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As a finance professor I've thought about how to incorporate some of this thinking into my teaching. I do some, having my students implement trading strategies
by danteembermage 17y ago
As a finance professor I've thought about how to incorporate some of this thinking into my teaching. I do some, having my students implement trading strategies in a simulator that we learned in class, but at the university level it seems that everyone is better off if I cut the crap and just teach them what they want to know, "chalk and talk" style.
I realize this doesn't scale well, but on some level I'm paid to teach small groups not online masses so I don't think my students are paying for me to be an "adviser" or "facilitator".
I like classroom games for teaching economic concepts like comparative advantage, equilibrium interest rates, and the like, but it's not clear those concepts are what I should be devoting time to in introductory corporate. For International finance games seemed to be a better fit.
- jakarta 17y agojust out of curiosity, what do you think of the criticism that finance students tend to learn too much theory? When I was doing a project for a hedge fund, I showed an MBA student my analysis (financial model + write up on a bank) and this is a person that also majored in finance at the college level and could not understand any of the work. It was pretty interesting. I never knew there was such a divergence. I ended up teaching myself finance (liberal arts major) so I just learned by going to the library and pouring over finance and accounting books. I actually tell a lot of people that if they are interested in doing real good analyst work they are probably better off majoring in accounting because the finance end is easier to pick up outside of school.