Finance 101
What are the three main valuation methodologies?
What is Comparable Companies, Discounted Cash Flow Analysis, and Precedent Transactions.
This chapel landmark is one of the most recognizable buildings on campus.
What is Rockefeller Memorial Chapel?
The four core values of SOF.
What are Integrity, Humility, Compassion, and Excellence?
This market crash is commonly cited as triggering the Great Depression.
What is the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
Doing the right thing even when it is costly or unseen is commonly described by this core virtue.
What is Integrity?
When interest rates rise, bond prices typically move in this direction.
What is down?(opposite direction)
This historic tower residence hall overlooking the Midway is named after a former university president.
What is Burton-Judson Courts?
This recurring SoF activity focuses on structured reflection and personal development among members.
What is the Leadership Development Program?
This late-1990s bubble was driven by speculation in internet-based companies.
What is the Dot-Com Bubble?
This former Nasdaq chairman was sentenced to 150 years for fraud.
Who is Bernie Madoff?
This is the rate used to discount future cash flows in a DCF.
What is the discount rate?(WACC)
The number of Nobel Prize winners that UChicago has.
The mission statement of Scholars of Finance.
What is "To inspire character and integrity in the finance leaders of tomorrow."
The financial instrument that was central to amplifying losses during the 2008 financial crisis
What are mortgage-backed securities (or CDOs)?
This economic problem arises when decision-makers do not bear the full consequences of their actions.
What is moral hazard?
This metric measures the return generated on shareholders’ invested capital.
What is Return on Equity?(ROE)
Coauthor of The Why Axis and a leader in field experimental economics, this UChicago scholar studies how incentives shape real-world decision-making.
Who is John List?
Who is Anna Bouska?
The collapse of this firm in 2008 intensified global panic and credit freeze.
What is Lehman Brothers?
A scandal at this bank involved employees opening unauthorized customer accounts to meet sales targets.
What is Wells Fargo?
Positive NPV occurs when this relationship between return and cost of capital holds.
What is a return greater than the discount rate?
This architect designed the modernist Regenstein Library, completed in 1970.
Who is Walter Netsch?
The year that Scholars of Finance as an organization was founded.
When is 2017?
This behavioral bias helps explain why investors chase assets near market peaks.
What is herding behavior?
This Scholars of Finance co-founder hosts the Investing in Integrity podcast, featuring conversations on character, purpose, and leadership in finance.
Who is Ross Overline?