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I teach three courses at Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan:

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               FIN 316: Derivative Securities [Winter, 2008] [Syllabus pdf]    

               FIN 608: Capital Markets and Investment Strategy [Winter A, 2008] [Syllabus pdf]

               FIN 875: Empirical Methodology in Finance [Winter A, 2007] [Syllabus pdf]

 

 

I taught three courses at University of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration:

 

               FIN 413: Applied Corporate Finance [Fall 2005] [Syllabus pdf]

 

                        1. Introduction [pdf]

                        2. Corporate Investment Policy [pdf]

                        3. The MM Theorem and the Effects of Taxes on Leverage [pdf]

                        4. Bankruptcy Costs and Bondholder-Shareholder Conflicts [pdf]

                        5. Leverage and Corporate Strategy [pdf]

                        6. Empirical Evidence on Financing and Payout Policies [pdf]

                        7. Payout Policy [pdf]

                        8. Real Options [pdf]

                        9. Hedging Policy [pdf]

                        10. Mergers and Acquisitions [pdf]

 

               FIN 532: Advanced Topics in Capital Markets

               FIN 411: Investments

 

 

Thought-provoking Articles on Business Education:

"The Business Education Debate" by Thomas F. Cooley, Dean and Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics, New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business

"Can American Business Schools Survive?" by Jerold L. Zimmerman, Ronald L. Bittner Professor of Business Administration, University of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration

 

"How Business Schools Lost Their Way" by Warren G. Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, and James O'Toole, Research Professor at University of Southern California's Center for Effective Organizations