The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Concentration Courses: (choose 4 courses)
Transformational Leadership and Team Building
Strategic Management of Technological Innovation
Management of Emerging Technologies
Management of Telecommunications
Internet Business Models and Strategies
Knowledge Management
Business Process Risk
Advanced Topics in Knowledge Management

Free Elective:
Choose one additional course in any area (Systems Management; Management in the New E-conomy)

Core Courses:
Financial Management
Managing in a Global Economy
Integrated Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy
Information Technology

Concentration Courses:
(see Advanced Professional Certificate (APC)…)

Capstone Course:
Project Management in the Information Age

Research Project:
Master’s Thesis

The NYU Research Conference on Intangibles (Intangibles Conference) presents academic research in the field intangible investments (intellectual capital) to an audience consisting approximately equally of practitioners and academics.

Conference History:

• 4th Intangibles Conference, May 17-18, 2001, New York University, New York City, NY, USA
  Conference Theme: Advances In The Measurement Of Intangible (Intellectual) Capital
  THE MACRO PERSPECTIVE
  How Much Information is Produced Worldwide?
  What is the U.S. Investment in Intangibles?
  Specific Applications

  VALUE-CREATION WITH INTANGIBLES
  The Returns from Investing in IT
  The Value of Collaborations and Alliances
  Investment in Organizational Capital

  PUBLIC POLICY
  Voluntary Corporate Disclosure in the U.S.
  The View from Denmark
  Measures Are Not a Cure All

  ORGANIZATIONAL AND HUMAN CAPITAL
  Can Corporate Knowledge (Intangibles) Be Measured?
  Specific Applications
  Humans–the Ultimate Beneficiaries: Gains from New Medicines

  PANEL DISCUSSION:
  What lies Ahead in the intangible (intellectual) capital arena?

• 3rd Intangibles Conference, May 18-19, 2000, New York University, New York City, NY, USA
  Conference Theme: Knowledge: Management, Measurement and Organization
  STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING AND PROTECTING KNOWLEDGE
  Effective Knowledge Strategies
  Building Strategic Alliances
  Knowledge Protection

  MEASUREMENT AND VALUATION ISSUES
  Markets for Knowledge
  Customer Knowledge
  Capital Markets Valuation of Internet Knowledge

  KNOWLEDGE SHARING TACTICS
  Creating a Knowledge Ecology: Eureka
  Shaping Value and Risk Through Intellectual Property Insurance
  Information Sharing in Open Source Software

  KNOWLEDGE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
  Knowledge and Learning: Lessons from Economic Research
  Knowledge, Knowing and Organization
  Complexity Science and the Enhancement of Organizational IQ

  PANEL DISCUSSION
  The Future Course Of Knowledge Management

• 2nd Intangibles Conference, May 27-28, 1999, New York University, New York City, NY, USA
  Conference Theme: Intangibles: Management, Measurement and Organization
  NEW MEASUREMENT AND VALUATION TECHNIQUES
  The Intangible Benefits and Costs of Computer Investments
  The Valuation of Technology Licensing By Real Options
  Computers and Productivity
  The Pricing of Environmental Intangibles

  ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND COMPENSATION ISSUES
  The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
  Raising Capital Through Intangibles-Targeted Securities
  Does Value-Based (EVA) Management Discourage Investment in Intangibles?
  Intangibles: Creating or Destroying Value in Diversified Companies?

  MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
  Managing Knowledge Capital: Lessons from Pharmaceutical R&D
  Human Resources, Knowledge Management and Firms’ Performance
  Knowledge Management: Productivity Impact of Target Costing In the Japanese Camera Industry

  MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING ISSUES
  Firms’ Experience with the Balanced Scorecard
  Intangibles-Related Reporting Biases and their Consequences
  The Impact of Capitalization vs. Expensing of Intangibles on Budgeting and Planning

  PANEL DISCUSSION
  What progress have we made in the Management, Measurement and Reporting of Intangibles (Knowledge Assets)?

• 1st Intangibles Conference, May 15-16, 1998, New York University, New York City, NY, USA
  Conference Theme: Intangibles and Capital Markets
  ARE INTANGIBLES VALUED BY INVESTORS?
  Capitalized Values of Software Development Costs
  Fair Market Values of R&D-In-Process
  Control Allocation in Biotechnology Alliances

  CONSEQUENCES OF DEFICIENT REPORTING OF INTANGIBLES
  Analyst Coverage, Mispricing and Intangibles
  Intangibles and Bid-Ask Spreads of Stocks
  Deterioration in the Relevance of Financial Information
  Intangibles and Gains from Insider Trading

  NEW MEASURES OF INTANGIBLES’ VALUES
  Customer Satisfaction Measures and Firm Values
  Human Resources and the Measurement of Risk
  Bibliometrics and the Value of Intangibles
  Does CEO Human Capital Make a Difference?

  FRONTIERS OF INTANGIBLES
  The Social Returns to Intangibles
  Alternative Accounting Rules for R&D
  Human Resources, Productivity and Shareholder Wealth
  Regulatory Developments

  Program Summary and Future Research Directions