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Finance
In today’s fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment, corporations keep a keen eye on successful management of their finances. Leaders excelling in financial management and risk management will continue to be cornerstones of the corporate hierarchy, whether securing financing for future investment opportunities; selecting the right portfolio of investments from a vast universe of opportunities; or deciding how profits will be used to sustain long-term financial success.
Fisher College of Business faculty, expert in a variety of areas in finance, provide our MBAs a broad range of specialized electives, so that each student can tailor his or her specific focus within the field.
Featured Faculty
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Bernadette Minton
Financial policy
Professor Bernadette Minton teaches different courses in finance, one of the most popular being "Fixed Income Securities," that is a perfect fit for MBAs who plan a career in financial services, banking, consulting, or portfolio management.
Dr. Minton is an outstanding Fisher professor with various teaching awards, including the college's prestigious Pace Setter Award. Her research includes various issues in the finance world, such as corporate risk management, corporate financial policy, and CEO turnover.
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PhD
University of Chicago
Teaching
Professor Minton’s elective course, "Fixed Income Securities," is a top-notch course that enables Fisher MBAs to grasp core corporate bond and portfolio management concepts, from yield curve models to fixed income valuation and hedging methods.
Research
Professor Minton’s research focuses on the field of empirical corporate finance, in which she concentrates on two main areas: corporate risk management and derivatives; and corporate governance and financial policy. Her research has been published by top journals in the world of finance, including the Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics. Minton holds several awards, for both distinguished research and teaching, including Fisher College of Business Pace Setter Awards for excellence in business education.
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Darren Roulstone
Accounting
Professor Darren Roulstone came to Fisher from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. His core course, "Financial Accounting and Reporting," provides in-depth insight to the combination of strategy and financial statement information and forecasts for valuation.
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PhD
University of Michigan
Teaching
Professor Roulstone’s Financial Accounting and Reporting class is considered one of the strongest core courses that MBA students take during their first quarter at Fisher. The class offers an excellent introduction and overview of today’s hot topics in financial reporting.
Research
Professor Roulstone’s current research interests examine how security analysts affect a firm’s information environment; how short sellers help predict mergers and acquisitions; and how investors use Google search to request information about firms. His work has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics and The Accounting Review. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting Research and The Accounting Review and referees for a number of accounting and finance journals.
Getting to know Professor Roulstone
What books are you reading right now?
Lately, just technical stuff for work however when I get a chance it enjoy reading about popular science and history.
What do you enjoy most about working at Fisher?
Colleagues, the environment at a major research university, and the quality of life in the Columbus area.
What is your favorite thing to do or place to go in Columbus?
Enjoying local parks and swimming pools with my family.
What is your favorite travel destination?
My hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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René M. Stulz
Risk management
Fisher's preeminent financial economist and risk management expert, Professor René M. Stulz helped develop the MBA program's risk management curriculum to ensure students have a sound understanding of the strengths and limitations of financial models for measuring risk
Stulz recently was a part of a group of 15 leading economists that provided a long-term plan for financial regulation reform in in The Squam Lake Report.
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PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching
René Stulz’s elective course, "Risk Management and Financial Engineering," is extremely popular with our MBA students. It provides premier insights from an expert who is sought after by both corporations and academia alike. In addition to teaching MBA students, Professor Stulz teaches in executive development programs worldwide and consults for major corporations, the New York Stock Exchange, the IMF, and the World Bank. He has provided testimony before Congress, is a director of several companies, the president of the Gamma Foundation, and a trustee of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
Research
René M. Stulz was the editor of the Journal of Finance, the leading academic publication in the field of finance, for 12 years. He is on the editorial board of more than 10 academic and practitioner journals. Further, he is a member of the Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance Programs and the director of the Risk of Financial Institutions Group of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
He has published more than 60 papers in finance and economics journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Finance, and the Review of Financial Studies. His published research deals with topics such as the valuation discount of conglomerates, the gains from acquisitions, the benefits and costs of leverage, spinoffs and asset sales, the determinants of liquid asset holdings of firms, secured debt, bank loans, the pricing of exotic options, credit risks, the cost of capital, managerial ownership, the market for corporate control, corporate governance, the performance of firms issuing debt and equity, the determinants of firm capital structures and liquid asset holdings, the use of derivatives in risk management, capital flows, and financial globalization. He is the author of a textbook titled "Risk Management and Derivatives" and has edited several books, including the "Handbook of the Economics of Finance."
