Welcome to John Byrd’s Website

I teach at the Business School at the University of Colorado at Denver.  The classes I teach include MBA finance classes and courses in the Managing for Sustainability (M4S) MBA program.

My University email address is: john.byrd@ucdenver.edu

This website has links to my course syllabi.



Fall 2021 Classes

MGMT 6826 – Business for a Better World

Sustainable business has largely been about doing less bad.  I want to begin to shift the discussion to talk about how business can be a force for good.  This is pretty much unknown territory, but we will explore some possibilities.  We will continue to learn the primary concepts and tools of sustainable business, but see if we can tweak them enough to move beyond the Doing Less Bad approach to something new.

The Fall 2021 syllabus can be downloaded using this link:
MGMT 6826 Syllabus Fall 2021


Spring 2022 Classes

BUSN 6827 – Business and Global Climate Change 

This course introduces students the the basics of climate change as the pertain to companies, then lays out a process and introduces the tools needed to develop a corporate climate policy.  Topics include: Carbon footprinting, assessing physical and transition risk through simple scenarios, articulating mitigation and adaptation opportunities, evaluating these opportunities both financially and for their carbon effects, using a carbon tax in financial analysis, and carbon reporting.

The syllabus can be downloaded using this link:

MGMT 6827 Syllabus Spring 2022

FNCE 6290  – Quantitative Methods for Finance   

This course covers confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, then examines several regression topics that are useful in finance, investments and economics.

The Spring 2022 syllabus can be downloaded — HERE —


Other Classes I teach

INTB/FNCE 6411 – International Corporate Governance   

The Fall 2018 syllabus can be downloaded using this link:

FNCE/INTB 6411 Syllabus Fall 2018


FNCE 6310 – Financial Decisions and Policies
The Spring 2018 syllabus can be downloaded using this link:

FNCE 6310 Syllabus Spring 2018


Last update: August 17, 2019

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