Fall 2015 Course Listings (Westchester)

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Core Courses

  • COR1-GB.1302 Leadership in Organizations (3)
    Course Description:

    Organizations of all types face significant challenges. These include the difficulty of coping with highly dynamic business environments, the complexity of managing global enterprises, how to shape a healthy corporate culture, managing politics and conflict between individuals and organizational units, motivating a highly mobile and every changing workforce, managing and harnessing intellectual capital, and so on. Such challenges and how organizational leaders can deal with them are the subject of this course. The course has two major components. The first is "macro" in nature. It focuses on organizational level issues, such as how an organization should be designed to best achieve its goals, and how culture and control affect organizational dynamics. The second part is more "micro" in nature. It focuses on employee-related challenges, such as how to get things done in politically sensitive environments, evaluate and reward people, and manage teams. The macro component is concerned with overall organizational performance, while the micro component is concerned with managing individual and group effectiveness. And leadership is the linking pin that connects these two.
    This course will introduce you to central theories and frameworks in management and organizational behavior, and will help you to understand how to apply those theories and frameworks to understand and address organizational challenges and problems. An understanding of organizations and their management is important for anyone who plans to work within an organization, as career success hinges on one's ability to accurately read and respond to the organizational context within which one operates. The course will also give you an opportunity to reflect on the skills that are required for being a better manager and leader.
    Section Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes
    91
    M  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    		 09/21-12/07 Milliken,F New Fall Langone-BROWN
    Equivalencies:

    COR9-GB.2307 ( B09.2307 ) -
  • 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
    91
    W  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    		 09/16-12/16 Shalev,R New Fall Langone-BROWN
    Equivalencies:

    COR9-GB.2301 ( B09.2301 ) -
  • COR1-GB.2303 The Global Economy (3)
    Course Description:

    We use the tools of international macroeconomics to explore the economic environment facing firms operating around the globe. Central issues include the role of economic policy and institutions in the performance of firms and nations; economic indicators and forecasting; employment and unemployment; interest rates, inflation, and monetary policy; global trade in goods and capital; foreign exchange rates; and emerging market crises. These issues are considered from the perspectives of both firms and countries.
    Section Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes
    91
    W  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    		 09/16-12/16 Steinberg,E Westchester
    Equivalencies:

    COR1-GB.2113 ( B01.2113 ) -

    COR1-GB.2123 ( B01.2123 ) - Global Business Environment I

    COR1-GB.2125 ( B01.2125 ) - Global Business Environment II

    COR9-GB.2317 ( B09.2317 ) -
  • 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
    91
    M  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    		 09/21-12/07 Nayyar,P Westchester
    Equivalencies:

    COR1-GB.2114 ( B01.2114 ) -

    COR9-GB.2314 ( B09.2314 ) -

Finance

  • FINC-GB.3329 Behavioral Finance (3)
    Course Description:

    Examines the causes and effects of inefficient stock and bond markets. Topics covered include a review of theory and evidence of efficient securities markets; empirical facts that do not fit the efficient market paradigm-bubbles, valuation ratio spreads, momentum, and market timing issues; closed-end fund discounts; limits on arbitrage that allow mispricings to persist; and aspects of investor psychology that may be behind observed phenomena.
    Section Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes
    91
    T  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    		 09/29-12/22 Marciano,A Westchester
    Pre/Corequisite:

    Pre-requisite - COR1-GB.2311 ( B01.2311 ) - Foundations of Finance

                        OR COR1-GB.2302 - FOUNDATIONS IN CORP FINAN

                        OR LAW-LW.11461 -

                        OR PADM-GP.2147 -
    Equivalencies:

    FINC-GB.3129 ( B40.3129 ) - Behaviorial and Experimental Finance
    Specializations:

    Corporate Finance

    Finance

    Financial Instruments and Markets

    For more courses that count toward Finance click here.


Management and Organizations

  • MGMT-GB.2363 Leadership Models (3)
    Course Description:

    This course is meant for those who wish to better understand and further develop their innate potential and propensity to lead others. As you rise in your career, you will need multiple and often conflicting constituencies on board to follow your vision. But if you don't lead, others will not follow. This course will help you toward honing some of the essential self-reflective skills you need to give form and substance to such vision. It will also be of value to those who wish to have a broad intellectual understanding of the context of leading and the content of leadership.
    Section Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes
    91
    R  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    		 09/17-12/10 Kabaliswaran,R Westchester
    Pre/Corequisite:

    Pre-requisite - COR1-GB.1302 ( B01.1302 ) - Leadership in Organizations

                        OR CORE-GP.1020 -
    Specializations:

    Leadership and Change Management

    Management

Non-Credit Courses

  • NOCR-GB.2050 Langone Lab: Orientation (0.0)
    Section Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes
    91
    SASU  09:00 am - 5:00 pm
    		 09/12-09/13 New Fall Langone-BROWN