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Sara B. Moeller
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Office: 360 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-0137
E-mail: sbmoeller@katz.pitt.edu
Degrees
PhD in Finance, Ohio State University
MA (concentration, finance), Ohio State University
MBA (concentration, finance), Ohio State University
BBA in Finance and Economics, University of Iowa
Courses Recently Taught
Business Finance 1311: Corporate Finance, day section
Business Finance 1311: Corporate Finance, evening section
Area
Finance
Profile
Formerly an assistant professor of finance at Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management (2005–07) and Southern Methodist University (1998–2005), Sara B. Moeller has worked extensively with Pitt Associate Professor Frederik P. Schlingemann in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and risk management. The pair has collectively, or with colleague René M. Stulz—the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics, professor of finance, and director of the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics at the Ohio State University’s Max M. Fisher College of Business—published papers in the Journal of Financial Economics (lead article), The Journal of Finance, the Journal of Banking & Finance (lead article), and The Review of Financial Studies and is currently working on a study of internal versus external asset growth.
Moeller, who joins the finance faculty as an associate professor of business administration, tenure stream, earned the Bachelor of Business Administration degree with majors in finance and economics at the University of Iowa’s Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in finance at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Graduate School of Management, and both the Master of Arts (concentration, finance) and a PhD in finance at the Fisher School. As a doctoral student, Moeller served as the copy editor for The Journal of Finance and as a lecturer in corporate finance.
Before her career in academia, Moeller worked as a director of special projects at AJC International, a leader in the marketing of frozen and refrigerated food products, as well as in logistics and logistics services. Moeller managed and reengineered AJC’s international commodity/branded distribution business and implemented a risk management and business segment analysis. From 1986 to1989, she was also a (district) commodity trader for Cargill, Inc., an international provider of food, agricultural, and risk management products and services.
