Kellogg School of Management

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First Assignment / Book Orders

Fall 2005/2006

**note – professors who have not submitted their book orders are in bold red font.

EVANSTON classes

DECS 433-41, 43 Kalai

TERM: Fall 2005/2006	COURSE #: DECS 433	SECTIONS: 41, 43			COURSE NAME: Math. Meth’s in Management Decisions
INSTRUCTOR: Ehud Kalai
CASEPACK - NO
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapter One of the text book
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES
1. TEXT - RECOMMENDED Yes
AUTHOR: Newbold-Carlson-Thorne			PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall
TITLE: Statistics for Business and Economics***				ED./DATE: 5^th edition
***This is a special order – it includes the textbook and a cd of all solutions to problems in the book. isbn #: 013-179-8049.

DECS 433-45, 47 McKeon

TERM: Fall 2005/2006	COURSE #: DECS-433	SECTION: 45, 47	COURSE NAME: Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions
INSTRUCTOR: McKeon
CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: None
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: No

DECS 433-42, 44 Schummer

TERM: Fall 05	COURSE #: DECS 433	SECTION:			COURSE NAME: Mathematical Methods for Mgmt. Decisions
INSTRUCTOR: James Schummer
CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: None
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: No.
1. TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Recommended
AUTHOR: Anderson, Sweeney, Williams			PUBLISHER: Southwestern
TITLE: Statistics for Business and Economics ISBN 032420082X				ED./DATE: 9th

DECS 434-61 Klibanoff

TERM: Fall 2005/2006	COURSE #: DECS 434	SECTION: 61,71, 72			COURSE NAME: Stat Methods for Managerial Decisions
INSTRUCTOR: Peter Klibanoff
CASEPACK - YES or NO?: no
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapter 1 of the textbook; pay special attention to the following concepts: normal distribution, t-distribution, the Excel functions NORMSDIST, NORMSINV, TDIST, and TINV, the sampling distributions of means and proportions, confidence intervals for sample means and sample proportions. A syllabus, KStat program and data files referred to in the text may be downloaded from the course Blackboard site.
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: YES.
1. TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: REQUIRED
AUTHOR: Klibanoff, Sandroni, Moselle, Saraniti			PUBLISHER: Thomson South-Western
TITLE: Managerial Statistics: A Case-Based Approach ISBN: 0-324-22645-4				ED./DATE: 1^st ed./2005

TERM: FALL	COURSE #: DECS 436	SECTION: 61 AND 71			COURSE NAME: Accelerated Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions
INSTRUCTOR: Olivier Gossner
CASEPACK - YES or NO?: YES
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Section 1 of the Case Packet
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: YES
1. TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: OPTIONAL. Students may find it useful as a second source of information.
AUTHOR: Anderson, Sweeney and Williams			PUBLISHER: West Publishing Company
TITLE: Statistics for Business and Economics Applications				ED./DATE:

DECS 437-91 Eso

TERM: Fall 2005/2006	COURSE #: DECS 437	SECTION: 91			COURSE NAME: Stat Methods for Managerial Decisions
INSTRUCTOR: Peter Eso
CASEPACK - YES or NO?: no
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapter 1 of the textbook; pay special attention to the following concepts: normal distribution, t-distribution, the Excel functions NORMSDIST, NORMSINV, TDIST, and TINV, the sampling distributions of means and proportions, confidence intervals for sample means and sample proportions. A syllabus, KStat program and data files referred to in the text may be downloaded from the course Blackboard site.
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: YES.
1. TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: REQUIRED
AUTHOR: Klibanoff, Sandroni, Moselle, Saraniti			PUBLISHER: Thomson South-Western
TITLE: Managerial Statistics: A Case-Based Approach ISBN: 0-324-22645-4				ED./DATE: 1^st ed./2005

