The grade will be calculated from the grade on your report (80%) and your oral presentation (20%). In addition, participation (including attendance) can add or subtract 5 or 10% as one of five levels-- Plus, Double Plus, Neutral, Minus or Double Minus. Attendance is required. You may, however, choose to skip up to five of the oral presentation sessions without penalty.
My policy on using work from other classes: Ask me first if you want to combine this project with work from other classes.
The handout on what should be in your projects is here, together with writing instructions and lengthier notes on writing. I also have posted tips and procedures for your oral presentations.
I have posted a list of past topics that students have chosen, and examples of past papers by Lauren Baechle, Mark Leeman, Steve List, Jeremy Prala, and James Smith.
G492 SCHEDULE
September 2, Tuesday. Rules for Writing
I've posted sentences we talked about in class and other sentences,
without improvements and with them.
"Capitalization Rules for
Titles"
"Writing Tips", www.writersblock.ca,
is a good site on the fine points of writing.
September 4, Thursday. Good Business Writing
Warren Buffett, "The Chairman's
Letter," pp. 3-23 of "The 2002 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report,"
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2002ar/2002ar.pdf and my powerpoints.
The introduction to the 1997
Cardozo Law Review issue on Berkshire Hathaway.
"The
Annual Frenzy over Buffett; Berkshire Hathaway's Report Will Hit Investors'
Screens; for Some, It's the Ideal Weekend," Monica Langley, Wall Street
Journal, March 5, 2004. p. C1.
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Reports from other years
Benjamin Franklin on Writing
September 9,11. GROUP MEETING 1 THIS WEEK.
September 16, Tuesday. Data Sources
Data source link page
September 18, Thursday. Consulting Reports
Peter Koudal, "Profiting from
Continuous Differentiation in the Global Chemicals Industry," Deloitte and
Touche (2003),
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/DTT_DR_ProfitGlobalChem.pdf and
powerpoints to go with it
Marin Gjaja, Sims Hulings
and Peter Stanger, "Profit Parabolas: Bringing Science to the Art of Pricing,"
BCG Publications (2003),
http://www.bcg.com/publications/publication_view.jsp?pubID=1011&language=English
and overheads of the
article
September 23,25. GROUP MEETING 2 THIS WEEK.
September 30, Tuesday. Graphs and Tables
"Principles of Graphs and Tables" and other powerpoint slides.
"Graphic of the Day: Enron
Follies," New York Times, February 6, 2002"
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00006W&topic_id=1.
A
text file with instructions on Excel chart reformatting, and a
spreadsheet example.
October 2, Thursday. Powerpoint
Tips and
Procedures for oral presentations (and point by point in powerpoint) and more tips
in a different format.
Some
powerpoint slides I might use. I will use overheads and powerpoints. Here is the the original longer
PDF NERA
version of consulting firm slides on double marginalization.
Edward Tufte, "PowerPoint Is
Evil," Wired, Issue 11.09 (September 2003),
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html, and Julia Keller,
"Is PowerPoint the Devil?",
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/WRIT465/management/juliakeller1.htm,
and Steven Kaminski, "PowerPoint Presentations:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,"
http://www.shkaminski.com/Classes/Handouts/powerpoint.htm
Peter Norvig, "The Gettysburg
Powerpoint Presentation,"
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm . Here is the original Gettysburg Address.
"PowerPoint Usability: Q&A
with Don Norman"
by Cliff Atkinson--- a defense of Powerpoint.
A 2001
New
Yorker article on powerpoint.
Representative examples of
powerpoint slides(not *good* examples):
McKinsey New York
police and ECA Asian power grid and Allen Consulting on government investments.
October 7, 9. GROUP MEETING 3 THIS WEEK.
October 14, Tuesday. Presenting Statistics to Clients
Franklin Fisher, "Statisticians, Econometricians, and Adversary Proceedings "
and
some powerpoints on Fisher's article and sample
regression tables
A link to my materials on simple
statistics and regression analysis, including the Rice University java applets.
In particular, see the Rice "Confidence Intervals" and "Regression by Eye"
applets.
Data on abortion by state in
Excel
spreadsheets, with regressions.
Tips for
Regression Presentation
.
October 16, Thursday. Oral Presentations: Christy Waninski, Jessica
Wild, Robert Walsh,
Renato Schuetz
October 21, Tuesday. Oral Presentations: Bly Roll, Brian Spiro, Shannon Suba, Daniel Vollen
October 23, Thursday. Oral Presentations:Ashley Pafford, Jeremy Patick, Jason Powers, Adeel Quraishi
October 28, Tuesday. Oral Presentations:Robert McCarty, Chad Miller, Todd Miltenberger, Michael Morrow
October 30, Thursday. Oral Presentations: Nat Kitichai, Brennan Knotts, Farah Kraus,Scott Lipsky
November 4, Tuesday. Oral Presentations:Clement Huang, Samuel Jung, Cady Kaas, Jacqueline Kabigting
November 6, Thursday. Oral Presentations: Ashutosh Kadakia, Clark Kaericher, Shane Kennedy, Trevor Blum
November 11, 13. GROUP MEETING 4 THIS WEEK.
November 18, Tuesday. Writing Analysis.
No reading. We will go over examples of
student writing in class.
November 20, Thursday. Oral Presentations: Raj Gunasekaran, Daniel Hammes, Daniel Hill, Kara Howard
November 25, Tuesday. Oral Presentations: Allison Dembek, Matt Etzler, Angela Fox, Robert Gradeless
November 27, Thursday. Oral Presentations: Benjamin Brodsky, Jared Sloane, Christine Cash, Paul Schuhmaker
December 2, Tuesday. Oral Presentations: Luis Abibe, Amanda Arhontas, Michael Bayles, Harry Bramson
December 4, Thursday. Oral Presentations:Dimitri Loupakos, Alejandro Madariaga, Ian Neuchterlein
December 9, 11. GROUP MEETING 5 THIS WEEK.
December 16, Tuesday. By 4 p.m., email me your report (with your last name as the first word, e.g. Jones.g492.doc) and leave a hardcopy with my secretary.
URL: http://www.rasmusen.org/g492/0.g492.htm. Indiana University, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, in the Kelley School of Business , BU 456, 1309 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-1701, (812)855-9219. Comments: Erasmuse@Indiana.edu.
