remember, this guy did his mba from 1988-90 so this could have changed but its interesting just to see the difference in classes. he talks of having 13 core classes and 2 electives. i have 10 core classes and 3 electives (one of those is the thesis).
his first semester core classes are: decision making under uncertainty, microeconomics, org behavior, financial accounting and computer modeling and optimization. mine were organisational dynamics, strategic marketing, opportunity evaluation and financial data and decision making.
i’m on the 3rd chapter so i’m not sure how the classes compare. he does talk about ‘trees’ (as the course decision making under uncertainty gets to be known) and how they talk about decision trees. we didn’t use decision trees but the examples he gives are very much like what we did in the second semester class, finance for high growth business (decision making like should u buy equipment or outsource type stuff). i don’t know if it’s the visual bit of the trees or the fact i’ve spent a semester trying to learn the same type of problems but i think i would have prefered to have the tree explaination. it made a lot more sense to me than the way i was taught (and REALLY struggled with) this stuff.