McDonough  School of Business
Derivatives and Financial Markets
Professor Jim Bodurtha
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MBA Module/Short Course

Rammstein Steel by Adam Ferguson, Andreas Hjelde and Mike Monaghan
The Quantum Fund by Brian Quintenz
Saxa Manufacturing Firm by Sean Boland, Troy Dibley, and Michael Neches
The Hoya Index Fund by Cris Benavides, Warren Choi, Tatyana Litvak, and Wei Sun
Long-Short Endowment Management by anonymous

Full Semester Courses

"Web" project examples:
Chocolate Payable Risk by Marco A. Gonzalez, Ela Karahasanoglu, Tamara Lopez-Jimenez, and Dan Trosch
Crude Oil Receivable Risk
by David Carmona, Garrett Grega, and Katarina Skladony
EuroDisney FX Risk by Daniel Bierbrauer, Jeffrey Goldstein, and Janel Valverde
Callaway Golf Company by M. Dublin, J. Harrison, S. Sahai, and J. Sunshine
Intel Corporation by E. Leininger , E. Paglayan and A. Zuzenberg
JP DOKE, Inc. - Exporters Extraordinaire by D. Oldroyd , K. Eshak and J. Park
Copper Mine Sales Risk by L. Babiev, E. Brodetski, K. Harrill and E. Wall
British Pound Jet Purchase Risk by R. Bunyasaranand, J., M. Sousa and J. Watanabe
S&P500 Index Portfiolio Risk by D. Fortune, M. Maruszewski, D. McCarthy & J. Nelson
DM Construction Project Risk by R. Colin, C. Crowley, K. Julius & K. Neuner

"Slide" project examples:
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The Big Bad Copper Company by anonymous
Ford Motor Company Hedging Yen Foreign Exchange Exposure by Joe Varadi, Emily Potrykus, Joe Varadi, Emily Potrykus
Hershey Company Cocoa and Sugar Risk Management by Amelia Indrawati, Alfonso Guerra, and Shira Sarid
Investment Fund Risk Management by Saurav Karki, Sandip Patel, Harri Suhendra, and Neel Trivedi
Risk Management Proposal for TIFFANY & CO. by Maria Kurenova, Kenneth Martin, Lauren McDermott, and Kristen Migliori
Euro Import Risk by Larissa Buerano, Dwight Doscher, Kai Wu
DoNiNaKa Oil: Hedging Strategies for Refined Oil Delivery Contract by Dorly Hazan-Amir, Nikhil Mehta, Nan Suwankornsakul, Karoline Vinsrygg
Soya Saxa Soybeans by Kelly McKee, Ryan Merse, Shawn Mussulman and Mohammed Sami Ahmad
Delta Energy Center by Teseo Bergoglio, Santiago Martignone, Jose Noqueira and Pete Schirmer  
Da Players' Gold Store by Collin Dunn, Mike Gaffney and Mike Oberdorf
Jet Fuel Hedging by M. Balayan, A. Lum, P. Sestili and L. Simkina
Peso VW Plant Construction Risk by T. Bronstein, H. Dai, T. Gallagher, S. Garcia and J. Sparling
British Pound Jaguar Import Risk by J. Bell, A., Chen, S. Oldfield and M. Roscoe