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Creating Corporate Value
This dynamic course dives into the heart of corporate decision-making, exploring the challenges and opportunities that arise when diverse stakeholders—shareholders, managers, bondholders, employees, and regulators—collide in the business world.
1 Day
Overview
Whether you're a seasoned executive, an aspiring leader, or an MBA student aiming to sharpen your financial acumen, this course provides the tools to navigate and resolve conflicts that shape the trajectory of companies.
In today’s fast-paced and complex business environment, understanding the interplay between shareholder activism, corporate governance, and financial strategy is critical for driving value and fostering sustainable growth.
The course blends interactive lectures, case studies, and readings from leading academic journals. Engage with peers in lively discussions that challenge conventional thinking and drive innovative solutions to complex business problems.
2025 Program dates:
- Friday 21 March 2025
- Friday 28 March 2025
- Saturday 29 March 2025
- Friday 11 April 2025
- Saturday 12 April 2025
Who will benefit
This course is tailored for:
MBA Students: Fulfill credit requirements while gaining a competitive edge in finance and corporate governance.
Business Leaders and Executives: Enhance your ability to tackle governance challenges and align corporate actions with shareholder value.
Finance Professionals: Sharpen your expertise in corporate strategy and financial decision-making.
Policy Makers and Regulators: Gain a comprehensive understanding of market-based and regulation-based responses to governance conflicts.
Content
This course is designed to equip participants with actionable insights into:
- Shareholder Activism: Learn how investors influence corporate strategy to unlock hidden value.
- Corporate Governance: Explore the structures and principles that drive accountability and decision-making in organizations.
- Financial Strategy: Analyze common pitfalls such as diversification mistakes, excess cash accumulation, and flawed investment policies.
Learning Outcomes
- A strategic perspective on corporate finance challenges using frameworks like market efficiency, agency costs, and free cash flow policy.
- Practical insights from real-world case studies of leading companies grappling with governance and financial complexities.
- A deep dive into cutting-edge research drawn from academic journals and industry-leading textbooks.
Alignment with UWA’s MBA Flexible Program
This program aligns with UWA’s flexible MBA program, with an optional assessable component to complete after the program. Those who qualify to access this articulation pathway, and who successfully complete the program and pass the assessments, will receive credit as an ungraded pass (to the value of one optional unit) towards their UWA MBA Flexible degree.
Special rate for UWA MBA Flexible students: $5,720 GST inclusive
About the Facilitator
David Yermack
David Yermack has been a Professor of Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business since 1994. He is director of the NYU Pollack Center for Law and Business and served eight years as the Chair of NYU Stern’s top-ranked Finance department. Prof. Yermack teaches courses on corporate restructuring, FinTech, and digital currency, as well as doctoral-level research seminars. He has published research on a wide variety of topics including corporate jets, fraudulent patterns of executive compensation, CEOs’ personal real estate purchases, the fashion industry, the economics of religion and non-profit enterprises, and blockchains and cryptocurrency. He holds AB, MA, MBD, JD, and PhD degrees from Harvard University and has been a visiting professor at UWA Business School regularly since 2009.
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