Finance

  • FINC-GB.3361Entrepreneurial Finance (3)
    Course Description:

    This course identifies and follows the wealth creation cycle that begins with company startups, passes through successive stages of various kinds of private equity financing, and ends with the harvesting of the created wealth through a sale or merger or initial public offering. Emphasis is placed on how entrepreneurial firms adapt financing and financial contracts to the information asymmetry problems the high degree of uncertainty and the conflicts of interest associated with startups.
    Schedule for FINC-GB.3361
    Section Instr Mode Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes Class Nbr
    S1 Online Su 11:00 am - 4:00 pm 10/12-11/16 Okun,G Online Sundays This class will have additional asynchronous work each week. 2460
    Pre/Corequisite:


    Pre-req: Full-time MBA, COR1-GB 2311. Co-requisite: FINC-GB 2302.
    Pre-req: Focused MBA and COR1-GB 2222.
    Pre-req: Part-time MBA, (COR1-GB 2311). Co-requisite: (FINC-GB 2302).
    Not open to students with 24 or more FINC-GB units.

    Equivalencies:

    FINC-GB.3373 New Venture Financing

    FINC-GB.3173 Venture Capital Financing
    Specializations:

    Banking

    Corporate Finance

    Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Finance

    Quantitative Finance

Management Communication

  • MCOM-GB.2105Strategic Communication (1.5)
    Course Description:

    This course supports your success as an effective communicator, innovator and business leader in an age that demands immediacy, authenticity, and transparency. Translating your ideas into successful initiatives requires a communication discipline with the capacity to connect with multiple audiences from diverse cultural, intellectual and professional backgrounds. Strategic Communication (formerly Business Communication) introduces the basics of communication strategy and persuasion: audience analysis, communicator credibility, and message construction and delivery. Written and oral presentation assignments derive from cases that focus on communication strategy. Students receive significant feedback and coaching to improve presentation and writing effectiveness. Students will also examine aligning an organization's message with its business strategy and stakeholder expectations to achieve and maintain a strong reputation.
    Schedule for MCOM-GB.2105
    Section Instr Mode Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes Class Nbr
    S2 In-Person Su 9:00 am - 4:00 pm 11/23-12/14 Shi,Y Continuing Students 2172
    Pre/Corequisite:


    MCOM-GB Departmental Max and Non-Stern

    Equivalencies:

    COR1-GB.2105 Communication

    MCOM-GB.2100 Management Communication

    MCOM-GB.2136 Strategic Communication

Management and Organizational Behavior

  • MGMT-GB.3151Managerial Decision Making (1.5)
    Course Description:

    This course attempts to help you become a better decision maker When asked about their ability to make decisions previous students expresses concerns and several said they lacked self confidence in making decisions Others indicated that the process of making decisions may be painful especially if one has to make an important decision This may stem from the deliberation process one goes through that may be stressful Yet others added that at times they second guess their decisions and some acknowledged that they suffer from regret when a decision they have made led to an undesired outcome A few mentioned that having gone through such a process made them indecisive and unclear about how to go about making decisions The above concerns are described with regard to personal as well as business decisions Making decisions at work may be easier when one can solicit the help from colleagues but at the same time the consequences may loom even larger when making decisions at work This course takes a systematic approach to improve your decision making skills Requirements include several exercises knowledge of statistics is required but the course is not about quantitative calculation of alternatives but about the processes underlying the making of decisions.
    Schedule for MGMT-GB.3151
    Section Instr Mode Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes Class Nbr
    Class is closed/waitlisted
    S1
    In-Person --Alternate Schedule--
    Su 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
    Su 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

    11/23-11/23
    12/07-12/14
    Shapira,Z Sundays 2407
    Pre/Corequisite:


    Prereq:Full-time MBA &(COR1-GB.1302 or COR1-GB.1102) or Co-req:Full-time MBA & COR1-GB.2104
    Prereq: Focused MBA & (COR1-GB 1102 or COR1-GB 2101)
    Prereq: Part-time MBA & (COR1-GB 1302 or CORE-GP 1020).
    Not open to students with more than 24 MGMT-GB units.

    Specializations:

    Leadership and Change Management

    Management

    Management of Technology & Operations

Professional Responsibility

  • COR2-GB.3101Professional Responsibility (1.5)
    Course Description:

    This course is designed to inspire you with a positive vision of what business can be, a realistic vision of what it often is, and a roadmap for how to navigate through the hazards and opportunities you will face in your career. Specifically: 1) You will learn about the types of traps that lure business professionals into ethical lapses and criminal behaviors. 2) You will learn enough moral psychology to understand how well-intentioned professionals can get lured into such traps. 3) You will learn conceptual frameworks that help you to navigate ethical gray zones with more confidence and better results. 4) You will learn what characterizes companies with positive ethical values, and why you are better off working for them, or creating them. 5) You may, if you choose, commit yourself to a standard of professional conduct that will help to make your work more fulfilling and honorable.
    Schedule for COR2-GB.3101
    Section Instr Mode Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes Class Nbr
    Class is closed/waitlisted
    S1
    Online Su 9:00 am - 4:00 pm 09/21-10/05 Wiesenfeld,B Online 3 Sundays: 9/22, 9/29, 10/6 2523
    Equivalencies:

    BSPA-GB.3301 Ethical and Legal Challenges o

    COR2-GB.3111 Prof & Corp Social Resp

    COR2-GB.3151 Professional Responsibility