Teaching

Currently on reduced teaching schedule

While teaching is no longer my primary occupation, I still teach occasionally. I have taught undergraduate, graduate, and executive-level corporate finance every year since 2014 and graduate portfolio management in 2023. Additional areas of expertise include banking, fixed income, venture capital, and taxes.

Experience

BABSON COLLEGE

  • Managing Portfolios (FIN 7518 – MSF, in person). Spring 2023

Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University

  • Applied Corporate Finance (FINA 6377 – online MBA). Spring 2021 onwards
  • Advanced Financial Management (FINA 4325 – undergraduate corporate finance course required for Finance Majors). Spring 2015-2020
  • Corporate Financial Policies (FINA 6212 – MBA and MSF corporate finance case-based course focused on capital structure). Spring 2019-2020
  • Corporate Finance lecture in the Graduate Finance Certificate Program (executive education). Fall 2019

Columbia Business School (2009-2014)

Teaching assistant for the following courses:

  • Investments
  • Credit Risk
  • Hedge Funds
  • Endowments and Foundations

Student emails

I would like to express my gratitude for such an engaging project. It has inspired me to delve deeper into the field of Managing Portfolios. [Full-time MSF student, FIN 7518 Spring 2023]

Thank you so much for showing us the [Excel] switch function and how to set up a drop-down [menu] in class yesterday.  I would love to practice and experiment with these further. [Online MBA student, FINA 6377, Fall 2022]

Not only did you take the online learning situation and run with it, but you were the only professor I had that managed to encourage and foster a conversation amongst the class during this tough situation. … the writing exercises were probably the best real-world applicable experience I have had in the classroom for a finance class yet.
[Full-time MBA student, FINA 6212 Spring 2020]

[B]y far the most enjoyable and real-world applicable class that I took during my MBA.  I really enjoyed the way you taught it by teaching the concepts behind what we were doing so that we could practice those in the cases and then you worked through the cases to provide insight into the ways we could approach each concept more efficiently.  It saddens me that you are leaving … you were definitely my favorite teacher.
[Full-time MBA student, FINA 6212 Spring 2020]

[T]hank you … for being the most responsible teacher during this whole coronavirus situation: you had clear expectations and tried to make the class as similar to our real-life classes as possible.
[Undergraduate student, FINA 4325 Spring 2020]

I was sad to see that you are leaving SMU; your class was one of my favorites! […] X still talks about how thankful she is for your class since it helped her at her Superday with <top bank>, where she will be working full-time in IB. She is forever grateful to you teaching DCF because it helped her solve some insane quantitative analysis problem that people in the office still talk about since she was the only one who could do it.
[Undergraduate student, FINA 4325 Spring 2018]

Maiden Lane

Professor,

B. and I are in New York visiting a few banks. Saw this [photo on right] and thought of you and the Fed balance sheet!
[Undergraduate students, FINA 4325 Spring 2017 – Maiden Lane is the name of something that has been on the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet for a long time.]

I miss our chats in your office. Corporate finance, tenure, bonds being issued at a premium.
[Undergraduate student, FINA 4325 Spring 2017. Working for top consulting firm at time of writing]