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Elective Courses

During the last four terms, students can opt for three to five elective courses, with the maximum number being nineteen. Courses are combined to offer the students six concentrations or majors.

Analytical Finance
Entrepreneurship
Information and Technology Management
Operations Management
Strategic Marketing
Strategy and Leadership

The Elective Courses being offered in the current academic year are the following:

Course Title	Faculty & Affiliation	Concentration Area(s)
Term 5: October 12 - November 22, 2009
Advanced Corporate Finance	Sankar De, ISB	Finance
Business to Business Marketing	Sudipt Roy, ISB	Marketing
Business Valuation Using Financial Statements	Sanjay Kallapur, ISB	Finance, Entrepreneurship
Corporate Development: Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances	Naga Lakshmi Damaraju, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
Corporate Strategy and Organisation Design	Kannan Srikanth, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
Fixed Income Securities	Kuldeep Shastri, Katz Graduate School of Business	Finance
Global Operations Management	N Viswanadham, ISB	Operations Management
International Finance	Rajesh Chakrabarti, ISB	Finance
Introduction to Indian Marketing (One-Credit Compulsory Pass/Fail Course)	Sridhar Samu, ISB	NA
Marketing Research	Sudhir Voleti, ISB	Marketing
Marketing Services	V S Mahesh, University of Buckingham	Marketing
Negotiation Analysis	Dishan Kamdar, ISB	Strategy and Leadership, Entrepreneurship
Options & Futures	Ramabhadran S Thirumalai, ISB Ramana Sonti, ISB	Finance
Outsourcing and IT Based Businesses	Nishtha Langer, ISB	Information and Technology Management
Rural Marketing	Harish Bijoor, Bijoor Consultants, Inc.	Marketing
Strategy Implementation	Raveendra Chittoor, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
The Green Business	Gireesh Shrimali, ISB	Information and Technology Management, Entrepreneurship
Term 6: November 23, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Brand Management	Sridhar Samu, ISB	Marketing
Cases in Corporate Finance Strategy	Milind Shrikhande, J Mack Robinson College of Business	Finance
Consumer Behaviour	Geeta Menon, The Wharton School Priya Raghubir, Leonard N Stern School of Business	Marketing
Corporate Control, Mergers & Acquisitions	Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Emory	Finance
Creating Business Value through Analytics	Sarv Devaraj, Mendoza College of Business	Information and Technology Management
Digital Innovation Strategies	T Ravichandran, Lally School of Management & Technology, RPI Mani Subramani, Carlson School of Management	Information and Technology Management, Strategy and Leadership
Experiential Learning Programme (Credit 1)	ISB Faculty	NA
Financial Engineering	Krishna Ramaswamy, The Wharton School Sanjiv Ranjan Das, Leavey School of Business	Finance
Financial Statement Analysis	Gerald Lobo, C T Bauer College of Business Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, C T Bauer College of Business	Finance
Global Strategic Management	Luiz Mesquita, Arizona State University Jay Anand, Fisher College of Business	Strategy and Leadership
International Marketing	Venkatesh Shankar, Mays Business School	Marketing
Investing in Private Equity	Amit Bubna, ISB Vinay B Nair, Ada Investment Management	Finance, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Leadership
Logistics and Supply Chain Management	Milind G Sohoni, ISB	Operations Management
Managing Strategic Partnerships	Saikat Chaudhuri, The Wharton School Phanish Puranam, London Business School	Strategy and Leadership
Managing Teams	Henry Moon, London Business School	Strategy and Leadership
Negotiation Analysis	Amit Nandkeolyar, ISB	Strategy and Leadership, Entrepreneurship
New Product Management	Manish Gangwar, ISB	Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Operations Management
Strategic Performance Management	Dhinu Srinivasan, Katz Graduate School of Business Nandu Nagarajan, Katz Graduate School of Business	Finance, Operations Management, Strategy and Leadership
Term 7: January 4 - February 11, 2010
Advanced Portfolio Management	Sudip Gupta, ISB	Finance
Advanced Transaction Analysis and Modeling	Ashish Kohli, Richard Ivey School of Business	Finance
Advertising	Jaideep Sengupta, HKUST Business School	Marketing
Asset Management	Vinay B Nair, Ada Investment Management Vikram Kuriyan, K3 Advisors, Anglelight Partners and Global Association of Risk Professionals	Finance
Capital Raising Strategies in Corporations	Nikunj Kapadia, Isenberg: U Mass, Amherst N K Chidambaran, Fordham University	Finance, Entrepreneurship
Corporate Governance	N K Chidambaran, Fordham University N R Prabhala, Robert H Smith School of Business	Finance
Economics of Strategy	Louis A Thomas, The Wharton School	Strategy and Leadership
Financial Valuation of Technology Business	Rajiv D Banker, Fox School of Business Amit Mehra, ISB	Information and Technology Management, Finance
Gender and Leadership	Stacy Blake-Beard, Simmons College Lynda L Moore, Simmons College	Strategy and Leadership
Managing Complexity	Edward W Rogers, NASA	Strategy and Leadership
Marketing Strategy	V Kumar, J Mack Robinson College of Business Satish Jayachandran, Moore School of Business	Marketing, Strategy and Leadership
Marketing Strategy and Economic Analyses	Yubo Chen, Eller College of Management	Marketing, Strategy and Leadership
Planning an Entrepreneurial Venture	Kavil Ramachandran, ISB	Entrepreneurship
Pricing	Vithala Rao, The Johnson School	Marketing, Entrepreneurship
Pricing and Revenue Optimization	Vishal Gaur, Johnson Graduate School of Management Sridhar Seshadri, University of Texas at Austin	Operations Management
Property Finance and Investment	Richard Green, University of Southern California	Finance
Service Business Ventures and Franchising	Chandrasekar V, ISB	Entrepreneurship
Service Operations Management	Sumit M Kunnumkal, ISB	Operations Management
Strategic Challenges for Innovation-based Start ups	Anand Nandkumar, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
Technology Strategy Consulting	Rajiv D Banker, Fox School of Business Nishtha Langer, ISB	Information and Technology Management, Strategy and Leadership
Term 8: February 22- April 4, 2010
Business Law	Sumesh Reddy, Dr Reddy's Laboratories	Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Leadership
Change Management	S Ramnarayan, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
Database Marketing	P B Seethu Seetharaman, Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Management	Marketing, Information and Technology Management
Experiential Learning Programme (Credit 2)	ISB Faculty	NA
Financial Institutions	Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	Finance
Indian Financial System	Rajesh Chakrabarti, ISB	Finance
Information Economics	Tarun Jain, ISB	Finance
Managerial Decision Making	Rishtee Batra, ISB	Marketing, Strategy and Leadership
Marketing Models	Gary Lilien, Smeal College of Business Srinath Gopalakrishna, Robert J Trulsake College of Business	Marketing
Microfinance	Shamika Ravi, ISB	Finance, Entrepreneurship
Mobile Policy and M-Commerce	Gireesh Shrimali, ISB	Information and Technology Management, Entrepreneurship
Operations Strategy	Aditya Jain, ISB	Operations Management, Strategy and Leadership
Power and Politics	Stefan Thau, London Business School Harris Sondak, David Eccles School of Business	Strategy and Leadership
Retailing	Ram Rao, School of Management, UT Dallas	Marketing, Operations Management
Strategic Innovation Management	Mitrabarun Sarkar, Fox School of Business Anand Nandkumar, ISB	Strategy and Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Information and Technology Management
Strategy, Leadership and Resource Management in Family Business	Kavil Ramachandran, ISB	Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Leadership