William Mann
Assistant Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management
Assistant Professor of Finance at Goizueta Business School
Schools
- UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Goizueta Business School
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Biography
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Biography
Assistant Professor of Finance William Mann joined the UCLA Anderson faculty in 2014. He conducts primarily empirical research, focusing on the financing of corporate investment and the real effects of collateral constraints. Mann’s goal in teaching is to help students think logically, using economic principles, when confronted with complex data or terminology.
Mann always knew he would seek a career that allowed him to apply rigorous quantitative techniques to issues of social importance — “being able to put numbers on things that matter,” as he says. “I’m in a numbers-focused field, but finance is also human-focused, in that it reflects people interacting to create wealth, save for the future, and provide for self and family.”
One of his papers investigates companies that use their patent portfolios as collateral to raise debt financing. Mann used data from the U.S. Patent Office to demonstrate that the phenomenon is more common than previously recognized, and the Patent Office subsequently cited this work in a white paper supporting its initiative to make its data more easily accessible. “The Patent Office is very visible, so this recognition was extremely encouraging,” says Mann, who was glad to see his work having an impact outside his specific academic field. Other current projects explore the structure of venture debt contracts, and how government financial aid affects college tuition.
Mann has received research awards from the Western Finance Association and the Wells Fargo Advisors Center for Finance and Accounting Research. He teaches corporate finance in the MBA, FEMBA, and Ph.D. programs at UCLA Anderson.
Education
Ph.D. Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
M.S. Finance, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
B.S. Mathematics and Economics, University of Georgia
Goizueta Business School
William Mann joined the Goizueta Business School faculty in the Fall of 2019 after five years on the faculty of the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles. His research is mostly empirical and focuses on corporate finance, the real effects of collateral constraints, and the value of intangible assets.
Education
- University of Pennsylvania: PhD, MA, Finance 2014
- Vanderbilt University: MS, Finance 2009
- University of Georgia: BS, Mathematics 2008
- University of Georgia: AB, Economics 2008
Employment
- 2019 to present: Assistant Professor of Finance, Emory Goizueta Business School
- 2014 to 2019: Assistant Professor of Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management
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