NBA 6720

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NBA 6720
Managing Family and Privately Held Firms

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

Most companies around the world are controlled by their founding families, including more than half of all public corporations in Europe, and more than two thirds of those in Asia. Even in the United States, where ownership dispersion is at its highest, founding families exercise a significant degree of control over more than half of all public corporations. This course explores the challenges and opportunities created by family leadership and ownership. This elective is designed for students who may be involved in family firms and closely held companies in a variety of roles: joining either their own family's or someone else's firm, and students who will do business with family firms, consult to them, invest in them, work with them in private wealth management, mergers and acquisitions, banking, consulting etc. Through case studies, lectures, student projects and guest speakers, the course provides students with exposure to the unique finance, governance, and management issues faced by family firms, and ways in which these issues can be addressed. The course provides students with a framework for analyzing how family ownership, control, and management affect value, and whether and how more value can be created for the various stakeholders. The course brings an integrated financial and managerial perspective to the study of family firms focusing on the financial and corporate governance aspects of family control and their managerial implications.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: NBA 4720

  • 1.5 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 13809 NBA 6720   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid-Online and In Person
    Open to ALL students who are able to attend in-person classes in Ithaca. Pre-Req: Intro Accounting, intro Statistics and intro Corporate Finance are required ** S/U or Letter Grade Only - NO AUDITS ALLOWED ** There will be no enrollment from a wait list into a class if you have a time conflict or if it will create an overload. Students dropping this course after April 5, 2021 will be assessed a fee of $100. The deadline to drop the class without a “W” is April 26, 2021 @11:59pm but you will still be charged the $100 late fee. Deadline to change the grading basis for Student Option classes: April 26th

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: NBA 4720

  • 1.5 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 21086 NBA 6720   LEC 002

    • MW Online Meeting
    • Mar 29 - May 14, 2021

    • Tsoutsoura, M

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    Open to ALL students Pre-Req: Intro Accounting, intro Statistics and intro Corporate Finance are required ** S/U or Letter Grade Only - NO AUDITS ALLOWED ** Hybrid: rotational in person attendance. You will be notified of your eligibility to attend in person and students should connect remotely until a seat is assigned. There will be no enrollment from a wait list into a class if you have a time conflict or if it will create an overload. Students dropping this course after April 5, 2021 will be assessed a fee of $100. The deadline to drop the class without a “W” is April 26, 2021 @11:59pm but you will still be charged the $100 late fee. Deadline to change the grading basis for Student Option classes: April 26th

    Department Consent Required (Add)