Bulent Gultekin

Current Courses (Fall 2024)

• FNCE7510 - Fnce Of Buyouts & Acqs

  The course focuses on financial tools, techniques, and best practices used in buyouts (financial buyers) and acquisitions (strategic buyers). While it will touch upon various strategic, organizational, and general management issues, the main lens for studying these transactions will be a financial one. It will explore how different buyers approach the process of finding, evaluating, and analyzing opportunities in the corporate-control market; how they structure deals and how deal structure affects both value creation and value division; how they add value after transaction completion; and how they realize their ultimate objectives (such as enhanced market position or a profitable exit). The course is divided into two broad modules. The first module covers mergers and acquisitions, and the second one studies buyouts by private equity partnerships. FNCE 7030 or FNCE 7070 are recommended.

  FNCE7510001 ( Syllabus )

  FNCE7510002 ( Syllabus )

  FNCE7510003 ( Syllabus )

All Courses

• FNCE3990 - Independent Study

  Integrates the work of the various courses and familiarizes the student with the tools and techniques of research.

• FNCE7030 - Advanced Corp Finance

  The objective of this course is to study the major decision-making areas of managerial finance and some selected topics in financial theory. The course reviews the theory and empirical evidence related to the investment and financing policies of the firm and attempts to develop decision-making ability in these areas. This course serves as an extension of FNCE 6110. Some areas of financial management not covered in FNCE 6110 are covered in FNCE 7030. These may include leasing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, financial planning, and working capital management, and some other selected topics. Other areas that are covered in FNCE 6110 are covered more in depth and more rigorously in FNCE 7030. These include investment decision making under uncertainty, cost of capital, capital structure, pricing of selected financial instruments and corporate liabilities, and dividend policy.

• FNCE7510 - Fnce of Buyouts & Acqs

  The course focuses on financial tools, techniques, and best practices used in buyouts (financial buyers) and acquisitions (strategic buyers). While it will touch upon various strategic, organizational, and general management issues, the main lens for studying these transactions will be a financial one. It will explore how different buyers approach the process of finding, evaluating, and analyzing opportunities in the corporate-control market; how they structure deals and how deal structure affects both value creation and value division; how they add value after transaction completion; and how they realize their ultimate objectives (such as enhanced market position or a profitable exit). The course is divided into two broad modules. The first module covers mergers and acquisitions, and the second one studies buyouts by private equity partnerships. FNCE 7030 or FNCE 7070 are recommended.

• FNCE8960 - Global Modular Course

  Open to MBA, Executive MBA and Undergraduate students, these modular courses are intended to provide unique educational experiences to students in a regional context that has particular resonance with the topic. Taught around the globe, the modular courses help us enrich the curriculum and research on our own campuses in Philadelphia and San Francisco.

• FNCE8970 - Finance Emerging Markets

  This is a Wharton Global Modular Course on Finance in the Middle East and North Africa. Its objective is to bring students, academics and industry experts together to study financial markets, practice, and institutions in this region.

• FNCE8990 - Independent Study

  Independent Study Projects require extensive independent work and a considerable amount of writing. ISP in Finance are intended to give students the opportunity to study a particular topic in Finance in greater depth than is covered in the curriculum. The application for ISP's should outline a plan of study that requires at least as much work as a typical course in the Finance Department that meets twice a week. Applications for FNCE 8990 ISP's will not be accepted after the THIRD WEEK OF THE SEMESTER. ISP's must be supervised by a Standing Faculty member of the Finance Department.

• Teaching Excellence Award, Wharton Executive MBA Program, 2003-2007

Knowledge at Wharton

• The Jerusalem Controversy: What It Means for the Region’s Economies, Knowledge at Wharton - 12/14/2017
• Why Developing Israel’s Leviathan Gas Field Is a Mammoth Task, Knowledge at Wharton - 8/25/2017
• What Turkey’s Referendum Means for the Country’s Future, Knowledge at Wharton - 4/18/2017
• Will a New Vision for Saudi Arabia Work?, Knowledge at Wharton - 5/18/2016
• What Would a Brexit Cost Europe and the U.K.?, Knowledge at Wharton - 3/28/2016
• With Sanctions Lifting, What’s in Store for Iran’s Economy?, Knowledge at Wharton - 10/27/2015
• Does Austerity Work? Or Does It Make Things Worse?, Knowledge at Wharton - 8/19/2015
• What a Robust Dollar Means for U.S. Business — and the Global Economy, Knowledge at Wharton - 4/15/2015
• How Germany Can Make or Break the Euro, Knowledge at Wharton - 3/17/2015
• The Middle East in 2015: Falling Oil Prices and Terrorism Cast Doubt, Knowledge at Wharton - 1/23/2015

Wharton Stories

• 3 Benefits You’ll Get from Taking a Global Modular Course at Wharton, Wharton Stories - 08/21/2017
• MBA Student Aims to Open Financial Opportunities in the Middle East, Wharton Stories - 12/07/2016
• Why I Chose Wharton EMBA, Wharton Stories - 03/15/2016
• Founding a New Club @ Wharton: The Adam Smith Society, Wharton Stories - 11/02/2015