This course introduces risk management practices used to measure and manage risk of financial firms. The course will explore interest rate risk, market risk, currency risk, and credit risk.

The risk management concept and the associated insurance-related financing tools. Emphasis on the corporate risk handling function from a financial perspective. The insurance industry, pertinent trends, and the products offered.

This course explores key issues in fixed income markets. It develops tools for valuing and modeling the risk exposures of fixed income securities and their derivatives.

Contemporary investment strategies; emphasis on the theoretical. Major topics: portfolio analysis and random walk.

This course introduces risk management practices used to measure and manage risk of financial firms. The course will explore interest rate risk, market risk, currency risk, and credit risk.

Examines research and scholarly approaches to organization theory by investigating both the concept 'organization' and the concept 'theory'. Presents such perspectives as decision theory, structural contingency theory, institutional theory, transaction cost economics, and network theory.

In the second phase of the course, students work on a project on emerging innovative services or products and consequent societal and behavioral impacts.