Teaching
Professor Joshua White is an award-winning teacher of Managerial Finance and Corporate Financial Policy in Vanderbilt University’s Master of Science in Finance (MSF), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Executive MBA, and Master of Management in Health Care (MMHC) programs at the Owen Graduate School of Management.
He was awarded Vanderbilt University’s James A. Webb Award for Teaching Excellence in 2023. During his doctoral studies, he won the Allen H. Keally Graduate Teaching Award from the Haslam College of Business.
Courses
Corporate Financial Policy — MGT 6432
MBA & MSF · Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
This course emphasizes a company’s crucial financial choices and strategies, encompassing topics such as corporate governance, executive remuneration, capital structure, debt and equity issuance, and payout policies including dividends and share repurchases. It consists of an approximately equal blend of lectures and case study analyses. The goal of this course is for students to learn how to make value-creating financial decisions. Professor White demonstrates how to use analytical methods to improve students’ understanding, confidence, skill, and ability to apply these tools to corporate finance. The course is grounded in finance theory and current empirical evidence, with a focus on contemporaneous issues. Corporate Valuation (MGT 6431) is a prerequisite.
Corporate Financial Policy — EMGT 7733
Executive MBA · Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
The course examines major policies and financial decisions within corporations, including corporate governance, executive compensation, capital structure, raising debt and equity capital, and payout policy. It combines lectures with case studies and emphasizes the use of analytical methods to build students’ understanding, confidence, and ability to apply financial tools within their organizations. The course is grounded in finance theory and current empirical evidence with attention to contemporary issues.
Managerial Finance — EMGT 7731
Executive MBA · Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
This course provides the framework for analyzing the various components needed to value real assets, as well as an introduction to the valuation of financial assets. Topics include the time value of money, capital budgeting, measuring risk in financial markets, and market efficiency, among others. The primary objective is to learn how to make value-creating investment and financing decisions, with an emphasis on applying these tools to the strategic decisions executives face within their organizations.
Managerial Finance — EMGT 7831
MMHC · Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
This class provides the framework for analyzing the various components needed to value real assets, as well as an introduction to the valuation of financial assets. Topics include the time value of money, capital budgeting, measuring risk in financial markets, and market efficiency, among others. The primary objective of this course is to learn how to make value-creating investment and financing decisions. Professor White first teaches students that the value of many assets is a function of the level, timing, and riskiness of its expected cash flows. The course then focuses on the concepts, techniques, and practices needed to make value-maximizing decisions.
Teaching History
Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
- MGT 6432 – Corporate Financial Policy (MBA, MSF): 2018S, 2019S, 2020S, 2020F, 2021S, 2021F, 2022S, 2022F, 2023S, 2023F, 2024S
- EMGT 7731 – Managerial Finance (EMBA): 2018S, 2019S, 2020S
- EMGT 7733 – Corporate Financial Policy (EMBA): 2020F, 2021F
- EMGT 7831 – Managerial Finance (MMHC): 2018S, 2019S, 2020S, 2021S, 2022S
- Accelerator® – Finance Bootcamp: 2018Su, 2019Su
Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
- Finance 4210 – Applied Corporate Finance (Valuation): 2015S, 2017S
Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee
- Finance 301 – Financial Management: 2009F, 2010S
- Finance 300 – Fundamentals of Finance: 2011F, 2012S
Teaching Awards
- Vanderbilt University: James A. Webb Award for Teaching Excellence (2023)
- University of Tennessee: Allen H. Keally Graduate Teaching Award (2011)
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