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Karen Hopper Wruck
Organizational economics
Karen Wruck is a dean’s distinguished professor and professor of finance. She is also Associate Dean for Fisher’s Graduate Programs. Wruck joined Fisher in 1999. Prior to this time, she was on the faculty of Harvard Business School. Her excellence in research, teaching and leadership has all received recognition.
A number of her papers are recognized “all star” papers by the Journal of Financial Economics, she has won numerous teaching awards and received the The Bostic-Georges Faculty Service Award for exemplary leadership at the college.
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PhD
University of Rochester
Teaching
Professor Karen Wruck teaches "Managerial Economics," a class that provides an excellent first year kick-off for Fisher MBAs. Considered one of the most respected courses at Fisher, it enables students to deal with challenging business problems in a discussion-oriented setting. Dr. Wruck also teaches an upper level finance elctive, "Advanced Corporate Finance," which focuses on complex financial transactions and combines cutting-edge, knowledge-based research with analysis and discussion of real-life cases.
Having taught at top business schools such as Harvard and Rochester before joining Fisher, Professor Wruck has received multiple awards for teaching excellence, including Outstanding Core Faculty in the Full-Time Fisher MBA Program and the Westerbeck Graduate Teaching Award.
Research
Professor Wruck’s research is focuses on important issues in corporate finance and organizational economics; specifically, corporate governance and management compensation, acquisitions and divestitures, restructuring and financial distress. Dr. Wruck has given research presentations at numerous universities, including Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Northwestern University.
She has also presented at professional gatherings, including meetings of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work has appeared in well-known publications, including the Journal of Financial Economics, which recognized her papers as "all-star" and many others, such as the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and the Journal of Labor Economics.
Getting to know Professor Wruck
What books are you reading right now?
I am reading The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chodron. It provides very interesting perspectives on human behavior and possibilities for growth and development.
What do you enjoy most about working at Fisher?
The people and the sense of community. Fisher has a combination of excellence, caring and cooperation that I find rare and valuable.
What is your favorite thing to do or place to go in Columbus?
Easton for shopping and lunch with my daughters. Any one of the many great metroparks in Columbus for biking or hiking with my daughters and our dogs.
What is your favorite travel destination?
I don’t have a favorite travel destination, but we love to travel as a family as often as we get a chance. Any place with a great beach and/or hiking and kayaking is a popular choice.
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Andrew Van Buskirk
Financial reporting and disclosures
Professor Andrew Van Buskirk recently joined Fisher after teaching at the University of Chicago. He currently teaches the "Financial State Analysis" elective course. With a background as a CPA and senior auditor and consultant at Arthur Anderson, he provides insight on applying accounting rules to gain a deeper understanding of the business behind financial statements.
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PhD
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching
Professor Van Buskirk teaches the "Financial Statement Analysis" course which brings together accounting, finance, and strategy to explore financial statements. The class allows students to take the accounting rules that they learned in core courses and apply them to better understand the businesses behind the financial statements.
Research
Professor Van Buskirk’s research focuses on how firms disclose information, and how investors respond to those disclosures. In a recent paper, he analyzed the text of firms’ earnings announcements and used software to measure how optimistic or pessimistic those announcements were.
The research found that firms issuing unreasonably optimistic disclosures were more likely to be sued by shareholders, which means that shareholders are holding managers accountable not just for getting the numbers right, but also for how they characterize their results and outlook with qualitative language. He has had several articles published in the Journal of Accounting.
Getting to know Professor Van Buskirk
What books are you reading right now?
Some books I’ve recently read are Fischer Black’s biography by Perry Mehrling; "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" by Mike Brown; and "Scorecasting" by Toby Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim. I’m looking forward to reading "Popular Crime" by Bill James (famous for his work on baseball).
What do you enjoy most about working at Fisher?
I enjoy the collegiality and working with genuinely nice people. I also like how the school is so integrated with the surrounding community – people I meet seem excited when they find out that I work at Ohio State.
What is your favorite thing to do or place to go in Columbus?
I’ve been in Columbus for less than a year and have three young kids. So far, the place I go most often is the Columbus Zoo. My favorite animals to see at the zoo are the gorillas.
What is your favorite travel destination?
My favorite vacation was a trip to Hawaii with my wife in 2005. I can’t wait to go back.
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