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Most of the decisions of analysts, consultants, entrepreneurs, investors and managers require us to look ahead and assess an uncertain future. In this class, you will learn a unique approach to decision making that will help you consider the fundamentals of enterprises and how to link these fundamentals to underlying measures, which in turn will help you make better investment or management decisions. Students who have taken this course often comment on how it has transformed their thinking and understanding of companies. It also serves as a useful “capstone” to the MBA program as we draw on what was taught in most core courses.
In developing this line of reasoning and performing the analysis, we consider how to think about a new business as well as a publicly traded company. Having considered the basic building blocks, we next examine how the business resources and activities are translated into financial statements (whether for an early stage or public company) and consider what we learn from financial statements. We consider the extensive information increasingly available from outside sources, including various websites as well as Bloomberg and CapIQ. We also consider how certain accounting measures and practices impact the measures of the key elements of the business.
Focusing on the future, we take a different approach to many topics/concepts that are covered in various ways in other financial statement analysis, earnings quality, and security analysis and valuation classes. Many students take this course as well as other seemingly similar courses, and we have never received any feedback that the coverage in this course is redundant, irrespective of the other courses taken by students.
We will focus on understanding how entities create or destroy value for various stakeholders and what it would take to change this, how to consider uncertainty more explicitly in plans, and whether this fundamental value is reflected in the price or not (for entities that it applies to).
We will also take some time each week to address any topics that are in the financial press that bear on the subjects and the approach.

Department: Accounting (ACCT)
FM 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Instructor: Shivaram Rajgopal
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ACCT B8010

M.PHIL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department: Biomedical Informatics
Instructor: Chunhua Weng
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Instructor: Gamze Gursoy
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BINF G8010

Catullus in Context

Department: Classics
M 10:10 a.m.-noon
Instructor: Katharina Volk
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LATN GR8010

CHILD DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY I

Department: Psychoanalytic Center
Instructor: Wendy L Turchin
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PSCC M8011

ASTROPHYSICS II

Department: Physics
MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
Instructor: Charles J Hailey
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3 points

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PHYS GR8012

Reading Greco-Roman Egypt

Who read the Iliad in antiquity (and how much of it)? Which plays of Euripides did people read the most? They say that the Greek novel was a popular genre: was it? And if so, which ones were people reading? What can we say about how people read Greek literature from the manuscripts that remain, as well as the various summaries, glosses, and commentaries that were read alongside them? It should go without saying that people did not read only what survived to be canonized in later periods as the “classics” of ancient Greek literature: how did all the other literary texts they read affect the way we think they read our “classics,” or, conversely, how and to what extent did our “classics” influence the literature that they read but failed to make the leap to our subsequent manuscript tradition?

One can look on the papyri that survive from Greco-Roman Egypt as a literary Burgess Shale: it preserves an entire literary ecosystem, including both the ancestors of medieval manuscripts and a mass of textual fossils--and even whole genres--that were, from a literary history perspective, evolutionary dead-ends. This class explores the literary and sub-literary texts that survive from Greco-Roman Egypt with the aims of (1) reconstructing something of the literary ecology of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, and (2) reintegrating canonical classical Greek authors and works in the context of that ecology in which they were copied, read, studied, taught, and performed. In its fully realized expression, such a project of reconstruction and reintegration would take into account not only Greek literary and sub-literary production, but also all the texts in other languages and scripts (e.g., Egyptian, Latin, Aramaic, etc.) that once roamed the literary landscape, including Christian theological and documentary texts. There is, however, good reason to believe that the Greek literary graphomene of Egypt (as well as other regions of the
Greek East) was in fact relatively self-contained, almost an island sub-ecology, and as such represents a coherent and profitable object of study.

The course will begin with an introduction to Greco-Roman Egypt and what we know about books, book production, literacy, education, libraries, and the reading culture(s) of the region. We will then take the case of the Homeric epics as a case study in reconstructing how a specific author, text or genre was read in antiquity, before devoting individual sessions to some of the following topics: occasional

Department: Classics
R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
Instructor: David M Ratzan
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GREK GR8013

Practicum: Advanced Clinical Management

PRAC ADV CLIN MGMT & LDRS

Department: Nursing
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NURS N8015

S PUB EDUC POLICY SEM & PRACT

Department: Law
Instructor: Kimberly Austin
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LAW_ L8016