COURSE #:  FINC 446

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME:  Entrepreneurial Finance

INSTRUCTOR:  Rogers

CASEPACK :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: In class assignment. Attendance at first class is mandatory. Bring calculator.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED 

AUTHOR:  Steven Rogers

PUBLISHER:  McGraw Hill

TITLE: ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE: Finance And Business Strategies For The Serious Entrepreneur

ED./DATE: 2nd Edition/2008 ISBN: 9780071591263

 

COURSE #:  FINC 445

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME:  Venture Capital and Private Equity Investing

INSTRUCTOR:  Collins

CASE PACKET:  Yes 

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read case “Note on the Private Equity Industry”

 

COURSE #:
REAL 442

SECTION:
81

COURSE NAME: 
Real Estate Finance and Investments

INSTRUCTOR: Craig Furfine

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Due in week 2

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Meyers, Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw Hill

TITLE:  Principles of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th Ed

 

COURSE #:
FINC 430

SECTION:
72

COURSE NAME: 
Finance 1

INSTRUCTOR: Brett Green

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Due in week 2

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Meyers, Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw Hill

TITLE:  Principles of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th Ed

 

 

COURSE #:
FINC 430

SECTION:
71

COURSE NAME: 
Finance 1

INSTRUCTOR: Vefa Tarhan

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Due in week 2

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): Yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Meyers, Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw Hill

TITLE:  Principles of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th Ed

 

 

COURSE #:
FINC 441

SECTION:
71

COURSE NAME: 
Finance 2

INSTRUCTOR: David Matsa

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: direct students to http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/matsa/441/home/first_class_PT.pdf

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Myers, and Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw Hill

TITLE:  Principles of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th Edition

 

COURSE #:
FINC 442

SECTION:
71

COURSE NAME: 
                        Financial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR: Michael Fishman

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Ford Motor Company’s Value Enhancement Plan and Clarkson Lumber Company and study questions

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: recommended

AUTHOR:  Brealy, Meyers, Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principles of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th ed

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  recommended

AUTHOR:  Koller, Goedhart, Wessels

PUBLISHER:  John Wiley

TITLE:  Valuation: Measuring and managing the Value of Companies

ED./DATE:  4th ed

 

COURSE #:
FINC 442

SECTION:
76

COURSE NAME: 
Financial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR:  Thompson

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: First class is not mandatory but recommended; There is no case due on the first day of class.  After going over the class structure, I will do a short lecture (as time permits).  Class participation will count.  Visit Financial Decisions web page, especially reading the sections concerning the texts. No other first assignment is due.
Attendance at the first meeting is very important.  (Being absent is not recommended, but will not result in being dropped from the class list).  We will be setting up groups, going over how the class will work, and the first case write-up is due at the second class session.

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): NO

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Recommended

AUTHOR:  Koller, Goedhart and Wessels

PUBLISHER:  Wiley

TITLE:  Valuation:  Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

ED./DATE:  4th Edition, Paperback

 

COURSE #:
444

SECTION:
81

COURSE NAME:  Value Investing

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Ravi Jagannathan

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: On class Blackboard Website (Must check)

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): Yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: required

AUTHOR:  Greenwald, Kahn, Sonkin, Van biema

PUBLISHER:  Wiley

TITLE:  Value Investing: from graham to Buffet and Beyond

ED./DATE:  2001

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR:  Benjamin graham

PUBLISHER:  harper collins

TITLE:  The Intelligent Investor

ED./DATE:  2003, 4th ed

 

COURSE #:  460

SECTION: 71

COURSE NAME:  Investments

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Dimitris Papanikolaou

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  NO

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Read first 5 chapters; First class is NOT mandatory

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR: Bodie, Kane and Marcus

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Investments

ED./DATE:  7th Edition

 

COURSE #:  467

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME:  Derivative Markets II

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Robert McDonald

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes /

First class mandatory: No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Review binomial model, Black-Scholes model, and the Greeks.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Robert McDonald

PUBLISHER:  Addison Wesley

TITLE:  Derivatives Markets

ED./DATE:  2nd Edition

 

COURSE #:
Finc 470

SECTION:
71

COURSE NAME: 
                        International Finance

INSTRUCTOR: Torben G. Andersen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapter 1, p.4-24 & Chapter 5, p.108-133

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR:  Eun & Resnick

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  International Financial Management

ED./DATE:  5th, 2009

 

COURSE #:
FINC 471

SECTION:
81

COURSE NAME: 
Case Studies in Venture Investment and Management

INSTRUCTOR: Yael Hochberg

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Course Pack

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): Yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: None

 

COURSE #:  918-A

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME:  Major Project and Project Finance in Emerging Markets

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Robert Knuepfer

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  TBA /First day of class is mandatory 1.    Course Materials on Project Finance and Privatization (Central Europe)
2.    Case Study: "Petrolera Zuata, Petrozuata C. A." (Latin America)
3.    Case Study "Iridium LLC" (United States)
4.    Finnerty: Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Rationale for Project Financing
5.    Esty: Chapter 1: Introduction

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR: Finnerty, John D.

PUBLISHER:  John Wiley and Sons

TITLE:  Project Financing- Asset Based Financial Engineering

ED./DATE:  ISBN 0-471-14631-5

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Esty, Benjamin

PUBLISHER:  Wiley Higher Education

TITLE:  Modern Project Finance: A Casebook

ED./DATE:  ISBN 0-471-43425-6

 

 

COURSE #:
FINC 935

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME: 
Asset Management Practicum III

 

INSTRUCTOR:  Korajczyk

 

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : No

 

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapter 12 of Managing Investment Portfolios: A Dynamic Process

 

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

 

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED

 

AUTHOR:  Maginn, John L., Donald L. Tuttle, Jerald F. Pinto, and Dennis W. McLeavey

PUBLISHER:  Wiley                                     

TITLE:  Managing Investment Portfolios: A Dynamic Process

ED./DATE:  3rd/2007

 

2.  TEXT  --   Recommended

 

AUTHOR Bob Litterman

PUBLISHER:  Wiley

 

TITLE:  Modern Investment Management

ED./DATE:  2003