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
Rus Abuzov
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Lester F. Alexander III
John Glynn Endowed Professor and Professor of Practice in Business Administration
George (Yiorgos) Allayannis
Robert F. Bruner Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Ian Appel
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Academic Director of Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management
John G. Macfarlane Family Chair
Robert F. Bruner
University Emeritus Professor, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Business Administration
Dean Emeritus of the Darden School of Business
Shuaiyu Chen
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Robert M. Conroy
J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
Ramona Dagostino
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Kenneth M. Eades
Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
Richard B. Evans
Senior Associate Dean for Research Services and Support
Professor of Business Administration
C. Stewart Sheppard Professor of Business Administration
Paul Freed
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Robert S. Harris
C. Stewart Sheppard Professor of Business Administration
Christoph Herpfer
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Michael J. Ho
Professor of Practice
Marc L. Lipson
Robert F. Vandell Professor of Business Administration
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
Pedro Matos
James A. and Stacy Cooper Bicentennial Professor of Business Administration
Matthew McBrady
Professor of Practice
Michael J. Schill
Sponsors Professor of Business Administration
