After examining these markets separately, students then study the interactions among all markets to explain fluctuations in output, interest rates, exchange rates, price level and wages, foreign trade and foreign investments. Using macroeconomic theory, students learn to decipher how monetary and fiscal policy work and how they affect domestic and global companies, how shocks from the rest of the world affect the U.S. economy and U.S. firms, and how investment in information has affected productivity growth and economic policy in the U.S. economy. In this course, students plumb the principles of effective leadership and people management in technology-driven firms. As part of this course, students complete a leadership project that analyzes and plans for development of leadership competencies in themselves. They don't call it the Information Age for nothing.
Good information is a competitive weapon, but bad information can break a firm's back.
Students gain an understanding of information management and coordination in e-business and the way in which the Net and IT impact functions and processes of a networked enterprise, markets and market makers. This course elucidates the theory of corporate finance, and explores how it's applied in the financial decision making of a technology-focused firm. Also featured are the fundamentals of firm valuation and its relations to stock market valuation, and the link between managerial decisions, compensation policies and firm value. In this course, students investigate the micro-economic drivers of competition in tech industries. This managerial accounting class explores the critical internal ramifications of information in both decision making and performance evaluation.