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Faculty Profile
Gordon Phillips received his
MA and PhD from Harvard
University and his undergraduate
degree from Northwestern
University. He is a professor at
the University of Maryland and a
research associate at the
National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER). He also has
been a visiting professor at MIT
and Duke University.
His areas of research include
corporate finance and how financial
decisions impact firms' strategic
decisions, mergers and acquisitions,
and contracting in futures and
forward oil markets. His work in
corporate finance includes studies
of private equity issuance, capital
structure, Chapter 11 bankruptcy,
how leverage buyouts and other forms
of high debt influence a firms' and
rivals' investment decisions. Recent
research published in the Journal of
Finance has been on how firms
organize across multiple markets and
on the gains from mergers and
acquisitions. He recently presented
the keynote address on PIPEs
(private investment in public
equity) to an audience of executives
and finance professionals. He has
served or is currently serving as an
associate editor at the Review
of Financial Studies, Journal of
Corporate Finance and
Journal of Financial Research.
At Maryland, he has taught the
first-year core MBA finance course,
an advanced second year corporate
finance course and introductory and
advanced PhD courses. He has also
taught executive MBA courses in
introductory and advanced finance.
He has received the Krowe and Wikler
teaching awards for teaching
excellence in the MBA program.
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