Jerome Taillard

Jerome Taillard is a Visiting Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School, and Joseph M. Spinelli 98 Term Chair in Finance at Babson College. He earned his PhD in Finance from The Ohio State University in 2010. He also received a Graduate degree in Economics from the Study Center in Gerzensee (Switzerland) and his Undergraduate degree in Mathematics applied to Finance from the University of Neuch?tel in Switzerland.Professor Taillard has been recognized for teaching excellence with the Carroll School of management school-wide teaching award in 2012, Babson College school-wide teaching award in 2019, the Thomas Kennedy Award in 2020, and was voted Best 40 Under 40 and Best Professor the Class of 2019 by Poets and Quants. He taught at the Wharton School in 2018 and at MIT in 2022.His main research interests are in corporate finance, specifically in the areas of risk management, energy finance, innovation, and governance. He has published his research in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science, among others. He received the prestigious Michael Brennan Award for Best Paper published in the Review of Financial Studies in 2017, as well as the Best Paper published in the Review of Corporate Finance Studies in 2025.Professor Taillard is committed to staying current with best practices. He is an exam reviewer for the Global Association of Risk Managers (GARP) and participates regularly in sessions with executives at the Babson Executive Center.