Management

Courses

MGMT 700a, Seminar in Accounting Research I  Zeqiong Huang

Study of analytical modeling techniques in accounting research that covers topics such as performance measurement for incentives, the consequences of asymmetric information in economic relationships and the role of accounting therein, information sharing within and across firms, and the pricing of related-party transactions.
F 1:15pm-4:15pm

MGMT 701b, Seminar in Accounting Research II  Jacob Thomas and X. Frank Zhang

Study of analytical modeling techniques in accounting research that covers topics such as performance measurement for incentives, the consequences of asymmetric information in economic relationships and the role of accounting therein, and information sharing within and across firms.
F 1pm-4pm

MGMT 720a, Models of Operations Research and Management  Vahideh Manshadi

W 4:10pm-7:10pm

MGMT 721b, Modeling Operational Processes  Nils Rudi

T 4:30pm-7:30pm

MGMT 731a, Organizations and the Environment  Olav Sorenson

This course, offered every other year, reviews economic, psychological, and sociological perspectives of how organizations interact with one another. Sessions are generally organized around phenomena and jointly taught by two instructors from different perspectives.
M 1pm-4pm

MGMT 734a / SOCY 506a, Designing Social Research  Balazs Kovacs

This is a course in the design of social research. The goal of research design is “to ensure that the evidence obtained enables us to answer the initial [research] question as unambiguously as possible” (de Vaus 2001: 9). A good research design presupposes a well-specified (and hopefully interesting) research question. This question can be stimulated by a theoretical puzzle, an empirical mystery, or a policy problem. With the research question in hand, the next step is to develop a strategy for gathering the empirical evidence that will allow you to answer the question “as unambiguously as possible.”
Th 1:30pm-4:30pm

MGMT 740a / ECON 670a, Financial Economics I  Jonathan Ingersoll and Stefano Giglio

Current issues in theoretical financial economics are addressed through the study of current papers. Focuses on the development of the problem-solving skills essential for research in this area.
TTh 2:40pm-4pm

MGMT 745b / ECON 672b, Behavioral Finance  Nicholas Barberis

Much of modern financial economics works with models in which agents are rational, in that they maximize expected utility and use Bayes's law to update their beliefs. Behavioral finance is a large and active field that studies models in which some agents are less than fully rational. Such models have two building blocks: limits to arbitrage, which make it difficult for rational traders to undo the dislocations caused by less rational traders; and psychology, which catalogues the kinds of deviations from full rationality we might expect to see. We discuss these two topics and then consider a number of applications: asset pricing (the aggregate stock market and the cross-section of average returns); individual trading behavior; and corporate finance (security issuance, corporate investment, and mergers).
Th 4:10pm-7pm

MGMT 746b, Financial Crises  Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick

An elective doctoral course covering theoretical and empirical research on financial crises. The first half of the course focuses on general models of financial crises and historical episodes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second half of the course focuses on the recent financial crisis. Prerequisites: MGMT 740 and 741 (doctoral students in Economics may substitute the core microeconomics sequence), and permission of the instructor.
W 1pm-4pm

MGMT 747b, Empirical Asset Pricing  Bryan Kelly

The class introduces the student to frontier research and methods in empirical asset pricing. It focuses on understanding the literature, surveying the current facts, and getting used to working with financial market data. Students go through empirical techniques, with an emphasis on how to use them in practice. This is not a theoretical econometrics course, though students should be familiar with running regressions and with basic time-series econometrics. The goal at the end of the class is for students to understand the frontier research in the field and what the main facts are. Topics include cross-sectional patterns in returns such as value and momentum, stock and bond return predictability, testing asset pricing models, the link between asset prices and the real economy, and the effect of the financial sector, market frictions, and financial crises on asset prices.
M 1pm-4pm

MGMT 748b, Empirical Corporate Finance  Kelly Shue

T 2:40pm-5:40pm

MGMT 751b, Seminar in Marketing I  Kosuke Uetake

Current issues in marketing related to product planning, pricing, advertising, promotion, sales force management, channels of distribution, and marketing strategy are addressed through the study of state-of-the-art papers.
F 9am-12pm

MGMT 753a / PSYC 553a, Behavioral Decision-Making I: Choice  Nathan Novemsky and Ravi Dhar

The seminar examines research on the psychology of decision-making, focusing on judgment. Although the normative issue of how decisions should be made is relevant, the descriptive issue of how decisions are made is the main focus of the course. Topics of discussion include judgment heuristics and biases, confidence and calibration, issues of well-being including predictions and experiences, regret and counterfactuals. The goal of the seminar is threefold: to foster a critical appreciation of existing knowledge in behavioral decision theory, to develop the students' skills in identifying and testing interesting research ideas, and to explore research opportunities for adding to that knowledge. Students generally enroll from a variety of disciplines including cognitive and social psychology, behavioral economics, finance, marketing, political science, medicine, and public health.
T 2:30pm-5:30pm

MGMT 755b, Analytical Methods in Marketing  Jiwoong Shin

This course provides exposure to the major streams of research regarding analytical methods in marketing strategy. The primary goal is to prepare students to read, appreciate, and critique the literature on analytical marketing models. The course is designed to provide a broad introduction to topics and industries that current researchers are studying as well as to expose students to a wide variety of techniques. Prerequisite: familiarity with microeconomic theory, basic game theory, and some econometrics.
W 2pm-5pm

MGMT 758a / PSYC 602a, Foundations of Behavioral Economics  Shane Frederick

The course explores foundational topics in behavioral economics and discusses the dominant prescriptive models (which propose what decision makers should do) and descriptive models (which aim to describe what decision makers actually do). The course incorporates perspectives from economics, psychology, philosophy, decision theory, and finance, and engages long-standing debates about rational choice.
W 1pm-4pm

MGMT 760a, Special Topics in Judgment and Decision Research  Gal Zauberman

This doctoral seminar is centered on current topics in judgment and decision research and the related fields of behavioral economics, cognitive psychology, and social psychology. The goal is to have in-depth discussion about behavioral research that addresses contemporary issues that society is facing (inequality, discrimination, etc.).
Th 4:30pm-7:30pm

MGMT 780a or b, Ph.D. Student Research Workshop  Matthew Spiegel

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MGMT 781a or b, Workshop  Staff

781-01, Accounting/Finance Workshop; 781-03, Marketing Workshop; 781-04, Organizations and Management Workshop; 781-05, Operations Workshop.
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MGMT 782a or b, Doctoral Student Pre-Workshop Seminar  Staff

782-01, Accounting Doctoral Student Pre-Workshop Seminar; 782-02, Financial Economics Doctoral Student Pre-Workshop Seminar; 782-03, Marketing Doctoral Student Pre-Workshop Seminar; 782-04, Organizations and Management Doctoral Student Pre-Workshop Seminar; 782-05, Operations Doctoral Student Pre-Workshop Seminar.
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