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Courses worth carving out real time for.

Lectures and full classes — mostly free, mostly excellent — from MIT, Wharton, Yale, NYU Stern and a few brilliant independent teachers. Curious why this site is called Jellybeans? Read the story on the home page →

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Finance theory, valuation, econometrics, derivatives and a bit of philosophy — each with a search link straight to YouTube.

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FinTech: Shaping the Financial World

MIT OpenCourseWare · 15.S08

How new technology, APIs and big tech are disrupting financial services — from business models to the competitive landscape between banks and fintech startups.

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Blockchain and Money

MIT OpenCourseWare · Gary Gensler

A rigorous, non-hype walkthrough of blockchain mechanics and how they could reshape money, payments and financial infrastructure.

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MIT Fixed Income

MIT OpenCourseWare · 15.401 Finance Theory I

Core finance theory from MIT Sloan — time value of money, bond pricing and the building blocks every fixed-income investor needs.

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Wharton Course: Private Equity

Wharton · Jean-Marc Cuvilly, TRIAGO

A practitioner's view of private equity from both sides of the table — what limited partners and general partners actually look for in a deal.

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MIT – How to Win at Texas Hold’Em

MIT OpenCourseWare · 15.S50

A short IAP course using poker to teach probability, game theory and decision-making under uncertainty — skills that map directly onto markets.

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Investment Philosophies

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A tour of the major schools of investing — value, growth, momentum and more — and the assumptions each one makes about markets.

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Valuation Undergraduate (Spring 2017)

NYU Stern · Aswath Damodaran

The definitive free course on company valuation, taught by “the Dean of Valuation” — DCF, relative value and everything in between.

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Corporate Finance MBA Class (Spring 2019)

NYU Stern · Aswath Damodaran

Damodaran's full MBA corporate finance course — the investment, financing and dividend decisions that drive firm value.

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Ben Lambert – Undergraduate Econometrics Part 1

Ben Lambert

A clear, patient walkthrough of the statistical foundations behind econometrics — essential groundwork for reading financial research.

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Financial Theory with John Geanakoplos

Open Yale Courses

A graduate-level tour of financial theory — general equilibrium, asset pricing and the mathematics behind modern finance.

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UCI: Math of Finance

UC Irvine OpenCourseWare

The quantitative toolkit behind modern finance — interest rates, options pricing and the math that underlies trading desks.

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MIT Financial Models

MIT OpenCourseWare

How to build and stress-test the financial models used across corporate finance, valuation and portfolio management.

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Philosophy of Mind

UC Berkeley · John Searle

A legendary philosopher's lectures on consciousness, intelligence and the mind — surprisingly relevant to today's AI debates.

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Mark Meldrum – Managerial Accounting

Mark Meldrum

A CFA-level instructor's clear breakdown of managerial accounting — how businesses actually track and use internal numbers.

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Mark Meldrum – Options, Futures and Other Derivatives

Mark Meldrum

A thorough walk through derivatives pricing and mechanics, built to make a notoriously hard subject click.

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Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform

Open Yale Courses · Douglas W. Rae

A historical and political tour of capitalism — its triumphs, its crises, and the recurring arguments for reforming it.

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