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Would you like to learn about the latest valuation methods that may help you to make better business decisions in M&A, Private Equity, and Venture Capital'? Then 'Advanced Valuation and Strategy – is the right course for you! This course is helpful for executives that want to value complete strategies and for all master students interested in corporate finance and strategy. We present the latest tools and show you how to apply them! This course can be supported by the book "Strategic Investment: Real Options and Games" of Smit and Trigeorgis published with Princeton University Press. This course aims to go beyond the traditional techniques from corporate finance with dynamic methods to quantify strategic thinking. However, most of the proportion of the market value of high tech firms consist of the future growth option value. In an ever-changing world, with new developments in artificial intelligence, big data, strategic decisions determine the firm’s long-term success and market value. Yet managers and financial analysist often have to consider these long-term implications using intuition and experience alone, with little guidance from structured, quantitative analysis. We discuss a framework which brings together DCF, real options, and game theory. The course consists of a 1-week module and a 4-week module. The full course can be followed on Coursera (for free): https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-valuation-and-strategy