COURSE #:  FINC 446

SECTION:  62

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 #:  441

SECTION:61, 62

COURSE NAME: Finance II 

INSTRUCTOR:  Andrea Eisfeldt

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

Mandatory first class: First class is NOT MANDATORY

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: The course outline is in the course packet. Alternatively, you can get a copy off the web page (see below). To prepare for the first class, you should read the outline for Lecture 1 and Lecture 2. For subsequent classes, you should read the appropriate lecture outline prior to coming to class.

You should also remember to bring your name plate to the first and subsequent classes. I allow laptop use during class by advance permission only (see me the first day of class), except for days when we will discuss cases in class.

At the start of the first class, I will provide you with an overview of the course. Then we will cover the material in Lecture 1 and begin Lecture 2. In Lecture 1, we will discuss what is meant by market efficiency, and why this matters for firms’ financial decisions. In Lecture 2, we will review the basic elements involved in determining the correct discount rate for NPV based capital budgeting. This will in part be a review from Fin I. You may want to review your Fin I notes on the CAPM if you need a refresher. It is important to preview the outline for the lectures carefully prior to class. We will typically cover one lecture per class.

As background for the first class, you should also read Chapter 14 of Brealey, Myers, and Allen Principles of Corporate Finance (9th Edition). If you have the 8th Edition, you can use that by borrowing a friends 9th Edition and doing the page/chapter translations.

The web page will be used as the primary mechanism for distributing documents and news. The address of the course web page is:
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/eisfeldt/d41/  

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Myers and Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principles of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th Ed.

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  460

SECTION: 61

COURSE NAME:  Investments

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Dimitris Papanikolaou

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  NO

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Read first 5 chapters;

Mandatory first class: 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 #:  461

SECTION: 61

COURSE NAME:  Investment Banking

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor David Stowell

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  NO

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Complete Reading Material Posted in Blackboard /

Mandatory First Class: Yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  posted on Blackboard

 

COURSE #:  464

SECTION: 61

COURSE NAME:  Fixed Income Securities

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Debbie Lucas

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Read Chapters 1 and 3 of The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities (HFIS)/

Mandatory First class: NOT mandatory

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR: Frank Fabozzi

PUBLISHER:  McGraw - Hill

TITLE:  The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities (HFIS)

ED./DATE:  7th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Bruce Tuckman

PUBLISHER:  Wiley

TITLE:  Fixed Income Securities; Tools for Today’s Markets, (BT)

ED./DATE:  2nd Edition, 2002

 

COURSE #:  465

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME:  Derivative Markets I

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Viktor Todorov

CASEPACK (YES or NO?)  No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None; /

Mandatory First class: NOT mandatory

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Robert McDonald

PUBLISHER:  Addison Wesley

TITLE:  Derivatives Markets

ED./DATE:  2nd Edition

 

COURSE #: 470

SECTION:  91

COURSE NAME:  International Finance

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Torben Andersen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Read Eun and Resnick, Chapter 1, pp. 4-24 and read Eun and Resnick, Chapter 5, pp. 108-124.

Mandatory first class: First class is NOT mandatory; 

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Eun and Resnick

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  International Financial Management

ED./DATE:  5th Edition, 2009

 

COURSE #:
520

SECTION:
21

COURSE NAME:  General Seminar for PhD Candidates

INSTRUCTOR: Professors Jan Eberly and Andrea Eisfeldt

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: No

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: Posted on Blackboard

 

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 #: 931

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME:  Wall Street, Hedge Funds and Private Equity (LBO) Funds

INSTRUCTOR:  David Stowell

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  complete all readings found in blackboard for class #1 prior to class.

Mandatory First Class: First class is MANDATORY;

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Posted on Blackboard

 

COURSE #:936C 

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME:  Asset Management Practicum IV

INSTRUCTOR:  Robert Korajczyk

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  NO

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Review Chapters 7-8 of Brealey, Myers, and Allen, Principals of Corporate Finance, 8th edition (from Finance I and II) or Chapters 6-7 of Bodie, Kane, and Marcus, Investments, 7th edition.

Mandatory First class: First class is NOT mandatory

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Damodaran, Aswath

PUBLISHER:  Prentice-Hall

TITLE:  Investment Fables:  Exposing the Myths of “can’t miss” Investment Strategies

ED./DATE:  2004

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Litterman, Bob

PUBLISHER:  Wiley

TITLE:  Modern Investment Management:  An Equilibrium Approach

ED./DATE:  2003

3.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Maginn, Tuttle, Pinto, McLeavey

PUBLISHER:  Wiley

TITLE:  Managing Investment Portfolios:  A Dynamic Process

ED./DATE:  3rd Ed /2007

 

COURSE #:
937

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME:  Microfinance and the role of Financial institutions in development

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Paul Christensen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: no

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): yes

 

COURSE #:
938-A

SECTION: 91

COURSE NAME:  Due Diligence: Mergers and Acquisitions

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Joseph Swanson

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: no

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: required

AUTHOR:  Lajoux and Elson

PUBLISHER:  McGraw/Hill

TITLE:  The Art of M&A Due Diligence

ED./DATE:  2000

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  required

AUTHOR:  Robert Bruner

PUBLISHER:  Wiley

TITLE:  Applied Mergers and Acquisitions

ED./DATE:  2004

 

