Begum Ipek Yavuz

Instructor at the Wharton School:

• FNCE 100/611, Corporate Finance, (MBA/UG), Summer 2021

Teaching Assistant at the Wharton School:

• FNCE 726, Advanced Corporate Finance, Professor Bulent Gultekin (MBA/EMBA), Fall 2017,  Fall 2018, Fall 2019,  Fall 2020
• FNCE 738, Capital Markets, Professor David Musto (EMBA), Fall 2018,  Spring 2019, Summer 2020,  Fall 2020
• FNCE 203, Advanced Corporate Finance, Professor Burcu Esmer (UG), Spring 2019
• FNCE 101, Monetary Economics and Global Economy, Professor Gizem Saka (UG), Fall 2017

Past Courses

• FNCE1000 - Corporate Finance

  This course provides an introduction to the theory, the methods, and the concerns of corporate finance. The concepts developed in FNCE 1000 form the foundation for all elective finance courses. The main topics include: 1) the time value of money and capital budgeting techniques; 2) uncertainty and the trade-off between risk and return; 3) security market efficiency; 4) optimal capital structure, and 5) dividend policy decisions. ACCT 1010 + STAT 1010 may be taken concurrently.

• FNCE6110 - Corporate Finance

  This course serves as an introduction to business finance (corporate financial management and investments) for both non-majors and majors preparing for upper-level course work. The primary objective is to provide the framework, concepts, and tools for analyzing financial decisions based on fundamental principles of modern financial theory. The approach is rigorous and analytical. Topics covered include discounted cash flow techniques; corporate capital budgeting and valuation; investment decisions under uncertainty; capital asset pricing; options; and market efficiency. The course will also analyze corporate financial policy, including capital structure, cost of capital, dividend policy, and related issues. Additional topics will differ according to individual instructors.

• Wharton Social Impact Initiative Research Grant 2019
• Mack Institute Research Grant 2017
• University of Pennsylvania Dean’s Fellowship for Distinguished Merit 2016-2021
• Lord Dahrendorf Scholarship, LSE 2015-2016
• Bogazici University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Award 2015

Knowledge @ Wharton

• Easy as 1, 2, 3: The Motivating Power of Streaks | Marissa Sharif, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/22/2025
• The Growth Equation: Avoid Customer-segment Collisions, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/21/2025
• How to Prepare Your Employees for Corporate Venturing, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/21/2025
• How Everyone Can Feel Empowered to Ride the AI Wave, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/21/2025
• How Business Leaders Are Misjudging AI’s Workforce Impact, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/18/2025
• Adobe’s Chief Communications Officer, Stacy Martinet, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/17/2025
• The Physics of Baseball With Alan Nathan, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/16/2025
• Rebuilding Boeing: Engineering, Ethics, and Organizational Change, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/16/2025
• Can AI Fix What’s Wrong With Customer Service?, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/15/2025
• How to Enforce a Meaningful Populist Antitrust Policy, Knowledge @ Wharton - 07/15/2025