FACULTY & STUDENT RESOURCES
Environmental Courses
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School Course Catalog
BUS 1105 Half-Course: Energy
F. Reinhardt Early Fall, 15 sessions TBA
The course applies ideas on industry structure, competitive positioning, competitive dynamics, and corporate strategy from the basic Strategy course. It applies ideas from BGIE on the rationales for government intervention in markets and on the political factors that influence government policymakers. Students will leave the course with a broad exposure to the kinds of strategic and risk management problems that confront firms in the energy industries, with a set of analytic approaches to make sense of those problems, and with an enhanced ability to devise and implement strategies that take economic and political considerations into account. HC:E is a half-course worth 1.5 credits, requiring attendance in 15 80-minute sessions in the first half of the fall term, plus a self-scheduled exam. Students enrolling in HC:E are encouraged also to enroll in the Half Course: Business and the environment, in the second half of the fall term.
BUS 1145 Half-Course: Business and the Environment
F. Reinhardt Late Fall, 14 sessions TBA
From BGIE, the course draws ideas about the ways in which governments enhance or reduce social welfare while intervening in markets or reallocating property rights. It applies, from Strategy, fundamental ideas about industry structure, value creation, and the scope of the firm to a set of industries in which government regulation has important affects on firms' opportunities. Students will leave the course with a deeper understanding of the various ways in which societies attempt to satisfy social demands for environmental quality without impeding their ability to attain traditional economic objectives, and of the ways in which leaders of firms can successfully manage these competing demands. HC:Be is a half-course worth 1.5 credits, requiring attendance in 15 80-minute sessions in the second half of the fall term, plus a self-scheduled exam. Students enrolling in HC:Be are encouraged also to enroll in the Half-Course on Energy offered in the first half of the fall term.
BUS 1570 Doing Business in China in the Early 21st Century
R. Abrami, W. Kirby, E. Köll, F.W. McFarlan Winter TBA
China, the world’s oldest and once largest economy, now encompasses a
quarter of the world’s population and is in the midst of a remarkable 30-
year-long resurgence. Already the third largest economy in the world today,
China is likely to be the most important partner and competitor for American
business in the coming decades. Its global footprint is shaping patterns
of trade and economic diplomacy in the developing world. China’s history,
state of economic development, environmental challenges and political structure, all pose special challenges for doing business. The course is designed to develop understanding of these issues. A set of new field cases highlight the
special managerial challenges and opportunities confronted by businesses in
China today as well as those faced by Chinese companies as they advance
global operations.
BUS 1911 Agribusiness
D. Bell Winter TBA
The course will provide a survey of the global food and agribusiness system. In addition to studying the management problems of farmers, processors, branded consumer goods manufacturers and food retailers, we will consider consumer trends, technological advances, public policy issues, food safety and risk management. The pervasiveness of food and agribusiness makes the course suitable for future consultants and investment bankers in addition to those who have a direct interest in the industry; it may also be of interest as a general management course due to its integrative, cross-functional approach and emphasis on strategy. The course may also appeal to students with interests in political economy and business-government relations, since the firm's ability to capture value is affected by regulatory institutions at the national and global levels.
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