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Location
Fontainebleau
Duration
8 days
Fees
€
15,100
Programme Directors
Lily Fang
Professor of Finance
Lily Fang is a Professor of Finance at INSEAD. She joined the institute in the Asia Campus in 2003, among the first cohort of faculty directly recruit to Singapore. She is currently the Dean of Research and Innovation and is based on the Europe Campus.
Lily’s primary research interest is the information production and flow in financial markets and their implications. She has published numerous papers on the incentives, behaviour, performance and price impact of various sorts of information intermediaries, for example financial analysts, fund managers, banks, private equity and venture capital investors. Her research is published in top finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. Her work on the relation between media coverage and stock returns received the prestigious Smith Breeden prize for outstanding papers published in the Journal of Finance and is among the top cited Journal of Finance papers in the ten years after its publication. Her more recent work has examined intellectual property rights protection and innovation, as well as the value of social connections among Wall Street analysts and the gender different therein. Her work has often been featured in the media such as the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC and NPR. Lily has advised a number of large institutional investors on investment strategies.
Lily teaches corporate finance, valuation, capital markets, private equity, venture capital and entrepreneurial finance in the MBA, Executive MBA and Executive Education programmes. She is the Programme Director of Finance for Executives programme, a flagship open enrolment programme on finance at INSEAD. She also directed the online FinTech programme. Lily has won the Dean's Commendation Award for Excellence in MBA teaching, and the EDP teaching and direction award numerous times. While visiting at MIT Sloan School of Management she won the Outstanding Teacher Award.
Lily received her PhD in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she studied mathematics, actuarial science and management science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Lily Fang
Professor of Finance
Pascal Maenhout
Associate Professor of Finance
Pascal Maenhout is an Associate Professor of Finance at INSEAD. He teaches corporate finance, portfolio theory, and capital markets in MBA, PhD and Executive Education programmes, directing the Finance for Executives programme. He graduated summa cum laude from the Department of Economics at the University of Leuven, Belgium and obtained an MA and a PhD in Financial Economics from Harvard University.
His research interests include portfolio theory, derivatives, asset pricing, and risk management. Recent papers have been published, or are forthcoming, in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Journal of Banking and Finance. Pascal Maenhout received the 2006 Institut Europlace Award for best article in finance published in 2005, the 2000 BACOB ARTESIA Prize for Research in Financial Economics, and grants from BSI Gamma and Inquire.
He has previously taught at Harvard University.
Pascal Maenhout
Associate Professor of Finance
Urs Peyer
Associate Professor of Finance
Urs Peyer is the former Dean of Degree Programmes and an Associate Professor of Finance at INSEAD. He holds a PhD in Finance from the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, and a Lic.rer.pol. from the University of Berne, Switzerland.
Urs Peyer’s research interests focus on corporate governance, executive compensation, empirical corporate finance, and share repurchases. He has published his research in the top finance and managerial journals. Recent publications include The Best-Performing CEOs in the World (Harvard Business Review), Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors (Journal of Finance), The CEOs Pay Slice (Journal of Financial Economics), and The Nature and Persistence of Buyback Anomalies (Review of Financial Studies).
Urs Peyer is teaching in INSEAD’s MBA, PhD and Executive Education programmes. He teaches the Corporate Governance MBA and PhD courses and has directed both customised and open-enrolment programmes. Urs was a visiting faculty at the University of Chicago and at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Previously, he has worked in the portfolio management team for a subsidiary of Credit Suisse and was a jet pilot in the Swiss Airforce.
Urs Peyer
Associate Professor of Finance
Faculty
Emeritus Professor of Finance
Professor of Finance
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