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- MaybeMBA
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Class of 2009 - Finance and Accounting concentration - Investment Management career - Mother to Baby Y born in 2007 and Baby X born in 2009 - CFA designation. I can still be reached at maybemba at gmail dot com.
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Why haven't you taken Instruments with Akash Bandyopadhyay?
Oh, yes, if only I had, eh? I wasn't actually planning to take Financial Instruments at all but wanted to take Veronesi's Risk Management course this winter and he refused to waive Fin Instr for me. At that point, my only choice was Nosal who was the only professor teaching the course this fall. I know Bandyopadhyay and some others would have been much better, but that's just the way it goes. If he had just taught the course normally (you know, with formulas), it would have been fine. And, as it turns out, I've decided to not to take Veronesi's course anyway. Ha.
Can you name some of the star professors and the courses they teach...i am an applicant and have heard of only S Kaplan, Abbie Smith, Rich Thaler, A McGill, A Kashyap and Petroski.
Just wanted to say I've enjoyed reading your blog w/ insights into GSB/Booth. I was admitted today and will probably attend (unless some other school wants to give me a full ride).
best
soni
See below:
Financial Instruments (35100):
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/akash.bandyopadhyay/teaching/courses/BUS_35100/
Fixed Income (35130):
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/akash.bandyopadhyay/teaching/courses/BUS_35130/
also his 35000 Investments.
akash bandyopadhyay looks like a new prof. I was wondering if you could suggest some "star" profs
Re star profs. First, there are many great profs outside the most-heard-of short list. Such as Dhar for market. Wu and Hsee are supposed to be great in managerial decision making (Thaler's field). Pastor is brilliant. Bertrand is definitely considered a star. Middlebrooks' upper level market courses are sold out. Shrager's New Venture Strategy is highly sought after. Deutsch is also supposed to be great. Just a few that come to mind at the moment - there are plenty of others (Adelman, Hurst, Murphy). Not familiar with Bandyopadhyay myself but when you matriculate you can get a good sense of the good/bad profs by talking to fellow students and consulting the historical course evaluations. Hope that helps a bit.
I heard Bandyopadhyay left GSB for good.
May very well be - he is not currently listed in the faculty directory. On occasions you might see a prof come back - but probably not someone who wants to get tenure somewhere. I don't know anything specific though.
what are some of the classes you enjoyed?
I heard marianne bertrand is good but a total prude and very arrogant. is that true? maybe coz she;s French !!
Wow - lots o' questions on this topic.
I was going to do a wrap up summary of the good and bad classes after my final quarter - but so far the only classes I really enjoyed last year were
Marketing with Dhar and Portfolio Management with Pastor. I took Corp Fin with Amit Seru. Was his first quarter at the GSB and I thought he was quite good but the class was too review for me to really be enjoyed. I also thought Kole's Managing the Workplace was fine though I might not necessarily be in the majority on that one.
Re Bertrand - never took her class, have certainly heard good things about her as a teacher and my occasional interactions with her have been fine. I don't mind a little attitude in a top notch prof (such as Kaplan). What I can't bear is huge ego in a bad prof.
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