MBA Required Curriculum

Finance I

This course examines the role of finance in supporting the functional areas of a firm, and fosters an understanding of how financial decisions themselves can create value.

Topics covered include:

• Basic analytical skills and principles of corporate finance.
• Functions of modern capital markets and financial institutions.
• Standard techniques of analysis, including capital budgeting, discounted cash flow valuation, and risk analysis.

Finance II

This course builds on the foundation developed in Finance I, focusing on three sets of managerial decisions:

• How to evaluate complex investments.
• How to set and execute financial policies within a firm.
• How to integrate the many financial decisions faced by firms.

The Finance II course is divided into four blocks of material:

• Advanced valuation—valuation of levered firms and projects.
• Advanced valuations—options as a metaphor for flexibility.
• Financial choices of firms—financing, distributing funds to shareholders, managing risk.
• Integrated financial decisions, especially in the face of conflicts of interest and different legal/regulatory rules.

MBA Elective Curriculum

Course Title	Faculty Name	Term	Quarter	Credits
Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks	John Macomber	Fall 2024	Q1Q2	3.0
Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO)	C. Fritz Foley	Fall 2024	Q1Q2	3.0
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring	Stuart C. Gilson	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Deal Making in Real Estate	Dan Gilbane, Christopher Graham	Spring 2025	Q4	1.5
Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)	Raymond Kluender	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)	Shai Bernstein	Fall 2024	Q2	1.5
Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)	Paul Gompers	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)	Richard Ruback, Royce Yudkoff	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Field Course: Field X (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)	Randolph Cohen	Fall 2024	Q1Q2	3.0
Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)	Randolph Cohen	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Field Course: Investing for Impact (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and General Management)	Archie L. Jones, Emily R. McComb, Brian Trelstad	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems	John Dionne	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar	Sara Fleiss	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms	Jason Pananos	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)	Richard Ruback, Royce Yudkoff	Fall 2024	Q1Q2	3.0
Investment Management and Capital Markets	Luis Viceira, Emil Siriwardane	Fall 2024	Q1Q2	3.0
Investment Strategies	William Vrattos	Spring 2025	Q4	1.5
Managing and Innovating in Financial Services	David Scharfstein	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism)	Robin Greenwood, Richard Ruback	Fall 2024	Q1Q2	3.0
Private Equity Finance	Victoria Ivashina, Ted Berk	Fall 2024	Q1Q2	3.0
Real Estate Investing	Dwight Angelini, Matt Kelly	Spring 2025	Q3	1.5
Real Estate Private Equity	Nori Gerardo Lietz	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Real Property	Boris Vallee	Fall 2024	Q1Q2	3.0
Strategies for Value Creation (SVC) (also listed under Strategy)	Benjamin Esty	Spring 2025	Q3Q4	3.0
Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) (also listed under Strategy)	Scott Mayfield	Spring 2025	Q3	1.5
Sustainable Investing (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management)	Vikram Gandhi	Fall 2024	Q2	1.5