Course Schedule

Core Courses

• COR1-GB.1303 Firms and Markets (3)
  Course Description:
  
  This course provides an overview of the microeconomics analysis of firms, industries, and markets. The course examines the rationales for decisions by individual buyers and sellers, as well as how these decisions are aggregated through markets. Among other things, the course explores the forms that competition can take, the role of industry structure, and the influences of government policies.
  
  Microeconomics is an important component of an MBA program. First, microeconomics focuses on specific dimensions of companies' decision making, such as pricing, entry, and exit. Second, a microeconomics perspective on business plays an important role in other fields of business study - such as finance, strategy, and marketing. Third, this course provides tools, such as a game theoretic analysis of decision making with few actors, that can be applied in many business situations.

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	TR  1:30 pm - 2:50 pm	09/02-12/09	Zhou,J	Block 1 Students Only
  02	TR  1:30 pm - 2:50 pm	09/02-12/09	White,L	Block 2 Students Only
  03	TR  09:00 am - 10:20 am	09/02-12/09	Said,M	Block 3 Students Only
  04	TR  09:00 am - 10:20 am	09/02-12/09	White,L	Block 4 Students Only
  05	TR  10:30 am - 11:50 am	09/02-12/09	Said,M	Block 5 Students Only
  06	TR  10:30 am - 11:50 am	09/02-12/09	Zhou,J	Block 6 Students Only

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  • Equivalencies
  Equivalencies:
  
  COR1-GB.1103 ( B01.1103 ) -
  
  COR9-GB.2303 ( B09.2303 ) -

• COR1-GB.1305 Statistics and Data Analysis (3)
  Course Description:
  
  This course is designed to achieve an understanding of fundamental notions of data presentation and data analysis and to use statistical thinking in the context of business problems. The course deals with modern methods of data exploration (designed to reveal unusual or problematic aspects of databases), the uses and abuses of the basic techniques of inference, and the use of regression as a tool for management and for financial analysis.

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	TR  10:30 am - 11:50 am	09/02-12/09	Simonoff,J	Block 1 Students Only
  02	TR  10:30 am - 11:50 am	09/02-12/09	Riccio,L	Block 2 Students Only
  03	TR  1:30 pm - 2:50 pm	09/02-12/09	Hurvich,C	Block 3 Students Only
  04	TR  1:30 pm - 2:50 pm	09/02-12/09	Deo,R	Block 4 Students Only
  05	TR  09:00 am - 10:20 am	09/02-12/09	Tenenbein,A	Block 5 Students Only
  06	TR  09:00 am - 10:20 am	09/02-12/09	Greene,W	Block 6 Students Only

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  COR9-GB.2405 ( B09.2405 ) -

• COR1-GB.1306 Financial Accounting and Reporting (3)
  Course Description:
  
  Accounting reports are an important means of communication with investors. This course focuses on the development, analysis and use of these reports. It provides an understanding of what these reports contain, what assumptions and concepts accountants use to prepare them, and why they use those assumptions and concepts.The course uses simple examples to provide students with a clear understanding of accounting concepts. It stresses the ability to apply these concepts to real world cases, which by their very nature are complex and ambiguous. In addition to text-oriented materials, the classes also include cases so that students can discuss applications of basic concepts, actual financial reports, and articles from newspapers. In addition to traditional introductory topics other topics may include mergers and acquisitions, purchase and pooling, free cash flow and financial statement analysis.

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	M  09:00 am - 11:50 am	09/08-12/08	Bartov,E	Block 1 Students Only
  02	W  09:00 am - 11:50 am	09/03-12/03	Bartov,E	Block 2 Students Only
  03	W  09:00 am - 11:50 am	09/03-12/03	Jung,M	Block 3 Students Only
  04	W  1:30 pm - 4:20 pm	09/03-12/03	Bartov,E	Block 4 Students Only
  05	W  1:30 pm - 4:20 pm	09/03-12/03	Jung,M	Block 5 Students Only
  06	M  1:30 pm - 4:20 pm	09/08-12/08	Jung,M	Block 6 Students Only

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  COR9-GB.2301 ( B09.2301 ) -

• COR1-GB.2301 Strategy (3)
  Course Description:
  
  This course studies two related issues. The first is how to gain advantage against competitors in the complex and dynamic global marketplace. Core business strategy themes include how to analyze the business environment, assess resources and capabilities, and choose competitive strategies. The second issue is how to create corporate value through configuring and coordinating multi-business activities. Core corporate strategy themes include analyzing scale and scope, evaluating corporate competencies, managing the multi-business corporation, and choosing corporate strategies.

