The Kellogg School of Management offers 40+ doctoral seminars in a given year. These courses, which are rooted in statistics, theory, peer-reviewed literature, and research methodology, are taught by faculty who are acknowledged experts in their fields. With enrollments ranging from 3 to 20+ students, these seminars provide natural opportunities for discussion and the exchange of ideas.
Doctoral courses offered at the Kellogg School fall into six categories:
Additionally, Kellogg’s innovative curriculum responds to current research trends and theories, so it is not uncommon for a class to be offered that addresses a particular area of study or research expertise of a professor who may be visiting the Kellogg School for a year. For instance, three such seminars were offered in political economy, experimental economics, and negotiations.
Below are listed doctoral seminars offered by the Kellogg School of Management for the 2009-2010 academic year. Specific course information is available within Kellogg’s
Course Catalog and Schedules.
Please note that this list of courses is subject to change, and any inquiries about these classes should be directed to the department. Interested Northwestern students should register through
CAESAR, Northwestern’s online registration system.
Kellogg doctoral students also take classes outside of the Kellogg School in the Departments of Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics, and more. Course listings for these subject areas are available through
CAESAR.
The course listings below are tentative. Please refer periodically to this page for changes.
Doctoral Seminars: 2009-2010
| Accounting Information & Management |
| Course Number/Instructor |
Course Title |
Quarter |
Date/Time |
Room |
ACCT-520-1
Thomas Lys |
Seminar in Empirical Capital Markets Research in Accounting |
Winter |
Fridays
2:00 - 5:00 pm |
6224
Jacobs |
ACCT-520-3
Sri Sridharan |
Seminar in Information Economics and Analytical Accounting Research |
Winter |
Mondays
2:00 - 5:00 pm
|
6224
Jacobs |
ACCT-520-2
Tjomme Rusticus |
Seminar in Empirical Research on the Economic Consequences of Accounting |
Spring |
TBA |
TBA |
ACCT-520-4
Ron Dye |
Seminar in Economic Fundamentals for Accounting Research |
Spring |
TBA |
TBA |
| Finance |
Course Number/
Instructor |
Course Title |
Quarter |
Date/Time |
Room |
FINC-485-0
Costis Skiadas |
Introduction to Financial Theory |
Fall |
Tuesdays
2:00 - 5:00 pm |
4212
Jacobs |
FINC-489-0
Paola Sapienza |
Empirical Corporate Finance |
Fall |
Mondays
3:00 - 6:00 pm
*First Meeting Friday, September 18 at 3:00 - 4:00 pm |
4212
Jacobs, except for September 21 and October 12 meet in Computer Lab 2222 |
FINC-487-0
Costis Skiadas |
Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory |
Winter |
Tuesdays 2:00 - 5:00 pm |
4212
Jacobs |
FINC-488-0
Ravi Jagannathan |
Econometrics of Financial Markets |
Winter |
Fridays
9:00 am -12:30 pm |
4212
Jacobs |
FINC-486-0
Michael
Fishman/Arvind Krishnamurthy |
Corporate Finance |
Spring |
Tuesdays
2:00 - 5:00 pm |
4212
Jacobs |
FINC-520-0
Janice Eberly/Andrea Eisfeldt |
Finance Seminar |
Spring |
Tuesdays
2:00 - 5:00 pm |
TBA |
FINC-520-1
Lawrence Christiano |
Seminar in Finance: Time Series Analysis |
Spring |
Mondays
2:00 - 3:15 pm Wednesdays
4:00 - 5:45 pm |
4212
Jacobs |
| Management & Organizations |
Course Number/
Instructor |
Course Title |
Quarter |
Date/Time |
Room |
MORS-424-1
Leigh Thompson |
The Individual and the Organization |
Fall |
Mondays
1:30 - 4:30 pm |
372
Jacobs |
| MORS-520-0 Brayden King |
Seminar: Politics of the Corporation |
Fall |
Wednesdays
3:00 - 6:00 pm |
387
Jacobs |
