Booth Gives Out Inaugural Eugene Fama Prize
Authors John Campbell, Andrew Lo and A. Craig MacKinlay won Chicago Booth’s first Eugene Fama Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Education for their book The Econometrics of Financial Markets. The winners will receive a $250,000 prize at a one-day conference and dinner celebrating Fama’s five decades of teaching at Chicago Booth. Continue reading…
Smith School Alum Talks Transformational Leadership
Donna Blackman, EMBA ’10, manages people around the clock—at work she heads a team of 60 finance professionals. Back at home she’s a mother of two. Hard to say which is harder, but Blackman does not claim to have a secret recipe for work-life balance. Continue reading…
Marshall to Offer Understanding Finance and Accounting Exec. Ed. Course
USC Marshall School of Business will be offering the executive education online course “Understanding Finance and Accounting” for Managers in marketing, sales, production, engineering, R&D, human resources and others who wish to know about more about accounting and finance.
The course will equip non-financial managers with the financial knowledge necessary to communicate more effectively with financial managers, analyze financial statements and understand how they relate, interpret a company’s profitability, solvency and liquidity, explore the sources and costs of capital and the factors of investment decisions and learn valuation principles and their impact on the value drivers of the firm.
Pace Center for Corporate Governance Welcomes Former CFO of Fidelity Investments
On July 30, the Center for Global Governance, Reporting, and Regulation at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business named Robert J. Chersi as Advisor to the Executive Director. He will play a significant role in expanding the Center’s offerings, from sponsored conferences to special programming. His expertise will also help to expand the Center’s course coverage to non-banking financial institutions.
Chersi, a Pace University alumnus, began his career as a CPA and ultimately moved up to become the CFO and a Member of the Executive Committee of Fidelity Investments. Over the course of his thirty year career, he gained wide experience with finance and risk management, which he will now bring to the Lubin community.
The Center for Global Governance, Reporting, and Regulation was originally called the Center for the Study of International Accounting, but gradually shifted its academic focus and evolved into its current form. It focuses on global financing standards, funding research and offering programs and courses devoted to this area of study. One such program is the Certified Compliance Regulatory Professional (CCRP), the curriculum of which covers all the latest aspects of both U.S. and foreign regulation, with two new modules covering securities law and regulations as a result of the new Consumer Protection Act. In the past, the Center has also hosted yearly forums on contemporary accounting issues.
Lubin’s Professional MBA program offers concentrations in both Accounting and Taxation which draw from the expertise of the Center.
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