Core Curriculum Readings

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in Finance
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CORE CURRICULUM READINGS IN FINANCE cover the fundamental SERIES EDITOR:

Mihir A. Desai
concepts, theories, and frameworks that business students Harvard Business School
must learn. Authored by faculty at Harvard Business School,
Also available in the
each 40-60 page Reading is delivered entirely online and comes following disciplines:
with a Teaching Note, exhibit slides, and a list of related cases. ƒƒ Entrepreneurship
Many also include Interactive Illustrations. ƒƒ Marketing
ƒƒOperations Management
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ƒƒ Flexible: Core Curriculum Readings can be taught alone or as a set to support
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The 12 Finance Readings below are listed

in one potential teaching sequence.

Time Value of Money Risk and Return 1: Stock Returns and The Mergers and Acquisitions Process
Timothy A. Luehrman #8299 Diversification John Coates #5242
INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
Timothy A. Luehrman #5220 INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
ƒƒ Calculating the Present Value of INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS ƒƒ Break-Even Exchange Ratio
Multiple Cash Flows ƒƒ Asset Returns in µ-σ Space ƒƒ Deal Pricing
ƒƒ Effect of Compounding Frequency ƒƒ Central Limit Theorem ƒƒ Deal Structures
ƒƒ Mortgage as an Annuity ƒƒ Correlation Coefficient
ƒƒ Present or Future Value of Multiple ƒƒ Correlation of Returns Capital Allocation and Cash Distribution
Cash Flows ƒƒ Distribution of Returns #5192 • FORTHCOMING
ƒƒ Present Values of Perpetuity and ƒƒ Effect of Diversification on Portfolio Risk
Annuities by Term
ƒƒ Stock Prices and Returns
ƒƒ Time Value of $100 Cash Corporate Governance
ƒƒ Time Value of $100 with Compounding #5209 • FORTHCOMING

Frequencies Risk and Return 2: Portfolio Theory

Timothy A. Luehrman #8603

NPV and Capital Budgeting INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

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Timothy A. Luehrman #5176 ƒƒ Combining Risky and Risk-Free Assets
ƒƒ Diversification and Portfolio Returns Registered Premium Educators
INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
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ƒƒ Capital Budgeting with a Budget Constraint
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ƒƒ Capital Budgeting with a Single Hurdle Rate
ƒƒ Portfolio Improvement Rule Free Trials for eLearning content, and
ƒƒ IRR
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ƒƒ Net Present Value
ƒƒ Tangency Portfolio
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ƒƒ Payback Period hbsp.harvard.edu
Cost of Capital
ƒƒ Profitability Index
Timothy A. Luehrman #8293
INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
Introduction to Bonds and Bond Math
ƒƒ Comparing WACC and the Unlevered
Timothy A. Luehrman #5170
Cost of Equity
INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS ƒƒ Decomposing WACC
ƒƒ Bond Duration ƒƒ Unlevering and Re-levering Beta
ƒƒ Bond Duration and Maturity
ƒƒ Bond Price Sensitivity to Interest Rate Changes
Financial Options and Their Application
ƒƒ Bond Terminology
to Corporate Finance
ƒƒ Calculating Bond Duration E. Scott Mayfield #5197
ƒƒ Calculating the Price of a Coupon Bond
INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
ƒƒ Historical Yield Curves
ƒƒ Black-Scholes Replicating Portfolio
ƒƒ Inverse Relationship Between Bond Price
and Yield to Maturity ƒƒ Building Structured Payoffs

ƒƒ Spot Rates and Forward Rates of Zero- ƒƒ Call Option Payoff Diagrams
Coupon Bonds ƒƒ Parameter Sensitivity of Black-Scholes Values
ƒƒ Payoff Diagrams for a Stock and a
Riskless Bond
Capital Structure Theory
ƒƒ Put Option Payoff Diagrams
Timothy A. Luehrman #5187
ƒƒ Replicating Portfolio for Two Payoffs
INTERACTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
ƒƒ Arbitrage and Homemade Leverage
Enterprise Valuation
ƒƒ Effect of Leverage on EPS and ROE
#5237 • FORTHCOMING
ƒƒ Effect of Leverage on the Allocation of Risk
ƒƒ Optimal Capital Structure

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