ECON 251 · Financial Theory
The foundations of financial theory, including portfolio analysis and the capital asset pricing model.
It clicked in class. Until the midterm.
Finance tutoring for Yale students.
Yale College has no undergraduate business major, so finance lives in Economics. ECON 251 Financial Theory is rigorous, and Yale SOM teaches finance in its MBA core.
Private 1-on-1 on Zoom · $250 / hour
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The courses
What we work on.
Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
MBA finance
Core and elective finance at the School of Management. Send me your syllabus and we start there.
Yale
Where students get stuck.
Rigorous theory
ECON 251 is theory-heavy. We connect the theory to worked examples so it sticks.
No business background
Without a business major, many students meet finance for the first time here. We fill in what the course assumes.
CAPM
It's central to the course and easy to misapply. We practice until it's second nature.
How a session works
Diagnosis first. Then the fix.
- 01
Before we meet
Send me what you're stuck on: a problem set, slides, your last midterm, a practice exam, last week's quiz.
- 02
On Zoom
You walk me through a problem out loud. It usually takes a few minutes to hear where the reasoning goes sideways. We fix that piece and rebuild from there, so you know why each step works.
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Before we finish
The real test: a fresh problem with new numbers and different wording, the way a midterm would ask it, and you solve it yourself. I don't complete assignments or hand over answers. You leave able to do the work.
Your tutor
Studied it. Worked in it. Now I teach it.
I’m Chi Odogwu. I have a B.S. in Business with a finance specialization from Liberty University, earned summa cum laude in three years, and a Master’s in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis. I tutored IB students in grad school, did valuation and private equity consulting at PwC, taught MBA finance at Florida State, and spent three years as an adjunct professor teaching Business Finance.
Questions
Before you book.
Do you help Yale SOM students?
Yes. Send me your syllabus and we'll start there.
Can we prep before ECON 251?
Yes. A foundation in time value of money and statistics helps a lot.
Is tutoring allowed under my school's honor code?
Tutoring on concepts and practice problems is generally fine, but policies on graded work vary by course. I don't complete graded assignments. Check your syllabus's collaboration policy, and if you're unsure, ask your professor.
Get started
Bring the problem you’re stuck on.
Tell me your course and what isn’t clicking. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
Book your first sessionOnline Finance Tutor is an independent tutoring service. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Yale University. Course names are used only to describe the material we cover.