insider trading, Mergers And Acquisitions
Alice Bonaime joined the Eller College of Management in 2015. Prior to joining Eller, she taught at the University of Kentucky. She earned her PhD in Finance from the University of Florida in 2008. Her research interests include empirical corporate finance, payout policy, insider trading and mergers and acquisitions.
Emerging Markets, Investment Banking, Mergers And Acquisitions, Private Equity, private equity industry, Securities Analysts
Jeff Hooke is a senior finance lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business. Earlier, he was a managing director at Focus, LLC, an investment bank serving middle market companies. Previously, he was a director of Emerging Markets Partnership (a $5 billion private equity fund), a principal investment officer of the World Bank Group, and an investment banker with Lehman Brothers. Hooke has been quoted widely in the business media. He is the author of five books; the most recent book was published in October 2021: The Myth of Private Equity, An Inside Look at Wall Street鈥檚 Transformative Investments鈥 (Columbia University Business School Press). He has co-authored several peer-reviewed academic papers in finance and has written many position papers for non-profit think tanks on a pro bono basis. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BS from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mergers And Acquisitions, Venture Capital
Gordon’s interests focus on entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. His expertise also includes alliances and joint ventures, intellectual property strategy and licensing, and the roles and operations of board of directors. Gordon is frequently quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and other outlets. He teaches entrepreneurial studies and strategy topics. He holds a BA in economics from Bucknell University and a JD from The Albany Law School of Union University.
Corporate Strategy, Health Care, Mergers And Acquisitions, research methods
Ambar La Forgia is an assistant professor in the Management of Organizations group at the Haas School of Business. Her research studies the relationship between organizational and managerial strategies and performance outcomes in the healthcare sector. In particular, she uses quantitative methods to examine how the strategic decisions of corporations to merge, acquire, or partner with other organizations can change managerial processes in ways that impact both financial and clinical performance. A secondary research strand studies how health care organizations adapt their service delivery and prices following changes in state and federal legislation.