MBA Online

Managerial Accounting
This course introduces students to the evolving role of managerial accounting in modern business environments. The course highlights the informational need of managers in planning, controlling and decision making. The course will enable students to become proficient in structuring real world business problems systematically and solve them by applying managerial accounting concepts and techniques. The topics include :
(1) Fundamentals of product costing
(2) Activity-based costing and management
(3) Financial modeling - Break-even point and target profit
(4) Differential cost analysis - Pricing, production, and investment decisions
(5) Profit planning/ budgeting and analysis of cost variances
(6) Divisional performance evaluation and transfer pricing

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo

5052: Credit Risk Modeling
Winter Bohn
This course focuses on quantitative techniques used to model credit risk. In particular, we will discuss both structural and reduced-form models used to estimate default probabilities and loss given default. These fundamental model components will serve as the foundation to explore credit risk assessment, corporate debt valuation, credit derivative valuation, correlation estimation, and credit portfolio management. Emphasis will be placed on model building, model validation, and interpreting model output. Students will be required to do some high-level programming in a package such as Matlab. Some empirical testing exercises will also be part of the project work. This course will be taught in Japanese. Homework and project will be submitted in English.

4806: Financial Modeling and Programming
Summer Kobayashi
In this class, we aim to acquire important concepts and some methodologies for financial modeling and technologies of computer programming, which will be available for practical aspect. We are going to cover the following as topics for this year:
1. Basic Financial Calculations
2. Calculating the Cost of Capital
3. Financial Statement Modeling
4. Portfolio Models - Introduction
5. Calculating the Variance-Covariance Matrix
6. Calculating Efficient Portfolios When there are No Short-Sale Restrictions
7. Estimating Betas and the Security Market Line
8. Efficient Portfolios without Short Sales
9. Value at Risk
10. An Introduction to Options
11. The Black-Scholes Model

Marketing

The Marketing Department continuously strives to achieve excellence in research. The faculty members are renowned for high-quality, cutting-edge research, publishing their work in the top international marketing journals, such as Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) and Marketing Science (MS). The Marketing faculty is ranked seventh in the world in terms of the number of papers published in JMR and JCR in 2000-2006 (ahead of Berkeley, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, INSEAD, MIT, Stanford and Yale).

The goal of the PhD program is to develop outstanding scholars who are able to secure academic jobs at top international universities and to become first-rate contributors to marketing knowledge.

Our program provides solid training in the theory and methods of various subfields of marketing such as consumer behavior and marketing models. Apart from gaining in-depth knowledge, students gain hands-on experience in the research process from the very early stages of the program.

The faculty is highly committed to the PhD program. State-of-the art courses are offered on themes such as information processing, behavioral game theory, experimental designs, judgment and decision making, choice modeling, and analytical marketing science. These courses and the research training are very demanding but at the same time highly rewarding.

A well-equipped behavioral lab and many opportunities for research collaboration with the faculty contribute to the learning experience. In addition, students benefit from two research centers housed in the Marketing Department – the Center for Experimental Business Research and the Center for Marketing and Distribution. Some of our students have published papers in top research journals. The program offers students a very good intellectual environment and enables them to become outstanding researchers. One recent graduate was selected for the Marketing Science Institute’s Young Scholar Program, one of the highest accolades a young researcher in the field can receive.