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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
Insead (France) 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
includes studies of private equity
issuance, capital structure, Chapter
11 bankruptcy, and how leverage
buyouts and other forms of high debt
influence a firms' and rivals'
investment decisions. Recent
research published in the Journal
of Finance, the Journal of
Financial Economics and the
Review of Financial Studies has
been on real and financial industry
booms and busts, on how firms
organize across multiple markets and
on the gains from mergers and
acquisitions. His
research has been supported by three
separate grants from the National
Science Foundation (NSF).
He has presented keynote
addresses to the Brazilian Finance
Association, the Norwegian Finance
Association and an to audience of
executives and finance
professionals. He has served or is
currently serving as an associate
editor at the Annals of Finance,
Review of Corporate Finance Studies,
Review of Financial Studies, Journal
of Corporate Finance and Journal
of Financial Research.
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 teaching
award (2 times) and also the Wikler
teaching award for teaching
excellence in the MBA program.
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