NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Undergraduate Division

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

 

C00.002 Professor Marti G. Subrahmanyam (Coordinator),

Professor Crocker H. Liu (Co-Coordinator, Spring 2004)

Stern Honors Seminar

Fall 2003/Spring 2004


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Seminar Objective and Description
 
 

The broad objective of the honors seminar is to provide academically oriented students with an opportunity to understand the research issues, methodologies and processes in a variety of areas in business. It is hoped that the seminar will get them excited about research as well as its practical applications. The administrative arrangements of the seminar are as follows:
  

  1. Honors students will enroll in an honors seminar in both the fall and spring semesters of their senior year. The seminar will include topics from all the areas taught at the Stern School.

 

  1. Experienced faculty members will be requested to present research developments in their area in a manner that would appeal to bright undergraduates. 

 

  1. The seminar will meet roughly thrice each month throughout the academic year. (Each of these meetings will be the equivalent of two regular class sessions of seventy-five minutes.)

 

The seminar will consist of several two-session modules. The rough format of each module is follows:

 

  1. Prior to the first session of the module, readings will be assigned. The readings will be carefully selected so that the students are not overburdened either in terms of the sheer bulk of the materials or the content.

 

  1. In the first session, a problem area will be defined in detail and the relevant concepts and methodologies explored in some depth. Research on the topic will be presented in a manner that would appeal to an intelligent, but not particularly knowledgeable, audience. Examples include a discussion of questions such as: What are the research issues involved in the area that have some practical ramifications? What are the different approaches and methodologies that have been used to address them? What are the open issues? Ideally, the session will end with a specific assignment for the students to work on for the next session.

 

 

  1. The second session will be devoted to a discussion of the specific assignment and related issues. It may include a discussion of related research. A bias towards research conducted by the faculty member teaching the class or other colleagues at Stern is likely and is appropriate. The objective is to achieve some closure at the end of the session.

 

Instructions:

 

Students in the course are expected to study the readings and problem sets prior to the assigned dates and come prepared to discuss them in class.The following outline represents the dates, subject areas and the names of the instructors for the various sessions.Any modifications of the schedule will be announced in class. 

Grading for the course will be based approximately on the following weights:

 

                        Class Participation                                            40%    

Assignments                                                     30%

Final Presentation of Thesis                               30%

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Coordinator’s Office Hours:

Professor Liu

Tuesdays,11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., 

Thursdays, 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m,

and by appointment. (Call Ms. Norma Rodriguez at 998-0363 for an appointment for Prof. Liu)

 

Subrahmanyam: Office:Room 9-15, Tisch Hall, Tel:X80348, e-mail: msubrahm@stern.nyu.edu

Liu: Office: Room 9-10, Tisch Hall, Tel:X80353, email: cliu@stern.nyu.edu

 

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Date                                        Sess. No.                               Subject Area                                        Instructor

 

Fall 2003

 

9/05                                                     I                                   Introduction                                          Marti Subrahmanyam

                                                Finance                                                Crocker Liu

 

9/12                                                     II                                  Finance                                                Crocker Liu

 

9/19                                                     III                                Statistics                                               Aaron Tenenbein

9/26                                                                                         Thesis Research: No Class

10/03                                                   IV                                Statistics                                               Aaron Tenenbein

                                                                         

10/10                                                                                       Thesis Research: NoClass

10/17                                                   V                                 Marketing                                             Geeta Menon     

10/24                                                   VI                                Marketing                                             Geeta Menon     

10/31                                                                                       Interviews:NoClass

                                                 

11/07                                                   VII                               Accounting                                           Eli Bartov (2 pm)

11/14                                                   VIII                              Theses Proposal Presentations  Marti Subrahmanyam

11/21                                                   IX                                Accounting                                           Eli Bartov (2 pm)

    

11/28                                                                                       Thanksgiving

12/05                                                   X                                 Finance and Doctoral    Advising           Edwin Elton

12/12                                                                                       Thesis Research: NoClass

                                                 

SEMINAR OUTLINE

 

Date                                               Sess. No.                         Subject Area                                       Instructor

 

Spring 2004

           

1/23

1/30

2/06                                                     XI                                Thesis Progress Reports                       Marti Subrahmanyam

                                                                                                                                                            and Crocker Liu                                               

2/13                                                    

2/20                                                     XII                               Global Business                                    Bernard Yeung

2/27                                                     XIII                              Global Business                                    Bernard Yeung

3/05                                                     XIV                             Risk Management                                 Kobi Boudoukh

                                                                         

3/12                                                     XV                               Risk Management                                 Kobi Boudoukh

                                                                         

3/19                                                                                         Spring Break

3/26                                                     XVI                             Game Theory                                       Adam Brandenberger

                                                 

4/02                                                     XVII                            Game Theory                                       Adam Brandenberger

4/09                                                                                        

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4/16                                                                                         Thesis preparation

4/23                                                     XX                               Thesis Presentations                              Marti Subrahmanyam

4/30                                                     XXI                             Honors Graduation                               Marti Subrahmanyam