Leading Through Financial Excellence

Experienced Faculty

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  Paul Asquith

  Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management

  Professor Paul Asquith is a specialist in corporate finance and a media source for the field of corporate finance and control, including mergers, dividend policy, financial distress, and market efficiency. MIT Sloan program students have recognized Asquith with 13 Teaching Excellence Awards.

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  Paul Asquith

  Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management

  Professor Paul Asquith is a specialist in corporate finance and a media source for the field of corporate finance and control, including mergers, dividend policy, financial distress, and market efficiency. MIT Sloan program students have recognized Asquith with 13 Teaching Excellence Awards.

  An empiricist, Asquith investigates applied problems using real-world data. His most recent research examines analysts’ forecasts and market efficiency.

  Asquith holds a BA in economics from Michigan State University as well as an AM and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

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  Antoinette Schoar

  Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management

  Antoinette Schoar holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Germany. Her research interests span from entrepreneurial finance to fintech, consumer finance, and financial intermediation. She has received several awards including the Kauffman Prize Medal …

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  Antoinette Schoar

  Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management

  Antoinette Schoar holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Germany. Her research interests span from entrepreneurial finance to fintech, consumer finance, and financial intermediation. She has received several awards including the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and the Brattle Prize for best paper in The Journal of Finance.

  Schoar is the co-chair of the NBER Corporate Finance group. She has served as an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

  Schoar’s current research focuses on the areas of consumer finance, entrepreneurial finance, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology as well as new financial technologies. Some of her ongoing projects investigate competition in credit card markets, applications of behavioral economics to consumer finance and cryptocurrency trading, governance of proof of stake and proof of work blockchains, and decentralized finance (DeFi). She is also the executive editor of the Journal of Finance, the co-chair of the NBER Corporate Finance group, and a co-founder of ideas42, a non-profit that uses insights from behavioral economics and psychology to solve social problems.

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  Jake Cohen

  Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Master’s Programs, MIT Sloan School of Management

  Jake Cohen oversees MIT Sloan’s portfolio of degree programs, as well as the Offices of Admissions, Student Life, and Career Development. He is responsible for setting strategy for undergraduate and Master’s programs, including the new Master of Business Analytics program.

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  Jake Cohen

  Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Master’s Programs, MIT Sloan School of Management

  Jake Cohen oversees MIT Sloan’s portfolio of degree programs, as well as the Offices of Admissions, Student Life, and Career Development. He is responsible for setting strategy for undergraduate and Master’s programs, including the new Master of Business Analytics program.

  Cohen teaches financial accounting to Master of Finance and Executive Education students, as well as Israel Lab, the newest addition to MIT Sloan’s portfolio of Action Learning programs.

  From 2008 to 2011, Cohen was the dean of the MBA Program at INSEAD, directing strategy and operations for campuses in France, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi. Under his leadership, INSEAD expanded its degree programs and received its highest rankings ever among business school MBA programs. Prior to his academic career, Cohen worked as an accountant at KPMG LLP in Philadelphia, and as a mergers and acquisition consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in New York City. As an academic, he has consulted for a number of organizations, including BCG, Bain, Blackstone, ArcelorMittal, Schlumberger, Bel, Accenture, and BMO Capital.