COURSE #:  FINC 446

SECTION:  61

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 #:
REAL 442

SECTION:
61, 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:
64,

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 430

SEC: 61, 62, 63

COURSE NAME:  Finance 1

INSTRUCTOR: Jiro Kondo

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Due in week 2

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Recommended

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Meyers, Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw Hill

TITLE:  Principles of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th Ed

 

COURSE #: 440

SECTION:  61,62

COURSE NAME:  Finance I/II  Turbo Finance

INSTRUCTOR:  Phillip Braun

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT/mandatory first class:  None/no

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Myers and Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principles of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th Ed

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Morris and Siegel

PUBLISHER:  Fireside

TITLE:  The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing

ED./DATE:  1999

3.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Koller, Goedhart and Wessels

PUBLISHER:  Wiley

TITLE:  Valuation:  Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

ED./DATE:  4th Ed/ 2005

 

 

COURSE #:
441

SECTION:
61, 62

COURSE NAME: 
Corporate Finance

INSTRUCTOR:  Petersen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Available on Course Web Site:
     http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/petersen/ftp/441/

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Myers & Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th / 2007

COURSE #:
FINC 441

SECTION:
63

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_FT.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:
61,62

COURSE NAME: 
                        Financial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR: Michael Fishman

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Ford Motor Company’s Value Enhancement Plan 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:
63, 64,

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 #:
FINC 445

SECTION:
91

COURSE NAME: 
Venture Capital and Private Equity Investing

INSTRUCTOR: Prof. John Honney

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: 1) Chapter 1 in “Venture Capital & the Finance of innovation”; 2) Read sec 1-3 &5 “Economics of Private Equity Market” by Fenn Liang & Prowse on the Web; 3) Read “Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard” Vanity Fair, August 2009 on the Web; 4) Read “Yale University” Case in the case pack

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: required

AUTHOR:  Andrew Metrick

PUBLISHER:  John Wiley & sons

TITLE:  Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation

ED./DATE:  2007

 

 

COURSE #:
447

SECTION:
 61

COURSE NAME: 
Financial Strategy and Tax Planning

INSTRUCTOR:  Petersen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Available on Course Web Site:
     http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/petersen/ftp/447/

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR:  Scholes,Wolfson, Erickson, Maydew and Shevlin

PUBLISHER:  Prentice Hall

TITLE:  Taxes & Business Strategy

ED./DATE:  4th (2008)

 

 

COURSE #:  460

SECTION: 61,

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 #:
FINC 461

SECTION:
61

COURSE NAME: 
                          Investment Banking

INSTRUCTOR: David Stowell

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : NO

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Yes- Read all Material posted on Blackboard

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): YES

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Required

AUTHOR:  Monica Langley

PUBLISHER:  Free Press

TITLE: Tearing Down the Walls

ED./DATE: isbn:0-7432-1613-x 

 

COURSE #:  465

SECTION:  61, 62

COURSE NAME:  Derivative Markets I

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Robert McDonald

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

First class mandatory: No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Read Chapter 1

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Robert McDonald

PUBLISHER:  Addison Wesley

TITLE:  Derivatives Markets

ED./DATE:  2nd 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:
61

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 #: 
FINC 487

SECTION:  21

COURSE NAME: Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory

INSTRUCTOR:  Prof. Costis Skiadas

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  No

Mandatory first class: Yes

First assignment: None

1.  TEXT  --   Required

AUTHOR: Costis Skiadas  

PUBLISHER:  Princeton University Press

TITLE:  Asset Pricing Theory

ED./DATE:  2009

2.  TEXT  --   Required

AUTHOR: Darrell Duffie

PUBLISHER:  Princeton University Press

TITLE:  Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory

ED./DATE:  3rd Ed., 2001

 

COURSE #: 
FINC 488

SECTION:  21

COURSE NAME: Econometrics of Financial Markets

INSTRUCTOR:  Ravi Jagannathan

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  No

First assignment: No 1st assignment

Mandatory first class: First Class mandatory

1.  TEXT  --   Recommended

AUTHOR: Campbell. Lo and MacKinlay  

PUBLISHER:  Princeton University

TITLE:  The econometrics of the financial markets

ED./DATE:  1997

2.  TEXT  --   Recommended

AUTHOR: Cochran  

PUBLISHER:  Princeton University, 2005

TITLE:  Asset Pricing

ED./DATE:  2nd Edition

 

COURSE #:
FINC 915

SECTION:
61

COURSE NAME: 
Venture Lab (V-lab)

INSTRUCTOR: Yael Hochberg

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: None

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

 

 

COURSE #:939

SECTION:  61

COURSE NAME:  Buyout Lab

INSTRUCTOR:  David Stowell

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  NO

First class mandatory: No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  None

 

COURSE #:
FIN 940-A

SECTION:
91

COURSE NAME: Financial modeling for LBO’s

INSTRUCTOR: Chirag Saraiya

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : NO

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: NO

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): YES

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Recommended

AUTHOR:  Castillo & McAniff

PUBLISHER:  Circinus Business Press

TITLE:  The Practitioner’s Guide to Investment Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  2007