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Brandeis is known for passionate teaching and academic excellence, and IBS has assembled a faculty that is unusually skilled in teaching, research and professional practice. Given the School's intimate scale, students often establish close contacts with faculty and participate in their research.
Research
We thrive on the excitement that leading-edge research brings to the day-to-day life of the School in discussions, classrooms, and conferences. The faculty includes some 20 scholars specializing in international finance, economics and business. Nearly all hold PhDs from leading US institutions and many are widely known and edit journals in their fields. Faculty members focus on several disciplines, but share a fundamental interest in international issues and typically have studied or conducted research abroad.
The Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance, established in 2001, addresses a key topic in international finance each year. The theme for 2002 is the "Financial Implications of Global Aging." The Center of Asia-Pacific Business and Economics (an international APEC Study Center) addresses Chinese and East Asian trade, investment and finance.
Other areas of faculty interest include: agent-based financial models, branding and international sales, business alliances, multi-cultural communication, foreign exchange rates, corporate financial signaling, investment returns, international banking, real options, micro credit, technology flows and patents.
Teaching
Teaching is valued highly. The curriculum includes case-method and instructor-directed courses, and emphasizes classroom interaction. Classes are relatively small (40s for core courses and 20s for electives). Student evaluations average above 4 on a 1-5 scale. Our professors are not easy, but succeed by bringing difficult topics to life through skillful discussions and concrete examples.
Professional practice
We are not just scholars. Our faculty also includes some 20 adjunct professors with extensive practical experience, such as Chief Credit Officer of a large bank, Chief Fixed Income Strategist of a major investment firm, and Chief Budget Officer. Their popular courses connect theory to the business decisions of real firms. Entrepreneurship is one area of active involvement for several adjunct faculty members, who contribute their expertise to courses and to extra-curricular activities such as the annual Business Plan Competition.
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