15.223 Class Home

15.223 Global Markets, National Policies and the Competitive Advantage of Firms (H1)

Spring 2010

Instructor: Elena Obukhova

TAs: aangerer@mit.edu, ecarlisl@mit.edu

Section A: TTh 2:30-4:00 (ENDS MARCH 12) (E51-335)
Section B: TTh 4:00-5:30 (ENDS MARCH 12) (E51-335)

Information:

Announcements

Group project submission details

Please submit both a hard and soft copy of your group project by Monday 15 March by 5.00pm.

For the hard copy, please hand it in to Valarie Kniss at E52-530. The office closes by 5pm, so please submit the paper as early as you can..

For the soft copy, both sections should email their work to both Erica and myself.

Have a superlative spring break.

Announced on 11 March 2010 5:35 p.m. by aangerer@mit.edu

Information resources for the Group Report

Some of you have inquired where you can find data and other information resources for the Group Report.

One useful resource would be the action learning sites at the Dewey Library website. The two links below are for G-Lab from last semester and China/India Lab from this semester. Please note there is some overlap between the two sites.

http://libguides.mit.edu/glab
http://libguides.mit.edu/chinaindialabs

Announced on 19 February 2010 12:46 a.m. by aangerer@mit.edu

No class tomorrow Tuesday 2/16

A reminder (especially for those of you who have cross-registered from outside of MIT): MIT is holding classes on Tuesday 2/16, but on the Monday schedule of classes. So 15.223 will not be meeting tomorrow. The next meeting will be at our usual time on Thursday.

Announced on 15 February 2010 1:34 p.m. by aangerer@mit.edu

Case write-up selection tomorrow during class

Please be reminded to pick your cases as we will pass out the case sign-up sheet tomorrow. Please also bring your name and info cards.

Thank you

Announced on 08 February 2010 4:03 p.m. by aangerer@mit.edu

Welcome to 15.223

We hope you've had an excellent IAP.

Please read up the 'Subprime Meltdown' case for the first class on Tuesday and prepare the following questions:

Study Guide Questions:
1. What accounts for the subprime financial turmoil which burst onto the scene in the summer of 2007? Who is most to blame for the mess?
2. Overall, would you say that the U.S./global financial system has functions well or poorly through this episode? Is this sort of instability likely to strike again?
3. If you were advising top lawmakers in Washington about potential policy responses to the subprime turmoil, what sort of advice would you offer? Please consider both short-term remedies and long-term reforms.

The course pack in now available at CopyTech. All materials, excluding the HBS case studies, have been posted on Stellar.

Announced on 28 January 2010 10:49 p.m. by aangerer@mit.edu