Finance

Faculty Leading Excellence in Finance

MIT Sloan’s finance faculty are world-renowned thinkers who combine original insights and breakthrough ideas with a practical approach to finance education.

Like colleagues before them, today’s finance faculty is engaged in groundbreaking research of critical significance and relevance to the world.

Our faculty bring that research into the classroom, where students are exposed to the very latest in finance theory and practice. 

  

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Paul Asquith

Paul Asquith

Gordon Y Billard Professor of 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…

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Hui Chen

Hui Chen

Nomura Professor of Finance

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…

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Taha Choukhmane

Taha Choukhmane

Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor

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…

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John C. Cox

John C. Cox

Nomura Professor of Finance, Emeritus

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…

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Maryam Farboodi

Maryam Farboodi

Jon D. Gruber Career Development Associate Professor

Maryam Farboodi is the Jon D. Gruber Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research focuses on the economics of big data. She studies how big data technologies have…

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Leonid Kogan

Leonid Kogan

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Professor of Management

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…

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Tong Liu

Tong Liu

Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance

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…

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Andrew W. Lo

Andrew W. Lo

Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor

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…

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Deborah J. Lucas

Deborah J. Lucas

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance

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 current research lies at the intersection of finance and policy, with a focus on…

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Robert C. Merton

Robert C. Merton

School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance

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…

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Lira Mota

Lira Mota

Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor

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…

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Stewart Myers

Stewart Myers

Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics, Emeritus

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…

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Christopher J. Palmer

Christopher J. Palmer

Associate Professor, Finance

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…

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Jonathan A. Parker

Jonathan A. Parker

Hear name pronounced.

Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics

Jonathan A. Parker is the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Finance, 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 Budget…

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Lawrence D. W. Schmidt

Lawrence D. W. Schmidt

Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance

Lawrence D. W. Schmidt is the Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Assistant 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…

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Antoinette Schoar

Antoinette Schoar

Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance

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

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Kerry Y. Siani

Kerry Y. Siani

Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor

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…

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David Thesmar

David Thesmar

Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics

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…

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Adrien Verdelhan

Adrien Verdelhan

Stephens Naphtal Professor of Finance

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…

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Emil Verner

Emil Verner

Albert F. (1942) & Jeanne P. Clear Career Development Associate Professor in Global Management

Emil Verner is the Albert F. (1942) and Jeanne P. Clear Career Development Associate Professor of Global Management and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Verner’s research focuses on the connection between…

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Jiang Wang

Jiang Wang

Mizuho Financial Group Professor

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…

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Haoxiang Zhu

Haoxiang Zhu

Gordon Y Billard Associate Professor of Finance

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…

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Other Academic Staff

Telis Dimitri Bertsekas

Telis Dimitri Bertsekas

Lecturer and Head of the Finance Certificate

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…

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Nathaniel Gregory

Nathaniel Gregory

Senior Lecturer, Finance

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…

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Ted Keith

Ted Keith

Senior Lecturer, Finance

Mark P. Kritzman

Mark P. Kritzman

Senior Lecturer, Finance

Mark P. Kritzman is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Kritzman is also the president and chief executive officer of Windham Capital Management, LLC, and also serves as a senior partner of State Street Associates. He…

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Paul F. Mende

Paul F. Mende

Hear name pronounced.

Senior Lecturer, Finance

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…

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Piero Augusto Novelli

Senior Lecturer, Finance

Gita R. Rao

Gita R. Rao

Senior Lecturer, Finance; Assoc. Faculty Director, MFin Program

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…

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Matthew Rothman

Matthew Rothman

Senior Lecturer, Finance

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…

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Carl Stjernfeldt

Carl Stjernfeldt

Lecturer, Finance

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…

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VISITING FACULTY

Janice Eberly

Janice Eberly

Golub Distinguished Senior Fellow

Janice Eberly is the Golub Distinguished Senior Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management.She is the James R. and Helen D. Russell Professor of Finance and recent Senior Associate Dean at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern…

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Egor Matveyev

Egor Matveyev

Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Finance

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…

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Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

Visiting Associate Professor, Finance

Matthew Rhodes-Kropf is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Finance department at MIT Sloan where he teaches entrepreneurship. Rhodes-Kropf is also a managing partner at Tectonic Ventures.Rhodes-Kropf’s research on venture capital and exits has…

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Hong Ru

Hong Ru

Visiting Associate Professor of Finance

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…

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Lawrence Weiss

Lawrence Weiss

Lawrence A. Weiss is a Visiting Professor of Corporate Finance at MIT-Sloan. He is also Professor of International Accounting at Tufts University and has previously served on the faculties of McGill, Tulane, MIT, INSEAD, IMD, LBS, and Georgetown…

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AFFILIATED FACULTY

Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor

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,…

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Dimitris Bertsimas

Dimitris Bertsimas

Associate Dean for Business Analytics

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…

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Ricardo Caballero

Ricardo Caballero

Economics

Ford International Professor of Economics

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Munther A. Dahleh

Munther A. Dahleh

William A. Coolidge Professor

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…

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Amy Finkelstein

Economics

John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics

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Kristin J. Forbes

Kristin J. Forbes

Hear name pronounced.

Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management

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…

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Bengt Holmstrom

Bengt Holmstrom

Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, Emeritus

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…

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S.P. Kothari

S.P. Kothari

Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance

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,…

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Parag Pathak

Parag Pathak

MIT Professor

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…

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Robert S. Pindyck

Robert S. Pindyck

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics

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,…

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Tomaso A. Poggio

Tomaso A. Poggio

Eugene McDermott Professor

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…

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James Michael Poterba

James Michael Poterba

MIT Professor

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…

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Roberto Rigobon

Roberto Rigobon

Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management

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…

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Eric So

Eric So

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Global Economics and Management

Eric So is a financial economist and tenured professor in the Global Economics and Management group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He joined MIT in 2012 after earning a PhD from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a Master…

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Ivan Werning

Ivan Werning

MIT Professor