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Courses
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
The research seminar presents new research on economics applied to business management issues.
Research Seminar in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 1.5 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Research Seminar in Economic Analysis and Policy: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2015, Spring 2013
A critical evaluation of accounting literature with emphasis on seminar contributions. Topics covered include research methodology in accounting, the private and social value of information.
Doctoral Seminar in Accounting I: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Business Administration 202A or equivalent, and Economics 201A-201B
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for 229A after taking 239A.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 223A
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
A critical evaluation of recent accounting literature involving empirical research.
Doctoral Seminar in Accounting II: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Business Admimistration 202A or equivalent, and Economics 201A-201B
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 223B
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
A critical evaluation of recent accounting literature with emphasis on financial accounting.
Doctoral Seminar in Accounting III: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Business Administration 202A or equivalent, and Economics 201A-201B
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 223C
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2013, Spring 2011
Exploration of issues related to the internal accounting systems of large firms. The first part of the course focuses on the theory of mechanism design, while the second part applies this theory to a variety of managerial accounting questions.
Doctoral Seminar in Accounting IV: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Business Administration 202A or equivalent, and Economics 201A-201B
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 223D
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Advanced study in the field of Accounting. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Research Seminar in Accounting: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2017
Asset pricing and portfolio choice in partial equilbrium and asset pricing in General Equilibrium. Specifically, static and intertemporal theories of choice under risk and uncertainity and portfolio choice. Includes two-fund separation, Capital Asset Pricing Model, and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory. In a General Equilibrium framework, it covers the notion of complete markets and welfare theorems. Also, some macro-asset pricing models are developed in addition to an analysis of incomplete markets.
Asset Pricing Theory: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018
This course covers topics in dynamic asset pricing, portfolio choice and general equilibrium theory in a continuous time setting. The first part of the course covers basic mathematical and statistical results. Finance results that have been developed in continuous times include the intertemporal CAPM, corporate securities and default risk, the term structure of interest rates. In addition, results are developed on non-time additive utility.
Continuous Time Asset Pricing: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 239A
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2016
Introduction and guide to issues in empirical asset pricing. Students learn key features of asset-price behavior and study how researchers test various theoretical models from finance and economics, focusing on advantages and disadvantages of research designs. Intuition behind practical econometric tools is developed and applied to asset pricing questions. By critically evaluating research, students determine which characteristics of an empirical paper influence the finance profession.
Empirical Asset Pricing: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate level econometrics recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
This course provides a theoretical and empirical treatment of the core topics in corporate finance including internal corporate investment; external corporate investment (mergers and acquisitions); capital structure and financial contracting; bankruptcy; corporate governance.
Empirical Corporate Finance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: ECON 240A-240B or equivalent
Credit Restrictions: Students who have passed ECON 234C are not eligible to also receive credit for passing ECON C234C.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Malmendier
Also listed as: ECON C234C
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Recent developments in financial economics, including the theory of intertemporal choice under certainty or uncertainty, portfolio optimization, asset market equilibrium, valuation of uncertainty, problems in information, financial econometrics, and empirical verification of financial models.
Doctoral Seminar in Finance: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 238D
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Introduction and guide to issues in empirical asset pricing. Students learn key features of asset-price behavior and study how researchers test various theoretical models from finance and economics, focusing on advantages and disadvantages of research designs. Intuition behind practical econometric tools is developed and applied to asset-pricing questions. By critically evaluating research, students determine which characteristics of an empirical paper influence the finance profession.
Market Microstructure: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate course in contract or game theory recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Study of the financial decisions made by firms and the effect of such decisions on observables. These can include debt/equity ratios, dividend policies, or the cross section of returns. In addition, corporate finance considers conflicts of interest between shareholders and managers and between different financial claimants.
Corporate Finance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate course in contract or game theory recommended
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
This course focuses on repeated games and optimal mechanism design, with an emphasis on dynamics. The course presents a mix of pure theory and applications from many economics-related fields, particularly finance, macroeconomics and bargaining.
Dynamic Game Theory and Applications: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Fuchs
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Advanced study in the field of Finance. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Research Seminar in Finance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2011
Advanced study in the field of Operations Management with an emphasis on the interface between Operations Management and Marketing. Specific topics will vary from year to year.
Doctoral Seminar in Operations Management I: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Economics 201A; Industrical Engineering and Operations Research 262A; 263A; 250, 253 or 254
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2011
Advanced study in the field of Operations Management with an emphasis on the interface between Operations Management and Marketing. Specific topics will vary from year to year.
Doctoral Seminar in Operations Management II: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Economics 201A; Industrical Engineering and Operations Research 262A; 263A; 250, 253 or 254
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Spring 2014
Advanced study in the field of operations management with an emphasis on the role of rational consumer behavior. Specific topics will vary year to year.
Doctoral Seminar in Management III: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Indrustial Engineering and Operations Research 262A, 263A, 250 or 253 or 254, and Economics 201A
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
Review of the research literature of micro-organizational behavior, including its social psychological and psychological foundations. Topics include: job design, work attitudes, organizational commitment, organizational culture, control and participation in organizations, creativity, personality, socialization leadership, industrial organization psychology.
Research in Micro-Organizational Behavior: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 254A
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
Review of the research literature of macro-organizational behavior, including its sociological and economic foundations. Topics include: social networks, organizational culture, status hierarchies, social influence, innovation and organizational diversity.
Research Seminar in Macro-Organizational Behavior: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 254B
Research Seminar in Macro-Organizational Behavior: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2003
Review of the research literature of macro-organizational behavior, including its sociological and economic foundations. Topics include: social networks, organizational culture, status hierarchies, social influence, innovation and organizational diversity.
