Finance

Paul Asquith is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Asquith is a specialist in corporate finance and a media source for the field of corporate finance and control, including…

Hui Chen is the Nomura Professor of Finance and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research focuses on asset pricing and its connections with corporate finance. Chen is particularly interested in the interactions…

Taha Choukhmane is the Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He was most recently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His…

John Cox is the Nomura Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.A leading authority on corporate finance and finance theory, Cox has developed an inter-temporal financial model broad enough to include the fundamental…

Maryam Farboodi is the Jon D. Gruber Career Development Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an applied theorist whose research focuses on the economics of big data with applications to finance and…

Gary Gensler is Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management as well as of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He conducts research and teaches on artificial intelligence, finance, financial technology, and public policy…

Leonid Kogan is the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Professor of Management and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the faculty leader for the MFin degree program. Prior to MIT Sloan, Kogan taught at the Wharton…

Tong Liu is the Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Tong’s research focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurial…

Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, a Professor of Finance, and the Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lo's current research spans four areas: evolutionary models of…

Deborah Lucas is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. Lucas’s recent research lies at the intersection of finance and policy, with a focus on…

Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, and the John and Natty McArthur University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.He was the George Fisher Baker Professor of…

Lira Mota is the Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Before joining MIT, she worked at the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy at Princeton University…

Stewart C. Myers is the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Myers is past President of the American Finance Association, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a…

Christopher Palmer is an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he teaches corporate finance. His research focuses on how credit, real estate, and labor markets respond to periods of significant upheaval. Palmer…

Jonathan A. Parker is the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics, a codirector of both the MIT Sloan Consumer Finance Initiative and the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. He is also an Economic Adviser for the Congressional…

Lawrence D. W. Schmidt is the Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Associate Professor of Finance. He is an an applied economist working at the intersection of finance and macro-labor. Schmidt’s research has developed new insights about…

Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Germany. Her research interests span from…

Kerry Siani is the Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Siani does research on capital markets and their interaction with policy and the real economy. Her…

David Thesmar is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He is an expert in corporate finance, financial intermediation, entrepreneurship, and behavioral economics…

Adrien Verdelhan is the Stephens Naphtal  Professor of Finance and a  Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research focuses on measures of systematic risk in financial markets, particularly in currency and sovereign bond…

Emil Verner is the Albert F. (1942) and Jeanne P. Clear Career Development Professor of Global Management and Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research lies at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics, with a…

Jiang Wang is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Wang’s research focuses on the pricing of financial assets and investment and risk management. He is currently working on the…

Haoxiang Zhu is Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management and Finance and Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His main research interests are broadly in asset pricing, especially market structure and design. He has…

Telis Bertsekas is the MBA Finance Certificate Head at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the lecturer for 15.403 (Introduction to the Practice of Finance).He has spent the last 22 years working as an analyst and portfolio manager at firms…

Nat Gregory is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Before joining MIT Sloan School of Management in the fall of 2013, Nat Gregory was Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he…

Mark P. Kritzman is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the recipient of the 2025 James R. Vertin Research Award from the CFA Institute Research Foundation. Kritzman is also the president and chief executive…

Paul Mende is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Mende co-founded, co-owned, and served as director of research from 2002 to 2010 for Fort Hill Capital Management, LLC, a hedge fund specializing in equity…

Gita Rao is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.She joined the MIT Sloan finance faculty with over two decades of experience in global investing, asset…

Matthew Rothman is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also currently the head of statistical arbitrage strategies business at Millennium Management LLC (https://www.mlp.com), additionally serving as the deputy…

Carl Stjernfeldt is a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.At ArcLight, Carl is focused on energy transition related investments, across a wide range of market segments and deal stages. Before ArcLight, Carl headed up the Corporate…

Egor Matveyev is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research interests are in the fields of corporate finance, organizational economics, and corporate governance. Matveyev’s work has studied…

Matthew Rhodes-Kropf is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance department at MIT Sloan where he teaches entrepreneurship. Rhodes-Kropf is also a managing partner at Tectonic Ventures. He is well known for his expertise in venture capital and…

Hong Ru is a Visiting Associate Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, while also holding the position of tenured Associate Professor within the Banking & Finance division at Nanyang Business School, NTU​.His research interests…

Jules van Binsbergen is a Visiting Professor in Finance at the Sloan School

Lawrence A. Weiss is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at MIT-Sloan. He has previously served on the faculties of McGill, Tulane, MIT, INSEAD, IMD, LBS, Georgetown, and Tufts. Weiss received his B. Com, Diploma in public accounting and MBA from McGill…

Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also affiliated with the National Bureau Economic Research, and the Center for Economic Policy Research. In 2024,…

Dimitris Bertsimas is the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, a Professor of Operations Research, and the Associate Dean for the Master of Business Analytics at MIT. He was named Vice Provost for Open Learning in September…

Ford International Professor of Economics

Munther A. Dahleh is the William A. Coolidge Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and the Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS).He is also affiliated with MIT’s Laboratory for…

John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics

Kristin Forbes is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. She has regularly rotated between academia and senior policy positions. From 2014-2017 she was an External Member of…

Bengt Holmstrom is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT, where he also was head of the Economics Department from 2003-2006.  He holds a joint appointment with MIT’s Sloan School of Management.   Holmstrom is a Fellow of the American…

S.P. Kothari is Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Professor Kothari has senior executive experience in government, academia, and industry with expertise in strategic and policy issues,…

Parag A. Pathak is a Professor of Economics at MIT, found­ing co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design, and founder of MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII), a laboratory focused on education, human capital, and…

Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor in Finance and Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Pindyck’s most recent research focuses on economic policies related to rare disasters,…

Tomaso A. Poggio is the Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the director of the new NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT, with managing partners at Harvard University and Cornell…

James Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT and the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit research organization with nearly 1400 affiliated economists. He has served as President of the Eastern Economic…

Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Census…

Eric So is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Global Economics and Behavioral Science and Professor, Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan, where he studies how human nature and technology interact with incentives to shape decision making…