COURSE
NUMBER: MBA231.1
This course
is cross-listed with the EWMBA Program.
COURSE
TITLE: Corporate Finance
UNITS OF
CREDIT: 3 units
INSTRUCTOR:
Gustavo Manso
E-MAIL
ADDRESS: manso@haas.berkeley.edu
CLASS WEB
PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu
MEETING
DAY(S)/TIME: Wednesdays, 6:00 – 9:30PM
PREREQUISITE(S):
MBA203
CLASS
FORMAT: Cases, lectures
REQUIRED
READINGS:
J. Berk and P. DeMarzo, Corporate
Finance, 2nd ed., Pearson, 2010
R.C.
Higgins, Analysis for Financial Management, 10th ed., Irvin, McGraw-Hill, 2011
BASIS FOR
FINAL GRADE: Final, cases, class discussion
ABSTRACT OF
COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
The course
takes as its viewpoint the CFO of a firm. We assume that the CFO’s job is to
maximize firm value and deal with three types of decisions: which projects to
invest in, how to finance that investment, and how to manage the cash flows of
the firm. This is an applied course that will primarily use case studies to
introduce financial tools needed to make value-enhancing business decisions.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH:
Gustavo Manso received his Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford Graduate
School of Business. Prior to joining Haas in 2012, Manso
served on the faculty of MIT Sloan School of Management. His research in the
areas of corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and organizations has been
published extensively in leading academic journals and has received numerous
awards. Some of his recent research projects have been concerned with
incentives for innovation and dynamic investment and financing decisions of firms.
At Haas, Manso teaches “Corporate Finance,” an MBA elective. In 2012, he was awarded the Earl F. Cheit
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the full-time MBA program.