’ elective courses). Additionally, none of the courses in the “Finance substitution options” list can count toward “2.) Elective subjects,” regardless of an approved substitution for 15.401/15.402.

  • 15.830 Enterprise Management Lab
    • (Fall into IAP, 3 units in Fall, 6 units in IAP, required during 1st year)
  • 15.401 Managerial Finance (Fall/Spring, 9 units) or 15.402 Corporate Finance (Fall/Spring, 9 units)
    • 15.401 is a prerequisite for 15.402. Students who have not taken 15.401 may register for 15.402 with the permission of the instructor or by passing the finance waiver exam.
  • 15.761 Introduction to Operations Management (Fall/Spring, 9 units)
  • 15.814 Marketing Innovation (Fall/Spring, 9 units)
  • 15.900 Competitive Strategy (Fall/Spring, 9 units)

Finance substitution options

These courses cannot count toward the “2.) Elective subjects” requirement.

  • 15.431 Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital
  • 15.433 Financial Markets
  • 15.434 Advanced Corporate Finance
  • 15.437 Options and Futures Markets
  • 15.438 Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives
  • 15.445 Mergers, Acquisitions, and Private Equity
  • 15.450 Analytics of Finance OR
  • 15.457 Advanced Analytics of Finance
  • 15.456 Financial Engineering
  • 15.466 Functional & Strategic Finance
  • 15.467 Asset Management, Lifecycle Investing, Retirement Finance
  • 15.481J / 6.9350J Financial Market Dynamics & Human Behavior*
  • 15.482 Healthcare Finance
  • 15.483 Consumer Finance and Fintech

2.) Elective subjects

Students must take a minimum of one elective. Electives are categorized below by career interest and industry, and students are encouraged to use these categories to ensure both sufficient specialization on their desired career and the broad background which is the signature of the EM Certificate.

Product and innovation management/marketing

  • 15.283 Social Media Management: Persuasion in Networked Culture
  • 15.356 Lead User Innovation Methods
  • 15.387 Entrepreneurial Sales
  • 15.570 Digital Marketing and Social Media Analytics
  • 15.783J / 2.739J Product Design and Development
  • 15.785 Product Management
  • 15.786 Product Management with Lab
  • 15.818 Pricing
  • 15.819 Marketing and Product Analytics
  • 15.821 Listening to the Customer
  • 15.833 Business-to-Business Marketing
  • 15.834 Marketing Strategy
  • 15.846 Branding
  • 15.847J / 9.550J Consumer Behavior
  • 15.910 Innovation Strategy

Operations/supply chain management

  • 15.762J / 1.273J / IDS.735J Supply Chain Analytics*
  • 15.763J / 1.274J / IDS.736J Supply Chain: Capacity Analytics*
  • 15.769 Operations Strategy
  • 15.774 The Analytics of Operations Management
  • 15.871 Introduction to System Dynamics or 15.873 System Dynamics for Business and Policy
  • 15.784 Operations Laboratory (Spring, 9 units)

Leadership development/strategy

  • 15.013 Economics for Strategic Decisions
  • 15.232 Breakthrough Ventures: Effective Business Models in Frontier Markets
  • 15.320 Strategic Organizational Design
  • 15.369 Entrepreneurship in Organizations
  • 15.386 Leading in Ambiguity: Steering Through Strategic Inflection Points
  • 15.398 Corporations at the Crossroads: Leading an Organization Through Change & Challenge
  • 15.445 Mergers, Acquisitions and Private Equity
  • 15.535 Business Analysis Using Financial Statements
  • 15.768 Management of Services: Creating Value for Customers, Employees, and Investors
  • 15.903 Managing the Modern Organization
  • 15.904 Strategy and the CEO
  • 15.911 Entrepreneurial Strategy

Industry specific courses

Analytics

  • 15.034 Econometrics for Managers: Correlation & Causality in a Big Data World
  • 15.068 Statistical Consulting
  • 15.071 The Analytics Edge

Healthcare

  • 15.141J / HST.918J Economics of Health Care Industries*
  • 15.363J / HST.971J Strategic Decision Making in Life Science Ventures*
  • 15.777 Healthcare Lab: Introduction to Healthcare Delivery in the United States

Sustainability

  • 15.016 Climate and Energy in the Global Economy
  • 15.035 Energy Market Dynamics in a Decarbonizing Economy
  • 15.362 Engineering Innovation: Global Security Systems
  • 15.915 Business Strategies for a Sustainable Future

Technology

  • 15.358 Platform Strategy and Entrepreneurship
  • 15.567 The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure and Pricing

*Sloan students should register for the Course 15 subject number for courses offered jointly with another MIT department.