May 1, 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
- [05/12/2025]
- midterm answers.
- [05/14/2025]
- midterm observations.
- [05/18/2025]
- final sample exam for discussion in teams.
- [05/19/2025]
- final format: probably the same as the midterm. open notes, open book, but not open internet/ai. (the 3x5 card is obsolete.) likely but not promised contents: 1/3 before the midterm, 2/3 after the midterm.
- [05/25/2025]
- the final exam will be more like the final sample exam than the midterm or syllabus.space questions. more questions will be more conceptual than long calculations, due to the nature of the materials. I also like to ask again about materials that you didn’t get on the midterm. Remember, though: I have only 90 minutes. Think about what I could feasibly ask in 90 minutes. The last viable chapter to ask about is the chapters on financials. The chapter on comparables is excluded. ALSO, the exams are open-book open-notes. You should remember what to consult for questions that you don’t remember the answers to. If you have seen X in chapter Y, you can go back during the exam and look at it, of course. (If you have never seen or heard it, then it’s of course much less productive to try to start searching for the first time.)
- [05/25/2025]
- I have placed the initial miniexam from April 11, with answers here.
[05/25/2025] :Friday and early Saturday are dedicated to review. Please prepare questions if anything seems unclear. After the weekend of the final, I will give a short mandatory homework about Chapter 15 (on comparables and ratios). The course does not end on May 30!
- [Older]
- older announcements are here