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MY SCHEDULE
(Last Upadated: 31/01/00)

SPRING 2000

FALL 1999

SPRING 1999

FALL 1998

SPRING 2000

TIME	COURSE #	COURSE TITLE	CR	PROFESSOR
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06.30 - 09.30PM	BUS 624P - 000	DERIVATIVE ASSET ANALYSIS	3	NICHOLAS VALERIO
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02.30 - 05.15 PM	BUS 630 - 001	INDUSTRY AND COMPETITOR ANALYSIS	3	HAYAGREEVA RAO
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08.30 - 09.45	BUS 623 - 000	SECURITY ANALYSIS & PORTFOLIO MGMT	3	PAUL IRVINE
10.00 - 11.05	BUS 610 - 000	ADV ACCOUNTING/FINANCIAL REPORTING	3	KIRSTEN ELY
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06.30 - 09.00 PM	BUS 625P - 000	REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE	3	BLACK

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FALL 1999

TIME	COURSE #	COURSE TITLE	CR	PROFESSOR
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08.15 - 09.30	BUS 621 - 000	CORPORATE CONTROL	3	SUNIL WAHAL
11.30 - 12.45	BUS 634 - 000	STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT	3	RICHARD MAKADOK
01.00 - 02.15	BUS 620 - 000	ADVANCED MGRL FINANCE	3	JAMES ROSENFELD
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01:00 - 02:15	BUS 627 - 000	INTERNATIONAL FINANCE	3	JEFFREY A. BUSSE
02:30 - 03:45	BUS 505 - 002	GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES II	3	DANIEL RODRIGUEZ

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SPRING 1999

TIME	COURSE #	COURSE TITLE	CR	PROFESSOR
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10.00 - 11.15	BUS 513 - 000	MGRL. ACCOUNTING	3	ROBIN COOPER
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06.30 - 09.30 PM	BUS 514 - 000	FIN. STATEMENT ANALYSIS	3	JAN BARTON
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10.00 - 11.05	BUS 503 - 001	GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES I	3	JEFF ROSENSWEIG
01.00 - 02.15	BUS 540 - 000	MARKETING MANAGEMENT	3	ATUL PARVATIYAR
02.30 - 03.45	BUS 551 - 001	DECISION & INFO. ANALYSIS II	3	VICENTE VARGAS & ANANDHI BHARADWAJ

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FALL 1998

TIME	COURSE #	COURSE TITLE	CR	PROFESSOR
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10:00 - 11:15	BUS 550 000	DECISION & INFO. ANALYSIS I	3	PATRICK S. NOONAN
11:30 - 12:45	BUS 531 001	ORGANIZATION & MANAGEMENT	3	MARY ANN GLYNN
01:00 - 02:15	BUS 501 001	ECONOMICS ANALYSIS FOR MGRS	3	SUSAN P. GILBERT
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10:00 - 11:15	BUS 561 000	COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP	2	MOLLY EPSTEIN
11:30 - 12:45	BUS 512 001	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING	3	PAUL SIMKO
02:30 - 03:45	BUS 520 000	MANAGERIAL FINANCE	3	NICHOLAS VALERIO

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MBA COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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CORE COURSES
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501. Economic Analysis for Managers
This course focuses on the economic decisions made by managers of firms, and the structures of various market environments within which these decisions are made. The course features the application of fundamental notions, such as opportunity costs, opportunism, transaction costs and market power to managerial and individual decision making. In addition, the course covers utility analysis; demand, supply, and cost functions and applies these models to pricing and vertical integration issues. An introduction to the economics of information and uncertainty is included.

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503. Global Perspectives I
This course introduces global concepts, frameworks, and issues, relevant to helping Emory MBAs eventually become leaders in the emerging global economy. We analyze issues crucial in the global economy, such as: world money and capital markets, international finance, global demographics, international politics and negotiation, and cultural geography. The course structure is designed to help students form their own global perspective; this aim is enhanced by numerous global leaders who serve as guest speakers.

