MBA Quant Experience

I was in Ithaca, New York in early August for the third year to teach a 3-day Quantitative Skills Course for about 75 incoming first years of Cornell's Johnson School.  We covered topics in finance, economics, marketing, and accounting.  Students completed six introductory lessons of online pre-work at mbamath.com, thereby allowing us to proceed deeper into the subjects in the classroom.  Topics from the ongoing financial crisis connected the quantitative basics to the business news headlines.

With the rest of the first year class arriving the following weekend, the Quant Skills students get back into the student groove, start friendships, and explore the restaurants and watering holes of Collegetown and downtown Ithaca.

Two second-year TAs and a recent graduate instilled a healthy mix of anticipation and fear about the challenges of the first year core.