Brandeis International Business School

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Introduces students to new and developing topics in finance. The first part of the course will cover the new and still little understood cybersecurity risk that firms increasingly face as they are becoming more and more reliant on information technology. We will discuss how negative spillover effects from a cyberattack can propagate beyond the directly affected firm to the wider economy and how firms can reduce their cyber risk exposure by investing in supply chain security.  The second part of the course will be devoted to behavioral finance and its practical applications to investments, corporate finance, and entrepreneurship. This part of the course will also cover innovations in the field of asset management and its increasing reliance on big data. Usually offered every year.
Anna Scherbina