Welcome to the home page for Vanderbilt's LPO 3350
The goal of this course is enable you to contribute to effective decision-making within an organizational setting. Acquiring rudimentary financial and analytical tools are necessary first steps in that process. You also need to determine what information is necessary for a decision, how to acquire and measure that information, and how to use and/or evaluate it effectively.
As each of these topics could constitute an entire semester-long course, this class will focus more on how to find and use data than the nuts and bolts of accounting and finance. 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, peers at a former employer, 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 tabs for "Groups") to post the following for each problem:
A host of resources for each problem and core course topic are tagged on the delicious.com bookmark 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 be posted on OAK.
http://delicious.com/Professordoyle
As each of these topics could constitute an entire semester-long course, this class will focus more on how to find and use data than the nuts and bolts of accounting and finance. 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, peers at a former employer, 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 tabs for "Groups") 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 the delicious.com bookmark 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 be posted on OAK.
http://delicious.com/Professordoyle