Professor Eli M. Noam



Professor Noam is a Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Courses

B8210 - Media and Information Management

No Prerequisites
 (terms offered: fall, spring)

The course brings together many of the strands of the entire MBA program and applies them to the media sector. It covers business functions, tools and intellectual concepts across the communications industries. Topics are media finance; content production management; network economics; audience measurement; the pricing of information goods and licenses; intellectual asset management; media accounting and valuation; media HRM; media technology management; and entertainment law. In terms of format, the course provides lectures, cases and invited experts. It also uses the tools of electronic media: lectures are available online in video, audio and text formats, enabling off-site study.

B8599-007 - International Media Business

No Prerequisites
 (terms offered: spring)

This course deals with the international aspects of communications industries and information flows. It provides tools and analysis for several media: film production and distribution; TV, cable and satellite; print and online publishing; global telecom and mobile networks; and broadband Internet. It covers such global topics as e-commerce; storage technology and music; transformation of old media; and entertainment law and intergovernmental regulatory policy; trade in copyrights and patents; privacy protection and international information flows. In terms of the format, the course provides lectures, cases and invited experts. Lectures are available online in video, audio and text formats, enabling off-site study.

MICMR Project

Textbook on Management of Media and Communications

Based on the electronic materials, Prof. Noam is writing a textbook on the economics and management of media. The textbook follows a novel approach along functional lines rather than industry lines.


Chairman, MBA Concentration in Media Management, Columbia University, 1994-2003

Executive Committee of Ph.D. Program in Communication (new university-wide Ph.D. program)

The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
CITI Directors
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