Department of Finance
Professional Development

The W. P. Carey School of Business offers a range of credit and non-credit executive education, management development, and professional development programs for mid- to senior-level managers. Utilizing the same world class faculty who teach in our nationally ranked MBA offerings, Executive Education programs at the W. P. Carey School are highly-focused, interactive learning experiences that expose participants to leading-edge business thinking and challenge them to analyze and transform their own business practices. Two and three-day courses are scheduled throughout the year, and custom programs can be designed for single company groups.  Courses can be delivered in several formats: live (on campus or at company locations), online or blended.

For further information contact:

Andrew Atzert
Director of Executive Education
Phone: (480) 965-7579
wpcarey.execed@asu.edu

Participating Finance Faculty

Jeffrey Coles Department Chair Francis J. and Mary B. Labriola Endowed Chair in Competitive Business Professor of Finance Profile

Topic Areas: Corporate finance, valuation (including real options), corporate governance, financial statement analysis, corporate governance and control (including boards of directors, mergers and acquisitions, and executive compensation).
Courses Delivered Previously: Managerial Finance, Finance for Non-financial Managers, Managerial Finance for Electric Utilities, Finance for High-Tech Managers, Managerial Finance for Nuclear Generating Stations, Managerial Finance for the Print Media
Executive Education Clients: Arizona Public Service Co., Motorola, Honeywell, Central Newspapers Inc., Pinnacle West Capital, E&I Buying Cooperative, U.S. Department of Energy (Western Area Power Administration)

Herbert Kaufman Professor of Finance Profile

Topic Areas: investments, international financial management, monetary policy, financial institutions and markets, real estate finance, corporate governance
Executive Education Courses Delivered Previously: Finance for Financial Managers; Finance for Non-financial Managers; International Financial Management; Mergers and Acquisitions
Executive Education Clients: Allied Signal; Boeing Corporation, Motorola Corporation

Sunil Wahal Jack D. Furst Professor of Finance Professor of Finance Profile

L. Wendell Licon Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance Profile

Topic Areas: Securities Laws, and Investor Relations/Treasury
Executive Education Courses Delivered Previously:
Summer Courses for Freescale Semiconductor
Phoenix Corporate Finance Society Tutorial for the CFA Exam Level I

George Gallinger Associate Professor of Finance Profile

Presented seminars on financial statement analysis, valuation or economic value added to several organizations, including:
AT&T, Alliant Foodservices, BP-Amoco, Citgo Petroleum, CoorsTek, Fortune Corporation, Honeywell, Household Products Credit Managers Trade Group, International Energy Credit Association, Levi Strauss, National Association of Chemical Credit Managers, National Association of Credit Management Canada, NACM Steel Group Credit Managers, NACM USA, Nestlé USA, Phoenix Chapter of Certified Financial Analysts, Southwest Petroleum Credit Group, Tech Data, Wesco.
Executive Education, National Association of Credit Management, 1992 – 2004:
Lead Instructor for the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management, a 4-week executive education program conducted by the National Association of Credit Management on the campus of Dartmouth College, with participants from companies such as Monsanto, Levi Strauss, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Pfizer, BP-Amoco, Diamond-Shamrock, 3M, ConAgra, Apple, Ralston Purina, Georgia-Pacific, US Gypsum, Tech Data, Bacardi, Amgen, PP&G, Mitsubishi, Exxon, Campbell Soup, ChevronTexaco, Honeywell, Nestlé USA.
Litigation Support:
Business economist for litigation issues related to valuation of closely-held businesses and contract disputes.

Deon Strickland Assistant Professor of Finance Profile

Executive Education Courses Delivered Previously:
Principles of Finance in the Exec program at the Kenan-Flagler