This course will explore the challenges of corporate finance and investment in an integrated (and possible de-globalizing) world economy. How should one optimally organize the location of production, control, and financing? What kinds of new concerns emerge when the whole world, rather than just one's domestic economy, become the arena of decision making? How does decision making depend on the environment one is doing business in? We will also have optional guest lectures outside class.

Business 35200: strict (can be substituted by 35201, 30130, 34101, or 35902). An undergraduate equivalent, or a course elsewhere that covers the basics of corporate finance, could also work. CFA or work experience is no substitute.

The course will be based on a set of readings and cases.

Grades will be based on class participation, case-write-ups, and an exam.  Auditors are discouraged.