Harvard Graduate Consulting Club Mini-MBA 2011

Course Syllabus Description: The Mini-MBA Program* is a 10-week business course designed to give an introductory overview of the material MBA students encounter in the first year of business school. The curriculum is based on The 10-Day MBA, by Steven Silbiger, with each course module corresponding to one chapter of the book. However, though The 10-Day MBA is a central learning tool in the course, we aim to provide participants with an experience they could not achieve with the book alone. We therefore invite top industry professionals and business school professors to lead case discussions or deliver lectures at each of our weekly meetings. This gives students the opportunity to engage with complex business problems and learn from real-world scenarios under the guidance of some of the worlds top business thinkers.
*This course is not an accredited degree program, nor is it affiliated with Harvard Business School or the MIT Sloan School of Management. All lecturers are volunteers and in teaching for this course do not act in the official capacity of any academic appointment they may possess.

Format: The course will meet once per week for two hours. Meetings will typically have the following structure: Chapter review (15-20 minutes) A focused discussion of some of the core concepts in the assigned reading. Featured lecture (60-75 minutes) A case discussion or an original lecture from an invited speaker Section (30-45 minutes) Students break up into groups of 15-20 for problem solving or discussion activities. Schedule: June 6, 6-8pm

Entrepreneurial Management Title: Analyze, Innovate and Personalize Business Models Speaker: Suilin Yap, DBA student, Harvard Business School Marketing Title: Using Marketing to Deliver Things Customers Actually Want, Not Just Stuff You'd Like to Sell Speaker: Professor Ray Weaver, Harvard Business School Ethics Title: Antegren: A Beacon of Hope Speaker: Professor Joshua Margolis, Harvard Business School Accounting Title: TBD Speaker: TBD Organizational Behavior Title: TBD Speaker: Professor Heidi Gardner, Harvard Business School Quantitative Analysis Title: TBD Speaker: Tuan Phan, DBA, Harvard Business School Finance

June 15, 6-8pm

June 20, 3:30-5pm

June 27th, 6-8pm

July 6th, 1-3pm

July 11th, 6-8pm

July 18th, 6-8pm

Title: TBD Speaker: TBD July 25th, 6-8pm Operations Title: TBD Speaker: TBD Economics Title: TBD Speaker: Mia de Kuijper, CEO of de Kuijper Global Partners; Dean, Duisenberg School of Finance Strategy Title: Why Bad Things Happen to Good Strategies Speaker: Professor Alan Kantrow, Moscow School of Business

August 1st, 6-8pm

August 8th, 6-8pm

Course reading list: Required The 10-Day MBA, Steven Silbiger (approx. $16 at The COOP) Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (HBS Case #408025)* *Cases are available from the Harvard Business Review (hbr.org). They can be obtained online as PDFs and cost about $7. It is likely that several of the speakers will assign a case, and if so these will become required readings. Recommended What is Strategy?, Michael Porter Execution, Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy Additional recommended reading may be posted in response to suggestions by invited speakers.