April 9, 2025
EMBA 408 Hybrid (Spring 2025)
This is the main course website for EMBA 408. I strongly dislike the hassle with bruinlearn’s obnoxious authentication requirements and obsession with copyright protections. I want to make use and downloading of material easier for students (and myself, of course).
For reference, you can bookmark
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this site: https://www.ivo-welch.info/teaching/emba/ (no authentication),
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downloadable chapters of the textbook (one-time email provision),
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the self-test site: https://finemba404-2025-welch-ucla.syllabus.space (one-time authentication),
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and the original Bruinlearn site (constant reauthentication).
You can find copies of my teaching slides and videos below.
Announcements
- [04/12/2025]
- The solution for the Make My Doll Clothing is in mmd.xlsx below. Please work the solution for Design Your Own Doll.
- [04/14/2025]
- I have posted solutions at midterm-emba480-2025.pdf. For your practice pleasure, I have added xmidterm-emba480-2025.pdf — a test similar to the midterm that you need to learn how to answer cold (well, with a calculator, of course).
- [04/14/2025]
- The updated syllabus is now available. This week, I want you to review the first 4 chapters, mini-exam, and case this week, as well as read the revised syllabus. Next week it’s on to Chapter 6.
- [04/15/2025]
- If you got a score of 30 or more on the mini exam, please help your fellow students in your study group (and thereby me, too) catch up. If you got a score below 20, really use this week to catch up. Don’t think this is spring break.
- [04/16/2025]
- https://syllabus.space (direct class url is working again!). Please tell me asap if you encounter difficulties or problems. ASAP!
- [04/17/2025]
- Many little fixes to syllabus. Tomas will hold small-group (2-4 people) tutoring sessions for 1 hour per week, too. Please send him an email if you did poorly on the exam and need help, and/or if you spent 20 hours/week during the first two weeks on finance, and you want to sign up for tutoring. You should not be running with your head into a wall.
And I have also come to the conclusion that the EMBA program blundered in assigning too many courses to you for the first 5 weeks of this quarter. The expectations were simply unreasonable. I apologize on our program’s behalf. Gonzalo, David, and I will be working to fix this going forward, too.
- [04/18/2025]
- Midterm Format: Open book, open notes, open calculator, but not open Internet. Any printed or written notes you want to bring. No web browsing, chatGPT, chatting, etc.
- [04/19/2025]
- If you had a below median score on the midterm and you continue to be challenged and confused after reviewing the assigned material for more than 10 hours per week, then please contact Tomas to arrange for free small-group tutoring (2-4 students) for 1 hour per week. Use this to ask questions where you seem to be running your head into a wall (which is not the point).
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