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505. Global Perspectives II
This course provides a comparative analysis of social, political, and legal environments in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. The course examines competition, trade, technology, labor markets, and corporate governance, and focuses on the impact of these economic environments on the strategy and performance of firms.

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512. Financial Accounting
This course covers the preparation and analysis of corporate financial statements. In addition, the course provides a detailed study of some aspects of financial accounting that have widespread significance, such as inventories, bonds, stockholders’ equity, and cash flow statements.

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513. Managerial Accounting and Control
This course covers the generation and interpretation of accounting information for managerial decision making and control. Topics include cost accounting systems, cost allocation models, the study of cost behavior, the measurement of managerial performance, and the measurement and control of divisional performance.

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520. Managerial Finance
Major ideas in finance and methods of financial analysis are discussed and applied. Topics include capital structure, dividend policy, valuation of stocks and bonds, capital budgeting, risk assessment, interest rate analysis, and investment theory. The course serves as a foundation for students pursuing finance as a career and as a reference basis for other students.

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531. Organization and Management
This course provides an intensive overview of the major concepts in organizational behavior and issues facing contemporary managers. The course focuses on managing people in organizations and analyzing several managerial dilemmas. Students will analyze organizations through three primary lenses: a strategic design perspective, a political perspective, and a cultural perspective to understand how different people may perceive organizational problems. The course uses a combination of conceptual and experiential approaches, including case analyses, videos, simulations, group exercises and class discussions.

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540. Marketing Management
This class introduces students to concepts and principles of marketing management and develops their skills in analyzing marketing issues. The basic objective of the course is to provide participants with an introduction to the process required to develop marketing strategies, the nature of key strategic decisions (i.e., product, price, distribution and promotion strategies), in the global marketplace. The course develops students' analytical skills and presents marketing principles through the use of cases, lectures/discussions, a computer simulation and a multimedia project.

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550. Decision and Infromation Analysis I (DIA I)
The course centers on decision analysis and quantitative methods with the use of data analysis and decision support tools to facilitate decision processes . The emphasis is on approaches to structuring decision processes and tools, methods and techniques that will serve the MBA curriculum and beyond.

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551. DIA II: Operations Managment and Information Technology
The course is taught in two modules of six weeks each. One module focuses on issues fundamental to operations management and the other on the fundamentals of information technology and the modern enterprise. These modules provide vocabulary, key frameworks, and core concepts needed by every general manager and an appreciation of the opportunities offered by pursuit of the succeeding electives. A single grade is assigned for the DIA II course, jointly determined by the faculty teaching in each module. Each module accounts for 50% of the final grade.

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561. Communication Workshop
Credit: Two semester hours. Fall workshop covers the basic model for effective management communication in a global, multicultural workplace. Lecture, discussion, and exercises cover speaking and writing in business situations. (Performance Standard or No Credit grade only).

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634. Strategic Management
Students are asked to assume the role of senior managers to address the issues and challenges that define a firm’s character and performance. Concepts and methods unique to strategy formulation and implementation are introduced, drawing on the functional knowledge students have acquired in other courses. The course extensively uses cases that are supplemented by lectures and readings.

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ELECTIVE COURSES
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ACCOUNTING
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514. Financial Statement Analysis
Prerequisite: Business 512. This course focuses on the techniques commonly used to analyse financial statements and related information: business strategy analysis, financial reporting and disclosure analysis, financial ratios, forecasting and pro forma financial statements, and valuation. Students will develop hands-on experience analyzing actual financial statements for a variety of business purposes including security analysis, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, risk assessment, credit analysis and commercial lending, and management's strategic communication to external parties.

