Dr Yally Avrahampour MAR 5.24

This course is compulsory on the Global MSc in Management, Global MSc in Management (CEMS MIM) and Global MSc in Management (MBA Exchange). This course is not available as an outside option.

The aims of this course are to provide a basic grounding in the management literatures covering disciplines relating to financial control and management science, and of the literatures on the evolving managerial, organisational and professional contexts within which these disciplines are practiced.  Students will be provided with an overview of each discipline with the aim that they acquire a basic working knowledge of each.  The course will cover origins and disciplinary boundaries, the foundations of these disciplines in the social sciences, core concepts, practical applications and current state of play and debate. Weekly topics include:

1: Making Business Decisions that Commit Capital

2: Representing a Firm’s Financial Condition: 1

3: Representing a Firm’s Financial Condition: 2

4: Valuing and Managing Costs

5: Management Science

6. READING WEEK

7: Balanced Performance Measurement

8: Measuring Shareholder and Stakeholder Value

9: Occupations, Professions and Expertise

10: Individual and Institutional Investors in a Historical Context

11: Organisation and Management Theory

22 hours of lectures and 20 hours of seminars in the WT. 2 hours of lectures in the ST.

Weeks 1-11: WT: 1 two hour lecture and 1 two hour case discussion, weekly. Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6 of WT, in line with departmental policy. 

In its Ethics Code, LSE upholds a commitment to intellectual freedom. This means we will protect the freedom of expression of our students and staff and the right to engage in healthy debate in the classroom.

Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the WT.

Students will be expected to jointly produce 2 group case discussion summaries.

Weeks 1-8: Berk, J. & DeMarzo, P. (2014) Corporate Finance, Weetman, P. (2019) Financial  Accounting: An Introduction; Kaplan, R. & Atkinson, A. (2014) Advanced Management Accounting; Keys, P. (1994). Understanding the Process of Operational Research.

Weeks 9-11: Chandler (1990) Scale and Scope

Essay (50%, 1500 words) in the WT.
Essay (50%, 1500 words) in the ST.