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George G. C. Parker
Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Emeritus; Co-director of the Financial Management Executive Program;
Director of the Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive Program
George Parker's teaching and research interests are primarily in the field of corporate finance, management of financial institutions, and corporate governance. He is the author of numerous case studies related to these subjects which are used in the MBA Program at Stanford and other schools. He has also authored several articles on capital structure, risk management, and corporate valuation. [View Profile]
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Paul F. Pfleiderer
C. O. G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Finance; Professor of Law (by courtesy), School of Law
Paul Pfleiderer’s research is primarily focused on issues arising in financial markets when traders are asymmetrically informed. He has developed theoretical models to analyze how information is incorporated in prices through trading and how information flows determine trading volume. He has also analyzed how information is sold to investors when the value of the information is reduced the more widely it is disseminated. In addition he has studied problems in measuring active funds’ performance, contracting concerns in venture financing, policy issues related to disclosure requirements, and explanations for the stock market crash of 1987. His current research concerns corporate governance. [View Profile]
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Mary E. Barth
Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Professor Mary Barth’s research focuses on financial accounting and reporting issues, particularly topics of interest to accounting standard setters. Such topics include using fair values in financial reporting, expensing stock-based compensation, recognition versus disclosure, intangible assets, asset revaluations, the information roles of accruals and cash flows, the relation between financial statement quality and cost of capital, and issues related to global financial reporting and harmonization. [View Profile]
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William Beaver
Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of
Business
William H. Beaver is widely recognized for his innovative research on how accounting information in corporate financial statements affects security prices. He was among the first to investigate financial ratios as predictors of business failure. His recent work has centered on public policy issues connected with government regulation of corporate financial disclosure. [View Profile]
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James C. Van Horne
A.P. Giannini Professor of Banking and Finance, Stanford Graduate School of
Business
Professor Van Horne has focused his research on issues in corporate finance, valuation, and on the term structure of interest rates. His some 60 articles in finance, economic, and management journals often involve empirical inquiry. He is the author of five books, three of which - Financial Management and Policy, 12th edition; Financial Market Rates and Flows, 6th edition; and Fundamentals of Financial Management, 12th edition, (coauthor) - have been widely used as texts in the U.S.A. and abroad. In addition, he has written 24 cases used in MBA courses in the school. [View Profile]
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Jeffrey H. Zwiebel
Associate Professor of Finance and Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jeffrey Zwiebel’s research focuses on the fields of corporate finance, organizations, the theory of the firm, and microeconomic theory. Particular topics of research interest include financial contracting, bargaining theory, intrafirm bargaining, contract theory, organizational design, political and social belief formation, corporate governance, executive compensation, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, corporate valuation, and the economics of sports. [View Profile]
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 The Financial Management Program gives more exposure to corporate finance and a better understanding of value in communicating and effectively marketing with Wall Street. The program also offers insights in hedging LBOs.
William D. Martin
Vice President and General Manager
Agilent Technologies
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