Julia Plotts

MBA, University of Southern California; BA, Loyola Marymount University

Julia Plotts specializes in financial analysis and valuation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance. She is the author of several valuation case studies and contributed to Valuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions. Professor Plotts has been teaching corporate finance and financial analysis and valuation in the EMBA, GEMBA, MBA.PM, IBEAR, and undergraduate programs since 2002. She has received the Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence eight times and the Evan C. Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award for Teaching (2011) and Mentoring (2012) and the Dean’s Award for Community (2010). Prior to joining the faculty at USC, Plotts worked within the investment-banking group of Banc of America Securities LLC, where she was involved in the execution of mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyout/recapitalization and capital raising via private/public offerings of equity and debt. She has consulted on shareholder value and corporate strategy for a variety of firms.

Education

• MBA University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business (1998 — 2000)
• The Fund for American Studies Georgetown University (1994 — 1994)
• Loyola Marymount University (1991 — 1994)
• Clovis West High School

Honors & Awards

• Eleven-Time Recipient of the USC Marshall Golden Apple Teaching Award
  • Finance & Business Economics – MBA.PM Graduate Program Core (2013)
  • IBEAR MBA program (2012, 2019)
  • Undergraduate Program (2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
  • Undergraduate Program – Mentoring (2019)
• Honored Speaker, USC Society of Trojan Women “Last Lecture” (June 2016)
• Recipient, Evan C. Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award for Mentoring (2012)
• Recipient, Evan C. Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award for Teaching (2011)
• Recipient, Dean’s Award for Community (2010)
• Recipient, USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2010) – selected from 400+ USC faculty
• Finalist, USC Parents Council Teaching and Mentoring Award (2010)
• Recipient, USC Parents Council Teaching and Mentoring Award (2009)
• Sigma Chi Fraternity Professor of the Year (2009)
• Honorary Faculty Initiate Delta Sigma Pi (2009)
• Faculty Excellence Award, Alpha Lambda Delta (2008)
• “Tapped” by the Mortar Board, USC’s Torch & Tassel chapter (2007)
• Honored Speaker, USC Office of Religious Life “What Matters to Me & Why” (Fall 2007)

Publications

Textbooks and Case Studies

• Contributor to “Valuation: The Art and Science of Making Strategic Investments,” Sheridan Titman and John Martin, publisher: Addison Wesley, 1/e 2007; 2/e August 2010, 3/e September 2015.
  
  • Authored IPO and Enterprise DCF mini-cases, conducted accuracy check and authored instructor PowerPoint materials and excel end-of-chapter problem solutions.
  • Authored textbook review of 1/e, Journal of Applied Finance – Issues 1 & 2, 2009 CIBER grant recipient: Case Study on Starbucks Asia (2008-2009)