Graduate Business Program News
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Friday, Oct. 24, 2008
FNCE 720: The Mortgage Crisis has been added to the Winter 2009 schedule. This one-unit course will be taught by Robert Hendershott and will be held from 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. on the following Fridays: January 23, January 30, and February 6. Interested students may register for FNCE 720 via eCampus.
Course Description
This course will discuss the causes and consequences of the US mortgage crisis in three class sessions. The first class will cover the events leading up to the crisis (1992-2006), including the residential real estate boom and asset-backed securitization. The second class will cover the crisis including a series of RIP case studies: What killed Bear Stearns? What killed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? What killed AIG? What killed Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch? What killed Washington Mutual and Wachovia? The third class will focus on how the crisis can be expected to change the global financial services industry in the future, and will involve student groups presenting their research on the possible futures of particular industries: banking (commercial and investment), insurance (underwriting and reinsurance), and investment services (asset management including alternatives). These presentations, along with accompanying written reports, will determine the majority of student grades.
Prerequisites: FNCE 455.
Tentative Readings:
A Primer on Securitization, edited by Leon Kendall and Michael Fishman (MIT Press)
The Subprime Panic, working paper by Gary Gorton
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Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008
OMIS 388: Supply Chain Outsourcing is being offered during the Winter 2009 quarter and will be taught by Professor Andy Tsay. The course will consist of case discussions, guest speakers, role-play exercises, possibly site visits, 4-5 brief written assignments (mostly qualitative, unlike the assignments in OMIS 355 and 357), and student presentations.
Recent guest speakers have come from firms such as HP, Agilent, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Flextronics, and Technology Forecasters.
Recent student presentations have given the class eyewitness accounts of outsourcing practices regarding Apple iPhone, Safeway private label ice cream, Applied Materials solar device manufacturing equipment, Microsoft xBox, and the products of a number of smaller firms (lasers, solar panels, medical devices, etc.).
For more information, an introductory slideshow and tentative syllabus are available on the OMIS 388 webpage at: http://eres.scu.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=2216.
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Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008
Due to the unique structure of FNCE 715 and FNCE 716, the GBP Office will be enrolling interested students in these courses administratively. In order to be enrolled for Winter 2009, students will need to have completed FNCE 714 in a previous quarter or enrolled themselves in FNCE 714 for the Winter 2009 quarter.
Students interested in taking FNCE 715 and FNCE 716 should send an email with their full legal name, student ID#, and enrollment request to GBPSupportandRecords@scu.edu. Students will be enrolled in the order that written requests are received.
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Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008
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Friday, Oct. 17, 2008
An updated schedule for the Winter 2009 quarter is now available on the GBP website. Go to www.scu.edu/business/graduates/current-students/ and look under "Academics" and then "Class Schedules" for the PDF.
Reminder: The Initial Registration Period for the Winter 2009 quarter begins Monday, October 20th. Individual registration appointments are viewable in eCampus.
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Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008
Attendance during the first two weeks of Professor Fern's MGMT 619 sections is required to pass the course.
Faculty Bio
Michael J. Fern (Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill) is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Santa Clara University. His research focuses on the development, use, and transfer of knowledge in the contexts of innovation and entrepreneurship. Specifically, his research explores: (1) how organizations transfer knowledge across divisions to support their innovation efforts; (2) the mechanisms through which universities transfer social science knowledge to organizations: (3) how entrepreneurs rely on knowledge in their decision-making during new venture formation; and (4) how new product development teams exploit knowledge during product development activities.
Dr. Fern's research has received several awards, including the Michael H. Mescon/Coles College of Business Best Empirical Paper Award (Academy of Management), a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, a Booz Allen Hamilton/SMS Ph.D. Fellowship (Strategic Management Society), and a Wilhemina M. and Richard W. Herbin Scholarship. He serves as a reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Cananda (SSHRC).
Dr. Fern received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Summa Cum Laude, from the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked at Arthur Andersen as an information technology consultant. As a consultant, he assessed information technology risk and developed business continuity plans for clients operating in the high technology, energy, and financial services sectors. Before joining the faculty of SCU, Dr. Fern was an Assistant Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
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Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
The Dukes Business Service Center also serves as Lucas Hall's Lost & Found collection site. If you have lost an item or find an item, please check in with the Dukes Business Service Center.
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Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
Winter 2009 registration appointments for returning Graduate Business students will begin Monday, October 20th. Appointments will be viewable in eCampus starting Friday, October 10th.
Registration for new Graduate Business students will begin Monday, November 3rd, the first day of the Open Enrollment period. There will be no registration activity during the week of October 27th.
Questions? Please contact the Graduate Business Programs Office at 408-554-5485 or GBPSupportandRecords@scu.edu.
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