MECN 430-81 Galambos

TERM: Fall 2005	COURSE #: MECN 430	SECTION: 81			COURSE NAME: Microeconomic Analysis
INSTRUCTOR: Adam Galambos
CASEPACK - YES or NO?: YES
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: 1. Besanko, D., and R. Braeutigam, Microeconomics, Chapter 2, Section 2.1. 2. Besanko and Braeutigam, Mathematical Appendix, Sections A1-A5 only. 3. Al-Najjar, N. and D. Besanko, “Note on the Microeconomics of Cost.” 4. McTeer, Jr., R.D., “The Dismal Science? Hardly!” Wall Street Journal (June 4, 2003). 5. The Aluminum Industry in 1994 (HBS 9-799-129) 6. Aluminum Smelting in South Africa: Alusaf’s Hillside Project (HBS 9-799-130) Please come to class prepared to discuss the cases (5. and 6. above – 5. in general terms, 6. in detail).
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: YES
1. TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: REQUIRED
AUTHOR: David Besanko and Ronald R. Braeutigam			PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons
TITLE: Microeconomics				ED./DATE: 2^nd edition, 2005

TERM: Fall 2005/2006	COURSE #: Mec 441	SECTION: 61 and 62			COURSE NAME: Industrial Structure and Competitive Strategy
INSTRUCTOR: Mark Satterthwaite
CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Required reading: Course syllabus. Scott-Morton (1999), Why economics has been fruitful for strategy. Case: “Nintendo Co., Inc.” Discussion questions for the case are in the packet and on the course’s Blackboard site. Supplementary reading posted on Blackboard: Shapiro and Varian (1999), “Networks and positive feedback.” By mid-September all materials for week one will be on my “course page” at: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/satterthwaite/htm/coursepg.htm Before coming to class please check this page or the Blackboard site for any current clippings that I may have posted.
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: No
1. TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: None
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MGMT 450-62 Diermeier

OPNS 450-61, 62 Deshmukh

TERM: Fall 2005	COURSE #: OPNS 450	SECTION: 61 and 62			COURSE NAME: Spreadsheet Modeling and Analysis for Managerial Decisions
INSTRUCTOR: S. Deshmukh
CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: 1. Review your basic Excel skills as listed in “Essential Excel” in the case packet, and test yourself by developing a spreadsheet for the “Balance Sheet Construction” example therein. 2. Download all Excel files from the “Essential Excel” folder from the course website. 3. Download the “Formula List” add-in from the “Excel Add-ins” folder on the course website and save it on your laptop in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Library.
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: Yes
1. TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Recommended
AUTHOR: C. Albright and W. Winston			PUBLISHER: Duxbury Press
TITLE: Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications				ED./DATE: 2005

OPNS 454-81, 82 Van Mieghem

TERM: Fall 05/06	COURSE #: 454	SECTIONs: 81 & 82			COURSE NAME: Operations Strategy
INSTRUCTOR: Jan A. Van Mieghem
CASEPACK: YES
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Check course webpage for updates: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/VanMieghem/ftp/454/454CoursePage.htm Hand-in: a copy of your resume. (This will help me getting to know you and learn about your experiences.) Read: · Chapter 1 of Operations Strategy: Principles and Practice (in case pack) Prepare: · Mini-Case 1: The Swiss Watch Industry, (at end of Ch 1 of Ops Strat) Background reading: · The new operating-finance partnership: a potent strategy for value creation You will have an opportunity to form groups during the first class and here are some guidelines. Groups should have five students, each of them bringing different strengths to the table. To increase the learning from the skills and knowledge that each person brings to the group, groups must be balanced. For example, groups must balance 6Qs, 4Qs, MMMs and TMPs, as well as geographical origins to benefit from cross-learning and multi-disciplinary experiences (TMPs may also have company access for the course project; more on that in class).
1. TEXT -- REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED? There is no regular published textbook. Instead, a preprint of the textbook that I am writing will be part of the casepack (separately bound as agreed with the copy shop’s Agatha Collins [a-collins2@northwestern.edu])
AUTHOR: J. A. Van Mieghem			PUBLISHER:
TITLE: Operations Strategy: Principles and Practice				ED./DATE: Aug 2005
2. TEXT -- REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:
AUTHOR:			PUBLISHER:
TITLE:				ED./DATE:

Number of hand outs to be added: __200___________________

Do you class have a Mandatory First Class? ___NO_________

OPNS 455-81 Chopra

TERM: Fall 2005/2006	COURSE #: OPNS 455	SECTION: 81			COURSE NAME: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
INSTRUCTOR: Sunil Chopra
CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes.
FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapter 1 of text
IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: Yes.
1. TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Required
AUTHOR: Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl			PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall
TITLE: Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, Operation				ED./DATE: 2^nd edition, 2004