More than 50 professors and PhD students representing 19 universities attended the 2010 Rising Stars Finance Conference at Rensselaer. The conference, co-hosted by Rensslaer’s Lally School and NYU’s Stern School of Business, takes place every two years and honors some of the most promising young scholars in the world in Finance.
Members of the Scientific Committee with Rensselaer Provost Dr. Robert Palazzo. L to R: Dr. Iftekhar Hasan, Lally/RPI; Dr. Franklin Allen, Wharton/UPenn; Dr. Bill Francis, Lally/RPI; Dr. Robert Palazzo, Provost, RPI; Dr. Kose John, Stern/NYU
Rensselaer Provost Dr. Robert Palazzo presented the awards to four “rising stars”:
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Dr. Murillo Campello, Allen J. and Joyce D. Baltz Professor of Finance, College of Business, University of Illinois
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Dr. Philip E. Strahan, Collins Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College
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Dr. Christopher A. Hennessy, Professor of Finance, London Business School
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Dr. Jeffrey Wurgler, Nomura Professor of Finance, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
The Scientific Committee organizing the Conference included Dr. Iftekhar Hasan, Cary L. Wellington Professor of Finance, Lally School of Management & Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dr. Kose John, Charles William Gerstenberg Professor of Banking and Finance, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University; Dr. Franklin Allen, Nippon Life Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, Co-Director, Financial Institutions Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Jeremy Stein, Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Dr. Bill Francis, Professor of Finance, Lally School of Management & Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dr. Sheridan Titman, Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services, Professor, Department of Finance, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin.
Rising Star Award recipients with conference hosts:
Dr. Murillo Campello, University of Illinois; Dr. Iftekhar Hasan, Lally
School, RPI; Dr. Christopher Hennessy, London Business School;
Dr. Philip Strahan, Carroll School, Boston College; Dr. Jeffrey Wurgler,
Stern School, NYU; Dr. Kose John, Stern School, NYU.