University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, United States
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Capital Budgeting

This course is intended to provide a market-oriented framework for analyzing the major types of financial decisions made by corporations. Lectures and readings will provide an introduction to discounted cash flow techniques, capital budgeting principles and problems, financial asset and project valuation, capital market efficiency, capital structure and related corporate finance issues. ...
 

This course contains elements of consumer behavior, marketing research, and marketing communications. The value add is that students will learn how consumers think and make decisions, how to delineate consumers�needs for products and services, and how to craft compelling communication strategies. The first couple of weeks of the course consider consumer behavior. Here students learn concepts s......
 

American business is part of a complex and interdependent global economy. Recognizing the opportunities for sharing resources and experience, in 1986 the Simon School became the first accredited U.S. business school to establish a European Executive M.B.A. program. In January 1995, the Simon School began a partnership with the Institut für Finanzmanagement at the Universitat Bern, in Bern, Swit......
 

Alternating Week Format. The Simon EMBA program will now meet on Friday and Saturday every other week. This new, more flexible format reduces by half the amount of workdays lost by students and their employers. Students (especially those from out of town) will save substantially on program meeting and travel costs and experience greater flexibility to accommodate the various other professional......
 

Your decision to pursue an M.B.A. marks one of the most important steps along the path of your business career. More important, the place you obtain your degree lays the groundwork for the type of skills you will master and the caliber of professional relationships you will forge. When you enroll in the Simon School’s Part-Time M.B.A. Program, you will immerse yourself in one of the most rew......
 

Along with the Simon School, the School of Medicine and Dentistry offers a combined M.D./M.B.A. degree program in Health Sciences Management. This program is designed to prepare physician managers who can respond intelligently, effectively and creatively to the changing health care services industry. Only candidates with exceptional promise and academic records will be considered. To partici......
 

The three-year M.B.A./M.P.H. program is offered jointly by the Simon School and the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine in the University of Rochesters School of Medicine and Dentistry. Students take courses both at the Simon School and within the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine on the adjacent Medical Center campus. Students in the M.B.A./M.P.H. program may choos......
 

Your decision to pursue an M.B.A. marks one of the most important steps along the path of your business career. More importantly, the place you obtain your degree lays the groundwork for the type of skills you will master and the caliber of professional relationships you will forge. When you enroll in the Simon School’s Full-Time M.B.A. Program, you will immerse yourself in one of the most c......
 

English Language and U.S. Culture (ELUSC) Program offers a series of specialized intensive courses that prepare international students for the linguistic, academic, and cultural demands of graduate business study. ...
 

New organizations have to choose their initial organizational design and associated control mechanisms. Organizations also frequently restructure. For example, entrepreneurial firms become publicly traded, partnerships convert to corporations, closed-end funds become open-end mutual funds, nonprofits convert to for-profit status, mutual insurance companies convert to publicly traded corporation......
 

This course examines the major issues involved in marketing on the Internet. Among the topics studied are: new product opportunities on the Internet; the changed role of advertising; the Internet as a two-way communication medium with consumers; targeting individual consumers; word-of-mouth among consumers on the Internet; the Internet as a distribution channel; and marketing research on the In......
 

This course deals with the issues that arise in designing and managing distribution channels and salesforces. A central theme of the course is that these entities perform both a tactical/operational function as well as a strategic function and that both aspects need to be considered in their design and management. The course looks at a number of design options, ranging from direct distribution ......
 

This course is our introduction to marketing. The viewpoint is that of a manager making marketing decisions in a variety of competitive and institutional settings. Considered are: consumer behavior, marketing research, product design, advertising, salesforce management, pricing and distribution channels. ...
 

The objective of this course is to undertake a rigorous study of fixed-income securities and markets. A variety of fixed-income securities will be discussed including coupon bonds, callable and putable bonds, sinking fund provisions, and floating rate notes. Interest rate derivatives such as forwards and futures on fixed-income securities, bond options, options on bond futures, caps, floors, an......
 

This course explores selected topics in the management of equity portfolios. Course content may vary from year to year. Topics include: active portfolio management with particular emphasis on risk analysis, multifactor risk/return models and performance evaluation and style analysis. The course also considers issues and evidence on different forms of market structure and trading systems, includ......
 

Investments includes discussion of the efficient-markets theory of the dynamic behavior of prices in speculative markets, along with empirical evidence for the validity of the theory; evaluation of the implications of the efficient-markets theory for the profitability of alternative investment strategies; exploration of the implications of portfolio theory for equilibrium asset prices and the m......
 

An objective of this course is to develop students�ability to use financial statement information (broadly defined) in various decision-making settings. Various parties routinely use financial statement information to make a variety of economic decisions. Such users include corporate boards, individual and institutional equity investors, financial analysts, creditors, lenders and bond investor......
 

Corporate financial accounting is concerned with the form and content of the information firms disclose to external parties (e.g., shareholders). In the United States, financial reporting is based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) set by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). GAAP define the accounting methods and disclosure practices that firms select from when provi......
 

Firms supplying products and services to the health care industry face a variety of regulatory and marketing challenges that will be explored in this course. Topics include: the economics of developing and marketing new medical technologies, regulations affecting market structure, health and safety regulations and insurance markets. The course will cover evaluation tools frequently used in publ......
 

This course introduces students to the actors in the health care system (physicians, hospitals and insurers) and builds a framework for analyzing the strategic decisions they face both within the organization as well as the health care market. The analytical concepts are economic in nature, and based on an examination of objectives, incentives, property rights, information and constraints faced......
 

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