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	W  09:00 am - 11:50 am	09/03-12/03	Eggers,J	Block 1 Students Only
  02	M  09:00 am - 11:50 am	09/08-12/08	Marciano,S	Block 2 Students Only
  03	M  09:00 am - 11:50 am	09/08-12/08	Hegde,D	Block 3 Students Only
  04	M  1:30 pm - 4:20 pm	09/08-12/08	Marciano,S	Block 4 Students Only
  05	M  1:30 pm - 4:20 pm	09/08-12/08	Hegde,D	Block 5 Students Only
  06	W  1:30 pm - 4:20 pm	09/03-12/03	Eggers,J	Block 6 Students Only

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  • Equivalencies
  Equivalencies:
  
  COR1-GB.1101 ( B01.1101 ) -
  
  COR1-GB.2101 ( B01.2101 ) -
  
  COR1-GB.2102 ( B01.2102 ) - INTEGRATIVE STRATEGY EXER
  
  COR1-GB.2103 ( B01.2103 ) - Strategy I
  
  COR1-GB.2104 ( B01.2104 ) - Strategy II

• COR1-GB.2310 Marketing (3)
  Course Description:
  
  This course provides an overall view of marketing in a customer-driven firm, focusing on essential marketing skills needed by successful managers in all business functions. Topics include how individual and organizational consumers make decisions, segment markets, estimate the economic value of customers to the firm, position the firm's offering, effective marketing research, new product development and pricing strategies, communicate with consumers, estimate advertising's effectiveness, and manage relationships with sales force and distribution partners. The course also studies how firms must coordinate these different elements of the marketing mix to insure that all marketing activities collectively forge a coherent strategy. The importance of combining qualitative and quantitative concepts in effective marketing analysis is also examined. The course uses a combination of lectures, class discussion, and case analysis. Marketing is a core course and assumes no prior knowledge of marketing. However, there are certain concepts from Firms&Markets that students should have mastered, including: price elasticity of demand, price discrimination, marginal cost, marginal revenue, efficient scale for production capacity, diminishing returns, utility functions and utility curves.

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	TR  09:00 am - 10:20 am	09/02-12/09	Carr,J
  02	TR  10:30 am - 11:50 am	09/02-12/09	Carr,J
  03	TR  1:30 pm - 2:50 pm	09/02-12/09	Carr,J

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  COR9-GB.2313 ( B09.2313 ) -

• COR1-GB.2311 Foundations of Finance (3)
  Course Description:
  
  This is a quantitative course introducing the fundamental principles of asset valuation within the framework of modern portfolio theory. The key analytical concepts are present value, option value, risk/diversification and arbitrage. These tools are used to value stocks, bonds, options, and other derivatives, with applications to the structure of financial markets, portfolio selection, and risk management.
  
  

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	MW  10:30 am - 11:50 am	09/03-12/08	Silber,W	For Blocks 4,5,6
  02	MW  1:30 pm - 2:50 pm	09/03-12/08	Silber,W	For Blocks 1,2,3
  03	TR  3:00 pm - 4:20 pm	09/02-12/09	Kuchler,A

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  COR9-GB.2316 ( B09.2316 ) -

• COR1-GB.2314 Operations Management (3)
  Course Description:
  
  This course serves as an introduction to operations, viewed from the perspective of the general manager, rather than from that of the operations specialist. The coverage is very selective; the course concentrates on a small number of themes from the areas of operations management and information technology that have emerged as the central building blocks of world-class operations. It also presents a sample of key tools and techniques that have proven extremely useful. The topics covered are equally relevant to the manufacturing and service sectors.

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	TR  3:00 pm - 4:20 pm	09/02-12/09	Armony,M	Any Block MBA1 Students
  02	TR  3:00 pm - 4:20 pm	09/02-12/09	Riccio,L	Any Block MBA1 Students

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  • Equivalencies
  Equivalencies:
  
  COR1-GB.2114 ( B01.2114 ) -
  
  COR9-GB.2314 ( B09.2314 ) -

Non-Credit Courses

• NOCR-GB.1001 ACCOUNTING PREPARATION (0.0)

  Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
  01	SU  2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	08/24-08/24	Bartov,E	MBA1 Block Students only
  02	SU  2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	08/24-08/24	Jung,M	MBA1 Block Students only

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  • NOCR-GB.2000 LAUNCH (0.0)

    Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
    01		08/20-08/27		Block 1 Students
    02		08/20-08/27		Block 2 Students
    03		08/20-08/27		Block 3 Students
    04		08/20-08/27		Block 4 Students
    05		08/20-08/27		Block 5 Students
    06		08/20-08/27		Block 6 Students

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    • NOCR-GB.2045 Team Communication (0.0)
      Course Description:
      
      This course was created in response to clear messages from recruiters and alumni: successful MBA graduates in today's diverse and complex marketplace must engage in productive team relationships and possess the ability to lead through strategic communication. Course activities are designed to help you: * Become aware of how you personally work in group settings * Develop specific strategies to foster peak team performance * Enhance your communication and collaborative problem solving skills

      Section	Meeting Times	Dates	Instructor	Notes
      01	M  12:00 pm - 1:20 pm	09/15-10/13	Lennard,D	Block 1 Students only
      02	M  12:00 pm - 1:20 pm	09/15-10/13	Stehlik,S	Block 2 Students only
      03	M  12:00 pm - 1:20 pm	09/15-10/13	Schenkler,I	Block 3 Students only
      04	M  12:00 pm - 1:20 pm	09/15-10/13	Purdy,D	Block 4 Students only
      05	M  12:00 pm - 1:20 pm	09/15-10/13	Younger,J	Block 5 Students only
      06	M  12:00 pm - 1:20 pm	09/15-10/13	Wolff,A	Block 6 Students only

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