Department of Finance

Chair:

Praveen Kumar

Professors:

Hitesh Doshi, Thomas George, Kris Jacobs, Praveen Kumar, R. Richardson Pettit (Emeritus), Craig Pirrong, Paul Povel, Ramon Rabinovitch, Ronald Singer (Emeritus), Stuart Turnbull (Emeritus), Guojun Wu, Vijay Yerramilli

Associate Professors:

Raul Susmel

Assistant Professors:

Rohit Allena, Elizabeth Berger, David De Angelis, Antonio Gargano, Steffen Hitzemann, Zesong Liu, Haaris Mateen, Paolina Medina Palma, Paola Pederzoli

Instructional Assistant Professor:

Masim Suleymanov

Senior Professors of Practice:

John Lopez, Marcus Stewart

Professor of Practice:

Swati Basu, Nick Kapatos, Keith Richards

The Department of Finance (FINA)

offers a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in finance. This major concentrates on an understanding of the financial decisions of corporations, individuals, and nonprofit organizations, offers the Global Energy Management - Professional Program and special tracks in Global Energy Management, Commercial Banking, Personal Financial Planning, Real Estate, and Risk Management and Insurance. The courses focus on analysis and management of risk, costs and benefits of capital budgeting decisions, portfolio management, security analysis, and energy management. The department offers courses dealing with corporate financial management, investment analysis, the operation of institutions, analysis of derivative securities, risk and insurance, real estate finance, and international securities markets.

Programs

• Finance, B.B.A.
• Finance, B.B.A. - Commercial Banking Track and Certificate
• Finance, B.B.A. - Global Energy Management - Professional Program Track and Certificate
• Finance, B.B.A. - Global Energy Management Track and Certificate
• Finance, B.B.A. - Personal Financial Planning Track and Certificate
• Finance, B.B.A. - Real Estate Track and Certificate
• Finance, B.B.A. - Risk Management & Insurance Track and Certificate

• Finance Minor
• Risk Management and Insurance Minor