Venture Capital and Private Equity (MSc)
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| BUSI4422 | Business | 4 | 10 | Spring UK |
- Code
- BUSI4422
- School
- Business
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
Venture capital and private equity provide risk capital to firms at various stages of their life-cycle. This involves selecting early-stage and late-stage investment opportunities, due diligence, structuring deals, valuation, managing portfolio firms, and exit.
Target Students
Only for MSc Business and Management OR MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management OR MSc Finance and Investment OR MSc Financial Technologystudents. Also available to MSc Exchange students.
Classes
- One 2-hour lecture each week for 11 weeks
This module is taught through a series of lectures.
Assessment
- 100% Coursework: 2,000 words.
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
To provide an understanding of: (1) how venture capital and private equity firms operate from both the investor and investee perspective, (2) examine the role of venture capital for new start-ups and young firms, (3) to examine the role of private equity in the buyout of mature firms.Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
• Finance - the sources, uses and management of finance.
Intellectual Skills
• Being able to think critically and be creative: manage the creative processes in self and others; organise thoughts, analyse, synthesise and critically appraise. This includes the capability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, detect false logic or reasoning, identify implicit values, define terms adequately and generalise appropriately
• Being able to solve complex problems and make decisions: establish criteria, using appropriate decision-making techniques including identifying, formulating and solving business problems; and the ability to create, identify and evaluate options; the ability to implement and review decisions
• Using information and knowledge effectively in order to abstract meaning from information and to share knowledge, including the use of quantitative skills
Transferable (Key) Skills
• Effective communication: networking, listening, oral and written communication of complex ideas and arguments, using a range of media, including the preparation of business reports
• High personal effectiveness: critical self-awareness, self-reflection and self-management; time management; conflict resolution, displaying commercial acumen, the ability to continue to learn through reflection on practice and experience
Professional Practical Skills
- The ability to conduct research and enquiry into business and management issues either individually or as part of a team through research design, the collection and analysis of qualitative data, synthesis and reporting.