About This Site

Thanks for stopping by my site.

What sparks the creation of this new site? There are likely as many stimuli as there are finance sites. For me, it was the desire to address the Iranian scholars, researchers and finance students on various aspects of financial economics and management; the same stimuli that led me to propose some new financial courses in the last 30 years of my career in Iran.

With all the excitement about the Internet and other technological wonders, and given my executive engagements which make me in practice a part time academician, I felt that having a strong site is the only crucial vehicle to address and keep contact with Iranian financial academicians and students, and to prepare sufficiently well-structured courses in the curricula of my Master and Ph.D. students.

My current sincere and genuine zeal to develop and maintain a top rated Persian language financial site not only stems from my early love for finance—both as a student and as a practitioner—and from my fondness to be an innovator in the field, but it also drives from the necessity I feel such a reference might have for Iranian addressees.

In this site, I have also presented a full package of materials for a financial courses that I currently teach. Thirty years ago, when I offered the first Iranian financial management case-based course at undergraduate level, more than 120 students enrolled in the course, which was offered for the first time on fall semester.

My current offered finance courses yet addressing many cases (some of which focus on international companies) has gone through some very important changes. It now certainly has a more international body and a more globally oriented content.

The syllabus for the Ph.D. course on financial theory in its current form grew out of the experiences of the classes taught during the last ten years, when I joined IRPD as an associate professor in the spring of 1998. The designed course focuses on the intersection between financial theory and management theory. I expanded the material to include the context of Iranian organizational culture.

The courses are designed to provide students with the tools to analyze finance decisions and to have a better sense of the social implications of such decisions.  Students in my classes are expected to debate a range of controversial arguments, hypotheses, and empirical presentations relevant to making sense of the state of theory and practice of finance today.

Among the objectives of my classes is to encourage students to think analytically, to recognize the components of constructing a theory (concepts, logic, coherence), and to develop their skill at producing effective spoken arguments. These skills are valuable in the academic endeavor, in general, and to the study of financial management, in particular.

Now a day, after 30 years, there is a better time to think about Iran-specific finance course; nor has there been a better time to talk about financial innovations and their impact on Iranian developing economy; what I have tried to present on this site.

So, I will do my best to continue working on the enrichment of the content and organization of this site, tooling around until it behaves itself. In developing this site, my goal has been to provide my friends and you with a multiple-purpose comprehensive Persian language finance site, while continuously adding new materials to the site. Your feedback will help me achieve my goal, and I thank you for taking the time to complete this site.