Finance at Ross
The Finance Department at the Ross School of Business seeks to contribute
to the school’s mission of leading in thought and action by making
fundamental contributions to the field of finance, by disseminating that
knowledge through our teaching, and by creating an impact on business
practice. We are widely recognized as one the premier finance groups in
the world.
The Ross Finance faculty’s research interests cover a broad range
of topics, including corporate finance, asset pricing, financial intermediation,
and real estate. The faculty’s research is regularly published in
top journals and has won numerous awards. Our faculty members have served
on the editorial boards of several top journals and are very visible by
their participation in the leading finance and economics conferences.
Our research continues to have significant impact on the practice of Finance.
The Finance Department offers an extensive array of courses at the BBA,
MBA, and Ph.D levels, covering topics in corporate finance, investments,
banking, venture capital and private equity, and real estate. Finance
electives are some of the most popular electives at Ross. We strive to
offer courses that are relevant to the real world in order to help our
students to be successful in their chosen careers.
Resources
The Center
for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance, part of the Samuel
Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, presents
Michigan Growth
Capital Symposium each spring. The conference continues to be the
Midwest's leading conference where hundreds of cutting-edge technology
entrepreneurs and the best venture capitalists in the region and nationwide
make invaluable connections. A carefully screened group of companies,
representing industries ranging from information technology, life sciences,
alternative energy, and nanotechnology, present for an audience of venture
capitalists, angel investors and institutional investors.
The John
R. and Georgene M. Tozzi Finance Center, founded in 2003, is a state-of-the-art
learning facility that supports action-based learning. The 5,800-square-foot
building includes a financial analysis and trading floor classroom, a flexible
and wireless electronic classroom and an E-lab seminar room. It is equipped
with the latest in live financial data feeds, information services, research
tools and trading tools to allow students to experience the look and feel
of a real trading floor environment.
The Mitsui
Life Financial Research Center, established in 1990 and supported
by the Mitsui Life Insurance Company and Ross School of Business, encourages
and supports academic research in finance. The Center addresses a wide
range of financial issues relevant to academics and practitioners alike
by hosting visiting scholars and researchers from Asia and serving as
an academic bridge to the United States. |
