Greg La Blanc

At Haas, Greg La Blanc teaches primarily in the areas of finance and strategy in the MBA and MFE programs and in Executive Education. La Blanc has also worked in competitive intelligence and litigation consulting and has advised consulting teams in finance, marketing, and strategy. His research interests lie at the intersection of law, finance, and psychology, in the area of business strategy and risk management. La Blanc is the recipient of teaching awards including the Earl F. Cheit Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2009; and the Haas EWMBA Graduate Instructor of the year, 2004-2005.

La Blanc received a B.A. (History, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) and a B.S. Economics (Business Administration) from the University of Pennsylvania, where he continued his education as a University Scholar and graduate fellow, studying in the schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, and Law. He later pursued a J.D. at the George Mason University and an L.L.M at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. La Blanc has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in all areas of business. Prior to arriving at the Haas School in 2005, La Blanc taught at Wharton, Duke, and the University of Virginia.

Greg La Blanc serves as Faculty Director for the following Custom Programs:

• Cisco Data Science Program
• IAB Bolashak, Kazakhstan
• Kazakh Railways - Capital Education Program
• SACRS Public Pension Investment Management
• Sberbank Advances in Risk Management and Risk Modeling
• Trustee Workshop for National Council on Teacher Retirement

Awards & Honors

• UC Berkeley Presidential Teaching Fellow, 2009
• Earl F. Cheit Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2009
• Haas EWMBA Core Graduate Instructor of the year, 2004-2005
• John Olin Fellow, Boalt Hall, U of California, Berkeley, 2004-2005
• Robert Levy Fellow in Law and Economics, George Mason University School of Law, 1996-1999
• Mellon Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
• University Scholar, University of Pennsylvania