COURSE #:  440

SECTION:  61, 81

COURSE NAME:  Finance I/II

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Jose Liberti

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR: Breadley, Myers and Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill Irwin

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #: 441

SECTION: 61, 62

COURSE NAME:  Finance II

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Mitchell Petersen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/petersen/ftp/441/first.htm

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR: Allen, Brealey and Myers

PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill (ABM)

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  442

SECTION: 61, 63, 64

COURSE NAME:  Financial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Timothy Thompson

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  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.

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

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  442

SECTION: 62

COURSE NAME:  Financial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Michael Fishman

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :   Yes

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

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR: Allen, Brealey and Myers

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Recommended

AUTHOR:  Koller, Goedhart, Wessels and Wiley

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE:  Valuation:  Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

ED./DATE:  4th Edition

 

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: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Finance and Business: Wealth Creation Techniques for Growing a Business

ED./DATE:  1st ed., 2002  ISBN: 0-07-138081-7

 

 

COURSE #:  447

SECTION: 61

COURSE NAME:  Financial Strategy and Tax Planning

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Mitchell Petersen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  http://kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/petersen/ftp/447/first/htm

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR: Scholes, Wolfson, Erickson, Maydew & Shevlin  (SWEMS)

PUBLISHER:  Prentice-Hall, Inc.

TITLE:  Taxes and Business Strategy

ED./DATE:  3rd Edition  2005

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  461

SECTION: 61

COURSE NAME:  Investment Banking

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor David Stowell

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  None

AUTHOR:

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  488

SECTION: 21/PhD

COURSE NAME:  Econometrics of Financial Markets

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Ernst Schaumburg

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR: Bodie, Kane and Marcus

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE:  Investments

ED./DATE:  7th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

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

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 #: 430

SECTION:61, 62

COURSE NAME: Finance I

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Will be handed out in week 1

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Myers and Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR:  K. Morris and V. Morris

PUBLISHER:  Fireside

TITLE:  The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing, 1999

ED./DATE:  1999

3.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Myers and Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance Study Guide

ED./DATE:  8th Edition

4.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR:  Craig Holden

PUBLISHER:  Pearson/Prentice Hall

TITLE:  Excel Modeling in Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  2nd Edition

5.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR:  Craig Holden

PUBLISHER:  :  Pearson/Prentice Hall

TITLE:  Excel Modeling in Investments

ED./DATE:  2nd Edition

 

COURSE #: 445

SECTION:  91

COURSE NAME:  Venture Capital and Private Equity Investing

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Yael Hochberg

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  FINC 445:

Read Fenn, Liang and Prowse chapters 1,2 and 3.

Prepare the case: Yale University Investment Office: 2003. Study questions for the case follow.

Yale University Investments Office: June 2003

Read and discuss only (no writeup required)

  1. Why is Yale investing in Private Equity?
  2. How has the investment office selected, compensated and controlled private equity fund managers?
  3. How has the Investment office decided when to make private equity investments?
  4. What explains the differences between its strategy in private equity and that in other classes (e.g. real estate)?
  5. How has the investment office made international private equity investments? What explains the difference in performance of its international and domestic PE investments?
  6. How is the PE industry changing? How could Swensen’s PE strategy go wrong?
  7. What does the changing environment of the PR industry mean for Yale?
  8. Should David Swensen shift his PE strategy?

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  None

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #: 451

SECTION:  61

COURSE NAME: Money Markets and the Fed 

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Arvind Krishnamurthy

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Glen Hubbard

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE:  Money, The Financial System and the Economy

ED./DATE:  5th Edition

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  461

SECTION:  61

COURSE NAME:  Investment Banking

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor David Stowell

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  See Syllabus

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Monica Langley

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE:  Tearing Down the Walls

ED./DATE: 

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?: 

AUTHOR: 

PUBLISHER: 

TITLE: 

ED./DATE: 

 

COURSE #:  938-A

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME:  Due Diligence:  Mergers & Acquisitions

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Joseph Swanson

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required (8 copies on hold at library)

AUTHOR:  A.R. Lajoux and C.M. Elson

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  The Art of M&A Due Diligence

ED./DATE:  2000

2.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  R. F. Bruner

PUBLISHER:  John Wiley & Sons

TITLE:  Applied Mergers and Acquisitions

ED./DATE:  2004

3.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Brealey, Myers and Allen

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  Principals of Corporate Finance

ED./DATE:  8th Ed  2006