COURSE NUMBER: MBA231.1
COURSE TITLE: Corporate Finance
UNITS OF CREDIT: 3.0 Units
INSTRUCTOR: Gustavo Manso
E-MAIL ADDRESS: manso@haas.berkeley.edu
PREREQUISITE(S): MBA203
CLASS FORMAT: Cases, lectures
REQUIRED READINGS:
J. Berk and P. DeMarzo, Corporate
Finance, 4th ed., Pearson, 2017
R.C. Higgins, Analysis for Financial Management, 11th ed., Irvin, McGraw-Hill,
2015
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.
CAREER FIELD: All Career Fields
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.