Welcome to the Department of Finance!
The Department of Finance has the second largest number of undergraduate majors in the Fox School of Business and the largest number of MBA students selecting this field as an area of concentration.
The Department has 21 full-time faculty members who hold doctorates from many of the top business schools in the United States. Research productivity is very high, and faculty research consistently appears in such highly ranked academic and applied business journals as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Derivatives. The Journal of Economics and Business is edited by faculty members Ken Kopecky, Jay Choi and Elyas Elyasiani.
What's New
- Welcome to Yan Li (PhD, Cornell), Yuanzhi Li (PhD, NYU), and Oleg Rytchkov (PhD, MIT).
- Lalitha Naveen is the new coordinator for all Masters programs in the department (MS Finance, and MSFE).
- Jonathan Scott was named managing director of the newly-formed William C. Dunkelberg Owl Fund. He will supervise the student members of the Temple University Investment Association who manage this investment fund.
- Bruce Rader was named faculty advisor to the Rho Epsilon Real Estate Fraternity
Awards and Events
- The Finance Department was recently ranked fourth in research productivity by Academic Analytics.
- Howard Keen was awarded the FMA Outstanding Teacher Award for the 2008-2009 academic year.
- John Soss was awarded the Fox International MBA Faculty of the Year in 2009.
- Congratulations to Steve Kamp on guiding the FMA chapter to a Superior Chapter Award for the fifth year in a row and Gold Membership Development for the fifth year in a row. Professor Kamp was also named a Superior Faculty Advisor for the third year in a row.
- The third annual Mid Atlantic Research Conference was held in Alter Hall in March 2009. Elyas Elyasiani co-organized this conference that was attended by 52 faculty members of local universities.
Our Mission
Our
mission is consistent with the School’s mission: to provide a
gateway to opportunity and prosperity for all students with the talent
and determination to succeed, particularly those of lesser financial
means. To ensure that all of our students – undergraduate,
masters’ and doctoral – acquire the tools and perspective
that provide them with a competitive edge in a global market, we are
committed to these themes:
- Target research for the top three journals in finance as well as the leading journals in all the sub-fields of finance.
- Adopt instructional methodologies that will improve students’ learning, without losing focus on the need for a rigorous understanding of the underlying core principles of finance.
- Actively review the curriculum at all levels and modify as necessary to ensure that students in all programs have the skills to be competitive in their respective job markets.
- Provide the highest quality assistance to and oversight of undergraduate finance and real estate majors, masters’ finance majors, and PhD students in finance.
- Forge links with the primary employers of our undergraduate and masters’ students to provide curriculum feedback and to enhance the opportunities for employment and applied research in the major industries of the greater Philadelphia area.