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Core Courses

  • COR1-GB.2310Marketing (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 firms offering effective marketing research, new product development and pricing strategies, communicate with consumers, estimate advertisings 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 ensure 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 discussions 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.
    Schedule for COR1-GB.2310
    Section Instr Mode Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes Class Nbr
    S1 In-Person Sa 9:00 am - 4:00 pm 07/11-08/15 McLoughlin,D Fall 2025 & Spring 2026 Weekend admits Saturdays 1039
    Equivalencies:

    COR1-GB.2110 Marketing
  • COR1-GB.2311Foundations 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.
    Schedule for COR1-GB.2311
    Section Instr Mode Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes Class Nbr
    S1 In-Person Sa 9:00 am - 4:00 pm 05/16-06/27 Segram,H Fall 2025 & Spring 2026 Weekend admits Saturdays 1025
    Equivalencies:

    FINC-GB.2102 Corporate Finance

    FINC-GB.2242 Investments

Finance

  • FINC-GB.3129Behavioral and Experimental Finance (1.5)
    Course Description:

    Finance theory has long relied on a descriptively sparse model of behavior based on the premise that investors and managers are rational Another critical assumption is that misjudgments by investors and managers are penalized swiftly in competitive markets In recent years both assumptions have been questioned as the standard model fails to account for various aspects of actual markets Behavioral finance which allows that investors and managers are not always rational and may make systematic errors of judgment that affect market prices has emerged as a credible alternative to the standard model This course provides an exposition of the insights and implications of behavioral finance theory showing how it can explain otherwise puzzling features of asset prices and corporate finance Notwithstanding the inroads of the new theory the standard model retains strong support amongst many academics practitioners who make criticisms of behavioral finance that deserve serious consideration An important challenge that we will address in this course is identifying the respective domains of each perspective and whether there are tradable opportunities
    Schedule for FINC-GB.3129
    Section Instr Mode Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes Class Nbr
    S1 In-Person Sa 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 06/06-06/20 D'Souza,I 3 Saturdays: TBD 1101
    Pre/Corequisite:


    Prerequisite: Full-time MBA Student and COR1-GB 2311.
    Prerequisite: Focused MBA Student and COR1-GB 2222.
    Prerequisite: Part-time MBA Student and COR1-GB 2311 or COR1-GB 2302.
    Not open to students with 24 or more FINC-GB units.

    Specializations:

    Banking

    Corporate Finance

    Economics

    Finance

    Financial Instruments & Markets

    Quantitative Finance
  • FINC-GB.3180Topics in Cryptocurrency Investing (1.5)
    Course Description:

    A cryptocurrency is an emerging asset class representing the intersection of disruptive early stage technology, liquid capital markets and new use cases and business models. This class focuses on understanding the investment implications of the cryptocurrencies being created at this intersection point. As of December 2017, over 1000 tokens were listed on exchanges throughout the world with Bitcoin and Ether being the two largest in market capitalization terms. The total capitalization of cryptocurrencies expanded by more than a factor of 10 in 2017. This in turn has led to expanded media coverage and debate concerning cryptocurrency's role and value to society. The academic objectives of this course are threefold. (1) To explore the fundamental aspects of cryptocurrencies and the liquid markets they operate in (2) To test select psychological biases/heuristics associated with these cryptocurrencies and the regulatory dynamics overlaid on it and (3) To discuss practical implications of investing in these cryptocurrencies from limits to arbitrage to portfolio impacts across a range of asset classes.
    Schedule for FINC-GB.3180
    Section Instr Mode Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes Class Nbr
    S1 In-Person Su 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 06/07-06/21 D'Souza,I 3 Sundays: TBD 1103
    Pre/Corequisite:


    Prerequisite: Full-time MBA Student and COR1-GB 2311.
    Prerequisite: Focused MBA Student and COR1-GB 2222.
    Prerequisite: Part-time MBA Student and COR1-GB 2311 or COR1-GB 2302.
    Not open to students with 24 or more FINC-GB units.

    Specializations:

    FinTech

    Finance

    Financial Instruments & Markets

    Quantitative Finance
  • FINC-GB.3331Valuation (3)
    Course Description:

    This is a class about valuation. It starts by laying the foundations of value and pricing, but the bulk of the class is spent on applications, rather than theory. It is about valuing small businesses and big ones, simple businesses and complex ones, young firms, and those in distress. It is about valuing individual assets, as well as portfolios, and it looks at valuation from every conceivable perspective, as an investor, a trader, a business owner, or a manager. It is about valuation in all its many forms and by the end of this class, you should be able to value just about anything that has a value and price just about everything else. 
    Schedule for FINC-GB.3331
    Section Instr Mode Meeting Times Dates Instructor Notes Class Nbr
    S1 Online Sa 11:00 am - 4:00 pm 07/11-08/15 Segram,H Online; This class will have additional asynchronous work each week. Saturdays 1107
    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.

    Specializations:

    Banking

    Corporate Finance

    Finance

    Financial Instruments & Markets

    Quantitative Finance