Module 4 - Favorite Electives
This is the first quarter that I got to choose my own classes, and I just wanted to share some of my favorite classes.
1. MGMT 611 Advanced Corporate Finance
Professor Charlene Sullivan is an amazing teacher, though also very intimidating. She really pushes you to make sure that you are able to defend the theory behind your finance recommendations and calculations. Her class is definitely not easy, and you have to be comfortable with not having the "correct" answer or that there might be multiple "right" answers, each with their pros and cons.
This class builds off of what we learned in MGMT 610 Corporate Finance and MGMT 650 Managerial Strategy. It goes more in depth into options, discounted cash flow analysis, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, bonds, and leasing. Even if you don't plan on going into finance, it's a good class to take. Finance is the language of profit. Wouldn't you rather gain experience making financing errors in class and reduce your chance of learning the hard way later on in life?
2. MGMT 564 Service Operations
Service Ops was a super fun and interactive class. Professor Susan Feng really just cares that students learn, and she creates a safe space to learn and fail. She gives us a lot of flexibility on how we want to dissect data and what we want to investigate for our final presentation. My team investigated Wedding Photography as a service industry. All the class work was based on cases. Plus, there's no final exam.
I felt like this class was more practical than some of the more introductory classes in Business Analytics, Marketing, and Operations. Many of the cases came with raw data that we had to clean up and approach in multiple ways before we could make something useful out of it. I imagine that any projects we would be given at work would come with imperfect data as well.
3. MGMT 602 Valuations and Financial Statements
Professor Bagnoli is a huge nerd, and it is kind of wonderful watching him get super excited about catching creative accounting and explaining the inside stories behind both successful and unsuccessful companies through numbers, charts, and articles. We didn't have any busy work in this class. There are only three papers due - all which are done in a team. Taking the concepts we learned in class, we dissect real companies using a combination of those companies' historical financial statements and whatever other sources and analyst reports we can find.
While sitting in this class and analyzing publicly traded companies' 10Ks and 10Qs, I got bit by the stock picking bug. For several weeks straight, I would be on Fidelity through most of class.
1. MGMT 611 Advanced Corporate Finance
Professor Charlene Sullivan is an amazing teacher, though also very intimidating. She really pushes you to make sure that you are able to defend the theory behind your finance recommendations and calculations. Her class is definitely not easy, and you have to be comfortable with not having the "correct" answer or that there might be multiple "right" answers, each with their pros and cons.
This class builds off of what we learned in MGMT 610 Corporate Finance and MGMT 650 Managerial Strategy. It goes more in depth into options, discounted cash flow analysis, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, bonds, and leasing. Even if you don't plan on going into finance, it's a good class to take. Finance is the language of profit. Wouldn't you rather gain experience making financing errors in class and reduce your chance of learning the hard way later on in life?
2. MGMT 564 Service Operations
Service Ops was a super fun and interactive class. Professor Susan Feng really just cares that students learn, and she creates a safe space to learn and fail. She gives us a lot of flexibility on how we want to dissect data and what we want to investigate for our final presentation. My team investigated Wedding Photography as a service industry. All the class work was based on cases. Plus, there's no final exam.
I felt like this class was more practical than some of the more introductory classes in Business Analytics, Marketing, and Operations. Many of the cases came with raw data that we had to clean up and approach in multiple ways before we could make something useful out of it. I imagine that any projects we would be given at work would come with imperfect data as well.
3. MGMT 602 Valuations and Financial Statements
Professor Bagnoli is a huge nerd, and it is kind of wonderful watching him get super excited about catching creative accounting and explaining the inside stories behind both successful and unsuccessful companies through numbers, charts, and articles. We didn't have any busy work in this class. There are only three papers due - all which are done in a team. Taking the concepts we learned in class, we dissect real companies using a combination of those companies' historical financial statements and whatever other sources and analyst reports we can find.
While sitting in this class and analyzing publicly traded companies' 10Ks and 10Qs, I got bit by the stock picking bug. For several weeks straight, I would be on Fidelity through most of class.
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Beyond classes, we get to climb the commemorative 150 years sign and take photos together.
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| Krannert Diversity Photo (from Wendy Dukes) |
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