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January 26, 2005
Spring 2005 Course Selection
A complete and thorough listing of my classes at business school
Though I'm admittedly a bit saddened by the prospect of facing down my final semester of business school (and the attendant obligation to secure gainful employment!), my mood is buoyed somewhat by the exciting roster of classes I've assembled for this term -- included below with their catalog descriptions. Check it out, and I think you'll understand why I'm so excited!
B8945-003 High Performance Middle Management: among the school's most highly coveted classes, this course focuses on techniques and strategies for succeeding in organizational life during the crucial "first five years" following business school. Topics include micromanaging low-performing subordinates, the role of non-specific language in strategic communication(s), issuing thinly veiled threats in lieu of real-time feedback, taking credit for other people's work, non-obsequious agreement with superiors, pretending to be interested in colleagues' personal lives, and lowering spousal expectations of your attention(s) and interest(s) in domestic life. Recommended for those students seeking complicated titles within well-branded conglomerates.
B8304-005 Advanced Derivative and Option Analysis in Emerging Eastern European Markets: peopled principally by dipshits in french cuffs who had secured their banking job in the second week of September, this course focuses on the emerging field of creating complicated financial and investment products for immature financial markets. The course will take into account the various forces impacting performance in emerging markets, including the role of graft, the opportunities presented by unsophisticated legal structures, and the value of maintaining positive relations with local business moguls/ mafiosi/ warlords. Particular attention will be paid to the legal structures of off-shore shell corporations, and their specific role in creating asset-backed securities for the highly lucrative (but politically unpopular) human trafficking and arms dealing industries. Blackberry and/ or Treo (Model 650 only) recommended but not required.
B8702-007 Marketing Luxury Goods to Young Families on The Upper East Side: Workshop: this highly interactive, hands-on course will focus on the design and marketing of luxury goods for young investment bankers and their spouses on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Through a series of field trips and interviews with recent business school graduates, students will learn to gauge consumer interest in emerging fads and superfluous product introductions. The course will take a specific interest in identifying the anxieties of young parents and connecting those anxieties to the larger consumer tendencies among the selected demographic to "throw money at things they fear" and "buy whatever New York magazine tells them to." Particular attention will be paid to the seductive effect of otherwise outrageous and stupifying price points in driving purchase decisions among the consumers in question.
B8890-002 The Economics of Highly Addictive Products: while recent regulatory and legal decisions have stunted the development of some sectors of the addictive products industry, the success of the legal pharmaceutical industry has spurred unprecedented scholarship in the economic analyses and implications of highly addictive products. Topics will include the impact of chemical dependence on the price elasticity, supply shocks from competitive "illegal" narcotics, and econometric analysis of advertising-driven shifts in the consumer demand curve. Though the course is inherently technical in nature, it will feature visits from guest speakers, including several actual "addicts," who will discuss their passion for lethal toxins and addictive narcotics (both legal and illicit).
B8522-001 Globalization And Its Impact On The Underclass At Home And Abroad: with all the recent media attention given to issues of globalization, this course will attempt to offer a thorough and unbiased approach to global trade and its effects for consumers and workers both in the developed and developing worlds. The course will focus particular attention on low-income consumers in the West and workers in the developing world, and their differing perspectives on trends in outsourcing, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Topics will include why making sneakers for pennies makes more personal and economic sense than child prostitution, the value of "little fingers" in high-end carpet production, how labor unions at home and abroad hurt consumer choice, and why your outsourced job at the mill helps keep everything cheap at Wal*Mart.
Posted by thatkid at January 26, 2005 4:56 PM under
MBAwesome!
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