This page outlines the responsibilities of faculty Core Course Coordinators as well as faculty members teaching in the Business School’s core curriculum.
As specified by the 2011-2012 core committee and reinforced by the final Spring 2012 Core Committee report, core course coordinators must be senior full-time faculty and retain job description and compensation recommended and implemented in 2011-2012. To further achieve the aim of coordination, the 2012 Core Committee report recommended an additional set of responsibilities for faculty members teaching in the core (detailed below). To offset the extra responsibilities and encourage faculty to teach in the core, the committee report recommended additional teaching credit be given for teaching core courses. For more information, see "Core Course Coordinator Compensation" and "Teaching Credit Policy" on the CBS Faculty Policies site.
Core Course Coordinator Responsibilities
The Core Course Coordinator is the leader of the core faculty team for a given Core course, and has specific responsibilities related to:
Content
- Evaluate and update the Core course materials (and pre-MBA materials when applicable) at least annually to ensure that they are rigorous, current, and relevant.
- Meet regularly with the other instructors of the core class(es) to coordinate new ideas and to facilitate consistent quality of content and delivery.
- Work with other faculty teaching the same core course to ensure consistency in content and examinations within the 80-20 framework set by the faculty.
- Educate faculty (both full-time and adjuncts) who are teaching electives about core course materials, so that they can rely on core knowledge in their course design, build on that knowledge, and support the importance of the core in front of the students. Feedback from instructors teaching electives courses should be used in refining core materials.
- Update the two-page summary of MBA core course content at least annually.
- Work with student academic representatives, in conjunction with the degree programs and the Samberg Institute, to review and address student feedback on course and faculty. Provide constructive feedback on the effectiveness of the course to faculty teaching the given core course.
Integration
- Responsible for working with core faculty to ensure that all of the objectives above are met, including intra-course consistency.
- Attend the monthly Core Coordinator Meetings to manage content integration, consider additional integrative material, and give and receive suggestions about ways to improve core courses.
- Along with other core coordinators, select and work on specific integrated materials, and evaluate the content of other core courses. Such review might take place in rotating pairs of courses. This peer review will encourage each division to be clear about the significance and relevance of the concepts and practices they teach and require of the students and allow the coordinator to convey this information to his or her divisional colleagues who teach both core and elective classes.
- As feasible, incorporate integrated content related to the integrated case in exams and midterms to reinforce the importance of using multiple disciplines to solve problems.
Faculty Development
- Work with Division heads and the Dean’s Office to facilitate mentoring of faculty teaching the core courses. The core course coordinator will collaborate with the faculty mentor for all new faculty teaching in the core.
Administration
- Ensure that the materials in the exemption exam folder available to incoming students are complete, according to School specifications, and that the exemption exam represents the School’s expectations of incoming students. Furthermore, ensure a timely response to exemption exams taken.
- Work with core faculty members to develop and encourage common exam elements.
- Participate in core course faculty lunches and facilitate conversations as needed.
Core Course Coordinators for the 2023-24 Academic Year
Accounting Division
- Financial Accounting: Sehwa Kim
Decision, Risk & Operations Division
- Business Analytics: Daniel Guetta
- Managerial Statistics: Assaf Zeevi
- Operations Management: Santiago Balseiro
Economics Division
- Global Economic Environment: Jesse Schreger
- Managerial Economics: Nachum Sicherman
Finance Division
- Corporate Finance: Daniel Wolfenzon
- Foundations of Valuation: Daniel Wolfenzon
Management Division
- LEAD: Modupe Akinola and Adam Galinsky
- Strategy Formulation: Stephan Meier
Marketing Division
- Marketing: Olivier Toubia
Core Faculty Responsibilities
To implement the content and integration objectives, all faculty members teaching in the Core are required to undertake the following responsibilities:
- The core faculty should meet regularly to review and revise course material and content to ensure that they are rigorous, current, and relevant, and to coordinate content across sections.
- Intra-course consistency: Ideally, projects, homework, exams, and cases should be highly common, with some variation possible subject to the discretion of the core team. The remaining content should be at least 80% common.
- Work with student academic representatives, in conjunction with the degree programs and Samberg, to review and address student feedback on course and faculty.