Financial Crisis

Organization Focus
Lessons from the Financial Crisis  9 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Charles J. Hadlock is a Professor of Finance at the Eli Broad College of Business where he holds the A.J. Pasant Endowed Professorship in Finance. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. He has taught finance at the Universities of Florida, Illinois, Michigan and Virginia. Hadlock has published in several leading journals in finance and economics including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business, Review of Financial Studies, the Rand Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. He has received the Merton Miller Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Business, as well as an Excellence in Teaching Award at Michigan State University.

Naveen Khanna is the A.J. Pasant Endowed Chair Professor in Finance. He has taught finance at the University of Michigan and the Kellogg School at Northwestern University, and Duke University. His Ph.D. in Finance is from the Kellogg School. In 2000, he was recognized by Business Week as the “favorite faculty member,” and his course, Corporate Financial Strategies, as the “most favorite course.” He has been honored as Outstanding Professor by Broad MBA students several times. He continues to publish in top finance journals including the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Financial Economics, and is frequently invited to present his research at top universities around the country.

Michael A. Mazzeo received his Ph.D. in Finance from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He teaches financial decision making in the Weekend MBA and Executive MBA programs. His former students are employed by dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Mazzeo’s teaching has been recognized with the Faculty Excellence Award numerous times, and the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools, Fourth Edition, as the top rated professor on the Broad Graduate School of Management faculty. He has conducted extensive research and published several articles in evaluating optimal financial decision making and serves as an associate editor of The Journal of Financial Research. In addition, Mazzeo leads many executive seminars in financial management for Michigan State University and the Institute of Management Accountants, with participants from many multinational corporations.

Andrei Simonov is an Associate Professor of Finance at Michigan State University. He is also CEPR Research Affiliate in the Financial Economics program, Research Affiliate at Stockholm School of Economics (SITE) and a Research Associate in Stockholm International Corporate Governance Institute. He received Ph.D. in Finance from European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD 2000) and holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Moscow State University. He teaches courses in fixed income asset pricing and financial markets. Recently, he was awarded 2006 EFA/LECG Prize for best paper in Behavioral Finance, 2006 Iddo Sarnat Memorial Award and was one of the winners of BSI Gamma Foundation Research Competition. His work is regularly presented at leading finance conferences. His publications appear in Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Finance, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Banking and Finance, Swedish Economic Policy Review, and Dow Jones Market Watch. He is part of the Investment Committee at Deutsche Bank Global Systematic Alpha UCITS Fund.

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