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Forbes ranks Broad MBA at #32

Forbes magazine has just released its biennial ranking of MBA programs, placing the Broad MBA at #32, based on 5-year salary gain. The Broad School ranks #13 in 5-year percentage gain in salary and #13 in “years until payback,” both of which are considered to be indicators of the strong value of the program.

For more on the ranking, click here.

Finance Research Seminars - Academic Year 2006/2007

All Seminars in N106 from 1:30-3:00 Unless Otherwise Noted


Date Speaker Paper
Sept. 8 Amy Dittmar,
U. Michigan		 To be or not to be public: Using going private transactions to examine why firms go public (with Sreedhar Bharath)
Sept. 15    
Sept. 22    
Sept. 29 Tom Noe,
Tulane University		 Learning to bid: The design of auctions under uncertainty and adaptation (with M. Rebello and J. Wang)
Oct. 6 Zoran Ivkovich,
U. Illinois		 "Old" money matters: The sensitivity of mutual fund redemption decisions to past performance (with S. Weisbenner)
Oct. 13 David Ikenberry,
U. Illinois		 Share repurchases as a tool to mislead investors: Evidence from earnings quality and stock performance (with K. Chan, I. Lee, and Y. Wang)
Oct. 20    
Oct. 27 Michael Lemmon,
U. Utah		 Board classification and managerial entrenchment: Evidence from the market for corporate control (with T. Bates and D. Becher)
Nov. 3    
Nov. 10 Huseyin Gulen,
Virginia Tech/ Visiting U.Mich.		 What explains the cross-section of stock returns? Exploring the asset growth effect (with M. Cooper and M. Schill)
Nov. 17 Urs Peyer,
INSEAD/Visiting U. Chicago		 Weak shareholder rights: A product market rationale (with K. Martijn Cremers and V. Nair)
Dec. 1    
Dec. 8 Sudheer Chava,
Texas A&M		 The Effect of Banking Crisis on Bank-Dependent Borrowers (with A. Purnanandam)
March 30 Sudip Datta,
Wayne State		 Executive Compensation and Internal Capital Market Efficiency (with. R. D'Mello and M. Iksander-Datta)
April 6 Atif Mian,
U. Chicago		 Dollars Dollars Everywhere, Not a Dime to Lend: Debt Capacity Constraints and Limited Absorptive Capacity (with A. Khwaja and B. Zia)
April 13 Greg Udell,
Indiana		  
April 20 Hayong Yun,
Notre Dame