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15.223  Global Mkts, Nat'l Policy and the Competitive Adv. of Firms

Fall 2015

Instructor: Simon Johnson

TAs: Styliani Gaitani, Ting Sun

Lecture:  "T, Th"  (10:00-11:30 Section A & 1:00 - 2:30 Section B)        

Information: 

E51-149

Announcements

Class 10 & 11 Summaries posted

The summaries for Class 10 and 11 are now posted on stellar.

See you all on Thursday!

Announced on 08 December 2015  8:13  p.m. by Styliani Gaitani

Please take class evaluation for 15.223

Class,

Please note that the online subject evaluation is now open for 15.223 Global Markets, National Policy and the Competitive Advantage of Firms.
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/evaluate.html

Please takes less than 10 minutes to fill out an evaluation. The teaching team is counting on you to provide feedback on curriculum and teaching. Your responses are read and valued. You need only answer questions that are applicable, and can write comments as appropriate.

Thank you in advance for your participation,
Your teaching team

Announced on 08 December 2015  1:53  p.m. by Ting Sun

Holiday reading (Optional)

Dear students,

Hope you are having a great thanksgiving weekend!

Here is an optional holiday reading:
http://littlesis.org/maps/1138-the-pfizer-inversion-and-wall-street-s-revolving-door

See you on Tuesday!

Announced on 27 November 2015  2:12  p.m. by Styliani Gaitani

Group project and team register reminder

Dear class,

Hope all is well with you and family as the holiday season approaches.

We would like to remind you that the group project is due next Thursday, Dec 3rd. Over 90% of the class have registered their groups on the Google spreadsheet we sent out 3 weeks ago. If you haven't done so, please write on the spreadsheet
- Names of your team members
- Name of the country on which you plan to write the report

If you don't yet have a group, please either
- ask to join a group that has 2 or 3 people
or
- put down your name under 'Students looking for a team' and form a new team with your colleagues

The link to '15.223 Register your group': https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AY5KDYmB6qG-sYMrnZzz8jhanAb7S-rg6qkaHRsY59Y/edit?usp=sharing

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving,
your Global Markets teaching team

Announced on 24 November 2015  3:53  p.m. by Ting Sun

Group CTO of UBS speaking Tuesday 11/17

Dear class,

Group CTO of UBS, Stephan Murer, is speaking in the “Future Commerce” class this coming Tuesday 11/17 at 1:00pm .  They are doing interesting work with financial technology innovation.  Stephan’s group sponsors the Future of Finance Challenge that some of you might find of interest. For example innovate.ubs.com.

If you are in the 1pm section and want to join this talk, Please let us know and we will try to arrange you to switch to 10am on a space available basis. Please find below details of the talk.
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, 17 November, 1:00pm
  • Location: E14 - room 633 (MIT Media Lab 6th floor)
  • It will be a wide-ranging fireside chat about what UBS is doing, what they think about current trends (blockchain, flash trading, AML & KYC in an era of anonymization, Basel III), where they see opportunity in the future, and how innovators can collaborate with them.
Best,
Stella and Ting

Announced on 14 November 2015  1:40  p.m. by Ting Sun

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