Management

135 Prospect, 432.3955
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Director of Graduate Studies
Subrata Sen (55 Hillhouse, Rm 306, 432.6028, subrata.sen@yale.edu)

Professors
Rick Antle, Paul Bracken, Garry Brewer, Zhiwu Chen, Judith Chevalier, Ravi Dhar, Jonathan Feinstein, William Goetzmann, Jonathan Ingersoll, Edward Kaplan, Owen Lamont, Lode Li, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Paul MacAvoy, Theodore Marmor, Barry Nalebuff, Sharon Oster, Benjamin Polak, Douglas Rae, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Fiona Scott-Morton, Martin Shubik, Matthew Spiegel, Shyam Sunder, Arthur Swersey, Jacob Thomas, Victor Vroom, Ivo Welch, Dick Wittink

Associate Professor
Arturo Bris, K. Sudhir

Participating Faculty from the School of Management
On Amir, Keith Chen, Martijn Cremers, Stanley Garstka, Roger Ibbotson, Andrew Jeffrey, Nathaniel Keohane, Jonathan Koppell, Erin Mansur, Dina Mayzlin, Brian Mittendorf, Ganapathi Narayanamoorthy, Nathan Novemsky, Rodney Parker, Antti Petajisto, Peter Schott, Sandra Spataro

Fields of Study
Current fields include Accounting, Financial Economics, and Marketing. Other applied management fields may be added in subsequent years.

Special Admissions Requirements
The GRE General Test is required by the Graduate School. The GMAT Test may be accepted in some cases. Applicants whose native language is not English must take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree
Admission to candidacy will be based on the requirements of the Graduate School, among which are the submission of a prospectus, duly approved by the faculty. Students must maintain a satisfactory grade record in the first year to remain in the program. Students shall, in addition, fulfill the requirements stated below. The process of admission to candidacy will include a faculty review of the student's entire academic record once all requirements have been successfully completed, and must be concluded by the end of the third year.

Core requirements: Two core courses are required of each student, General Economic Theory: Microeconomics, and Policy Modeling. During the first two years in the program, each student is required to complete a two-course sequence in empirical methods and a two-course sequence in one of the social sciences. Both of these sequences are usually taken during the first year. In addition, each student must prepare an original paper during his or her first summer and submit it to the faculty at the beginning of the third term in residence. Further, a second-year research paper must be submitted to the faculty by mid-November of the fifth term in residence.

In-depth requirement: The in-depth requirement consists of five courses selected by the student with the consent of the area faculty and the DGS. This in-depth study is designed to focus on a particular research paradigm and to prepare the student for the dissertation. In addition, a qualifying examination prepared by the area faculty must be passed. Currently offered in-depth areas are Accounting, Financial Economics, and Marketing.

Breadth requirement: The breadth requirement consists of two courses that are outside of the student's depth area. At least one of these courses must be from an applied area of management different from the student's own depth area. Breadth courses are selected by the student with the consent of the area faculty and the DGS.

Course requirement: Each student must complete a total of sixteen courses, achieving a grade of Honors in at least two courses, and a High Pass average in the other fourteen courses.

Teaching: Teaching is considered to be an important part of the doctoral program in Management. The program expects students to serve as teaching fellows, beginning in the spring term of the first year and continuing through the fourth year of study.

Master's Degrees
M.Phil. A student who is admitted to candidacy will be eligible to receive the M.Phil. upon the recommendation of the program's faculty and the approval of the Graduate School.

M.A. (en route to the Ph.D.). A student who completes the sixteen required courses with a High Pass average and the first-year paper will be eligible for the M.A. degree upon the recommendation of the program's faculty and the approval of the Graduate School.

Program materials are available upon request to the Director of Graduate Studies, Management, Yale University, PO Box 208200, New Haven CT 06520-8200. For information on the M.B.A. degree, please contact the admissions office at the School of Management.

Courses
MGMT 700a and 701b, Seminar in Accounting Research I and II.Rick Antle, Brian Mittendorf, Ganapathi Narayanamoorthy, Shyam Sunder, Jacob Thomas.
This course examines research into accounting institutions. Topics are generally drawn from areas of income measurement, managerial evaluation, industry structure and regulation in the accounting industry, informational efficiency of public markets, and asset valuation models under incomplete markets.

MGMT 703b, Experimental Economics.  Shyam Sunder.
This semester-long seminar introduces participants to experimental methods in economics research and conducts a survey of experimental results. Depending on the interests of the participants, we may cover topics from auctions, asset markets, game theory, monetary theory, public goods, corporate finance, market microstructure, institutional economics, or other fields. The seminar participants are expected to design and conduct their own experiment and write a term paper.

MGMT 710a, Mathematical Models for Management.  Susana Mondschein.
Students learn how to formulate and solve optimization problems. Topics include linear and integer programming, nonlinear optimization, dynamic programming, and queueing theory. Many real problems from various areas in manufacturing and service operations are covered throughout the course.

MGMT 740a, Financial Economics I.  Zhiwu Chen.
Current issues in theoretical financial economics addressed through the study of current papers. Focuses on the development of the problem-solving skills essential for research in this area. Also ECON 670a.

MGMT 741b, Financial Economics II.  Jonathan Ingersoll.
Current issues in theoretical financial economics addressed through the study of current papers. Focuses on the development of the problem-solving skills essential for research in this area. Also ECON 671b.

MGMT 742a, Corporate Finance and Market Microstructure.  Matthew Spiegel.
This course covers recent journal articles in the area of corporate finance and market microstructure. Topics from corporate finance include optimal debt levels, bankruptcy, security design, initial public offers, and mergers and acquisitions. The market microstructure half of the course covers inventory models, trading with asymmetric information in the presence of strategic and competitive traders, the social welfare impact of informed trading, bid-ask spreads, information disclosure, and the optimal design of a stock exchange.

MGMT 750a and 751b, Seminar in Marketing I & II.  Dina Mayzlin, K. Sudhir.
Current issues in marketing related to product planning, pricing, advertising, promotion, sales force management, channels of distribution, and marketing strategy are addressed through the study of state-of-the-art papers.

MGMT 752a and b, Marketing Workshop.  Nathan Novemsky.

MGMT 780a and b, Ph.D. Student Research Workshop.  Subrata Sen.

MGMT 781a and b, Accounting/Finance Workshop.  Arturo Bris.

MGMT 782a and b, Doctoral Student Pre-Workshop Seminar.  Subrata Sen.

MGMT 791a or b, Independent Reading and Research.
By arrangement with individual faculty.

MGMT 792a or b, Predissertation Research.
By arrangement with individual faculty.

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