Private Equity Deep Dive (FINC-947-0) The PE Deep Dive course is an opportunity to equip students with the tools, skills, and knowledge to shape the future of private equity from the point of view of practitioners in the day-to-day business. The goal of the PE Deep Dive Course is to:
- Supercharge careers of students with prior PE experience
- Empower exceptional individuals with non-traditional backgrounds to succeed in private markets
- Strengthen pathways for talent with operating background to access the broad PE ecosystem
- Provide learning from those in leading position in PE driving the industry forward
- Instill in students the values, ethical decision-making, and management abilities that make distinctive PE leaders
- Foster thought leadership and knowledge sharing by bringing together experts, industry leaders and participants, and members of the public
- Educate the public on the uses of PE for the economy and societal good
After the course students will be able to categorize the discussions and in four different buckets: Fund Management and the GP-LP relationship, Doing Deals, Managing PE Investments, Evolution of the PE Industry, Future Challenges, and the Role of Impact Investing.
Jose Liberti will be Faculty Course Coordinator while the industry leaders/practitioners presenting in the class will be: Chris Ackerman (Flexpoint), John Carroll (Summit Partners), Alex Emery (Permira), Scott Gwilliam (Keystone Capital), Kip Kirkpatrick (Vistria), Gordon Pan (Baird Capital), David Schnadig (Cortec Group), Roy Seiders (Yeti Founder), David Seligman (Kirkland & Ellis), Michael Smith (Ares Capital), Tim Sullivan (Madison Dearborn), and Elizabeth Traxler (Neuberger Berman). Please see the course syllabus for a session-by-session breakdown of topics and speakers.
The course is mandatory to APEX students. Other interested students may have the opportunity to join via an application process. That application can be found here. No auditors allowed.
While this class has formal pre-requisites, those with a strong background in investment banking or private equity, and/or the necessary prior experiences required to participate in high-level private equity discussions, are encouraged to apply.
Impact Investing and Sustainable Finance (FINC-946-0) This class will address three broad themes of impact investing today: 1) The evolution of impact investing from niche field to mainstream; 2) Exposure to a broad spectrum of impact investment strategies; 3) Learn the tools, models and frameworks behind impact investing. Each week, we bring into the classroom senior investment managers of leading sustainable and impact investment firms to illustrate how their strategies generate and deliver impact.
The backbone of the class is an experiential team project that will invite students to create a financial vehicle (e.g. investment firm, fund or instrument) capable of fitting within an asset allocation of institutional investor portfolios (public equities, fixed income, hard assets, private equities, alternative assets, etc.) while delivering social & environmental impact. In some cases, these class projects have wound up coming to fruition and are in the market today."
FINC-431 or equivalent (FINC-435 or FINC-440) may be taken concurrently to satisfy this prerequisite.Field Study (FINC-498-0) Field Studies include those opportunities outside of the regular curriculum in which a student is working with an outside company or non-profit organization to address a real-world business challenge for course credit under the oversight of a faculty member.