• Executives who participate in strategic decisions such as capital budgeting, financial planning and mergers and acquisitions
• Managers with profit and loss or balance sheet responsibilities
• Executives in financial advisory functions such as consultants, accountants, commercial bankers and investment bankers

• Measure the impact of major strategic and operating decisions on shareholder value
• Evaluate and prioritize strategic investments including capital expenditures, organic growth, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring alternatives
• Determine the consequences of financing strategies for value creation
• Accurately estimate firms’ and divisions’ cost of capital and its relation to financial structure

Creating Shareholder Value: Evaluation of Investments

• Analytical techniques
• Common mistakes made in the evaluation process
• Financial reporting and resource allocation decisions
• Modern approaches for the determination of cost of capital
• Divisional cost of capital
• Evaluating strategies using real options

Financing Decisions

• Determinants of financial structure: Is debt good for your firm?
• Cash distribution strategy: dividends and stock repurchases
• Stock market reactions to changes in financial policy: the scientific evidence
• Impact of financing strategies on your firm’s cost of capital
• Innovative financial instruments

Interaction of Investment and Financing

• Techniques for analyzing value created by investment and financing strategies
• Design of consistent investment and financial strategies

Corporate Financial Strategies

• Valuation of merger and acquisition targets
• Ownership restructuring: leveraged buyouts
• Valuation of international investments
• Value-based management (EVA, CFROI, SVA)

Aharon Ofer - Academic Director; Professor of Finance

Artur Raviv - Academic Director; Alan E. Peterson Professor of Finance

Sergio Rebelo - MUFG Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance; Professor of Finance

Mitchell A. Petersen - Glen Vasel Professor of Finance; Director of the Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital

“An excellent program with lots of practical lessons for performance improvement. The faculty was excellent, experienced and knowledgeable and gave a lot of food for thought. I would recommend this course strongly for those who are currently working in consulting, [or considering moving into the industry].”
Executive Director, Lagos And Southwest, Fidelity Bank

“Top-notch faculty guiding you to apply very technical concepts and applying them to real-life examples in an understandable way.”
Corporate Controller, IEWC

“This program provides an excellent overview of financial strategies to build shareholder value.”
CFO, Catholic University of Portugal