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BEM 110: Venture Capital
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
An introduction to the theory and practice of venture capital financing of start-ups. This course covers the underlying economic principles and theoretical models relevant to the venture investment process, as well as the standard practices used by industry and detailed examples. Topics include: The history of VC; VC stages of financing; financial returns to private equity; LBOs and MBOs; people versus ideas; biotech; IPOs; and CEO transitions. Instructor: Camerer.
Prerequisite:
BEM 101, 103.
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BEM 111: Quantitative Risk Management
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
An introduction to financial risk management. Concepts of Knightian risk and uncertainty; coherent risk; and commonly used metrics for risk. Techniques for estimating equity risk; volatility; correlation; interest rate risk; and credit risk are described. Discussions of fat-tailed (leptokurtic) risk, scenario analysis, and regime-switching methods provide an introduction to methods for dealing with risk in extreme environments. Instructor: Winston.
Prerequisite:
ACM/ESE 118, BEM 105, or Ma 112.
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BEM 113: Financial Markets Laboratory
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
Financial economics is rather abstract and mathematical, and its value is difficult to ascertain from merely observing real-world financial markets, which operate in a complex environment where many key variables either remain unobserved or cannot be measured reliably. In this class, students will learn about the theories of asset pricing, options, investments performance evaluation, corporate finance, and banking/insurance through participation in a series of online market games. Grading will be based on a mixture of trading performance, written and oral reports. Instructor: Bossaerts.
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BEM 116: Advanced Business Strategy for Technology
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
This course develops tools to determine strategy for firms facing rapid technological change, great uncertainty, low marginal costs and high fixed costs of production, and short product life cycles. The focus is on firms with high levels of human capital (so-called high-tech firms). Special attention is paid to the product life cycle, patent strategy, pricing, and hiring and retention of talented individuals. Working in teams, students will be asked to formulate strategy in real business situations. Not offered 2012–13.
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BEM 118: Environmental Economics
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
This course provides a survey from the perspective of economics of public policy issues regarding the management of natural resources and the protection of environmental quality. The course covers both conceptual topics and recent and current applications. Included are principles of environmental and resource economics, management of nonrenewable and renewable resources, and environmental policy with the focus on air pollution problems, both local problems (smog) and global problems (climate change). Instructor: Ledyard.
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BEM 126: Business and Public Policy
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
This class studies the relationships among business, government, and interest groups as strategic actors in the nonmarket environment. Methods of influencing public policy are analyzed using the tools of modern political theory and economics frameworks. Topics may include media, private collective action, international business, and corporate social responsibility. Two written assignments will be collected and graded each week. Not offered 2012–13.
Prerequisite:
PS 12, Ec 11 or equivalent.
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BEM 146: Organization Design
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
An introduction to the analysis, design, and management of organizations with an emphasis on incentives and information. Principles from economics, political science, and game theory will be applied to problems in project and team management, in organizational computing, and in allocating and pricing shared facilities. Instructor: Camerer.
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BEM 185: Political Economy of Corporate Governance
9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
The course covers issues of how firms are organized. Topics include the distribution of power and returns among shareholders, managers, and other stakeholders; the role of law, public policy, and financial markets in constraining or enabling firms to solve the problems they face; the interaction between history, financial market structure, and the ownership of very large firms. Each student is expected to write two substantial papers - drafts will be read by instructor and revised by students. Instructor: Rosenthal.
Prerequisite:
PS/Ec 172.
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BEM 190: Undergraduate Research Project
1.00 - 9.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
This course offers advanced undergraduates the opportunity to pursue research on a business problem individually or in small groups. Graded pass/fail.
Prerequisite:
BEM 103, 106, and instructor’s permission.
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BEM 20: Scientific Writing and Oral Presentation in the Social Sciences
6.00 Credits
California Institute of Technology
This class provides the opportunity for students to improve their written and oral presentation skills in the social sciences. Students should come prepared with complete drafts of papers from another course or a SURF project, which they will substantially revise and improve in a style typical of peer-reviewed journals in their discipline. These papers must be the students’ original work and must be papers with social science content. An initial introduction to the art of scientific writing will be provided by the staff of the Hixon Writing Center. In addition, each student will work closely with an HSS mentor whose own research is close to the student’s paper topic. Instructors: Yariv, Daley.
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