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This course in microeconomics will provide the fundamentals in understanding the how scarce resources and allocated in a system of unlimited wants. We will be examining how firms and workers respond to incentives, how tools & statistics help us determine the most efficient use of resources, how firms profit maximize and how markets arrive at equilibrium. Payment Deadline: December 19, 2025

How do organizations motivate people to perform and ensure they deliver? This course looks at the systems — performance measurement, target-setting, and incentive and reward structures — that drive behavior, shape decisions, and create accountability in the workplace. What You’ll Learn in This Course: How organizations use incentives and accountability systems to influence what people do and the decisions they make. Why performance measures matter — and how they can motivate or mislead. The trade-offs among key incentive levers — such as individual vs. team rewards, short-term vs. long-term focus, financial vs. non-financial rewards, subjective vs. objective evaluation, and easy vs. difficult performance targets. How bias, gaming, and unintended consequences creep into performance evaluation. The role of governance — from review committees to shareholders — in keeping leaders accountable. How pay practices raise big-picture issues like pay fairness, gender equity, and human capital investment. How to design better systems for motivating and evaluating performance. Payment Deadline: December 19, 2025

The course is designed as a workshop in which law students and business students work together to structure and negotiate varying aspects of a private equity deal, from the initial term sheet stages, through execution of the purchase agreement, to completion of the financing and closing. Private equity deals that are economically justified sometimes fail in the transaction negotiation and documentation phase. This course will seek to provide students with the tools necessary to understand and resolve difficult issues and complete successful transactions. Payment Deadline: December 19, 2025

This course will study the financial markets, and the financial intermediaries that make the markets operate. Attention will be given to both the short-term money markets | the source of temporary financing | and the long-term capital markets (bonds and stocks) as a source of more permanent financing. Among the institutions examined will be securi-ties brokers and dealers, commercial and investment banks, and investment companies and investment partnerships. A natural extension of the study of institutions is a discussion of the role of central banks and their conduct of monetary policy. Emphasis will be placed upon financial innovation and the efficiency of financial markets will be questioned, while acknowledging the extensive regulatory structure that exists. Payment Deadline: December 19, 2025

This course explores venture capital and private equity utilizing case studies, problem sets and extensive class discussion to build the intuition needed to understand the industry. There is an emphasis on honing skills necessary to understanding the financial and economic tools used in leveraged buyouts and venture capital investing. The class addresses (1) industry structure, strategies and motivations, (2) types of private equity transactions and, (3) transaction structures. The course prepares students interested in a variety of finance careers. See www.emoryprof.com. Payment Deadline: December 19, 2025

Compared to traditional investments, such as public stock, public bonds, and cash, alternative investments represent the largest and fastest growing asset class in the world. Alternative Investments include venture capital, private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and distressed securities. This class was designed specifically for executive MBA's interested in (i) how to start their own business, (ii) how to buy an existing business, (iii) how to invest in real estate, and (iv) how to optimize your personal investment portfolio. In addition this class is highly suitable for those students who have significant interaction with alternative asset managers. The class is divided into seminar-like sessions discussion (i) organization and strategy of the alternative investments industry, (ii) valuation, capital structure and term sheets, (iii) new venture financing, and (iv) deal structuring. The course is in a case/discussion format and is highly interactive. Four guest speakers will join us during the semester.

A strong financial understanding of your business is critical to your success, regardless of your industry. This course will strengthen your practical understanding of the financial statements, and you will gain intellectual insights into finance and accounting management.

This course deals with the valuation and use of fixed income securities. It begins with the concept of the time-value-of-money and interest rates applied to bond pricing, and progresses through an examination of complex structured products and fixed income derivatives. Initially the focus is on the markets for fixed income securities, and the tools of pricing through the discounting of cash flows. Next, we study primary fixed income securities: Treasury bonds, corporate bonds, and municipal bonds. From there we move into the structured products of fixed income: mortgage-backed securities and CMOs. We conclude the course with coverage of fixed income derivatives, both over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange-traded (listed) products. Throughout, the course maintains a dual objective: to educate you in the principles of fixed income securities and structured finance, while at the same time giving you an understanding of how Wall Street is involved in the financial markets. At various times the material may appear advanced and mathematically technical. However, this course is intentionally designed to de-emphasize the technical aspects, and is suitable for students with no prior background in fixed income, and with a grasp of mathematics only at the level of high school algebra.

This course is intended to give students an idea of the work conducted by investment banks. Areas reviewed will include debt financing, equity underwriting, merger & acquisition advisory assignments, and trading activity. Special emphasis will be placed on the methods commonly applied when conducting valuation, debt capacity, and transaction analysis. In addition, there will be summary of investment banking history and of the peripheral players (private equity and hedge funds) that interact with banks.