Robert S. Harris

Robert S. Harris is the C. Stewart Sheppard Professor of Business at the Darden School.  He has served as Darden's Dean and prior to that as Chief Learning Officer and Vice President of United Technologies Corporation.  His research has focused on corporate finance, financial markets and mergers and acquisitions and has been widely published in leading academic and practitioner journals in finance and economics.  He has been a visiting scholar at London Business School, Oxford University (England) and the University of Otago (New Zealand) and recipient of research and teaching awards.  In addition to teaching for undergraduate, graduate and executive audiences, he has authored financial textbooks, computer tutorials and dozens of business cases and teaching notes.  Harris has been an active consultant and advisor to corporations and government agencies and held a range of offices in professional societies.  Harris earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) from Davidson College and a doctorate in economics from Princeton University.  Before joining the Darden faculty, Harris was on the faculties of the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler School, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.