MBA PROGRAMME

CLASS OF 2022
Semester I (IB)
Section A
Weekly Class Schedule
FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 07 TO DECEMBER 11, 2020

07-Dec 08-Dec 09-Dec 10-Dec 11-Dec 12-Dec

Auditorium B-2
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

DG 0830-0900
ME ME
Class 1 0905-1035 23 24 *
EL- I
Session
DG 1105-1135
FA-II MM FA-II MM
Class 2 1140-1310 9 23 10 24

DG 1435-1505 * *
FF OB FF OB
Class 3 1510-1640 9 24 10 26

DG 1700-1730 *
OB
Class 4 1735-1905 25

1. The soft copy of the weekly schedule is available on the main page of LUMS website
www.lums.edu.pk - Information For: Students/Schedules/MBA Schedule

2. For course titles and instructors, please turn overleaf.

* Follow the timing given on the inner pages for session of OB 24&25, OB 26 and
December 11.

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 MBA CLASS OF 2022
Semester I (SIB)
LIST OF COURSES BEING OFFERED

CODE UNITS COURSE TITLE INSTRUCTOR(S) SESSIONS

ME 1 Managerial Economics Tanveer Shehzad 28

MM 1 Marketing Management Ehsan ul Haq 28
OB 1 Organisational Behaviour Arif N. Butt 28
FA-1I 0.5 Financial Accounting-II Asad A. Alam 14
FF 0.5 Finance Fundamentals Fazal Jawad Seyyed 14

EL-1 1 Experiential Learning 1 Syed Zahoor Hassan 28

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 SULEMAN DAWOOD SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
MBA PROGRAMME

CLASS OF 2022
AUDITORIUM B-2
Semester I (SIB)
(Section A)

Assignments for the week of December 07 to December 11, 2020

For Section A

Individual:

Link: https://zoom.us/j/97874131452?pwd=N1RackF4YlVOcy80L3RnemQ3M2Z4UT09
Meeting ID: 978 7413 1452
Passcode: 695316

Joint:

Link: https://zoom.us/j/98559787866?pwd=OTlvVlpzU3gxVnVER3FBRWVIMitrUT09
Meeting ID: 985 5978 7866
Passcode: 514919

Note:

• All sessions will be started and hosted by TAs from SDSB Auditoriums initially. Faculty
will be made co-host later, if required.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 07

1105 - 1135 Discussion Group: Financial Accounting-II

1140 - 1310 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING-II

ASAD A ALAM

Instructor Venue: Off-Site Campus

Teaching Assistant: Hira Imran (hira.imran@lums.edu.pk)

Topic: Statement of Cash Flows

Case: Chemalite B

Read: Chapter 23: Statement of Cash Flows: Preparation, Analysis and

Linkages

1310 - 1435 Lunch break

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1435 - 1505 Discussion Group: Finance Fundamentals

1510 - 1640 FINANCE FUNDAMENTALS

FAZAL JAWAD SEYYED

Instructor Venue: Auditorium B-2

Teaching Assistant: Ayesha Bashir (ayesha.bashir@lums.edu.pk)

Topic: Valuation and Financing of a Private Firm

Case: The Valuation and Financing of Lady M Confection

Assignment:

1. How many cakes would Lady M need to sell in a year in order to

breakeven? Assuming sales in year one breakeven, how quickly
would sales need to grow after the first year to pay the start-up
costs within 5 years? Is this growth rate feasible?

2. What is your recommendation? Should Romansizyn open the

new location in the World Trade Center?

3. What is Lady M’s Enterprise value? How much of an equity

stake should they be giving up to the Chinese investor?

4. What do you think of Romansizyn’s and Tom’s baseline

assumptions? Are they realistic? Do you think they should take
the Chinese investor’s offer? Why or Why not?

Read: B&E Chapters 5 and 6: Bond and Stock Valuation

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 08

0830 - 0900 Discussion Group: Managerial Economics

0905 - 1035 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

TANVEER SHEHZAD

Instructor Venue: Off-Site Campus

Teaching Assistant: Ayesha Bashir (ayesha.bashir@lums.edu.pk)

Topic: Cartels

Case: Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law

Assignment:

1. Who writes the rules of international diamond market?

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 2. How has DeBeers structured its relationship with US diamond
dealers and US Govt?

3. What should US government do about the flow of diamonds from

Angola and other countries?

