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Fall 2009

B8399-006: Entrepreneurial Finance

MW - Full Term, 09:00AM to 10:30AM

Instructor: r. glenn hubbard; michael keehner

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B6302 Capital Markets & Investments- co-requisite

This course focuses on the financing decisions of entrepreneurs. The first part of the course emphasizes identifying and valuing entrepreneurial business opportunities. The second part addresses how and from whom entrepreneurs raise funds and how financial contracts are structured to manage risk and align incentives. The third part addresses ways in which entrepreneurs “harvest” success and value. 

Teaching notes emphasize principals and tools, and class cases cover firms in many industries and countries. The course is valuable for prospective entrepreneurs and investors, growth company managers, corporate finance specialists and consultants.

R. Glenn Hubbard

R. Glenn Hubbard

Dean

Professor Hubbard is a specialist in public finance, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than 90 articles and books on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics and public policy, including two textbooks, and has co-authored Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System. In a recent book, Tax Policy and Multinational Corporations, he argues that U.S. tax policy significantly affects financing and investment decisions of multinational corporations. Hubbard has applied his research interests in business (as a consultant on taxation and corporate finance to many corporations), in government (as deputy assistant of the U.S. Treasury Department and as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and many government agencies) and in academia (in faculty collaboration or visiting appointments at Columbia, University of Chicago and Harvard).

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Michael Keehner

Michael Keehner

Adjunct Professor

Professor Keehner is a seasoned executive and prominent investment banker with global experience, senior management responsibilities and a successful track record. He spent over twenty years of his career with Kidder, Peabody & Co., Incorporated, a full service global investment banking firm where he was a member of the firm's Board of Directors and Executive and Management committees. He left Kidder, Peabody in 1994 and formed a strategic advisory and private investment company. He also participates in turnaround situations and venture and other principal investment activities.

Keehner received an S.B. degree in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar and a Loeb Rhoades Fellow.

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