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*Engineering Sciences 21: The Innovator’s Practice: Finding, building and leading good ideas with others
(New Course)
Beth Altringer
Half course (fall term) M., W., 2-4 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8

Location: Pierce Hall 100F
Catalog Number: 70925 Enrollment: Limited to 25
Students gain experience overcoming many under-represented challenges of becoming an innovator, including: identifying your intrinsic motivations, finding related good ideas, working effectively with others to develop them, and leading innovative professional projects to implementation. Students apply human-centered design processes (observing, interpreting, ideating, testing, refining, planning) to stimulate innovation, negotiate, strategize, and build and lead cooperative teams. Features guest speakers from industry, academia, and involves collaborating with cutting-edge companies.
United States in the World 36: Innovation and Entrepreneurship: American Experience in Comparative Perspective
(New Course)
Mihir Desai (Harvard Business School) and Joseph B. Lassiter (Harvard Business School)
Half course (fall term) Tu., Th., 4-5:30 EXAM GROUP: 18

Location: HBS - Aldrich 207
Catalog Number: 27723 Enrollment: Limited to 95
What gives rise to entrepreneurial opportunity and innovative activity? How do innovators and entrepreneurs think about the world? How are organizations born and how do they grow? How can innovation and entrepreneurship address the major challenges facing the world? The course will address these questions by bringing together faculty members of Harvard University to provide a diverse set of perspectives on the nature of innovation and entrepreneurship. The course has three complementary pedagogical methods. Members of the Harvard Business School faculty will provide a set of interactive lectures using case studies that illustrate how for-profit and not-for-profit organizations recognize and capitalize on opportunities. Second, faculty members from around the University will provide lectures on specific areas related to their expertise. Third, a set of group projects that allow students to work in the field with sponsoring organizations will be completed over the course of the semester.
Note: Unlike other General Education courses, this course assumes advanced coursework in a relevant social science and thus is open to freshmen only with permission of the instructor. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis.

*Sociology 159: Social Entrepreneurship
David L. Ager
Half course (spring term) Tu., Th., 1-2:30 EXAM GROUP: 15, 16

Catalog Number: 9611 Enrollment: Limited to 80
Focuses on the efforts of private citizens, for-profit and not-for-profit initiatives, to respond to social needs through creative solutions. Topics covered: defining social good, assessing market, philanthropy, and government responses; developing an organizational mission; recognizing specific opportunities for social improvement; forming an enterprise that responds to those opportunities; developing organizational funding strategies; evaluating performance; leading the enterprise; and creating positive and sustainable social value.
Note: Enrollment by lottery.

*Freshman Seminar 46w: Leadership and Negotiation
 (New Course)
Kimberlyn Rachael Leary
Half course (spring term) Hours to be arranged

Catalog Number: 89323 Enrollment: Limited to 15
The critical problems threatening community safety and wellbeing, terrorism, climate change or access to health care, frequently look different to the diverse stakeholders who are party to them. Legislators, business owners, and disenfranchised group members don’t always see the same things even when brought together to address the common problem they share. This course will explore how leaders negotiate these challenges so that their communities can make real progress.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.

Psychology 1500. Psychology of Teams and Leadership

Expected to be given in 2009-2010
Catalog Number: 5948 Enrollment: Limited to 100.
Half course (spring term). Combines recent theoretical developments and empirical findings with in-class experience to provide the knowledge and skills required to get the most out of teams as members and managers. Students apply theory to the management of team processes through group exercises and discussion of case studies throughout the term. Topics include structuring teams, evaluating team performance, group communication, collective decision-making, team creativity, team problem-solving, conflict management, and team leadership. Group project required.
Prerequisite: Psychology 1 or permission of instructor. Psychology 1501. Social Psychology of Organizations

Catalog Number: 0823 Enrollment: Limited to 45.
J. Richard Hackman
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 8:30-10. EXAM GROUP: 10, 11
 Surveys interpersonal and group processes in organizational settings. Includes how groups and organizations affect individual members and vice versa; interpersonal and group processes; work team behavior and performance; power dynamics in organizations; intergroup relations; the leadership of groups and organizations. Group project required.
Prerequisite: Psychology 1 and at least one additional course with substantial psychological content.

*Psychology 2630. Social Behavior in Organizations: Seminar

Catalog Number: 0991
J. Richard Hackman
Half course (fall term). Th., 11:30-1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
 Topics include how groups and organizations affect individual members and vice versa; interpersonal and group processes; work team effectiveness; power, political, and intergroup dynamics; group and organizational leadership.
Note: Limited to doctoral students. Students are expected to attend the lectures of Psychology 1501.

*Psychology 3610. Leadership and Group Behavior: Research Seminar

Catalog Number: 5748
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Workshop on theory and methods that are relevant to the conduct of empirical research on purposive groups. Participation is restricted to students who are conducting such research.

Psychology 1507: Group Decision Making
Nicholas Peter Aramovich
Half course (spring term) Tu., Th., 4-5:30 EXAM GROUP: 18

Catalog Number: 83757
This course seeks to understand collective decision making and problem solving by small groups. This includes understanding the interpersonal processes and relationships that occur between group members as they work together (e.g., conformity, minority influence, information sharing, and leadership), the effect of group participation on their members (e.g., learning, satisfaction, commitment) and methods for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of group performance. Past and present empirical research and theory will be examined.
Prerequisite: Science of Living Systems 20 or its predecessors and any foundational course.

*Social Studies 98fu. Practicing Democracy: Leadership, Community, Power

Catalog Number: 7432 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Half course (fall term). Making democracy work requires an “organized” citizenry with power to assert its interests effectively. Yet US political participation declines, growing more unequal, as new democracies struggle to make citizen participation possible. Students learn to address public problems by organizing: developing leadership, building community and mobilizing power. Our pedagogy links sociological, political science, and social psychology theory with democratic practice.
Note: Ten hours per week of field work required. This course will be lotteried.
Recent CUE Scores (Detailed CUE Results): Sociology 25. Introduction to the Sociology of Organizations

Catalog Number: 3609
Half course (fall term). EXAM GROUP: 12
 Introduces the sociological study of formal organizations. Surveys basic concepts, emphases, and approaches. Attention given to processes within organizations, as well as to relationships between organizations and their environments. Topics include bureaucracy, leadership and power in organizations, interorganizational networks, and coordination among organizations.
Note: May be counted for introductory concentration requirement, if letter-graded.

Sociology 109. Leadership and Organizations

Catalog Number: 8260 Enrollment: Limited to 80.
Half course (fall term). Focus on the sociological study of leadership emphasizing leadership in organizational settings. Topics covered: how leadership, power, influence, and social capital are interrelated; organizations as complex social systems; politics and personalities in organizational life; organization design and culture; leadership of organizational change and transformation; and creating sustainable organizations.
Note: Open to students in all fields. Course relies heavily on the case study method for learning similar to the approach used at the Harvard Law and Business Schools.