Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications: 2026 Release ISE

Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications was developed for MBA courses as a concise, modern, and practical text that can be covered in a single term. Theory and heavy calculations are minimized, with emphasis on the essentials students must carry forward. Net present value serves as the unifying theme, with every topic rooted in valuation. The text highlights the financial manager's role as decision maker, stressing judgment and managerial input while leaving specialized topics for follow-up courses.

Stephen A. Ross was the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in finance and economics. Professor Ross is recognized for his work in developing the arbitrage pricing theory, along with his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research in signaling, agency theory, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, he also served as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals, and was a trustee of CalTech.

Randolph W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and is the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Finance Emeritus. Professor Westerfield came to USC from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was the chairman of the finance department and member of the finance faculty for 20 years. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Oaktree Capital Mutual Funds. His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management, and stock market price behavior.

Jeffrey F. Jaffe has been a frequent contributor to finance and economic literature in such journals as the Quarterly Economic Journal, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Financial Economics, and The Financial Analysts Journal. His best-known work concerns insider trading, where he showed both that corporate insiders earn abnormal profits from their trades and that regulation has little effect on these profits. He has also made contributions concerning initial public offerings, the regulation of utilities, the behavior of market makers, the fluctuation of gold prices, the theoretical effect of inflation on the interest rate, the empirical effect of inflation on capital asset prices, the relationship between small-capitalization stocks and the January effect, and the capital structure decision.

Bradford D. Jordan is Visiting Scholar at the University of Florida. He previously held the duPont Endowed Chair in Banking and Financial Services at the University of Kentucky, where he was department chair for many years. He specializes in corporate finance and securities valuation. He has published numerous articles in leading finance journals, and he has received a variety of research awards, including the Fama/DFA Award in 2010.Dr. Jordan is coauthor of Corporate Finance 13e, Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications 7e, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 13e, and Essentials of Corporate Finance 1le, which collectively are the most widely used business finance textbooks in the world, along with Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management 10e, a popular investments text.

Kelly Shue is the Amman Mineral Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. She has published numerous articles in leading journals in the areas of corporate finance and behavioral economics. Her research has explored sustainable investing, the Peter Principle, compensation and promotions, gender and negotiations, the gambler’s fallacy, and behavioral asset pricing. Professor Shue is Director of the American Finance Association and the Financial Research Association, and Co-Principal Investigator of the National Bureau of Economic Research Project on Executive Compensation. She is Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Corporate Finance Studies. She previously served as Editor at the Review of Finance, Associate Editor at Management Science, and Director of the European Finance Association.