Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, United States
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/

Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance defines the duties and responsibilities of board membership. This course describes the way corporate governance operates in today’s challenging business environment, as well as what it means to be an effective board member in such a climate....
 

Accounting for Management Planning and Control details the use of financial information in management. Topics include profitability and performance measurement and activity-based management and decision support. ...
 

Managerial Finance II analyzes corporate financial decisions. Topics include market efficiency, capital structure, dividend and stock repurchase policy, and firms�use of options and convertible securities....
 

Managerial Finance I introduces the basic techniques of finance. Topics include discounting techniques and applications; evaluation of capital expenditures; and estimating cost of capital and bond and stock valuation....
 

Designed for senior and mid-career executives, the Kellogg Executive MBA Programs are flexible and challenging. Each emphasizes teamwork and cross-cultural collaboration, leadership and adaptability. Unlike traditional MBA students, executive MBAs work full time while earning their degrees. The benefits of this ambitious schedule are clear: Executive MBAs don’t have to wait until graduation t......
 

In recent decades corporations have increasingly become the dominant source for political and social change. Increased globalization and technological progress have further accelerated this process. Businesses are now held accountable by standards other than legal compliance or financial performance. Successful business leaders have recognized that these challenges are best mastered by a commit......
 

This course provides students with the social science tools needed to solve organizational problems and influence the actions of individuals, groups and organizations. It prepares managers to understand how to best organize and motivate the human capital of the firm, manage social networks and alliances, and execute strategic change. This is accomplished through knowledge of competitive decisio......
 

This sequel to DECS-433 extends the statistical techniques learned in that course to allow for the exploration of relationships between variables. Topics include one- and two-population hypothesis testing, correlation, simple and multiple regression analysis, and qualitative variables. The course also covers applications of the material and a number of case studies. Extensive use of spreadsheet......
 

Among the topics this core course addresses are economic analysis and optimal decisions, consumer choice and the demand for products, production functions and cost curves, market structures and strategic interactions, and pricing and non-price concepts. Cases and problems are used to understand economic tools and their potential for solving real-world problems. Prerequisite: DECS-434, or concur......
 

This three-part course introduces the basic concepts and tools of probability, statistics and decision theory used throughout the Kellogg program. The first part covers sample spaces, elementary probability laws and probability revision. Probability distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, and correlation are covered in the second part. The third part introduces the statistic......
 

This course studies the effects of time and uncertainty on decision making. Topics include discounted cash flow valuation, stock and bond valuation, the term structure of interest rates, bond duration, capital budgeting under certainty and uncertainty, portfolio theory, asset pricing models and efficient markets....
 

Strategy is the set of objectives, policies and resource commitments that collectively determine how a business positions itself to create wealth for its owners. This course introduces students to principles and conceptual frameworks for evaluating and formulating business strategy. Topics include the boundaries of the firm, the analysis of industry economics, strategic positioning and competit......
 

This course acquaints students with the process used to construct and understand the financial reports of organizations. The objective is to understand the decisions that must be made in the financial reporting process and to develop the ability to evaluate and use accounting data. Emphasis is placed on understanding the breadth of accounting measurement practices and on being able to make the ......
 

Our professors are preeminent scholars and passionate educators. They direct research centers and �literally �write the books on the subjects they teach. You will call them your mentors. Our alumni are senior leaders in business, government, education and other fields. You will call them your peers, your future business partners and your friends. A Kellogg MBA will prepare you to outs......
 

Synchronizing technology, R&D and marketing investments with corporate strategy is a major challenge for many firms. This course teaches the essential executive skills of portfolio and project management and is designed for prospective technology, marketing, product and finance managers. The course incorporates real-life case studies that span the technology life cycle, and students work togeth......
 

In the rapidly changing business environment, with global competition and maturing markets, competitive advantage is extremely important. Furthermore, in most industries product differentiation is no longer a decisive edge over competition. Thus, there is fierce competition to find, grow and keep loyal and profitable customers, as that is the only way to grow business and profitability. Transfo......
 

This course covers the broad agenda of using intellectual capital for competitive advantage. In the knowledge-intensive economy, intellectual assets such as human capital, intellectual property, brands and trademarks are becoming an increasingly important proportion of a firm’s total wealth. And yet, most firms do a poor job of managing intellectual capital strategically. In this course we......
 

Issues of sales and marketing pervade almost every dimension of real estate investment analysis and operations. Consequently, a rigorous understanding of these issues is critical to effective real estate decision-making. This course is designed to examine the following marketing issues in the context of real estate: market segmentation, brand management, assessing the tradeoff between "pri......
 

This course offers an introduction to the main topics of the study of real estate for students with little or no background or experience in real estate. It is designed for students who are contemplating a career in real estate as well as those who are interested in learning more about this huge asset class, recognizing that individuals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs and financial adviser......
 

This course is taught by the head of the development arm of a large, full-service real estate provider, and is assisted by real estate industry professionals who lend specific expertise in each of their respective practice areas. The course examines each phase of the development process, including site selection, land planning, design, environmental, legal (both contracts and environmental), co......
 

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