Proseminar in Corporate Finance

Impact stories

Human and machine index fingers touching floating bar graph Action Learning Is generative AI creating shareholder value in publicly listed companies? Eric Wainman, Jacob Alchek, and Connor Kozin in the MIT Sloan E62 building Action Learning Analyzing investment opportunities in agricultural real estate Hand pulling a hexagonal wooden tile away from a group of six other tiles with ESG in the middle Action Learning Guiding investors to high-impact ESG opportunities Solar panels in a field on a partly cloudy day Action Learning Developing an optimal dividend payout model for clean energy investment firm

Sample projects


  • Create value and reduce risk through insurance programs
  • Perform industry screening: identification of distressed assets due to COVID-19
  • Understand equity betas in volatile (post-COVID-19) times - balancing the academic vs empirical to guide a CFO
  • Forecast demand for municipal bonds and commercial real estate through a new platform
  • Decipher investment approach into data centers based on publicly available data
  • Build a valuation model of a restaurant chain by rolling up individual store data
  • Evaluate an acquisition opportunity in the biotech market 
  • Assess the long-term growth opportunities for a niche financing business
  • What is the cost of the hedging at a commodity processing company? 
  • Analyze a technology company's current financial position and develop a financial plan to match the company's growth strategy
  • Provide investment banking advice to a private equity-controlled chemical company, including valuation analysis and exit strategies
  • Give recommendations on raising capital for a rapidly growing private company
  • Conduct a valuation of two major home construction companies
  • Provide investment banking advice to a private company considering an IPO or sale of the company
  • Give mergers and acquisitions advice to the CEO of a public company receiving an unsolicited acquisition offer
  • Give going-private advice for a closely held, large public corporation
  • Learn the value of a captive finance unit to an industrial manufacturer
  • Evaluate an acquisition opportunity in the healthcare market

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