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Modern Portfolio Theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theorists and Theories
Walden University RSCH 8100 Research Theory and Design Assignment
All Walden University doctoral students are required to complete one 3-month Foundations course, providing a standardized and structured introduction/review to academic writing and reasoning as well as a minimum of six months dedicated to research theory and design.
This paper applies the RSCH 8100: Introduction to Research Theory and Design concepts of theorists and their theories (the logical deduction from the premise that literature review is the starting point for research).
With the ultimate aim of being able to develop and refine a doctoral-level research question that at once extends into a gap in extant literature but also is sufficiently-specific that the findings can be maximally-valid by the scholarly consideration of all expected relevant factors.
Because my major is Finance, I selected two classic related theoies in Finance: Markowitz's (1952) Modern Portfolio Theory and its offspring, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).
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BBC Case Background: This is the case study assignment for the Baldwin Bicycle Case
At the MBA Level, I expect students to be able to identify the issue without being prompted; a theoretical framework to apply a set of alternatives; and develop an implementation plan without hints. Bachelors level cases will specify the issue and specify what techniques to apply.
http://robincheung.info/mbalog/ discusses the techniques and research competencies that are involved or required from solving real-life and simulated business cases, such as these:
This case is commonly-assigned at both the Undergraduate and MBA levels. At the Bachelors level, students will be guided through the case, and the instructor will normally identify the theoretical crux of the issue. The bachelors-implementation of this business case will stipulate what theory to apply, and students will be concerned primarily with applying that suggested technique to solving the problem.
At the MBA level, however, students are expected to have developed high order reasoning, such as Critcal Thinking and Synthesis. MBA students should draw on their solid foundations in all five functional areas of business to identify relevant theoretical underpinnings using critical thinking.
Synthetic reasoning adapts and formulates an implementation plan, and should generate a set of possible alternate courses of action to address the issue. You are responsible for development of defensible multicriteria decision support system to make a decision congruent with your multiple priorities for each alternative, and then come up with a realistic implementation plan, and sensitivity analysis to assess the impact of unreliable assumptions--all business cases require you to make a great deal of assumptions. MBA also prepares you for understanding what is the crux of this issue-->what theory and data are critical enough that you must know how to find, how to adapt the data, and how to make assumptions that are valid for data you don't have.
My solution and treatment of this case earned a mark of 99.5 and is currently the top result on Google for Baldwin Bicycle Case.
IP Law and Technology Transfer: DigiFilm Case Study for MBA 2nd Course
In course taught by Marcel Mongeon, MBA; General Counsel for McMaster University
What you go through in proposal and pitching a new tehnology or product from the point of view of a Patentability research. Patent law in various jurisdictions is appropriate because requirements like being "Novel" and the market potential should support your decision and affects patentability by the priority date if you intend to file for international patents.
KAM I (Social Change) Learning Agreement: Financial Engineering may provide novel Shariah-compliant instruments
Approved April, 2010
KAM projects comprise three article-length papers:
- Breadth: Compare work of three seminal theorists pertaining to topic: Marx, Weber, and Durkheim wrt. Religion's role in accumulation of wealth
- Depth: Survey of literature within past 5 years pertaining to theory of interest: Financial Engineering
- Application: Proposed or actual application of theory to phenomenon with overarching theme of effecting positive social change.
Islamic Shariah law uniquely governs behaviour of Muslims in all aspects of life. This disadvantages Muslim business-owners due to the prohibition of charging or receiving interest (riba); consequently, application of financial engineering concepts to developing novel Shariah-compliant instruments that can emulate long-term debt may allow Muslims to comply with Shariah Law in their business affairs and become more competitive through more optimal capital structure--typically comprising a combination of debt and equity financing.
Learning Agreement represents between the student and the school, specifying agreed learning objectives. The KAM demonstration, comprising roughly three article-length papers, provides the evidence that the Learning Agreement has been satisfied. Approved Depth references must include at least 15 scholarly references, all published within the last five years.
Baldwin Bicycle Case
MBA Case Study; Completed Winter 2002
Case setudy completed for MBA Managerial Accounting course with a holistic strategic approach to problem-solving. Earned grade of 99.5 for case report and analysis. Focus on relevant cost analysis.
The case receives a lot of hits on my web site (http://robincheung.ca/); as I have found over the years, the case has been assigned by numerous other business schools across Canada and the world. I wanted to emphasize that while there is no one set framework to approach all cases, a holistic approach to developing solutions, cognizant of all functional areas of a business, can make a solution that better aligns with overall strategy, core competencies, resources, and positioning within a market, than a solution that is developed by one functional area in naive of the plans of other functional areas of a business.
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Effect of Big-Five Personality Traits on Job Performance
RSCH 8200 Quantitative Reasoning (Research Design & Statistics)
Organizations are human systems. As such, each member of the system brings to bear the full range of psychological and emotional behavior while also applying themselves to their work which is highly prescriptive and ostensibly rational. Because of this, human systems experience high levels of inefficiency as emotions, personality, and unconscious impulses interfere with the objectivity and logical processes at work. To what extent, then, do individuals' idiosyncrasies interfere with the expectations of their performance?
The proposed study will assess two personality traits—neuroticism and conscientiousness—using an off-the-shelf personality inventory, such as NEO PI-R (Judge, Martocchio, & Thoresen, 1997) which assesses neuroticism based on six dimensions: anxiety, hostility, depression, self-consciousness, impulsiveness, and vulnerability to stress. Neuroticism is measured on an interval-level scale, with measurements expected to approximate a normal distribution (Judge, Martocchio, & Thoresen, 1997).
In order to determine whether or not there is any relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness and absenteeism, a multiple linear regression will be run with neuroticism and conscientiousness as independent variables and absences as a dependent variable
RSCH 8200 Final Project: Quantitative Research Plan
Research Proposal for RSCH 8200
Submitted and graded (50/50/; 100%) for new RSCH 8200 Course
Submitted for only the second group of students subjected to Walden's new foundations reseach sequence for Dr. Thomas Spencer III's course; this course continues on from RSCH 8100, which was an entirely qualitative look at both quantitative and qualitative thinking as well as critical thinking.
RSCH 8200 is a step up, in that it does tie together the ability to select the appropriate--also interpret, and select the most approprirate follow-up tests--and how to interpret them better; rather than settling for a one-way ANOVA
The Final Report, for which I obtianed a mark of 50/50, comprised all concepts from the course, from ethical, sampling size, approprirate sampling frames, appropriate statistical tests, appropriate posthoc tests, and many more considerations.
