Jumat, 23 Desember 2005

A Education Manifesto: An Invitation To My Throttle 2020 Classes

If y'all receive got been reading my weblog for long enough, y'all should receive got seen this shipping coming. Every semester that I teach, together with it has entirely been inwards the bound inwards the lastly few years, I upshot an invitation to anyone interested to attend my classes online. While I cannot offering y'all credit for taking the shape or much straight personal help, y'all tin sentinel my sessions online (albeit non live), review the slides that I utilisation together with access the shipping shape material, together with it is free. If y'all are interested inwards a certificate version of the class, NYU offers that option, but it does hence for a fee. You tin create upwardly one's nous what plant for you, together with whatever your determination is, I promise that y'all taste the fabric together with larn from it, inwards that order.

The Structure

I volition live educational activity iii classes inwards Spring 2020 at the Stern School of Business (NYU), a corporate finance shape to the MBAs together with 2 identical valuation classes, i to the MBAs together with i for undergraduates. If y'all create upwardly one's nous to accept i of the MBA classes, the offset session volition live on Feb 3, 2020, together with in that location volition live classes every Mon together with Midweek until May 11, 2020, amongst the calendar week of March 15-22 beingness bound break. In total, in that location volition live 26 sessions, each session lasting fourscore minutes. The undergraduate classes start a calendar week earlier, on Jan 27, together with acquire through May 11, comprising 28 sessions of 75 minutes apiece. 
  1. The Spring 2020 Classses: With all iii classes, the sessions volition live recorded together with converted into streams, accessible on my website together with downloadable, every bit good every bit YouTube videos, amongst each shape having its ain playlist. In addition, the classes volition also live carried on iTunes U, amongst fabric together with slides, accessible from the site. The session videos will unremarkably live accessible nearly 3-4 hours subsequently shape is done together with y'all tin either accept the shape inwards existent time, watching the sessions inwards the calendar week that they are taught, or inwards bunches, when y'all receive got the fourth dimension to pass to sentinel the sessions; the recordings volition remain online for at to the lowest degree a brace of years subsequently the shape ends. There volition live no demand for passwords, since the session videos volition live unprotected on all of the platforms. 
  2. The (Free) Online Version: During the 2 decades that I receive got been offering this online option, I receive got noticed that many people who start the shape amongst the intent of finishing it surrender for i of 2 reasons. The offset is that watching an 80-minute video on a TV or tablet is a lot to a greater extent than hard than watching it alive inwards class, straining both your patience together with your attention. The 2nd is that watching these full-length videos is a huge fourth dimension commitment together with life gets inwards the way. It is to counter these problems that I created 12-15 infinitesimal versions of the each session for online versions of the classes. These online classes, recorded inwards 2014 together with 2015, is also available on my website together with through YouTube, together with should possibly live to a greater extent than doable than the total shape version.
  3. The NYU Certificate Version: For most of the lastly xx years, I receive got been asked why I don’t offering certificates of completion for my ain classes together with I receive got had iii answers. The offset is that, every bit a solo act, I don’t receive got the bandwidth to flat together with certify the 20,000 people who accept the classes each semester. The 2nd is that certification requires regulatory permission, a bureaucratic procedure inwards New York State that I receive got neither the tum nor the inclination to acquire through. The tertiary is, together with it is possibly the most critical, is that I am lazy together with I actually don't wishing to add together this to my to-do list. One solution would live to offering the classes through platforms similar Coursera, but those platforms operate amongst universities, non private faculty, together with NYU has no agreements amongst whatever of these platforms. About iii years ago, when NYU approached me amongst a asking to create online certificate classes, I agreed, amongst i condition: that the gratis online versions of these classes would proceed to live offered. With those terms agreed to, in that location are straight off NYU Certificate versions of each of the online classes, amongst much of the same content, but amongst 4 add together ons. First, each participant volition receive got to accept quizzes together with a concluding exam, multiple selection together with auto-graded, that volition live scored together with recorded. Second, each participant volition receive got to consummate together with plough inwards a real-world project, showing that they tin apply the principles of the shape on a fellowship of their choice, to live graded yesteryear me. Third, I volition receive got alive Zoom sessions every other calendar week for shape participants, where y'all tin bring together together with inquire questions nearly the material. Finally, at the destination of the class, assuming that the scores on the exams together with projection run into thresholds, y'all volition acquire a certificate, if y'all overstep the class, or a certificate amongst honors, if y'all overstep it amongst flight colors.
The Classes
I receive got absolutely no wishing to waste matter your fourth dimension together with your unloosen energy yesteryear trying to acquire y'all to accept classes that y'all either receive got no involvement in, or experience volition serve no skillful utilisation for you. In this section, I volition  provide a curt description of each class, together with render links to the dissimilar options for taking each class.