1035 - 1105 Tea break

1105 - 1135 Discussion Group: Marketing Management

1140 - 1310 MARKETING MANAGEMENT

EHSAN UL HAQUE

Instructor Venue: Auditorium B-2

Teaching Assistant: Adnan Hassan (adnan.hassan@lums.edu.pk)

Topic: Marketing Communication in the Digital Age

Case: BBVA Compass: Marketing Resource Allocation

Assignment:

1. What is the role of offline and online advertising in acquiring

checking account customers?

2. Are all checking account customers equally lucrative?

3. Is the budget allocation among various search and display outlets

optimal? Which ones would you increase? Why?

Read: Social Media

1310 - 1435 Lunch break

1435 - 1505 Discussion Group: Organisational Behaviour

1510 - 1840 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

(Double Session) ARIF N. BUTT

Instructor Venue: Auditorium B-2

Teaching Assistant: Haseeb Asif Bajwa (haseeb.asif@lums.edu.pk)

Topic: Power and Politics

Case: Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics, and a Career in Crisis

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 Assignment:

1. Why did Thomas Green get poor performance reviews at his

job?

2. What is your analysis of Thomas Green’s actions and job

performance in his first five months?

3. What sources of power could Thomas Green have utilized in his

job?

4. What could be the possible underlying agendas of Davis and

McDonald?

5. What actions, if any, would you take if you were Thomas

Green?

Read: Power and Politics

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 09

1105 - 1135 Discussion Group: Financial Accounting-II

1140 - 1310 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING-II

ASAD A ALAM

Instructor Venue: Off-Site Campus

Teaching Assistant: Hira Imran (hira.imran@lums.edu.pk)

Topic: Analysis of Financial Statements

Case: Bed Bath and Beyond

1310 - 1435 Lunch break

1435 - 1505 Discussion Group: Finance Fundamentals

1510 - 1640 FINANCE FUNDAMENTALS

FAZAL JAWAD SEYYED

Instructor Venue: Auditorium B-2

Teaching Assistant: Ayesha Bashir (ayesha.bashir@lums.edu.pk)

Topic: Corporate Finance and Lessons from Financial Markets History

Case: Bill Miller and the Value Trust

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 Assignment:

1. How well has Value Trust performed in recent years? In making

that assessment what benchmark(s) are you using? How do you
measure investment performance?

2. What might explain the fund’s performance? To what extent do

you believe an investment strategy such as Miller’s, explains
performance?

3. How easy will it be to sustain Miller’s historical performance

record into the future? What factors support your conclusion?

4. What are the differences between fundamental and technical

analysis? How well do mutual funds generally perform relative
to the overall market?

5. What is capital market efficiency? What are the implications for

corporate finance and fund managers, if the markets exhibit
characteristics of strong, semi-strong, or weak form efficiency?

Read: B&E Chapter 6: The Efficient Market Hypothesis (Pgs. 265-269)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10

0830 - 0900 Discussion Group: Managerial Economics

0905 - 1035 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

TANVEER SHEHZAD

Instructor Venue: Off-Site Campus

Teaching Assistant: Ayesha Bashir (ayesha.bashir@lums.edu.pk)

Topic: Game Theory

Case: Pricing Games: Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox

Assignment:

1. What is meant by Nash Equilibrium?

2. What is meant by dominant strategy?

3. What are cooperative and non-cooperative game?

4. What sort of market structure is this game console market?

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 5. Is this a cooperative or non-cooperative game?

Read: Chapter 11: Game Theory and Strategic Behaviour

1035 - 1105 Tea break

1105 - 1135 Discussion Group: Marketing Management

1140 - 1310 MARKETING MANAGEMENT

EHSAN UL HAQUE

Instructor Venue: Auditorium B-2

Teaching Assistant: Adnan Hassan (adnan.hassan@lums.edu.pk)

Topic: Marketing Communication in the Digital Age

Case: Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer

Marketing

Assignment:

1. How do you like Hubble’s current business model? What worries

you about it?

2. How efficiently does Hubble acquire and retain customers?

3. How would you allocate offline and online ad spend? Why?

4. Going forward what growth strategy would you recommend to

Hubble?

1310 - 1435 Lunch break

1435 - 1640 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

ARIF N. BUTT

Instructor Venue: Auditorium B-2

Teaching Assistant: Haseeb Asif Bajwa (haseeb.asif@lums.edu.pk)

Work on Project Preparation for Project and Project Presentations

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11

0900 - 1300 EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING-I

SYED ZAHOOR HASSAN

Instructor Venue: Off-Site Campus

Teaching Assistant: Sidra Khalid (sidrakch@gmail.com)

Topic: Prepare Final Presentations and initial draft of Report

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