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About the Course

Hi and welcome to this course! Would you like to learn about the latest valuation methods that may help you to make better business decisions? Then 'Advanced Valuation and Strategy – M&A, Private Equity, and Venture Capital' by Erasmus University Rotterdam is the right course for you! This course is helpful for executives that need to value complete strategies and for all students interested in corporate finance and strategy. We present the latest tools and show you how to apply them! We will revolutionize your way of decision making, by extending static techniques from corporate finance with dynamic methods to quantify strategic thinking. Traditionally, we assess the attractiveness of an investment as a mature business, where future cash flows mainly result from past decisions. But, in an ever-changing world, strategic decisions determine the firm’s long-term success and market value. Yet managers often have to consider these long-term implications using intuition and experience alone, with little guidance from structured, quantitative analysis. Our treatment goes far beyond the use of standard valuation analysis. We introduce the expanded NPV, which brings together DCF, real options, and game theory. Thinking in terms of options, games, and adaptive strategies may help managers address strategic questions such as: How do you value a leveraged buyout? How can you value a high-tech venture with negative cash flows? When should you invest in new ventures in stages? How can you incorporate rival bidders in the analysis? The tools we provide can improve your decisions in business and in daily life. * Who is this class for? We hope that our course appeals to (graduate) students in finance, economics, and business, as well as to high-ranking professionals and a general audience. This course is particularly interesting for venture capitalists, private equity investors, investment bankers, CEOs, CFOs, and those who aspire these affiliations. We offer this MOOC at 3 levels: 1.Executive Summary: This 1-week module provides critical insights into the principles of corporate valuation and strategy. This is accessible for time-constrained executives and the general audience without any prior knowledge. 2. Student Level: This level involves an understanding of the technical details. This level requires basic knowledge of concepts in corporate finance, e.g., the time value of money, financial statement analysis, capital structure, and the relation between risk and returns. Learners of this level can skip week 1. 3. Honors Level (honors certificate): This level is challenging, engaging, and compelling to an intellectually rigorous student....

Top reviews

AS

May 18, 2020

Boosts your up-to-date understanding of how strategy and valuation come together. It helped me better understand my PE clients' buy & build strategies from a growth option valuation perspective.

DH

Aug 6, 2023

Great course- the material is engaging, and the assessments are challenging. The honours case study is worth doing to test your knowledge, plus the case study is a classic and well documented.

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By Abhimanyu S

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Jul 22, 2021

too complicated , unable to do assignments and voice of professor is not cleared at all. have to read subtitiles

really struggled to go through 1st modue only. and lack of sheets was also there nodays days no one calculate such huge calculations its no more required to calculate in numbers. i dont know for whom this course is made because i itself am a investment banker and if we all started to take into consideration such blunder difficult way of calculation then soon there will no more investors. not relavant at all

By Alexander M S

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Feb 25, 2021

Really not a good course! Topics are bad explained and exercises are calculated without rounding but show rounded numbers. Extremely confusing and not well done!

By Sangam P

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Aug 8, 2020

Level of Video Lectures are far below than the level of Final quizes provided here. I'm completely disappointed.

By Lucas C R

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Dec 10, 2020

They do not explain everything they ask on the test. You have to lookup by yourself.

By Mauro B

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Apr 20, 2021

I spent all the lesson time reading the subtitles due to the approximate level of English, so I couldn't go through any slide.

By Martina S

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Jan 25, 2022

I think the course is extremely general. I am not sure, how many usefull things I have learned. I am happy I passed. Also course setting, that test can be done 3 times in 28 days is crazy.... I really didn´t like the course much. Only usefull thing is DCF formula, maybe point of view on option strategy, but in real life, I am not sure if I will have enough informations for this....

By Pedro G S

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Jun 19, 2022

Very dissapointing course, bad structured and poor materials. Very little documentation shared to face strange and difficutls quizzes not proportiontal to the qulaity of videos. In my modest opinion, and comparing to other courses, I have wasted my time. Not planning to take anopther course with this Business School.

By Adriano C

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Jan 16, 2022

Really confusing explanations of the topics. Could have definitely used more video time to explain to explain the topics.

By Mustafa Y

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Jun 24, 2021

Waste of time

By Claudia O O

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Jul 5, 2019

There are only men in the videos (only one woman on the background because they needed her for the man to have children). It discourages me to keep watching it. Women need representation.

By Mallikarjun

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May 2, 2020

Is there an option to refund for this course. Because its too advanced; 1st week videos are too basic and assignment for 1st week is not related to it.

By luca s

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Oct 11, 2021

defenetely too technical and specific. This course is for numbers and formulas addicted

By Amirxon M

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Jan 31, 2023

Very hard to solve tests. Because there are 80% questions that not tought in webcasts.

By Ramon B

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Aug 18, 2023

Terrible learning experience. So many items were tested yet they were never tought

By JOSE A M

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Jan 4, 2023

not actualized for years, lack of response, difficult to get through tests.

By Sofia B N

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Aug 2, 2023

Accent of the teacher is so bad, I'm not able to listen to the course

By Tom N

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Sep 25, 2023

Vorlesungsunterlagen sind nicht hilfreich

By imran s

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Mar 27, 2021

un enroll is not working

By ali a a

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Feb 14, 2023

not explained properly