Corporate Finance Spring 2025 - Session 2: The End Game in Business

In thisclass, we started on what the objective in running a business should be. While corporate finance states it to be maximizing firm value, it is often practiced as maximizing stock price. To make the world safe for stock price maximization, we do have to make key assumptions: that managers act in the best interests of stockholders, that lenders are fully protected, that information flows to rational investors and that there are no social costs. We started on why one of these assumptions, that stockholders have power over managers, fails and we will continue ripping the Utopian world apart next class. Slides: https://nyu.box.com/s/rwq8xrgd2b0j5jqqoy4l5tie42ybq9hk Post class test: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/cfovhds/postclass/session2test.pdf https://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/cfovhds/postclass/session2soln.pdf