Emerging Markets: Active Learning Weekend
Harvard Extension School
MGMT E-7035
Section 1
CRN 17052
What makes investing in emerging markets—countries from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe—different from investing in developed markets in the United States, West Europe, or Japan? What are the benefits of adding these markets to a traditional investment portfolio? How have these markets been shaped by COVID-19 and the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine? How do frontier markets fit into the mix? As a companion course to ECON E-1925, this active learning weekend helps explore emerging markets through a mix of guest speakers, case studies, and problem sets. Students strengthen their quantitative and qualitative skills to improve their investment acumen in these burgeoning markets. Over the weekend, the course dive deep into the practical aspects and limitations of trading and investing in the asset mix covered in ECON E-1925 as both an individual and institutional investor. Students examine investment indices and strategies that professional investors use to outperform them. We also investigate the rise of China and state capitalism, and how this trend may rival traditional market-based systems. Students may not take both ECON E-1925w (offered previously) and MGMT E-7035 for degree or certificate credit.
Registration Closes: August 28, 2024
Credits: 2
View Tuition Information Term
Fall Term 2024
Part of Term
Active Learning Weekend
Format
Active Learning Weekend
Credit Status
Graduate, Undergraduate
Section Status
Open