Finance

Learn about the finance academic area at Darden, its faculty and its work.

Finance provides insights into the challenges senior managers face in creating value for shareholders and other stakeholders in the firm by focusing on the prudent investment of the firm's capital and the selection of financial policies in support of the firm's long-term strategy.

The study of finance develops the key skill of valuation — of projects, securities, whole firms and of the incremental effect of new policies.

In support of this goal, students master tools and concepts in the structure of capital markets, cost of capital, financial analysis and forecasting, working capital management, capital budgeting, resource allocation, dividend policy, long-term debt policy, selection of specific financial tactics and corporate restructuring.

 

Faculty

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Rus Abuzov

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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Lester F. Alexander III

John Glynn Endowed Professor and Professor of Practice in Business Administration

George (Yiorgos) Allayannis

George (Yiorgos) Allayannis

Robert F. Bruner Distinguished Professor of Business Administration

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Ian Appel

Associate Professor of Business Administration

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Robert F. Bruner

University Emeritus Professor, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Business Administration
Dean Emeritus of the Darden School of Business

Robert M. Conroy

Robert M. Conroy

J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Business Administration

Kenneth M. Eades

Kenneth M. Eades

Professor Emeritus of Business Administration

Richard B. Evans

Richard B. Evans

Professor of Business Administration
Donald McLean Wilkinson Research Chair in Business Administration

Robert S. Harris

Robert S. Harris

C. Stewart Sheppard Professor of Business Administration

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Christoph Herpfer

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Michael J. Ho

Professor of Practice

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Marc L. Lipson

Robert F. Vandell Professor of Business Administration

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Elena Loutskina

Professor of Business Administration
Peter M. Grant II Bicentennial Foundation Chair in Business Administration
Academic Director of Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management

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Pedro Matos

James A. and Stacy Cooper Bicentennial Professor of Business Administration
John G. Macfarlane Family Chair
Academic Director of Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management

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Matthew McBrady

Professor of Practice

Michael Schill

Michael J. Schill

Sponsors Professor of Business Administration

William W. Sihler

William W. Sihler

Ronald Edward Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration Emeritus

Davide Tomio

Davide Tomio

Assistant Professor of Business Administration