Financial Strategies and Topics in Finance

Selected Public Lectures of Professor Harold Bierman, Jr. from 19602015

Financial Strategies and Topics in Finance is a collection of Professor Emeritus Harold Bierman, Jr.'s public lectures on corporate finance, given on behalf of the Johnson School of Business, Cornell University, from 1960 to 2015.

By explaining complex financial strategies in a simplified manner, Professor Bierman makes corporate finance accessible to the non-expert reader as well. This collection of lectures covers highly relevant topics with financial insights and implications, that are very important to business managers and individual investors. Complex business decisions are simplified, allowing the logic of the decision process to become readily apparent.

As Professor Bierman writes, "A good business education will build on the basic financial tool of the time value of money and the net present value calculation. The lectures presented in this book are consistent with good present value calculations."

Contents:

• Ten Money Makers
• Ten Financial Positions
• Famous Strategies
• The Sustainable Growth Rate
• What does a School of Management Teach?
• Economic Income versus Economic Value Added
• Distribution Policy
• Stock Price is Too High
• Drivers of Common Stock Prices
• Costs of Capital: An Overview of Finance
• Debt Limits for Corporations
• World Prosperity or Economic Chaos?
• How to Invest
• Dividend Policy
• An Investment and Financial Restructuring Strategy
• Long-Term Financial Planning Goals
• High Priority Corporate Finance Issues Circa 1990
• Investing in an Uncertain World
• Financial Strategies in Uncertain Times
• A Financial Restructuring Strategy
• Ten Suggestions (1995)
• Financial Strategies for Value Enhancement
• Corporate Finance: A Brief History
• Graduation 1980
• Financial Strategies in Uncertain Times
• A Visit with Alumni
• Economic Forecasting
• Management of Risk and Capital Budgeting
• Reflections on Management Education and Management
• Ten Financial Money Makers for a Corporation
• A Strategy for Management Education at the Johnson School
• Management of Risk and Capital Budgeting (1992)
• Three Corporate Finance Issues
• Corporate Finance (1998)
• Investing in an Uncertain World
• My Best MBA Lecture
• Ten Ways
• Investment Strategies in an Uncertain World
• Chicago Talk to Alumni
• Increasing Shareholder Value: A Financial Strategies Presentation (2005)
• Financial Strategies

Readership: Graduates of business schools and participants in the financial markets.
Key Features:

• Covers highly relevant topics that are very important to business managers and individual investors
• Simplifies complex business decisions so that the logic of the decision process becomes readily apparent
• Gives financial insights for the individual investor