Stanford MBA Elective Helps Students Learn Broad Impact of Finance
A new elective course for the MBA program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business helps students to learn more about the broad implications of finance. Anat Admati teaches the Finance and Society elective course. She is a well-known critic of current banking regulations. In her class, she helps students learn to understand and critically analyze the economic and human implications of finance. For the class, Admati teaches by bringing together different expert viewpoints on banking, law, accounting, politics, financial regulation and the media.
There is no math taught in the class, but the main principles and theories are reviewed for discussions. Readings from the course are from the professor’s book “The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It” as well as documents from the Federal Reserve, media stories, guest essays and news commentary. For MBA students, Admati brings guest speakers to help to enrich the course with real-world perspectives and insights into the industry and the policy issues.