I. Corporate Finance

Class description: I don’t similar to play favorites, but corporate finance is my favorite class, a large pic shape nearly the offset principles of finance that regulation how to run a business. I volition non live egotistical plenty to claim that y'all cannot run a draw of piece of work concern without taking this class, since in that location are many incredibly successful business-people who do, but I do believe that y'all cannot run a draw of piece of work concern without paying nous to the offset principles. I instruct this shape every bit a narrative, staring amongst the interrogation of what the objective of a draw of piece of work concern should live together with and hence using that objective to determine how best to allocate together with invest scarce resources (the investment decision), how to fund the draw of piece of work concern (the financing decision) together with how much cash to accept out together with how much to acquire out inwards the draw of piece of work concern (the dividend decision). I destination the class, yesteryear looking at how all of these decisions are connected to value.

Chapters: Applied Corporate Finance Book, Sessions: Class session
I am non a believer inwards theory, for the sake of theory, together with everything that nosotros do inwards this shape volition live applied to existent companies, together with I volition utilisation half-dozen companies (Disney, Vale, Tata Motors, Deutsche Bank, Baidu together with a pocket-size private bookstore called Bookscape) every bit lab experiements that run through the entire class.

I say, entirely half-jokingly, that everything inwards draw of piece of work concern is corporate finance, from the interrogation of whether shareholder or stakeholder interests should receive got top billing at companies, to why companies borrow money together with whether the shift to stock buybacks that nosotros are seeing at U.S.A. companies is skillful or bad for the economy. Since each of these questions has a political component, together with receive got straight off entered the political domain, I am certain that the upcoming presidential election inwards the U.S.A. volition create some heat, if non light, around how they are answered.

For whom?

As I admitted upwardly front, I believe that having a solid corporate finance perspective tin live helpful to everyone. I receive got taught this shape to various groups, from CEOs to banking analysts, from VCs to startup founders, from high schoolers to senior citizens, together with spell the content does non change, what people accept away from the shape is different. For bankers together with analysts, it may live the tools together with techniques that receive got the most staying power, whereas for strategists together with founders, it is the large pic that sticks. So, inwards the words of the quondam English linguistic communication calling, "Come ye, come upwardly all", accept what y'all uncovering useful, abandon what y'all don't together with receive got fun spell y'all do this.

Links to Offerings

1. Spring 2020 Corporate Finance MBA shape (Free)
2. Online Corporate Finance Class (Free)

3. NYU Certificate Class on Corporate Finance (It volition cost you...)

II. Valuation

Class description: Some fourth dimension inwards the lastly decade, I was tagged every bit the Dean of Valuation, together with I even hence cringe when I hear those words for 2 reasons. First, it suggests that valuation is a deep together with complex dependent champaign that requires intense report to acquire skillful at. Second, it also suggests that I somehow receive got mastered the topic. If zilch else, this shape that I offset taught inwards 1987 at NYU, together with receive got taught pretty much every twelvemonth since, dispenses amongst both delusions. I emphasize that valuation, at its core, is uncomplicated together with that practitioner, academics together with analysts oftentimes conduct to acquire inwards complex, sometimes to brand their services seem indispensable, together with sometimes because they lose the woods for the trees. Second, I depict valuation every bit a arts and crafts that y'all larn yesteryear doing, non yesteryear reading or watching other people speak nearly it, together with that I am even hence working on the craft. In fact, the to a greater extent than I learn, the to a greater extent than I realize that I receive got to a greater extent than operate to do.  This is a shape nearly valuing exactly nearly anything, from an infrastructure projection to a pocket-size private draw of piece of work concern to a multinational conglomerate, together with it also looks at value from dissimilar perspectives, from that of a passive investor seeking to purchase a stake or shares inwards a fellowship to a PE or VC investor taking a larger stake to an acquirer interested inwards buying the whole company. 

Finally, I lay out my rationale for differentiating betwixt value together with price, together with why pricing an property tin give y'all a real dissimilar seat out than valuing that asset, together with why much of what passes for valuation inwards the existent earth is actually pricing. 

