Information Guide 2010–2012 Table of Contents Maps .........................................................................................................Inside Front Cover Administration ................................................................................................................... 1 Full-Time Faculty ................................................................................................................ 2 Adjunct Faculty ..................................................................................................................12 M.B.A. Requirements and Core-Course Charts ...................................................................16 Accelerated Professional M.B.A. Program ..........................................................................18 Concentrations—M.B.A. ...................................................................................................19 Master of Science Programs ...............................................................................................24 Joint- and Specialized-Degree Programs .............................................................................31 Courses .............................................................................................................................32 International Exchange Programs........................................................................................51 Admissions and Financial Aid .............................................................................................51 Student Services ................................................................................................................54 University of Rochester Equal Opportunity Statement ........................................................55 Contact Information ................................................................................ Outside Back Cover Information in this publication is current as of September 21, 2010 Simon Graduate School of Business Information Guide 2010–2012 CAMPUS AND AREA MAPS GLEASON HALL, SCHLEGEL HALL AND CAROL G. SIMON HALL LAKE AVE. N. CLINTON AVE. EASTMAN ST. PAUL ST. CAMPUS LYELL AVE. 31 TO NEW YORK NORTH ST. N STATE THRUWAY N. GOODMAN ST. INTERCHANGE #47 BUFFALO COLLEGE AVE. E. MAIN ST. 490 GIBBS ST. DOWNTOWN PRINCE ST. ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY AVE. W. MAIN ST. 33 WEST AVE. INNER LOOP EAST AVE. FORD ST. ALEXANDER ST. ERIE CANAL MONROE AVE. CHILI AVE. Memorial Art Gallery 33A Cutler Union EXCHANGE ST. GENESEE ST. GENESEE 490 S. PLYMOUTH AVE. 575 LINDEN ST. RIVERVIEW 590 MT. HOPE APARTMENTS 685 630 GENESEE RIVER RIVER McLEAN ST. 668 CAMPUS 31 CAMPUS 692 BROOKS AVE. 204 TO NEW YORK S. WINTON RD. STATE THRUWAY N O S L INTERCHANGE #45 I GENESEE PK. BLVD. W SYRACUSE SOUTH AVE. S. GOODMAN ST. TOWNE MT. HOPE AVE. HOUSE ELMWOOD AVE. 383 MEDICAL CENTER ELMWOOD AVE. MT. HOPE Strong Memorial Hospital EXIT 17 KENDRICK RD. PROF. BLDG. School of Medicine and Dentistry SOUTHSIDE School of Nursing CRITTENDEN BLVD. LIVING CENTER Eastman Dental Center LATTIMORE RD. BRIGHTON SCOTTSVILLE RD. W CASTLEMAN RD. 390 ES TM O UNIVERSITY E. HENRIETTA RD. RE LA N PARK D WESTFALL RD. S. CLINTON AVE. UNIVERSITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES BUILDING CLINTON EXIT 16A CROSSINGS 590 KENDRICK RD. KENDRICK EXIT 15 EXIT 16 EAST RIVER RD. LAB. FOR LASER ALUMNI AND ENERGETICS EXIT 16B ADVANCEMENT CENTER WHIPPLE PARK W. HENRIETTA RD. 15A ERIE CANAL 15 TO PITTSFORD CARDIOVASCULAR 390 RESEARCH INSTITUTE TO NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY INTERCHANGE #46 Simon Graduate School of Business Information Guide 2010–2012 THE ADMINISTRATION MARK ZUPAN, RONALD W. HANSEN, interests include marketing on the Internet, the Dean and Professor of Economics and Senior Associate Dean for Program Internet industry, strategic use of technology, Public Policy Development; William H. Meckling the use of standards in managing informa- tion systems, and accounting and financial Dean Zupan assumed his duties at the Simon Professor of Business Administration; information systems. His papers have appeared School on a full-time basis on January 1, 2004. Director of the Bradley Policy Research in the Journal of Computing, Management Science, He is responsible for the administrative and Center Decision Support Systems and IEEE Transactions on academic functions of the Simon School, and Dean Hansen is responsible for Simon’s inter- Computers, among other journals. serves as the leading advocate of the School’s national program development, undergraduate Prior to joining the Simon School, Dewan faculty, programs and students to the business program and the Technical Entrepreneurship was a faculty member at North western community and other external constituencies. And Management (T.E.A.M.) M.S. program, University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Zupan