What separates the leaders from the followers in finance? It’s the ability to see the bigger picture. In the Pace University Corporate Finance MBA, you’ll learn to go beyond surface-level data and tell the story behind the numbers. Our rigorous curriculum prepares you to uncover hidden insights, craft strategic narratives, and guide decisions that shape entire organizations. Prepare to transform how you think about business and develop the vision needed for leadership.
First, you’ll master complex financial models and valuation techniques—that’s the foundation. You will then gain the advanced skills and strategic mindset to assess investment opportunities, integrate financial planning with operational goals, and perform other types of complex analysis. Just as importantly, you’ll build the confidence to present recommendations that carry weight in the boardroom.
This concentration is part of our online MBA program, which offers a flexible and customizable curriculum through a range of electives tailored to your career goals. With part-time and full-time scheduling options, you can choose the pace that best fits your lifestyle and professional commitments.
Whether you’re eyeing a corner office in corporate development, leading investment decisions, or building your own venture, this concentration builds the financial acumen that opens doors.
Core Skills You’ll Master
Through the Corporate Finance concentration, you’ll develop expertise in:
- Advanced financial analysis: Build sophisticated models that reveal hidden insights and drive strategic decisions.
- International corporate finance: Navigate global markets with confidence, understanding currency risks and cross-border opportunities.
- Strategic financial planning: Connect the dots between financial strategy and real business outcomes.
- Behavioral finance: Decode the human psychology behind market movements and investment decisions.
- Risk assessment and management: Identify, evaluate, and mitigate financial risks before they become problems.
- Investment evaluation: Apply rigorous analytical frameworks to distinguish between winning opportunities and costly mistakes.
Learning Outcomes
After completing this concentration, you’ll be able to:
- Use advanced techniques to analyze complex financial scenarios and support decisions that matter.
- Navigate international financial markets with expertise in foreign exchange, risk management, and global capital strategies that work in the real world.
- Integrate financial strategy with business operations to optimize performance across every aspect of an organization, from working capital to competitive positioning.
- Apply behavioral finance principles to understand why markets move the way they do and how human psychology shapes financial decisions.
Online MBA in Corporate Finance Curriculum
Excellence demands specialization. The Corporate Finance concentration requires three carefully selected electives from our finance course offerings.
Introduces selected advanced topics in financial management. Topics include: investment and financial decisions in perfect markets under certainty and uncertainty, single- and multi-period valuation models, implications of imperfect capital markets, capital asset pricing model, applications of portfolio theory.
Surveys the financial environment, goals, and problems of the multinational corporation. Analyzes the financial opportunities and risks resulting from business operations in differing political, economic, and monetary systems. Topics include: balance of payments accounting and analysis techniques, the evolution of the international monetary system with special emphasis on current issues, foreign exchange rate determination and forecasting, foreign exchange risk and exposure management techniques, environmental risk management. Covers special topics in international finance such as working capital management strategies, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and optimal financial structure.
This course uses an integrated framework to explore the implications of financial decisions such as working capital management, capital structure, and financial risk management for non-financial business decisions. Tools such as the Porter model, Dupont Analysis, and game theory are used to show how finance theory can be used to craft strategy in operational domains such as marketing, human resource management, supply chain management, and competitive positioning.
This course introduces students to the field of behavioral finance and economics. It will discuss behavioral aspects of the decision making of professional investors, traders, strategy consultants, as well as senior managers in the corporate world, NGOs, and academia. The course will emphasize behavioral biases and their impact on decision making. In addition, the course will explore how behavioral theories could explain market anomalies, such as excess volatility.
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Your online MBA should reflect your ambitions. Consider these additional paths:
- Marketing Management: Master the art and science of creating customer value and driving growth.
- Business: Design your own journey with electives across all business disciplines.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Corporate Finance concentration prepares you for leadership roles in corporate development, investment banking, financial planning and analysis, treasury management, and executive positions where financial strategy drives business decisions. Graduates often go on to become financial analysts, investment managers, corporate finance directors, CFOs, and other financial and business professionals.
No previous finance experience is required. The concentration builds on the foundational finance coursework included in the online MBA program’s required courses.
While the general online MBA provides broad business knowledge, the Corporate Finance concentration offers deep specialization in financial analysis, international finance, and strategic financial planning. You’ll develop expertise that directly applies to finance-focused roles and positions requiring advanced financial decision-making skills.
Absolutely! You can work with your advisor to include electives from other concentrations to create a program that aligns with your career goals. Many students combine finance courses with marketing or general business electives.
Have questions? Connect with an enrollment specialist to chat about our corporate finance concentration or our program in general.
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