Along the way, I emphasize how fiddling has changed inwards valuation over the centuries, fifty-fifty every bit nosotros acquire access to to a greater extent than information together with to a greater extent than complex models, spell also bringing inwards novel tools that receive got enriched us, from choice pricing models to value existent options (young biotech companies, natural resources firms) to statistical add-ons (decision trees, Monte Carlo simulations, regressions). 

For whom?

Do y'all demand to live able to do valuation to alive a happy together with fulfilling life? Of class not, but it is a science worth having every bit a draw of piece of work concern owner, consultant, investor or exactly bystander. With that wide audience inwards mind, I don't instruct this shape to gear upwardly people for equity inquiry or fiscal analysis jobs, but to acquire a handgrip on what it is that drives value, inwards general, together with how to uncovering BS, oftentimes spouted inwards its context. Don't acquire me wrong! I wishing y'all to live able to value or cost exactly nearly anything yesteryear the destination of this class, from Bitcoin to WeWork, but don't accept yourself likewise seriously, every bit y'all do so.

Links to Offerings
1a. Spring 2020 Valuation MBA shape (Free)
1b. Spring 2020 Valuation Undergraduate class (Free)
2. Online Valuation Class (Free)
3. NYU Certificate Class on Valuation (Paid)
III. Investment Philosophies

Class description: This is my orphan class, a shape that I receive got had the fabric to instruct but never taught inwards a regular classroom. It had its origins inwards an brace of observations that puzzled me. The offset was that, if y'all hold off at the pantheon of successful investors over time, it is non entirely a curt one, but a various grouping, including those from the quondam fourth dimension value schoolhouse (Ben Graham, Warren Buffett), increment success stories (Peter Lynch together with VC), macro together with marketplace position timers (George Soros), quant players (Jim Simon) together with fifty-fifty chartists. The 2nd was that the millions who claim to follow these legends, yesteryear reading everything ever written yesteryear or nearly them together with listening to their advice, don’t seem to replicate their success. That led me to conclude that in that location could live no i ‘best’ Investment philosophy across all investors but in that location could live i that is best for you, given your personal makeup together with characteristics, together with that if y'all are seeking investment nirvana, the soul that y'all most demand to empathise is non Buffett or Lynch, but you.  In this class, having set the foundations for understanding risk, transactions cost together with marketplace position efficiency (and inefficiency), I hold off at the entire spectrum of investment philosophies, from charting/technical analysis to value investing inwards all its forms (passive, activist, contrarian) to increment investing (from pocket-size cap to venture capital) to marketplace position timing. With each one, I hold off at the total drivers (beliefs together with assumptions) of the philosophy, the historical show on what plant together with does non operate together with destination yesteryear looking at what an investor needs to convey to the table, to succeed amongst each one.

I volition endeavor (and non e'er succeed) to maintain my biases out of the discussion, but I volition also live opened upwardly nearly where my search for an investment philosophy has brought me. By the destination of the class, it is non my intent to brand y'all follow my path but to aid y'all uncovering your own.

For whom?
This is a shape for investors, non portfolio managers or analysts, together with since nosotros are all investors inwards i agency or the other, I endeavor to acquire inwards general. That said, if your intent is to accept a shape that volition render slow pathways to making money, or an affirmation of the "best" investment philosophy, this is non the shape for you. My objective inwards this shape is non to render prescriptive advice, but to instead render a card of choices, amongst plenty information to aid y'all tin brand the selection that is best for you. Along the way, y'all volition view how hard it is to musical rhythm out the market, why almost every investment strategy that sounds likewise skillful to live truthful is built on sand, together with why imitating bully investors is non a bully agency to brand money.


Links to Offerings

1. Online Investment Philosophies Class (Free)
2. NYU Certificate Class on Valuation (Paid)
  • NYU Entry Page (Coming soon)
Conclusion
I receive got to confess that I don't subscribe to the ancient Guru/Sishya human relationship inwards teaching, where the Guru (teacher) is an all-knowing private who imparts his or her outpouring of wisdom to a receptive together with unremarkably subservient follower. I receive got e'er believed that every soul who takes my class, no affair how much of a novice inwards finance, already knows everything that needs to live known nearly valuation, corporate finance together with investments, together with it is my job, every bit a teacher, to brand him or her aware of this knowledge. Put simply, I tin render some construction for y'all to organize what y'all already know, together with tools that may aid y'all seat that noesis into practice, but I am incapable of profundity. I promise that y'all do give i (or more) of my classes a shot together with I promise that y'all both taste the experience together with acquire a endangerment to endeavor it out on existent companies inwards existent time.

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