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.
David Hillier
Professor David Hillier is the Associate Principal and Executive Dean of the University of Strathclyde Business School, overseeing resources for teaching, research, and knowledge transfer. A finance professor and author of prominent finance textbooks, he ranks among the top 3% of finance researchers globally. He holds a PhD from Strathclyde and became a full professor in 2002. Hillier has consulted for the World Bank, NHS, and various organizations while teaching internationally. His research has garnered over £650,000 in funding from multiple global entities since 2000.
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 currently holds the esteemed position of Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. As one of the most prolific contributors to the fields of economics and finance, Dr. Ross is renowned for his pioneering development of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory. His substantial research has greatly advanced various areas, including agency theory, signaling, option pricing, and the term structure of interest rates, among others. A former president of the American Finance Association, he actively serves as an associate editor for numerous academic and practitioner journals. Furthermore, Ross is a director of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF) and a trustee for both CalTech and Freddie Mac. In addition, he co-chairs Roll and Ross Asset Management Corporation.
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