Join Dr. Mahima Hada, Associate Professor from the Aaronson Department of Marketing & International Business, in exploring how to analyze unstructured data. Unstructured data is everywhere. It can take the form of reviews, movie scripts, customer chats, or doctor’s notes. How do you analyze it?  There are a range of available statistical tools, for example, sentiment analysis, chat bots, recommendation engines. But to analyze unstructured data (text) it first has to be converted to structured data (numbers). In this mini-class,…

Join Ken Abbott, Distinguished Lecturer from the Department of Law and former Chief Risk Officer at Barclays Bank, in exploring how COVID-19 impacted the financial markets. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a major challenge to financial markets. How did banks react and manage risk?  Were there lessons learned from the past?  Join industry expert Ken Abbott to explore how interest rates, credit spreads, FX and equity indices, have been affected by historical events over the past seventy-five years and during the…

Join Dr. Qiang Gao, Assistant Professor from the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics. We live in the age of Big Data but how can we turn all this data into insights? This mini-class will cover data mining, its role in the knowledge discovery process, and introduce the main techniques of data mining and how they are applied in business decision making. Can’t make the live webinar? Go on and register and we’ll email you a recording…

Join Dr. Ivan Montiel, Professor from the Loomba Department of Management, to discuss business sustainability. Conversations about sustainability are now mainstream in business. But how do companies turn talk into action and pursue a sustainability strategy? What are the challenges and opportunities when embedding sustainability in your organization? This mini-class will provide an introduction to recent trends in business sustainability and ESG. Can’t make the live webinar? Go on and register and we’ll email you a recording of the webinar…

Join Dr. Kalin Kolev, Associate Professor from the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, for an upcoming mini-class. Earnings are a key piece of information for a firm’s stakeholders. In the US, public companies are expected to follow the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) when calculating the metric. Public firms, however, frequently volunteer an alternative measure of income – non-GAAP earnings – constructed by removing components of income mandated by GAAP. Equity analysts, similarly, often forecast earnings on a non-GAAP basis.…

Join Dr. Jared Peifer, Associate Professor from the Loomba Department of Management, for an upcoming mini-class to explore the recent proliferation of ESG. Investors increasingly care about more than just returns - they also care about the ethical contours of their investments. Are they investing in firms that harm the environment? In firms that help reduce inequality? How might they leverage their “ownership” to encourage firms to act more ethically? In this mini-class, we will explore the historical trajectory of…