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.

Entrepreneurship
Finance
Information and Technology Management
Operations Management
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 11 - November 21, 2010
Advanced Corporate Finance	Sankar De, ISB	Finance
Business to Business Marketing	Sudipt Roy, ISB	Marketing
Business Valuation Using Financial Statements	Ram Ramakrishnan, University of Illinois at Chicago	Finance, Entrepreneurship
Change Management	S Ramnarayan, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
Consumer Behaviour	Rishtee Batra, ISB	Marketing
Corporate Development: Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances	Naga Lakshmi Damaraju, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
Corporate Strategy and Organisation Design	Kannan Srikanth, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
Entrepreneurial Decision Making	Arun Pereira, ISB	Entrepreneurship
Fixed Income Securities	Bruce Tuckman, University of Pittsburgh	Finance
International Finance	Rajesh Chakrabarti, ISB	Finance
Introduction to Indian Marketing (One-Credit Compulsory Pass/Fail Course)	Sridhar Samu, ISB	NA
Leveraging Web 2.0 – Social Media, Online Advertising and Web Analytics	Ravi Bapna, Carlson School of Management Vaibhav Arya, Media.Net (Directi)	Information and Technology Management
Marketing Research	Sudhir Voleti, ISB	Marketing
Negotiation Analysis	Amit Nandkeolyar , ISB	Strategy and Leadership, Entrepreneurship
Options and Futures	Ramabhadran S Thirumalai, ISB	Finance
Outsourcing and IT Based Businesses	Nishtha Langer, ISB	Information and Technology Management
Pricing	Manish Gangwar, ISB	Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Sustainable Business Operations: Value Creation and Environmental Considerations	Vaidy Jayaraman, University of Miami	Operations Management
Term 6: November 22, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Advertising	Tanuka Ghoshal, ISB	Marketing
Brand Management	Sridhar Samu, ISB	Marketing
Business Intelligence using Data Mining	Ravi Bapna, Carlson School of Management Galit Shmueli, Robert H Smith School of Business	Information and Technology Management
Corporate Control, Mergers and Acquisitions	Krishnamurthy Subramanian, ISB	Finance
Financial Engineering	Sanjiv Ranjan Das, Leavey School of Business Krishna Ramaswamy,The Wharton School	Finance
Financial Statement Analysis	Gerald Lobo, C T Bauer College of Business Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, C T Bauer College of Business	Finance
International Marketing	Venkatesh Shankar, Mays Busines 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 Teams	Henry Moon, London Business School	Strategy and Leadership
Marketing Services	Piyush Kumar, Terry College of Business	Marketing
Negotiation Analysis	Abhijeet Vadera, ISB	Strategy and Leadership, Entrepreneurship
Power and Politics	Tanya Menon, Kellogg School of Management	Strategy and Leadership
Strategic Performance Management	Dhinu Srinivasan, Joseph Katz Graduate School of Business	Finance, Operations Management, Strategy and Leadership
Strategy Implementation	Raveendra Chittoor, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
Value Investing	Ramana Sonti, ISB Ravi Jagannathan, Kellogg School of Management	Finance
Term 7: January 3 - February 11, 2011
Asset Management	Vinay B Nair , Ada Investment Management	Finance
Capital Raising Strategies in Corporations	Nikunj Kapadia, Isenberg School of Management N R Prabhala, Robert H Smith School of Business	Finance, Entrepreneurship
Corporate Governance	N K Chidambaran, Fordham University N R Prabhala, Robert H Smith School of Business	Finance
Customer-Focused Product Planning	V Srinivasan, Stanford Graduate School of Business	Marketing
Economics of Strategy	Louis A Thomas, The Wharton School	Strategy and Leadership
Financial Valuation of Technology Business	Amit Mehra, ISB Rajiv D Banker, Fox School of Business	Information and Technology Management, Finance
Gender, Diversity and Leadership	Stacy Blake-Beard, Simmons College Lynda L Moore, Simmons College	Strategy and Leadership
Information Economics	Tarun Jain, ISB	Finance
Managing Complexity	Edward W Rogers, NASA	Strategy and Leadership
Managing Strategic Partnerships	Saikat Chaudhuri, The Wharton School Mitrabarun Sarkar, Fox School of Business	Strategy and Leadership
Marketing Strategy	George Day, The Wharton School V Kumar, J Mack Robinson College of Business	Marketing, Strategy and Leadership
Marketing Strategy and Economic Analyses	David Godes, Robert H Smith School of Business	Marketing, Strategy and Leadership
Pricing and Revenue Optimisation	Kalyan Talluri, University of Pompeu Fabra Rakesh V Vohra, Kellogg School of Management	Operations Management
Property Finance and Investment	Richard Green, University of Southern California	Finance
Retailing	Ram Rao, School of Management, UT Dallas	Marketing and Operations Management
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, Entrepreneurship
Technology Strategy Consulting	Nishtha Langer, ISB Rajiv D Banker, Fox School of Business	Information and Technology Management, Strategy and Leadership
Trading Strategies and Systems	Vasant Dhar, Stern Business School	Information and Technology Management
Transaction Analysis and Modeling	Ashish Kohli , Richard Ivey School of Business	Finance
Transaction Analysis and Modeling (TURBO)	Ashish Kohli, Richard Ivey School of Business	Finance
Term 8: February 21- April 3, 2011
Behavioral Finance	Sudip Gupta, ISB	Finance
Business Law	Sumesh Reddy, Dr Reddy's Laboratories	Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Leadership
Consumer Behaviour	Geeta Menon, The Wharton School	Marketing
Database Marketing	P B Seethu Seetharaman, Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Management Anand Bodapati, Anderson School	Marketing, Information and Technology Management
Global Operations Management	N Vishwanadham, ISB	Operations Management
Global Strategic Management	Kannan Srikanth, ISB	Strategy and Leadership
Indian Financial System	Rajesh Chakrabarti, ISB	Finance
Marketing Models	Anand Bodapati, Anderson School	Marketing
Microfinance	Shamika Ravi, ISB	Finance, Entrepreneurship
Mobile Policy and M-Commerce	Gireesh Shrimali, ISB	Information and Technology Management, Entrepreneurship
Negotiation Analysis	Ruchi Sinha, ISB	Strategy and Leadership, Entrepreneurship
Operations Strategy	Aditya Jain, ISB	Operations Management, Strategy and Leadership
Project Management	M R Rao, ISB	Operations Management
Rural Marketing	Harish Bijoor, Bijoor Consultants	Marketing
Security Markets and Trading	Ramabhadran S Thirumalai , ISB	Finance
Strategic Innovation Management	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
The Green Business	Gireesh Shrimali, ISB	Information and Technology Management, Entrepreneurship