Classes
- FINA 7360 CASE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
- Examines the principal opportunities and risks involved in multinationals investing outside their home countries. Topics include;
- Assessing and hedging currency risk
- Adjusting project economics for investing overseas
- Assessing and adjusting for project and political risk
- The effects of international taxation on project economics
- Financing international investments. Students will analyze and present case studies drawn from the professor's international financial and investment transactions
- International Finance - Fall 2012 - Course Syllabus
- FINA 7397 THE STRATEGY OF PROJECT FINANCE
- Examines the basic features of project financing and then focuses on the various reasons why Sponsors resort to this financing technique. The course addresses the connection between business strategy and the use of project financing. Students will also examine the economics of project financing in detail, including how investment economics should be adjusted when project financing is being used. Students will analyze and present case studies drawn from project finance transactions with which the professor is personally familiar.
- The Strategy of Project Financing - Fall 2012 - Course Syllabus
- FINA 7397 TACTICS AND TECHNIQUES OF PROJECT FINANCE
- Examines the execution of project financing transactions, including various techniques and tactics which Sponsors can employ to get better terms. The course advocates a particular approach, that of "Frontend-designed Sponsor Finance Plans" and shows how this technique can be used to shape the complete Project Financing process. Students will also learn something of lender economics and negotiating tactics. Students will analyze and present case studies drawn from project finance transactions with which the professor is personally familiar. A Cap-stone LBO case involving the principals who closed the transaction will end the course.
- The Techniques and Tactics of Project Financing - Spring 2013 - Course Syllabus
- FINA 7397 ENRON, ETHICS AND FINANCE
- Examines the line between creativity and deception in finance. Students will analyze seventeen Enron-related case studies, covering that firm's ethical decomposition and the efforts of certain resisters to halt the slide. Guests include several of the Enron resisters. The course concludes with several non-Enron cases involving "gray-zone" activities drawn from the professor's own experience. This class is case study-only and students should expect to analyze and present 2-3 cases.
- Ethics and Finance - Spring 2013 – Course Syllabus
