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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Group study of current topics related to entrepreneurship.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Group study of current topics related to high-tech entrepreneurship.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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2.00 Credits
Focus is on the role of the CEO. Students learn from some of the world's leading CEOs who are invited to speak in the class. Topics include the job of the CEO, corporate strategy, and career learnings and advice. Particular emphasis on how the CEO is reacting to the crossroads where he currently finds his company. Sessions are highly interactive, with questions from the students. Before each class, a small group of students has dinner with the guest CEO, a truly unique experience for the students.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 15.900 or permission of instructor
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2.00 Credits
Teams of science, engineering, and management students participate actively one day a week on-site with the top management of high tech start-ups in order to gain experience in starting and running a new venture. Student projects focus on one urgent aspect of the start-up, such as selection of target market, design of market-entry strategy, choice of sales approach to initial customers, etc. In addition to the regular MIT registration process, students should register at the course website one month before class to facilitate formation of student teams and matching of teams with potential host companies.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 15.910 or 15.911; permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
Core theory of modern financial economics and financial management, concentrating on capital markets and investments. Topics include functions of capital markets and financial intermediaries, asset valuation, fixed income securities, common stocks, capital budgeting, diversification and portfolio selection, equilibrium pricing of risky assets, the theory of efficient markets, and an introduction to derivatives.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of 15.401, concentrating on corporate financial management. Topics include capital budgeting, investment decisions and valuation; working capital management, security issues; dividend policy; optimal capital structure; and real options analysis.
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Prereq: 15.401
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2.00 Credits
Proseminar exposes students to some of the basic institutions and practices of the financial industry. Includes panel discussions with representatives from leading financial institutions, MIT alumni currently engaged in the financial services sector, and leading industry vendors. Preference to first-year Finance track MBA students.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Provides a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of modern financial analysis and applications to business challenges in capital budgeting, project evaluation, corporate investment and financing decisions, and basic security analysis and investment management. Focuses on five key sections: an introduction to the financial system, the six unifying principles of modern finance, and fundamental present-value relations; valuation models for both stocks and bonds and capital budgeting; methods for incorporating uncertainty into valuation models; valuation of derivative securities; and applications to corporate financial decisions. Restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 15.511
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6.00 Credits
Core theory of capital markets and corporate finance. Topics include functions and operations of capital markets, analysis of consumption-investment decisions of investors, valuation theory, financial securities, risk analysis, portfolio theory, pricing models of risky assets, theory of efficient markets, as well as investment, financing and risk management decisions of firms. Provides a theoretical foundation of finance and its applications. Restricted to students in the Master of Finance Program.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: None
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4.00 Credits
Foundations of modern financial economics; individuals' consumption and portfolio decisions under uncertainty; valuation of financial securities. Topics include expected utility theory; stochastic dominance; mutual fund separation; portfolio frontiers; capital asset pricing model; arbitrage pricing theory; Arrow-Debreu economies; consumption and portfolio decisions; spanning; options; market imperfections; no-trade theorems; rational expectations; financial signaling. Primarily for doctoral students in accounting, economics, and finance.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 14.121, 14.122
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