Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

Jonathan Berk is the A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Berk's research interests in finance include corporate valuation, capital structure, mutual funds, asset pricing, experimental economics, and labor economics. His work has won a number of research awards including the Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics, TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award, the Smith Breeden Prize, Best Paper of the Year in The Review of Financial Studies, and the FAME Research Prize. His paper, 'A Critique of Size-Related Anomalies,' was selected as one of the two best papers ever published in The Review of Financial Studies. Peter DeMarzo is the Staehelin Family Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and Faculty Director of the Stanford LEAD program. He teaches MBA and Ph.D. courses in Corporate Finance and Financial Modeling. In addition to his experience at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Professor DeMarzo has taught at the Haas School of Business and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Jarrad Harford is the Paul Pigott - PACCAR Professor of Finance at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. Prior to Washington, Professor Harford taught at the University of Oregon. Professor Harford has taught the core undergraduate finance course, Business Finance, for over twenty years, as well as an elective in Mergers and Acquisitions, and 'Finance for Non-financial Executives' in the executive education program. He has won numerous awards for his teaching, including the UW Finance Professor of the Year (2010, 2012, 2016), Panhellenic/Interfraternity Council Business Professor of the Year Award (2011, 2013), ISMBA Excellence in Teaching Award (2006), and the Wells Fargo Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching (2005). Professor Harford is currently a Managing Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. His main research interests are understanding the dynamics of merger and acquisition activity as well as the interaction of corporate cash management policy with governance, payout and global tax considerations. Guy Ford is a Professor and Director of the MBA program at the University of Sydney Business School. Professor Ford has designed and delivers MBA and executive education programs in the areas of financial analysis, financial management, strategic finance, and mergers and acquisitions. His research centres on risk assessment and risk management in financial institutions. Prior to academia, he worked in various roles in the Group Treasury of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He has served as an expert witness for Blake Dawson Waldron, Ashurst and Corrs Chambers Westgarth. Vito Mollica is Head of the Applied Finance Department at Macquarie University. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Sydney and was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship from Aarhus University. Professor Mollica's research centres on securities market design, FinTech, asset selection criteria, quantitative investment research and residential property price dynamics. He is currently working on issues related to cryptocurrency, high frequency traders, market transparency, institutional execution costs and real estate. Professor Mollica has provided policy advice to the Australian Financial Markets Association, Financial Services Council, Australian Securities Exchange and Financial Conduct Authority (UK), he was also the Head of the Market Quality-Finance of the $32.3m Capital Markets CRC.