MBA Quant Experience

I was in Ithaca, New York in early August to teach a 3-day Quantitative Skills Course for about 80 incoming first years of Cornell's Johnson School.  We covered topics in finance, economics, marketing, and accounting.  The coverage was better tuned to Johnson's core courses than my first effort last year.  Also, students did online pre-work at mbamath.com for certain basic topics, thereby allowing us to proceed deeper into the subjects in the classroom.

As usual, the students were bonding as they were learning, settling into Ithaca and getting to know their way around campus and town.  Ithaca still had a sleepy summer feeling at that point in August and the students had the Johnson staff in Sage Hall to themselves before the arrival of the rest of the class for orientation week.  Two second-year TAs helped to put the incoming students at ease as they prepared for the first year core courses.