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610. Advanced Financial Reporting
Prerequisite: Business 512.Advanced Financial Reporting explores the assumptions underlying corporations' disclosures of financial information. One of the main goals of both analysts and investors is to discover the opportunities or problems within a company ahead of other analysts and investors. While the valuation of a firm through financial statement analysis is crucial, it is by peeling away the surface disclosure to get at the underlying assumptions that the analyst or investor begins to discover what is really going on within that company. The ability to strip away the surface depends on a clear understanding of, among other things, the relevant disclosure rules, the assumptions underlying these rules, the flexibility inherent in the rules, the disclosure medium used, the enforcement mechanisms in place, and the incentives of management regarding a given disclosure in a given period. This course explores these issues for a set of financial disclosures currently receiving significant attention from the analyst community.

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FINANCE
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620. Advanced Managerial Finance
Prerequisite: Business 520. Significant contemporary issues in corporate finance are considered, including determination of optimal dividend policy and capital structure, investment decisions under uncertainty, mergers and acquisitions, principal-agency problems, and the application of investment theory to corporate finance problems. Students use cases to learn to apply and solve complex business problems.

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621. Corporate Control
Prerequisite: Business 520. The market for corporate control is the market in which alternative management teams compete to control corporate resources. This course will examine the forces which potentially can explain corporate phenomena which affect corporate resources under the command of a management team, such as takeovers, leveraged buyouts, stock buybacks, leveraged acquisitions, and divisional sales. This course also will examine internal and external control mechanisms and any interactions between them which serve to discipline management and align management goals with shareholder wealth maximization.

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623. Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
Prerequisite: Business 520.The objective of this course is to increase the student’s understanding of the way in which financial markets function. There is a particular emphasis on developing skills that are useful for active equity portfolio management. This course will help students develop an understanding of the current state of asset pricing theory, including the strengths and weaknesses of the Capital Asset Pricing Model as well as the concept of market efficiency. This course will review and expand the student’s knowledge of security analysis, concentrating on models of the intrinsic value of securities. Students will develop an understanding of the uses and abuses of futures and options in portfolio management and increase their understanding of practical issues in portfolio management.

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624P. Derivative Asset Analysis
Prerequisite: Business 520.This course covers the valuation and use of derivative assets. During the first portion of the semester, the class examines call and put option contracts having common stocks as their underlying assets and also considers relative pricing requirements for these contracts which are enforced by arbitrage trading strategies. Extension of this analytic technique will lead to the derivation of exact valuation models. Options with other underlying assets, and exotic securities with option-like features are also examined. During the second portion of the course futures contracts are studied, with an emphasis on stock-index futures. The focus again will be on relative pricing requirements enforced by arbitrage trading strategies. The overall objective of the class is to give students the skills to assess the values and risks of derivative assets and to develop strategies based on their analysis. Problem sets, cases and a project reinforce the material presented.

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625P. Real Estate Management and Finance
Prerequisite: Business 520.This course covers the contemporary principles of valuation, acquisition, financing, and management of real property. Emphasis is on the analytical techniques of appraisal, tax factors, investor objectives, and trends in the industry.

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627. International Finance
Prerequisites: Business 503 and 520 (Business 503 may be taken concurrently).This course extends the principles of finance to the international context. Topics include evolution of the international monetary system, exchange rate determination, foreign exchange markets, currency risk management, and foreign investment analysis.

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ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

630. Industry and Competitor Analysis
Prerequisite: Business 531,540, and 634. This course aims to provide students with the skills to diagnose the forces which shape industry structure, predict the evolution of industries and plan organizational strategy. It also seeks to train students in analyzing competitor behavior, intentions, incentives, and to formulate actionable strategies. This course is designed to be useful to individuals planning to build careers in management consulting, general management and marketing management. It is also designed to be useful for students planning to join securities firms and investment banks as industry analysts. The course is interdisciplinary in character and draws on the fields of industrial organization, organizational economics, the sociology of organizations and organizational psychology. It builds on prior coursework in the MBA program, especially, courses in strategic management, organization theory and marketing management.

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