15.997 Advanced Corporate Risk Management

As taught in: Spring 2007

Level:

Graduate

Instructors:

Dr. John Parsons

Anna Obizhaeva

Chicago Board of Trade Futures market.
The trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade Futures market.

Course Highlights

This course features a list of readings and a full set of assignments.

Course Description

This is a course on how corporations make use of the insights and tools of risk management. Most courses on derivatives, futures and options, and financial engineering are taught from the viewpoint of investment bankers and traders in the securities. This course is taught from the point of view of the manufacturing corporation, the utility, the software firm — any potential end-user of derivatives, but not the dealer. Among the topics we will discuss are how companies manage risk, instruments for hedging, liability management and organization, governance and control.
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