Michael Weisbach

Background

Michael S. Weisbach is the Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance, as well as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has previously taught at the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, and the University of Arizona. Professor Weisbach is a former editor of The Review of Financial Studies, one of the leading academic journals in finance, and has been an associate editor of five other academic journals. Professor Weisbach has broadranging research and teaching interests in finance and economics, with specialties in corporate finance, corporate governance, and private equity. He has 48 publications on these and related topics. His work has been cited over 26,000 times according to Google Scholar, and has been downloaded from SSRN.COM over 64,000 times.

Courses

BUSFIN 7216 Private Equity

Theories of and applications in buyouts and private equity transactions. Prereq or concur: MBA 6221, 6222, or 810. Not open to students with credit for 845.

BUSFIN 4216 Private Equity

Private equity funds are responsible for a large percentage of merger activity both inside and outside the U.S. The venture capital portion of the private equity industry has provided financing for most of the prominent new companies that have gone public in recent years. Prereq: 4211, 4221, and 4229.