served as dean and pro fessor of and serves as area coordinator for the concen- Management. He is a member of INFORMS, economics at the University of Ari zona’s Eller trations of Business Environment and Public the Asso ciation for Infor ma tion Systems and College of Management from 1997 to 2003. Policy, Health Sciences Management and In ter- Beta Gamma Sigma. Among his accomplishments at Eller were national Manage ment. Dewan earned a B. Tech. degree from the highly successful fundraising efforts, a record He came to the School in 1971 as an assist- Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi; an of promoting scholarship, fostering innova- ant professor and became director of the M.S. degree with concentrations in Computers tion in academic programs and enhanced Systems Analysis Program in 1972. From 1977 and Information Systems and Operations community outreach. to 1986, he was the associate director of the Research from the University of Rochester; and Before his appointment at Arizona, Center for Research in Government Policy a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Zupan taught at the University of Southern and Business, now the Bradley Policy Research University of Rochester. California’s Marshall School of Business, Center. He briefly left the Simon School to where he also served as associate dean of become the first recipient of the Merrell Dow master’s programs. He was a teaching fel- Pro fessorship of Pharmaceutical Administra- DELORES CONWAY, low in Harvard’s Department of Economics tion in the College of Pharmacy at The Ohio Faculty Associate Dean for Masters while pursuing his doctoral studies at M.I.T., State University (1986–88). Prior to his current Programs; Professor of Statistics and and he has been a visiting faculty member at Simon School appointment, he served as senior Real Estate Economics the Amos Tuck School of Business Admin - associate dean for faculty and research for 21 istration at Dartmouth College. years. Professor Conway oversees the Admissions Zupan’s research interests include water Hansen is widely recognized for his scholarly and Career Management areas, in addition to policy, the influence of economics and ideo- research in drug-development policy and in the enhancing corporate outreach and visibility logical preferences on the political behavior of regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. He of the Simon School. She also works with voters and elected officials, industrial organi- helped to es tablish and collaborates on research students to create international learning/net- zation, regulation and political economy. He with the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug working opportunities. Her research interests has re ceived research grants from the National De velopment. Hansen was on the editorial include statistics, real estate, health care man- Sci ence Foundation and the Center for Inter- board of the Journal of Research in Phar maceutical agement, finance, law and labor markets and na tional Business Education and Research Economics. He was a member of the National her papers have appeared in many academic at the University of Southern California. He Advisory Council on Health Care Technology journals. is the co-author of two books: Micro economic As sessment (1985–88) and the Committee Prior to joining the Simon School, Theory and Ap plications (with E. K. Browning), on the Children’s Vaccine Initiative, In stitute Conway was a tenured faculty member at the published by John Wiley and Sons, and of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences University of Southern California (U.S.C.) Micro economic Cases and Applications (with T. (1992–93). Marshall School of Business and the direc- W. Gilligan and A. M. Marino), published by Hansen earned a B.A. degree in mathe matics tor of the Casden Real Estate Forecast at the HarperCollins. from Northwestern University, and an M.A. U.S.C. Lusk Center for Real Estate. While Zupan is also the author of numerous degree in economics and a Ph.D. in economics teaching statistics in the M.B.A. Core, she scholarly articles which have appeared in from the University of Chicago. received U.S.C.’s highest teaching honor, the leading publications including the American University Associates Award for Teaching Economic Review, Journal of Law and Economics, Excellence, which is awarded each year to Rand Journal of Economics, Public Choice, and RAJIV M. Dewan, only two of the university’s faculty. Before her U.S.C. appointment, she served on the faculty Journal of Regulatory Economics. His opinion Senior Associate Dean for Faculty pieces have appeared in such outlets as The of the Graduate School of Business at the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the and Research; Chairman, Ph.D. University of Chicago. She is an elected fellow Financial