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    Financial Management

    Financial Management

    Financial Management studies corporate finance and capital markets, emphasizing the financial aspects of managerial decisions. It touches on all areas of finance, including the valuation of real and financial assets, risk management and financial derivatives, the trade-off between risk and expected return, and corporate financing and dividend policy. The course draws heavily on empirical research to help guide managerial decisions.

    Subjects:
    Finance
    Keywords:
    Investments Finance Corporations -- Finance
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    Courseware
     
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    Financing Economic Development

    Financing Economic Development

    This course focuses on the tools and programs available to economic development practitioners to address capital needs for businesses and economic development projects. It provides an overview of private capital markets and financing sources to understand capital market imperfections that constrain economic development, business accounting, financial statement analysis, federal economic development programs, and public finance tools. The course covers policies and program models, including revolving loan funds, guarantee programs, venture capital funds, bank holding companies, community development loan funds and credit unions, micro-enterprise funds, and the Community Reinvestment Act. The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of economic development finance practice in the United States, and to develop a knowledge base and skills to either be a development finance practitioner, or apply economic development finance approaches to other fields of planning and community development.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Finance
    Keywords:
    Economic development -- Finance Business enterprises -- Finance United States
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Entrepreneurship without Borders

    Entrepreneurship without Borders

    This course examines opportunities and problems for entrepreneurs globally, including Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Linkages between the business environment, the institutional framework, and new venture creation are covered with a special focus on blockchain technology. In addition to discussing a range of global entrepreneurial situations, student groups pick one particular cluster on which to focus and to understand what further development would entail. Classroom interactions are based primarily on case studies.

    Subjects:
    Management, Finance, and Business Information Technology
    Keywords:
    Entrepreneurship Blockchains (Databases) International business enterprises
    Resource Type:
    Courseware