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Large language models possess the capability to perform financial analysis tasks previously done in spreadsheets, and even surpass the capabilities of spreadsheets. This course offers a hands-on learning experience in utilizing ChatGPT and Python plug-ins to acquire data, perform analysis, create charts and tables, and generate reports on various financial topics. Through practical exercises, you will learn to harness the power of these advanced tools for efficient financial analysis and reporting.

This course introduces students to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools that enable drawing managerial insights from data. Students will learn about methods such as classification trees and neural networks, and apply these techniques across various business application settings, including marketing, finance, healthcare, and other business domains. The course will equip students with the skills to leverage AI and machine learning for extracting valuable insights from data to inform decision-making processes.

This course provides the methodologies, tools and hands-on experience for students to practically design comprehensive, real-world strategic plans for businesses and non-profits. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on application, students will become more confident working in the different parts of a strategic planning cycle.

Building upon the foundational concepts covered in your first-year MBA marketing course, the Brand Strategy course aims to develop your capabilities in brand management and understanding how brands drive business strategy and long-term value creation. The course will cover the essence of branding, its misconceptions, and strategies for managing, executing, measuring, and valuing brands effectively.

This course provides a structured introduction to the fundamentals of the U.S. healthcare industry. You will explore the various healthcare systems, service organizations and critical issues such as aging demographics and technological advancements that are shaping the sector. Through this comprehensive overview, you will gain a solid understanding of the key elements and dynamics that define the healthcare landscape in the United States.

Delve into the intricate intersection of law and business in this comprehensive course. Gain vital insights to cultivate "legal astuteness" and collaborate effectively with legal counsel. Learn to navigate challenges, safeguard resources and harness legal expertise for strategic advantage.

This course focuses on key themes in the energy transition. You will work in teams to develop, validate and present an investment opportunity in climate technology.

This course teaches concepts of customer-focused strategy in a healthcare context. The course should be useful to middle/upper-level administrators, physicians and other professionals in the healthcare sector and includes: (1) Marketing strategy and implementation in healthcare and (2) Understanding client needs and monitoring metrics.

This course aims to provide you with an analytical quantitative investment toolkit. Working in groups, you will develop, test and implement investment strategies using Python, utilizing various datasets provided by the instructors. You will explore the data, generate trading ideas and simulate the implementation of your chosen strategy. The course emphasizes understanding the sources of investment performance through factor and sector exposure analyses, attribution analysis, and performance evaluation.

This course covers the fundamental principles underlying data mining applications. It introduces popular data mining algorithms and techniques, and examines how data mining technology can be utilized in decision-making processes. Additionally, you will gain hands-on experience working with real-world data using open-source software.

The commercial real estate industry is undergoing a seismic shift due to technology-driven changes in distribution networks and the digitization of the economy. As a result, developers face challenging and evolving opportunities. How can you adapt and thrive when customer desires change rapidly, and everyone competes against giants like Amazon? Through simulations and a real-time case study, students will learn to capitalize on the rewards of customer-centric design by leveraging psychographics and quantitative methodologies.

In this course, students learn about sectors in the energy transition, renewable power, battery storage, carbon capture, hydrogen and renewable fuels sectors from an investor’s point of view. Acting as a private equity firm, student teams establish an investment thesis for which sectors to deploy capital and pitch their fund to a mock board of limited partners.

An organization’s success does not only depend on its strategic repertoire within a given market but also on how well it incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in its strategy. By engaging with peer organizations, non-governmental agencies, the media and other external stakeholders, firms can proactively identify and address ESG issues. Consideration of ESG factors in strategy can help simultaneously achieve a long-term competitive advantage as well as enhance a firm’s social and environmental impact. The goal of this course is to provide you with analytical tools that help managers assess a firm’s broader environment and make decisions that are beneficial for the firm and for society at large.

This survey course covers contemporary topics in the new food economy, with a focus on social justice issues related to the production, distribution, marketing, sales and consumption of food. Topics may include access to capital for non-traditional agriculture, organic and GMO foods, new production and distribution technologies, food waste, food insecurity, food marketing, food assistance policies, and other public policies.

With the advent of genAI and foundational "off-the-shelf" AI models, the cost to implement AI has plummeted. The paradigm has shifted for all knowledge work. This course offers a comprehensive overview of the ever-evolving AI landscape, providing students with insights into its foundational principles, cutting-edge applications and the strategic integration of AI into modern businesses. With a blend of theoretical discussions, hands-on tool explorations and real-world case studies featuring industry leaders, students will gain the knowledge and confidence to spearhead AI initiatives in their organizations. No technical experience required.

This course examines global trends in the production and use of energy, its impact on governance and the environment, and the dynamic forces shaping the sector: energy security, trade and climate change. We examine the firm’s role in these areas and the “above ground” risks arising from political, social and environmental forces. We also examine energy from the perspective of states, whether the big exporters like Russia and the Middle East, demand centers in Asia and Europe, or underdeveloped countries in Latin America and Africa seeking to leverage domestic reserves for export revenues and domestic development. Students will use academic theory and case discussion to highlight energy business challenges in countries with diverse political systems and wide-ranging levels of economic development.

This course provides a practical overview of three strategic considerations for a new enterprise: (1) Identifying and monetizing the business's potential intellectual property; (2) Identifying and addressing other people's IP-ownership claims, including data-privacy considerations; and (3) Long-term planning for a liquidity event.

This course teaches the fundamental principles of intercultural marketing and introduces frameworks for understanding how cultural conditioning impacts international marketing strategies. It helps students deepen their understanding of cultural influences, enhance their intercultural marketing competencies and increase their ability to navigate unpredictable and often ambiguous marketing contexts resulting from globalization. Students will develop the necessary skills to effectively formulate and execute marketing strategies across diverse cultural environments.

