Readings
Thirty readings
Thirty pre-2021 works grouped into five categories. Read them as a front-office analyst would: for the framework, the judgment, and the vocabulary - not to be tested on trivia.
Valuation Theory
The intellectual foundation of how value is determined and defended.
Investment Valuation (3rd ed.)
Aswath Damodaran
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies
Koller, Goedhart & Wessels
Creating Shareholder Value
Alfred Rappaport
Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation
Stephen Penman
Security Analysis
Graham & Dodd
The Essays of Warren Buffett
Lawrence Cunningham (ed.)
LBO & Private Equity
How sponsors use leverage, governance, and operational change to build value.
Barbarians at the Gate
Burrough & Helyar
King of Capital
Carey & Morris
Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity
David Stowell
Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations
Cendrowski et al.
The Private Equity Primer
PwC
The New Financial Capitalists
Baker & Smith
M&A
The mechanics, strategy, and execution of mergers and acquisitions.
Applied Mergers and Acquisitions
Robert Bruner
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings
Patrick Gaughan
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities
Donald DePamphilis
Takeovers, Restructuring, and Corporate Governance
Weston, Mitchell & Mulherin
Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs
Rosenbaum & Pearl
Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z
Andrew Sherman
Financial Statement Analysis
Reading the statements as the raw material every model is built from.
Business Analysis and Valuation
Palepu & Healy
Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide
Fridson & Alvarez
Financial Statement Analysis
K. R. Subramanyam
Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation
Easton, McAnally et al.
Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements
Buffett & Clark
The Dark Side of Valuation
Aswath Damodaran
Case Studies & Classics
The landmark deals studied in this program, read as decisions to be made.
RJR Nabisco (case)
Harvard Business School
Hertz Global Holdings (case)
Harvard Business School
Safeway LBO (case)
Harvard Business School
Sealed Air (case)
Harvard Business School
Vodafone and Mannesmann (case)
Harvard Business School
Microsoft's Acquisition of LinkedIn (case)
Harvard Business School