COURSE #:939

SECTION:  61

COURSE NAME:  Buyout Lab

INSTRUCTOR:  David Stowell

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  NO

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: None

Mandatory first class: Yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  None

 

COURSE #:
FIN 940-A

SECTION: 91

COURSE NAME: Financial modeling for LBO’s

INSTRUCTOR: 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 2007

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

ED./DATE: 

 

 

COURSE #:
941

SECTION: 61

COURSE NAME:  International Macroeconomics for Business Managers

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Jonathan Parker

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: no

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): NO

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: required

AUTHOR:  Abel, Bernanke, Croushore

PUBLISHER:  Addison Wesley

TITLE:  Macroeconomics

ED./DATE:  2008

 

 

COURSE #:
942-A

SECTION: 91

COURSE NAME:  The Business of Investing

INSTRUCTOR: Gautam Dhingra

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: E-mail or bring short bio of self to first class

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): Yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: None

 

COURSE #:
444

SECTION:
81

COURSE NAME:  Value Investing

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Ravi Jagannathan

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: On class Website

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 #:
486

SECTION:
21

COURSE NAME:  Corporate Finance

INSTRUCTOR: Professors Mike Fishman and Arvind Krishnamurthy

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: No

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: None

 

 

COURSE #:
530

SECTION:
21

COURSE NAME:  Special Topics in Finance: Experimental Economics

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Ernesto Reuben

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : NO

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:N/A

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): YES

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: NONE

 

COURSE #:
FINC 442

SECTION:
61

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 #:  448

SECTION:  61, 62

COURSE NAME:  Corporate Restructuring

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Timothy Thompson

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  First class is NOT mandatory; On the first day of class, we will go over the class structure and then I will lecture on corporate bankruptcy.  The lecture notes are on the web page for the course.

Mandatory first class: NO

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Stephen G. Moyer

PUBLISHER:  J. Ross Publishing

TITLE:  Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors

ED./DATE:  1st, 2005

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Enrique R. Arzac

PUBLISHER:  Wiley Finance

TITLE:  Valuation for Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructuring

ED./DATE:  2nd, 2008

 

COURSE #:  FINC 445

SECTION:  61

COURSE NAME:  Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Investing

INSTRUCTOR:  Collins

CASE PACKET:  Yes 

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

 

 

COURSE #:  FINC 446

SECTION:  61

COURSE NAME:  Entrepreneurial Finance

INSTRUCTOR:  Collins

CASE PACKET:  Yes 

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapters 1 & 2 of the textbook.

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 #:
442

SECTION: 62, 63, 64

COURSE NAME:  Financial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Vefa Tarhan

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: No

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: none

 

COURSE #:
Finc 943-A

SECTION: 81

COURSE NAME:  Cases in Derivatives and Financial Engineering

INSTRUCTOR: professor David Shimko

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: study Simulation Notes A and B and complete the exercises prior to the first class

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): Yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: No

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #: 931

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME:  Wall Street, Hedge Funds and Private Equity (LBO) Funds

INSTRUCTOR:  David Stowell

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: First class is MANDATORY; complete all readings found in blackboard for class #1 prior to class.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  All reading Posted on Blackboard

 

COURSE #:
942-A

SECTION: 91

COURSE NAME:  The Business of Investing

INSTRUCTOR: Gautam Dhingra

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: E-mail or bring short bio of self to first class

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): Yes

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: None

 

COURSE #:
441

SECTION: 63

COURSE NAME:  Finance 2

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Brian Melzer

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) : Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Prior to the first class, you should:

  • Review the syllabus.
  • Complete the required reading for the first class (Lecture 1):
  • Read the outline for Lecture 1, which is included in the course packet. For this and subsequent classes, it is important to read the appropriate lecture outline prior to class.
  • Read Chapter 14 from Brealey, Myers, and Allen, Principles of Corporate Finance.
  • Read the set of Wall Street Journal articles entitled “Are Markets Efficient?” These and other articles are available through the electronic syllabus on the course web page.
  • Familiarize yourself with the course web page, which is administered through Blackboard:

http://courses.northwestern.edu/
The web page will be a source of up to date information about this course and a source for files needed to complete some of the course assignments. Familiarize yourself with what information is here and how to access it – before you need it – so that you don't end up doing more work than necessary.

  • Make sure that you have VPN installed on your computer and that you know how to use it. If you are not physically on campus, you will need to VPN into the Kellogg network in order to complete Homework Assignment 3. Instructions for installing, configuring, and then connecting to VPN are available from KIS.
  • Bring your name plate to class.

You will find that this class proceeds at a very rapid pace. If you are not prepared, you may become lost quickly. The first assignment is due during the second week of the course; see the syllabus and course calendar for details. I recommend that you bring the appropriate lecture outlines to the first and subsequent classes
         At the start of the first class, I will provide an overview of the course. In Lecture 1, we will discuss what is meant by an efficient market and why this matters – or does not matter – to the financial decision maker of a firm. You should be prepared to contribute to this discussion.

Mandatory First Class (YES or NO?): No

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Brealy, Meyers, Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw Hill

TITLE:  Principles of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  9th ed