This course introduces the fundamentals of the Python programming environment, with a focus on applied statistics and business applications. You will learn how to read and write scripts, manipulate and clean data, and perform basic inferential statistical analysis using contemporary Python data science libraries. This course serves as a foundation for further studies in machine learning and advanced applications in finance, marketing and operations.

Explore the essence of creativity, develop creative thinking skills and devise strategies to foster innovation within complex organizations. You will learn how to encourage, promote and manage creativity effectively to drive organizational success.

Organizations exist primarily to facilitate collaboration among individuals. Effective leadership within organizations revolves around motivating and fostering productive collaboration. And the foundation of successful collaboration is establishing a shared understanding among the parties involved. Individuals and teams can only effectively work together when they have the same understanding of what they are trying to achieve, how they will do so and what the roles of different individuals and teams in that process are. In this course, we explore the importance of such shared understanding for successful collaboration and how leadership can build shared understanding for high-quality performance.

This course explores the merger and acquisition (M&A) process from the viewpoints of both buyers and sellers. It examines the value implications of internal (make) versus external (buy) growth opportunities. The course also analyzes the M&A transaction process through case studies, emphasizing the interaction between strategic planning, value planning, financial strategies and investment decisions.

This course explores the dynamic energy transition, where the transportation and energy sectors converge. Students investigate global mobility modes, energy sources and delivery channels, analyzing both on-road and off-road systems. The course examines U.S. policies shaping a cleaner, safer and more accessible mobility landscape. Students will engage in strategic discussions on industrial, investment and policy fronts, navigating the financial and social implications of this transformative shift. Through this comprehensive study, students gain insights into the convergence of transportation and energy, and its far-reaching impacts on various aspects of our world.

Explore the art of evaluating innovation opportunities, crafting a robust venture plan through iterative refinement and articulating key assumptions. Ideal for aspiring entrepreneurs seeking to launch their own ventures or join early-stage startups.

This course explores how a product's success depends not just on whether people like it, but also on how it's priced and sold to the right customers. We'll dive into understanding and analyzing the challenges, problems, and opportunities that come with selling through different channels and setting prices.

A manager’s primary purpose is to use power to influence subordinates and create an effective organization. Through lectures, discussions and experiential activities, this course will teach students how to build power, influence people and use power in the modern organization.

In this course, students first understand the roles and responsibilities within a real estate private equity firm (including limited and general partner roles) and compensation and incentive structures typically seen in real estate private equity funding models. We focus on assessing risk and return in private real estate investments portfolios and analyzing relative valuations. Students learn how to construct a private investment portfolio, how to make buy and sell decisions from a portfolio perspective, and how to manage risks on behalf of fund investors. The course benefits from guest speakers addressing management and investment issues from both the limited and general partner perspectives. Students prepare an investment proposal and present the investment thesis to a mock committee.

This course examines the broad subject of government regulation of business and financial markets and is designed to help students develop “legal astuteness” — that is, the ability to exercise informed judgment based on context-specific knowledge of the law and the regulatory environment. To achieve this, we will apply the methodology of neoclassical economic analysis to understand the role and function of government and governmental decision-making; explore the intersection between economics and the law; and learn to spot legal issues before they become grounds for termination, lawsuits or criminal indictments. Emphasis is placed on high-impact regulatory programs, such as antitrust, security regulation, civil rights and environmental laws.

Companies with strong reputations gain a competitive advantage. However, reputation is not a tangible attribute of a firm but rather an intangible asset held in the minds of the firm's constituents. The goal of this course is to provide students with analytical tools to assess how an organization can build, damage and repair its reputation.

This course aims to equip students with the ability to utilize essential strategic management frameworks and concepts specifically within the context of innovation management in technology industries. It will emphasize the understanding that innovation is a critical and integral component of strategic management. Adopting this strategic perspective, the course will draw upon principles from strategic management, organizational theory, product innovation, and technology management. These various disciplines will provide analytical tools to address major challenges commonly faced by managers in firms operating within technology-based sectors.

In this course, you will explore strategic management principles specifically designed for ventures in technological ecosystems. Topics include platforms, network effects, managing disruptive innovation and using technology to transform existing markets and create new ones.

This course delves into the art of executing sourcing strategies that create and sustain value, enhance operational performance, and promote innovation and ethical practices. The topics covered include translating operations into commercial terms, contract negotiation, performance management, risk assessment and mitigation, fostering supplier relationships, and effective stakeholder communication. Through this comprehensive study, you will develop the skills necessary to implement sourcing strategies that drive success while upholding high ethical standards.

You'll explore the financial services industry amidst an era of rapid disruption and analyze how firms like Square, PayPal, Stripe and Robinhood are disrupting the value chain in financial services. The course's focus is understanding the drivers behind the development of disruptive platforms and why incumbent firms are missing out on these opportunities. You'll examine funding sources, competition from Asian fintech giants redefining financial services through e-commerce and social payments, and the democratization of access. You will also consider the next wave of technologies poised to accelerate disruption, including blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and robotics. After completing this course, you will understand how financial technology disruptors are capturing revenue streams from incumbent firms in areas such as payments, consumer and small business lending, wealth management, and advisory services.

This is a project-based course where students will choose a product and practice managing it. Students will learn how to set a vision, empathize with the user, prioritize features, create product management artifacts and apply best practices when working within agile frameworks. The course is designed for students who want to understand the role of a product manager at a technology company, manage their own product offering as an entrepreneur or learn how to apply agile product management techniques to their own careers. Through hands-on experience, students will gain practical skills in product management and agile methodologies.