Corporate Finance (12th Edition) – Ross/Westerfield/Jaffe/Jordan – eBook

About The Author

Bradford Jordan

Dr. Bradford D. Jordan holds the esteemed position of Professor of Finance and the Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair in Finance at the Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky. He earned both his BSBA and PhD in Finance from the University of Florida. Joining Gatton College in 1997, Dr. Jordan previously taught at the University of Georgia and the University of Missouri. A recognized expert in financial asset valuation and corporate finance, he has authored numerous articles in prestigious finance journals and has garnered multiple research awards. Dr. Jordan is the coauthor of the widely utilized textbooks Fundamentals of Corporate Finance and Essentials of Corporate Finance, as well as Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management. Additionally, he serves as an associate editor for Financial Review and The Journal of Financial Research, and is a former President of the Southern Finance Association.

Jeffrey Jaffe

Dr. Jeffrey F. Jaffe is currently an Associate Professor of Finance and the Wharton School of Business, University of Penn. He has been at the Wharton school since 1973.

Dr. Jaffer got his BA from the University of Chicago in 1968, MBA, in 1971 and Ph.D. in 1972, also from the University of Chicago. He got numerous awards including the Outstanding Professor Award, Evening School in 1990.

Randolph Westerfield

Dr. Randolph W. Westerfield serves as the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Finance and is the Dean Emeritus of the USC Marshall School of Business. Prior to his tenure at USC, he spent over two decades at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he held the position of chairman of the finance department and was a distinguished member of the finance faculty.

Stephen Ross

Professor Stephen A. Ross is presently the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. One of the most widely published authors in economics and finance, Dr. Ross is recognized for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research in agency theory, signaling, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, Ross currently serves as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He is a director of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), a trustee of CalTech, and Freddie Mac. He is also the co-chairman of Roll and Ross Asset Management Corporation.