Robert F. Bruner holds the position of dean of the Darden School, Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. He was appointed dean on August 1, 2005. His areas of teaching, research and writing have been corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, investing in emerging markets, financial crises and innovation. His latest book, The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm, with Sean D. Carr, was published in 2007. Published in 2005, Deals from Hell, focuses on failure in mergers and acquisitions. He also wrote Applied Mergers and Acquisitions, published in 2004. Bruner's research has been published in journals such as Financial Management, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Industrial corporations, financial institutions and government agencies have retained him for counseling and training. He has been on the faculty of the Darden School since 1982 and has been a visiting professor at various schools including Columbia, INSEAD and IESE. Formerly he was a loan officer and investment analyst for First Chicago Corporation. He holds the B.A. degree from Yale University and the MBA. and DBA degrees from Harvard University. He has served the Darden School, professional groups and community organizations in various positions of leadership. Copies of his papers and essays may be obtained from his website, http://faculty.darden.virginia.edu/brunerb/.