TEACHING
ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE @POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Winter term 2024/25
In entrepreneurial finance traditional financing methods are often inappropriate, given the large uncertainty, information asymmetries, and agency problems. The aim of this course is to study the different financial channels available to (innovative) privately-held entrepreneurial firms; to gain an in-depth understanding of the decisions made by entrepreneurial firms on access to early-stage finance; to compare the different financial channels from the point of view of entrepreneurs and investors, in a context of group discussions performed in front of the class. Integral to the course are guest lectures as well as detailed case study discussions, which also aim to improve students communication skills. As part of the final evaluation, students are asked to perform a real-world startup valuation exercise, acting as VC investors.
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I am available for advice on academic matters via email (click here). If you are enrolled at PoliMi and wish to have a personal or virtual meeting, please set up appointments in due time.
INNOVATION SCHOOL @NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Summer term 2025 -- view website here
NHH's Innovation School is a programme for master students who are curious about innovation. The programme combines a modern academic study programme with a study trip and an internship in Germany. ​The programme educates students on how to facilitate innovation within an organization. That starts with the process of idea generation, extends to questions of organizing and financing innovation, and ends with different ways of profiting from it. The teaching portfolio is further strengthened with workshops developing soft skills, focusing on career and personal and professional development.
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I am available for advice on academic matters via email (click here). If you are enrolled at NHH and wish to have a personal or virtual meeting, please set up appointments in due time.
PAST LECTURES AND SEMINARS
Management Control Systems (master level):
- 2020-2024 at Goethe Business School (winner of the best teaching award 2022).
- 2022 at Norwegian School of Economics
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Executive Education Program of the Goethe Business School
- Various lectures on the Innovation Ecosystem in Germany and Europe
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Others:
- R&D and Intellectual Property (master level); TA at Norwegian School of Economics, 2017-2019
- Introduction to Competition Theory (MBA); Guest lectures at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (2018).
- Management I (bachelor level); Vietnamese German University (2014)
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Teaching Assistant at Goethe University (during PhD):
- Advanced Microeconomic Theory (PhD level), summer term 2019.
- Industrial Organization and Strategic Competition (bachelor level), 2016-2019.
- Microeconomics I (bachelor level), 2014-2018.
- Economics of Innovation (bachelor level):
- Seminars (bachelor level): "Economics of Digitalization" (2018); "Business Strategy on the Road" (2017); "Finance Meets the Real World" (2015).
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