Financial Impact
After exploring Fintech and M&A, Module 3 culminates in your Capstone Challenge, where you'll apply everything you've learned and see how far you've really come.
Courses in this module
Core Course
Communication & Collaboration 3: Influence & Persuasion
Leverage your new functional knowledge for organizational impact by bringing together elements from the Personal Impact and Teamwork courses. Hone your influence, leadership, and negotiation skills to learn how to effectively and ethically persuade in an organizational context.
Key topics & skills
Persuasion
Influence Without Authority
Managing Up & Across
Giving Voice to Values
Change Management & Leadership
Core Course
Corporate Finance
Here you’ll address major decisions and strategies faced by corporations. You’ll explore options, shareholder distributions, capital structure, and tactical financing.
Key topics & skills
Cash & Capital Management
Optimal Capital Structure
Public, Private & Alternative Financing
Shareholder Distributions and Introduction to Valuation and M&A
Risk Management & Financial Distress
Core Course
Fintech
Fintech is disrupting existing financial systems and offering new products and services to the world. This course will bring you up to speed with some of the major technologies and innovations in fintech.
Key topics & skills
Technologies in Fintech—Blockchain & AI
Crypto Currencies & Cashless Payments
Fintech Investing & Raising Capital via Fintech Solutions
Regtech & Contemporary Topics in Fintech
Core Course
Investments
This course will introduce you to the field of investments. You’ll cover risk and returns for individual stocks and bonds, how to diversify risks through portfolios, active versus passive investments, fundamental versus technical analysis, and index and exchange traded funds.
Key topics & skills
Asset Classes & Financial Instruments
Securities Market & Investment Industry, Alternative Investment Approaches, Options & Future Markets
Risk, Return & Diversification
Bond Pricing, Portfolios & Equity Valuation
Capital Asset Pricing & Efficient Market Hypothesis and Macroeconomic & Industry Analysis
Capstone Challenge
Capstone Challenge: Merger & Acquisitions Challenge
You and your team will take on the role of a Corporate Development (M&A) team. You'll go through the progression of decisions and actions on the path of a challenging and ambiguous industry and company scenario. Test all your financial, data analysis, and human skills in this critical challenge.
Key topics & skills
M&A Objectives (strategic, operational, financial)
Valuation of Target Acquisition (synergies)
Integration Planning (multiple stakeholders and business imperatives)
Courses and challenges subject to change
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