Teaching

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

FINC 450B – Finance for a Sustainable World (Baumhart MBA)

BSAD 409E – Integrative Strategy (Executive MBA)

FINC 452, FINC 452 Online – Investment Management (MBA)

FINC 334, FINC 334 (Honors) – Principles of Corporate Finance (Undergraduate)

COURSE PHILOSOPHY

FINC 450B, Finance for a Sustainable World (Baumhart MBA):

This course is developed with the goal of reimagining the core MBA course in finance, for experienced professionals focused on the intersection of sustainable development and social impact/change with finance, incorporating modern research and pedagogical tools. It covers the fundamental principles of finance including time value of money, discounted cash flows, valuation, the risk-return tradeoff, capital markets, and investment management. It also introduces how sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues affect corporations, risk management, and investments in capital markets. The course introduces how innovative strategies and financial instruments can capitalize on opportunities in a changing world with growing global challenges, while exploring the power capital markets have to address the challenges. The goal is to develop critical thinking about the role of finance in reimagining capitalism as more responsible and sustainable, by focusing on a triple-bottom-line of economic, social, and environmental value-creation based on fundamental frameworks in financial analysis. 

• Recipient of the Aspen Institute's 2021 Ideas Worth Teaching Award 

• Selected Articles: 

  • "These Professors Are Breaking the Mold of Business Courses"

  • "International recognition for innovative course"

  • "Finding value in ESG impact"

FINC 452, Investment Management (MBA):

This course is developed as an innovative elective Investments course for Graduate (MBA and MS) students, incorporating modern research and pedagogical tools. This course is structured to facilitate learning about the theory and applications of the core concepts in investments, to critically analyze different investment philosophies, to introduce the sustainability challenges that business and society face today which go beyond purely short-term financial outcomes, and introduce how investment management is innovating to address some of these global challenges (e.g. sustainable investing; impact investing). The goal is to develop critical thinking about financial planning, investing on a personal level, as well as the broader role investors play in society.

FINC 334, Principles of Corporate Finance (Undergraduate):

This course is developed as an innovative core Finance course for Undergraduate students, incorporating modern research and pedagogical tools. It provides students with a foundational and integrated knowledge of the core concepts in finance, mainly focusing on corporate finance and investments. The course is structured to teach students about the theory and applications of the core concepts in finance, and to introduce students to the sustainability challenges that business and society face today which go beyond purely short-term financial outcomes, with the goal of developing critical thinking about the purpose of business and its role in society at an early stage in business education.