Capitalism year-end case study panel discussion
Bruce Foerster’s Teaching History
While pursuing an investment banking career, Bruce Foerster has been fortunate to be able to give back to the next generation of investment bankers through teaching.
This effort commenced in 1978 in the New York University (“NYU”) Leonard Stern School of Business MBA program (co-sponsored by the New York District of the Securities Industry Association), where he taught a three-hour session entitled “Syndicate and the New Issue Market” as part of an investment banking course for six years and served as course administrator from 1981 to 1983.
From 1984 to 1995, he gave an annual three-hour lecture entitled “Primary Capital Markets and the New Issue Process” to 30 select Deutsche Bank investment bankers as part of a four-month program under the auspices of NYU.
After moving to Miami in 1995, he started teaching at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business, Hough Graduate School of Business.
From 1996 until 2005, he created and taught a three-hour course in the MBA program entitled “Investment Banking” with over 40 Wall Street professionals as guest lecturers.
In 2008, he created a four-hour course entitled “Capitalism,” which he taught for 16 years in the MSF Program. He continues to mentor MSF candidates and gives a series of eight 2 hour sessions on select investment banking topics.
Three years of heading panels on primary capital markets as a Trustee of the Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School in the early 1980s, a one-off lecture on investment banking at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business (MBA program) in 1998, a panelist on mergers & acquisitions at a Business Week-sponsored event at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1984, and four annual lectures at the University of Miami School of Law’s securities course entitled “The Anatomy of an Initial Public Offering” from 1978 to 1981 round out his teaching portfolio.