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Finance Interest Group
The finance faculty in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration seek to contribute to the school’s mission by making significant research contributions to the field of finance, disseminating knowledge through quality teaching, and influencing business practice.
The research strength of the finance faculty is concentrated in the area of empirical corporate finance, with distinct competencies in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, capital structure and equity issuance, and corporate restructurings. The group also has expertise and research interests outside of corporate finance in the areas of market microstructure, risk management, and asset pricing. For the period 1991-2005, the finance faculty ranked 55th in the world in terms of publications in the top four academic finance journals Members of the finance faculty currently serve or have served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Corporate Finance, Finance India, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, The Financial Review, Review of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Multinational Financial Management.
The Finance Interest Group offers a broad range of courses at the undergraduate, MBA, and PhD levels. Students consistently give these finance courses high marks, both in terms of quality of teaching and relevance of class material, on their annual evaluation forms. In recent years, our faculty has won teaching awards both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Employers who hire Pitt Business students express praise for the level of knowledge that our finance majors demonstrate.
We are currently constructing a financial analysis lab. Construction is scheduled to get underway in the 2007-2008 academic year!
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Finance Course Abstracts
MBA Finance Curricular Tracks
Our curricular tracks focus you early in your MBA career and help you identify the competencies sought by industry leaders and human resources professionals.