G100: ``Business in the Information Age''

Schedule for G100: ``Business in the Information Age'' (May 21, 2000)


MS: Kenneth Morris and Alan Siegel, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing, Lightbulb Press, 1993.

Packet: G100 Reading Packets I and II, from Mr. Copy, corner of 10th Street and Dunn, 334-2679. The packet is divided into sections corresponding to the class sessions.

The Eli Lilly annual report. I will hand this out.

Basics

Week 1:
31 August, Tuesday. 1. Business Economics I: Supply and Demand
Website: The S+P 500.

2 September, Thursday. 2. Business Economics II: Markets
Website: Resources for Economists on the Internet (by Bill Goffe). This is the standard reference, and deservedly so--- everything is here, and well organized.

3 September, Friday, Discussion 1. Assignment 1 due. Pictures taken.

Week 2
7 September, Tuesday. 3. Business Economics II: Economic Statistics
Website: GPO Gate, Catalog for Economic Report of the President, 1999

9 September, Thursday. 4. Information on the Internet: Government Data
Website: The Statistical Abstract of the U.S..

10 September, Friday, Discussion 2. Quiz 1.

Week 3
14 September, Tuesday. 5. Business Economics III: The Health of the Economy
Website: The White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room, for quick graphs and summaries of macro statistics.

16 September, Thursday. 6. Library sources of information
Website: Indiana University Libraries Online Resources/WSJ and others.
We will meet in the Business/SPEA Library today, in the reference section.

17 September, Friday, Discussion 3. Assignment 2 due.

Week 4
21 September, Tuesday. 7. The Legal Organization of Business
Website: The Chrysler Building, and information on New York tourist sites.

23 September, Thursday. 8. Business Ethics: Employee Behavior
Website: Newseek's Issikoff story on intern Lewinsky and President Clinton, from the Washington Post website. The Partnership and Adultery Case .

24 September, Friday, Discussion 4. Quiz 2.

Week 5
28 September, Tuesday. 9. A Walk Through the Wall Street Journal I
Website: the Wall Street Journal text searcher.

30 September, Thursday. 10. A Walk Through the Wall Street Journal II
Website: Stockmaster.com site for graphing stocks.

1 October, Friday, Discussion 5. Assignment 3 due.

Week 6
5 October, Tuesday. 11. Managerial Psychology
Websites: The Myers-Briggs personality test page, Keirsey's Web Test site, applications to negotiation, and the Intergalactic Explorer Personality Type Test.

7 October, Thursday. 12. Presenting Data.
Website: The Economic Chart Dispenser has Fed of St. Louis data in GIF charts.

8 October, Friday, Discussion 6. Nothing due.

Week 7
12 October, Tuesday. 13. Marketing I: The Four P's.
Websites: Cyberatlas , which has Internet marketing data such as the number of users, demographics, regions, etc., and Autoweb, a car sales site.

14 October, Thursday. 14. Marketing II: Product, Place, and Promotion
Websites: Amazon.com Books! Earth's Biggest Bookstore and the Rasmusen site as an Amazon.com Associate.

15 October, Friday, Discussion 7. Quiz 3.

Week 8
17 October, Sunday. Review session (optional), 3-4 p.m., the usual room.

19 October, Tuesday. Midterm Examination.

21 October, Thursday. 15. Marketing III: Price in an Oligopoly Simulation.
Website: An indefinitely repeated interactive version of the prisoner's dilemma at Bryn Mawr.Some notes on the Kleit simulation.

22 October, Friday, Discussion 8. Nothing due.

Week 9
26 October, Tuesday. 16. Accounting I
Website: File Manager For Forms - IRS
Packet II readings begin.

28 October, Thursday. 17. Accounting II
Website: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Home Page

29 October, Friday, Discussion 9. Assignment 4 due.

Week 10
2 November, Tuesday. 18. Annual Reports
Website: Eli Lilly Homepage

4 November, Thursday. No Class.

5 November, Friday, Discussion 10. Quiz 4.

Week 11
9 November, Tuesday. 19. Present Discounted Value.
Website: Bloomberg Online: Mortgage Calculator. Notes on Present Value and the Parable of the Talents

11 November, Thursday. 20. Money and Stocks
Website: The American Stock Exchange:WEBS securities to track foreign stock indices..
Reading: Packet II: Section 20, MS: 1-47.

12 November, Friday, Discussion 11. Quiz 5.

Week 12
16 November, Tuesday. 21. Stocks and Bonds
Website: AF Best Newsletter
Reading: Packet II: Section 21, MS: 48-91.

18 November, Thursday. 22. Bonds and Mutual Funds
Website: Vanguard Bond Index Fund - Total Bond Market Portfolio Overview
Reading: Packet II: Section 22. MS: 92-123.

19 November, Friday, Discussion 12. Assignment 5 due.

Week 13
23 November, Tuesday. 23. Game Theory
Website: GAMES AND INFORMATION. Game Theory Notes

25 November, Thursday. Thanksgiving. Holiday.

26 November, Friday. Thanksgiving Holiday.

Week 14
30 November, Tuesday. 24. Thinking and Planning. (formerly Session 11)
Website: The Seven Habits & The Thinking Process. The thinking test that is in your reading packet.

2 December, Thursday. 25. International Business.
Website: PWT database series retrieval, International Macro Data.

3 December, Friday, Discussion 13. Assignment 6 (oral reports) due. Tips On Giving Oral Reports

Week 15
7 December, Tuesday. 26. Business and Government: Randall Tobias Discussion
Website: The City of Bloomington website.

9 December, Thursday. 27. Legal Information: The Dow Jones Case
Website: Cornell Supreme Court Decisions site, which has all the post-1990 opinions, and other good things.

10 December, Friday, Discussion 14. Assignment 6 (oral reports) due.

Final Examination: Thursday, December 16, 2:45-4:45.

Other Materials, Including Some Not Used This Semester

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Course Comment Form

The Banking and Money Multiplier Simulation

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