Strategy and Finance for Global Executives
Module 2
This module focuses on the technical, quantitative and analytical aspects of business. Courses cover strategy, data analytics, fintech, risk and leadership, delivered by some of NYU Stern’s best-rated professors.
Catching up with classmates
Day one of Module 2
Key topics and themes
Module 2’s courses give you the technical, quantitative and analytic foundation that all business leaders need fluency in.
We examine the concepts and tools required to devise Competitive and Analytic Strategies that enable firms to deliver superior value to chosen customers while simultaneously capturing a sufficient share of that value.
We look at the measurement and management of risk, examining the models and frameworks that underpin much of modern risk-management.
We will also give you a thorough understanding fintech and why it is important for all entrepreneurs to know about and recognize. This new course covers digital currencies, blockchains, and related topics in the fintech area.
Sample Courses
We continually innovate the TRIUM program, so each year is set up slightly differently. The following courses are a sample of what you’ll cover in your time in New York.
Finance for Executives
Introduces the key concepts and analytical tools that are the building blocks for all financial analysis. We cover two primary approaches for valuation and apply techniques to value fixed income securities and equities. We also cover debt and equity instruments and markets. This course is delivered remotely between modules 1 and 2.
Strategy and Data Analytics
This course explores how data can (and cannot) be used to make significant strategic decisions within organizations.
We build on your introductory coursework on finance, accounting, and strategy in a way that links these core business concepts both to each other, and to the broad idea of analytical (data-driven) decision making.
Credit Risk
This course covers the current conditions and outlook in global corporate and sovereign credit markets and the development and applications of prediction models of corporate distress and reorganization. Professor Acharya will review the incredible evolution of the Z-Score models over the last 50 years and its applications in financial and managerial markets.
We analyze firms and countries from both macro-financial and firm-level perspectives, assessing the impact of the recent financial crisis and recovery on yields and returns in risky debt markets, and how to understand risk and return tradeoffs. With respect to sovereign debt markets, we will explore models for assessing sovereign default risk and the survival of the Euro. Finally, we examine the evolution and current status of credit risk models and applications for predicting corporate distress, using techniques pioneered by the instructor and others.
Fintech
This course covers digital currencies, blockchains, and related topics in the Fintech area, perhaps the most significant innovation in the financial world since the advent of double-entry bookkeeping centuries ago.
The technology appears to represent an existential challenge for major parts of the finance industry.
Featured faculty
Professor Viral V. Acharya
C.V. Starr Professor of Economics
Hide BioViral V. Acharya is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business (NYU-Stern). Viral was a Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) during 23rd January 2017 to 23rd July 2019 in charge of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, Financial Stability, and Research. He has been an Academic Advisor to the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Cleveland, New York and Philadelphia, and the Board of Governors, and provided Academic Expert service to the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He is a member of the Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee (CFRAC) of the Financial Stability Oversight Council for 2023-26.
Professor Aswath Damodaran
Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and Professor of Finance at NYU
View BioProfessor Aswath Damodaran
Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and Professor of Finance at NYU
Hide BioAswath’s contributions to the field of Finance have been recognized many times over, with numerous awards. Before coming to Stern, Aswath lectured in Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.
Faculty focus
Professor JP Eggers
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations
Hide BioJ.P. Eggers joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations in July 2008. Professor Eggers teaches the core M.B.A. strategy class and a strategy capstone elective. Professor Eggers's research interests focus on technological change, decision-making under uncertainty and new product development. Specifically, he studies the challenges faced by managers and executives in making good decisions and addressing new opportunities in emerging technologies. His recent work examines firms that backed the wrong technology during the emergence of the flat panel display industry and the role that managerial cognition played in determining the course of organizational action during the early years of the fiber optics industry.
Professor Sonia Marciano
Academic Director, TRIUM, NYU
Hide BioProfessor Marciano joined New York University Stern School of Business as a Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organisations in July 2007. Prior to joining NYU Stern she taught Strategy at Columbia Business School and was an Institute Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Harvard University’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness.
Faculty focus
Professor Randall P White
Co-head of Leadership at HEC Paris and TRIUM
Hide BioDr. White has continually participated in the advancement of consulting psychology for leadership development. He serves on the Division 13 Coaching Psychology Credentialing Committee and is a reviewer for the Consulting Psychology Journal, as well as several other scholarly journals. He is a former president of the Society of Consulting Psychology (SCP), Division 13 of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow in Divisions 1 and 13 of the American Psychological Association (APA), a Salzburg Fellow on Women’s Issues and a former board member of the American Society for Training and Development. In 1987, Dr. White co-authored the best-selling business book, Breaking The Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach The Top Of America’s Largest Corporations?; and in 1996, The Future of Leadership: Riding the Corporate Rapids into the 21st Century. Dr. White also co-authored Four Essential Ways That Coaching Can Help Executives in 1998 and Relax, It’s Only Uncertainty in 2001, which culminated in the development of Ambiguity Architect, a 360 assessment that measures the ability to cope with uncertainty. In 2009, he contributed the capstone chapter to The Perils of Accentuating the Positive, challenging the strengths-based leadership movement. Much of Dr. White’s work appears in multiple Western languages and Chinese. Dr. White holds an AB from Georgetown University, an MS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in social psychology from Cornell University. He is the former Director of Specialized Client Applications at the Center for Creative Leadership, where he was responsible for all custom programs and executive coaching, and has taught at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
New York City
Your base for Module 2
Your base for Module 2
New York University Stern School of Business, located in the heart of Greenwich Village and deeply connected with the City for which it is named, is one of the nation’s premier management education schools and research centers.
NYU Stern offers a broad portfolio of transformational programs at the graduate, undergraduate and executive levels, all of them enriched by the dynamism and deep resources of one of the world’s business capitals.
NYU Stern is a community that fosters inclusion, belonging, diversity and equity, and inspires its members to embrace change in a globally changing world.
Class of 2017 with Professor Altman
NYU Stern
Alumni experience
The benefits of TRIUM go beyond just the transformational academic program. By joining our program you will enter a remarkable network of high-achieving global business leaders. The TRIUM Global Executive MBA alumni are among the most qualified and insightful in the international business world.
David Gutierrez
Colombia Class of 2020Being a man who loves numbers, I have to say our Valuation class with Professor Damodaran was a unique experience. His mastery of the topic along with his ability to convey complex business scenarios in a simple and entertaining fashion is impressive.
Nisha Kesavan
India Class of 2020I never thought number crunching would be so much fun! Quantitative Analysis with Dr Matt Mulford and Valuation with Professor Aswath Damodaran were just spectacular. Learning was never more fun than in these classes; their ability to teach processing numbers with a story is too brilliant.
Felipe Padilla Gomez
Mexico Class of 2009TRIUM provided me with some of the key capabilities and resources I needed to become a global leader in my industry. The TRIUM EMBA program is an incredible journey that transformed every aspect of my life.