Faculty Spotlight: Booth’s Robert Gertner

Robert H. Gertner is the Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Strategy and Finance and Deputy Dean for the Part-Time MBA Programs at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Gertner teaches courses in strategic decision-making, entrepreneurial strategy, and social entrepreneurship. He teaches three courses, one in the Spring, Winter and Summer respectively: New Social Ventures, Global New Venture Challenge I.

According to his profile on the Booth website, Gertner has been a faculty member at the school since 1986. His research interests include strategic decision-making, corporate finance, organization structure, theory of the firm, and social enterprises. He has published papers in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and the Yale Law Journal. He is co-author, with colleagues Douglas Baird and Randy Picker, of Game Theory and the Law.

Gertner received a National Science Foundation Research Grant, an Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics and was a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has held visiting positions at CEPREMAP in Paris, Cornell Law School, The University of Chicago Law School, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Gertner is a trustee of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, a national organization devoted to large-scale social research in public interest. He is also a board member of the Interfaith Youth Core, and a member of the Evaluation Advisory Council of the Chicago Public Education Fund.

In his spare time, Gertner enjoys photography, cooking, backgammon.

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