Welcome to the home page for Vanderbilt's HOD 2710 course.
The goal of this course is to arm you with basic financial and analytical tools to ensure you have a fundamental understanding of the key issues that drive effective organizational performance. At the end of the course, you should be able to interpret broad financial trends in an organization, assess the effectiveness of a particular strategy, and provide appropriate decision-making input to executives.
As each of these topics could constitute an entire semester-long course, this class will focus heavily on a start-up company environment as a microcosm from which complex quantitative and qualitative issues can be explored. To engage you in a process of self-discovery, this course uses a problem-based approach to learning--or PBL. For the duration of the class, you and the other members of your permanent group will be responsible for your individual and collective learning. You are encouraged to use any and all resources at your disposal -- the web, your online network, colleagues at a company where you interned, friends in an MBA program, parents...the opportunities are as limitless as the resources you might turn to in the "real world" after graduation. The keys will be figuring out what you already know, what you need to know, and what you need to do.
The course is structured as a series of increasingly complex and often interrelated problems. The time frame for each is outlined in the syllabus (see appropriate tab). As the course progresses, details for each problem will be posted under the "Problems" tab. Each group will be assigned a blog page (see color coded tabs) to post the following for each problem:
A host of resources for each problem and core course topic are tagged on this delicious.com bookmark (URL for this is also listed below). There are more resources for the first few problems than for later problems, partly because many resources are valuable for the duration of the course. The other reason is that, as the course progresses, you need to enhance your ability to find the relevant resources on your own. Copyright protected resources are listed on the "Problems" tab. They are available online via Heard library, along with a host of additional financial databases. Grades will also be posted on OAK.
http://delicious.com/Professordoyle
As each of these topics could constitute an entire semester-long course, this class will focus heavily on a start-up company environment as a microcosm from which complex quantitative and qualitative issues can be explored. To engage you in a process of self-discovery, this course uses a problem-based approach to learning--or PBL. For the duration of the class, you and the other members of your permanent group will be responsible for your individual and collective learning. You are encouraged to use any and all resources at your disposal -- the web, your online network, colleagues at a company where you interned, friends in an MBA program, parents...the opportunities are as limitless as the resources you might turn to in the "real world" after graduation. The keys will be figuring out what you already know, what you need to know, and what you need to do.
The course is structured as a series of increasingly complex and often interrelated problems. The time frame for each is outlined in the syllabus (see appropriate tab). As the course progresses, details for each problem will be posted under the "Problems" tab. Each group will be assigned a blog page (see color coded tabs) to post the following for each problem:
- What you know
- What you need to know
- What you need to do
A host of resources for each problem and core course topic are tagged on this delicious.com bookmark (URL for this is also listed below). There are more resources for the first few problems than for later problems, partly because many resources are valuable for the duration of the course. The other reason is that, as the course progresses, you need to enhance your ability to find the relevant resources on your own. Copyright protected resources are listed on the "Problems" tab. They are available online via Heard library, along with a host of additional financial databases. Grades will also be posted on OAK.
http://delicious.com/Professordoyle