Research Workshop on Macro Organizational Behavior: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Research Workshop on Macro Organizational Behavior: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Not yet offered
Advanced study in the field of behavioral science. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Research Seminar in Behavioral Science: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of colloquium per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Advanced study in the field of Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Research Seminar in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Research Seminar in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2014
Advanced topics seminar intended principally for Ph.D. students but open to advanced MBA students.
Seminar in Marketing: Buyer Behavior: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 269A
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Advanced topics seminar intended principally for Ph.D. students but open to advanced MBA students.
Seminar in Marketing: Choice Modeling: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 269B
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2016
Advanced topics seminar intended principally for Ph.D. students but open to advanced MBA students. This section will focus on marketing theory and the development of marketing thought. (Course offered alternate years.)
Seminar in Marketing: Marketing Strategy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 269C
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2012, Spring 2008
Review of special research topics in marketing not ordinarily covered in BA 269A, 269B, 269C. Content varies from year to year. (Course offered alternate years.)
Special Research Topics in Marketing: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 269D
Terms offered: Not yet offered
Advanced study in the field of behavioral science. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Seminar in Marketing: Behavioral Science: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1.5 hours of colloquium per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Advanced study in the field of Marketing. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Research Seminar in Marketing: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
This seminar features current research of faculty, from UC Berkeley and elsewhere, and of advanced doctoral students who are investigating the efficacy of economic and non-economic forms of organization. An interdisciplinary perspective--combining aspects of law, economics, and organization--is maintained. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, bureaus, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come under scrutiny. The aspiration is to progressively build toward a new science of organization.
Workshop in Institutional Analysis: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Economics 100 or 101; Business Administration 110 or equivalent; or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Also listed as: ECON C225
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Surveys recent literature on public decision-making in government institutions, emphasizing a systematic framework for evaluating questions of public policy formation. Explores the new institutionalism in political science, applies the methods of rational choice theory to political problems, and links relevant theoretical and empirical literatures in economics and political science. Considers implications of public choice for corporate strategy and business-government relations.
Political Economy: Frameworks: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Comprehensive introduction to historical development of contemporary capitalism. Class will (1) compare the "classics" in political economy and their alternative explanations of markets, politics, class, and culture in industrial development; (2) provide an overview of the history of the United States economic system and business institutions; and (3) examine competing theories of the corporation.
The Political Economy of Capitalism: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 279B
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
The course has two broad objectives: 1) providing an overview of important work (mainly empirical) in the economics of technological change and technology policy; and 2) analyzing the role of technological and organizational innovation in firm strategy and performance.
Corporate Strategy and Technology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Ph.D. student standing or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 279C
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015
Study of innovation, technical change, and intellectual property, including the industrial organization and performance of high-technology industries and firms; the use of economic, patent, and other bibliometric data for the analysis of technical change; legal and economic issues of intellectual property rights; science and technology policy; and the contributions of innovation and diffusion to economic growth. Methods of analysis are both theoretical and empirical, econometric and case study.
Economics of Innovation: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: ECON C222
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
This course develops the proposition that institutions have pervasive ramifications for understanding economic organization. A comparative institutional approach is employed whereby the transaction is made the basic unit of analysis and alternative modes of organization are assessed with respect to their comparative contracting properties.
Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: This course is not eligible for credit for students who have completed ECON 224A.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Advanced study in the field of Business and Public Policy. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Research Seminar in Business and Public Policy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Research Seminar in Business and Public Policy: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Doctoral real estate seminar, covering topics related to real estate investment, finance, and market analysis. The course is rigorous and technical, applying financial and economic analysis to the subject areas of real estate finance, urban real estate economics, and real estate evaluation.
Doctoral Seminar in Real Estate: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Ph.D. equivalents of micro and macro economics, finance/or accounting, statistics and econometrics
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 289A
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Advanced study in the field of Real Estate. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Research Seminar in Real Estate: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
The focus is upon defining a research problem, designing and employing specialized techniques to solve the problem. Topics will include concepts of causality, analysis of variance; experimental design; survey research; observation and multivariate analytical techniques.
Research and Theory in Business: Behavioral Science: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor; previous work in statistics and probability theory
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 292B
Research and Theory in Business: Behavioral Science: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Advanced study in the field of Business Administration. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Doctoral Topics in Business Administration: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - .5-3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2012 10 Week Session, Spring 2011
Individual Research in Business Problems: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: PhD student standing and consent of instructor
Credit Restrictions: Forty-five hours of work per unit per term.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0-12 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 0-20 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 0-24 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
This course will cover the broad range of knowledge and skills necessary to teach in top business schools. Teaching business effectively requires a myriad of pedagogical styles and techniques, as well as the confidence and preparation necessary to convey the course material. This course seeks to prepare doctoral students for careers as faculty in business schools, giving them the insight and experience that will make their first courses successful ones. Students will learn effective teaching strategies by observing faculty mentors, reading pedagogical texts, and openly discussing the challenges and rewards of business instruction with experienced faculty and graduate student instructors.
Teaching Business: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. degree.
Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Credit Restrictions: Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for doctoral degree.
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 16 units.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-8 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 5.5-45 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Formerly known as: Business Administration 602
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
This is an independent study course for international students doing internships under the Curricular Practical Training program. Requires a paper exploring how the theoretical constructs learned in academic courses were applied during the internship.
Curricular Practical Training Internship: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 10 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Ph.D. in Business Administration/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.