Harvard Business School is offering a wide array of intensive seminars, Immersion Experience Programs and other opportunities during the January Term, a period between the fall and winter semesters. The January Term provides both First year and Second year students the opportunity to expand their knowledge in leadership, negotiation, global trends, sustainable development, and health care. The Immersion Experience Program (IXP) is offered off-campus for experiential learning. The faculty facilitates the active learning exercises away from a normal classroom environment. More than 400 students are participating in the IXPs.
HBS students are undertaking the following immersions:
- China IXP: Understanding a Business Environment (Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai) -led by Elisabeth Koll
- India IXP: Creating and Transforming Competitive Advantage (Mumbai, Delhi, and Agra) -led by Stephen Bradley and Bhaskar Chakravorti
- Peru IXP: Escaping the Natural Resource Curse (Lima, Caral, Puerto Maldonado, and Cusco) -led by Diego Comin
- Rwanda IXP: Business and Social Enterprise in a Post-Conflict Country (Kigali and Akagera) -led by Louis Wells
- United Arab Emirates & Bahrain IXP: Energy and Globalization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Manama) -led by Noel Maurer
- Vietnam IXP: Globalization and Entrepreneurship Today (Hanoi, Can Tho, and Ho Chi Minh City) -led by Regina Abrami
- Boston IXP: High Potential Entrepreneurial Ventures in the Boston Metropolitan Area -led by Shikhar Ghosh, Robert Higgins, and Joseph Lassiter
- New Orleans IXP: Service and Leadership in an Entrepreneurial Environment -led by Shawn Cole, Alnoor Ebrahim, and Herman "Dutch" Leonard
- Silicon Valley IXP in Partnership with the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Ventures in Silicon Valley (Palo Alto) -led by Thomas Eisenmann and Michael Roberts
The seminars and faculty leaders include:
- Leadership: The Hardest Questions -led by Joseph Badaracco
- Negotiation and Decision Making: Trust, Emotions, Ethics, and Morality -led by Max Bazerman
- Finding Your Way to What Matters: Self-Awareness for Career Effectiveness -led by Timothy Butler
- Integrating Business and Design for Sustainable Development (with the Harvard Graduate School of Design) -led by Amy Edmondson, Robert Eccles, Andreas Georgoulias, and Spiro Pollalis
- Innovations in Consumer-Driven Health Care -led by Regina Herzlinger
- Global Futures and the Built Environment -led by John Macomber
- Value-Based Health Care Delivery -led by Michael Porter
- Success through Failure: Conversations with Great Business Leaders about Turning Setbacks into Success -led by Arthur Segel and Shikhar Ghosh
Many faculty members are of the opinion that these seminars are a valuable addition to the already popular HBS MBA Curriculum. In their view, these programs help students to focus on topics that are not necessarily covered in traditional business school classes, like "Success through Failure: Conversations with Great Business Leaders about Turning Setbacks into Success". Not many students would be keen to write a case on failure but the January Term has broken the traditional paradigm.
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