What would happen to market prices and quantity sold or demanded if the supply of a product or service dropped suddenly? This article in the Washington Post says that honeybee supply dropped due to mysterious honeybee colony ‘die-offs’ called “colony collapse disorder” (noticed first around 2006). Can the economics concepts you learn in MBA economics explain what would […] Read more
Please expose us to more Microsoft Excel/spreadsheets during our b-school program. For all its drawbacks, it is the ubiquitous software used in the corporate world for an incredibly wide variety of uses including tracking, reporting, data analysis, modeling and more. Here are some ways in which you can help us: Allow and encourage students to […] Read more
We get asked by students about the difference between financial accounting and managerial accounting. The average business school student will be exposed to both financial accounting and managerial accounting concepts during their program. Often both financial accounting and managerial accounting may be taught in the same course and so many students are unclear about the difference between financial accounting […] Read more
“American Chemical Corp.” and the “Dixon Corporation: The Collinsville Plant.” are two wonderful HBS corporate finance case studies that covers the same Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) transaction situation in the Chemical Industry in 1979. American Chemical Corp which is a large chemical manufacturer wants divests a sodium chlorate manufacturing plant in Collinsville, Alabama due to […] Read more