| MORS-530-0 Keith Murnighan |
Special Topics in Management & Organizations: Economics, Social Psychology & their Experiments |
Fall |
Mondays
10:00 am -1:00 pm |
372
Jacobs |
| MORS-425-1 William Ocasio |
Behavior in Organizational Systems |
Winter |
TBA |
TBA |
| MORS-424-2 Katherine Phillips |
Social Processes in Organizations |
Winter |
Tuesdays
1:00 - 4:00 pm |
372 Jacobs, except class on 1/26 will be held in 387 |
| MORS-426-0 Robert Livingston |
Empirical Research in Organizational Behavior Methods & Practice |
Winter |
Wednesday
2:00-5:00 pm |
372 Jacobs |
MORS-425-2
Paul Hirsch |
Organizations in Their Environments |
Spring |
TBA |
TBA |
MORS-427-0
Robert Livingston |
Laboratory Experimentation with Organizations |
Spring |
TBA |
TBA |
| Managerial Economics & Strategy |
| Course Number/Instructor |
Course Title |
Quarter |
Date/Time |
Room |
MECS-449-1
Daniel Spulber |
Competitive Strategy |
Fall |
Wednesdays
1:30 - 4:30 pm |
165 Jacobs |
MECS-460-1
Jonathan Weinstein |
Foundations of Managerial Economics I: Static Decision Models |
Fall |
Tuesdays 3:00 - 6:00 pm |
586
Jacobs |
MECS-465-1
Mehmet Ekmekci |
Contract Theory and Mechanism Design |
Fall
|
Mondays
3:30 - 6:30 pm |
586
Jacobs |
MECS-460-2
Alp Atakan |
Foundations of Managerial Economics II: Dynamic Decision Models |
Winter |
Wednesdays
3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
|
586
Jacobs |
MECS-477-0
Eric French |
Introduction to Applied Econometrics 2 |
Winter |
TBA |
TBA |
MECS-516-0
Bard Harstad |
Topics in Formal Political Theory |
Winter |
Fridays
9:00 am - 12:00 pm |
586
Jacobs |
| MECS-460-3 Florian Herold |
Foundations of Managerial Economics: Game Theory |
Spring |
TBA |
TBA |
MECS-462-0
Nabil Al-Najjar |
Decision Theory |
Spring |
TBA |
TBA |
MECS-466-0
Antoine Loeper |
Social Choice and Voting Models |
Spring |
TBA
|
TBA |
MECS-468-2
Alvaro Sandroni |
Selected Topics in Economic Theory |
Spring |
TBA
|
TBA |
MECS-471-0
Jin Li |
Economics of Organization |
Spring |
TBA |
TBA |
MECS-485-0
Jennifer Brown |
Empirical Issues in Business Strategy |
Spring |
TBA
|
TBA |
| Marketing |
Course Number/
Instructor |
Course Title |
Quarter |
Date/Time |
Room |
MKTG-476-0
Yi Qian |
Introduction to Applied Econometrics 1 |
Fall |
Tuesdays
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
(No lecture Oct. 27) |
488
Jacobs |
MKTG-520-1
Angela Lee/Alex Chernev |
General Seminar for PhD Candidates: Consumer Behavior 1 |
Fall |
Tuesdays
1:30 - 5:00 pm |
488
Jacobs |
MKTG-520-2
Miguel Brendl |
General Seminar for PhD Candidates: Consumer Behavior II |
Winter |
Fridays
2:00 - 5:00 pm |
488
Jacobs |
MKTG-520-3
Kent Grayson/Bobby Calder |
General Seminar for PhD Candidates: Consumer Behavior III |
Winter |
Tuesdays
9:00 - 12:00 pm |
488
Jacobs |
MKTG-520-4
Gregory Carpenter |
General Seminar for PhD Candidates: Marketing Strategy |
Winter |
Mondays
9:00 am -12:00 pm |
488
Jacobs |
MKTG-520-6
Eric Andersen |
Marketing Models |
Winter |
Tuesdays
2:00 - 5:00 pm |
488
Jacobs |
MKTG-520-5
Lakshman Krishnamurthi |
General Seminar for PhD Candidates: Multivariate Statistics |
Spring
|
TBA |
TBA |
| Operations Management |
| Course Number/ Instructor |
Course Title |
Quarter |
Date/Time |
Room |
| OPNS-463-0 Wuqin Lin |
Stochastic Calculus and Control With Applications |
Fall |
Mondays
9:00 am - 12:00 pm |
561
Jacobs |
OPNS-483-1
Itai Gurvich |
Stochastic Foundations |
Winter |
TBA |
TBA |
OPNS-521-0
Jan Van Mieghem/Sarang Deo |
Foundations of Operations Management |
Winter |
Thursdays
9:00 am -12:00 pm |
561
Jacobs |
OPNS-520-6
Baris Ata |
Contemporary Topics in Operations Management |
Spring |
TBA |
TBA |
